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From your writing, it seems that you are still having a difficult time with English. It was very difficult to understand. But to answer your question, no you should not hire an attorney. You tried to have the grade changed and get reinstated, and it seems that they denied both requests. Now is the time to concentrate more on yourself, continue with the English lessons and get your grades good enough to be accepted at a different school. Good luck.

My understanding is that new grads in NJ are having a difficult time finding jobs with totally clean licenses. I am not sure that getting the arrest expunged is going to help you. You got in trouble for lying to the BON on your application, not neccessarily from the orginal arrest. You need to talk to the BON and find out what you can do about getting a clean license. After that, the advice is the same to anyone living in an area where there are few jobs. Move to the jobs.

I would try and get my old job back. Your family and sanity, which is why you applied for the educator job in the first place, are no longer being served with this one. Good luck in the job search.

I don't know if having a husband in the military affects having to change your license if you move states? However, if you do need to get a new license then Maryland and Virginia are compact States, Washington D.C. is not. Nursing jobs are tight here, not as bad as two years ago, but it is still difficult to find jobs for new grads, especially ADN's. Washington Hospital Center in DC will still hire ADN's and new grads can get positions in the ER.

Don't forget about DC hospitals.

Internal AICD's have a limited number of shocks that they can deliver, around 150-160 or so. During a v-tach storm they can go through the lifetime amount of shocks the device can deliver. You then end up externally shocking them. I have seen it happen just once.

Call and ask the reason. The worst thing that could happen would be to not get an answer. This leaves you in the same position of not knowing. The best that could happen would be that you find out the reason.

in thelast 2 years my unit has been on a hiring binge. we have between 2 to 4 new nursesto be oriented to the icu every 3 months. it is taking a huge toll on the experiencednurses having to continually precept. at the moment we have core experiencedgroups that are mostly in their late 40's to mid-50's, some of which willretire from nursing if the economy improves. we have a few in their 30's, allof which are going back to school, so they can get out of bedside nursing. thenwe have the expanding group of 20 year olds. unfortunately when i talk withthem, not one of them thinks that they will still be an icu nurse in 5 years’time. they all have plans to go to np school or crna school, most have alreadystarted that journey. so yes, if the economy improves there will be a shortage of nurses will to workunder current conditions. however, the difference in the shortage of the futurecompared with the past will be in experienced nurses (those with more than afew years of bedside experience). the schools will still turn out massiveamounts of new nurses to fill the warm body slots.

i hope if they are mandating this, they are at least paying for it. i listened to laura gasparis cd's in the car driving in and out of work. i also bought a used ccrn book that was all questions. studied seriously for about 2-3 weeks prior to test. passed with a score of 108. this is the book that i used. [h=3][color=#004b91]critical care examination review revised by [color=#004b91]laura gasparis vonfrolio and [color=#004b91]joanne noone (jan 1998)[/h]

I am so glad that you took the time to update your post. So often i wonder what happens to the pople posting. I remeber that I was worried that you would end up in yet another toxic enviroment and I am so glad that worry did not materialize. Everyone should have what you have now found, a caring and supportive enviroment. As you get more expereince and start precepting, remeber those toxic nurses and strive never to become like that.

The femoral area has both an artery and a central vein. A practioner can place either a femoral central line (going into the vein) or femoral arterial line (going into the artery). Sometime both are placed next to each other. CVP's can be obtained from central lines placed in the internal jugular or subclavian vein.

I hope you find someone to be your preceptor. However, I am not sure this is the forum to find one. This is a nursing site and the Midwives here are going to be master degree Nurse Midwives, not direct entry / lay midwives. Hopefully your school can direct you to other lay midwives or will have a list of people that have previously been preceptors for your school.

Administration has decided that they can change the staffing ratio. It's going to one to ten, now that they have trained the dogs to fetch pillows, blankets, etc. I've heard that it is going to one to 15, once they train them to fetch meds as well.

athrun340 - in the real world the rules can be black and white to very very foggy, depending on hospital and which floor/unit within a hospital. However, this question is set in the completely black and white world of nursing school nclex questions. In this world you do not change medications because you feel it will be better for the pt and you do not skip the chain of command by going to the nursing supervisor. You call the doctor again.

I think you covered all the points. Although I would exchange number 1 with number 2. The believe the PR value is a lesser reason than the money it brings into ANCC coffers for the continued existence of Magnet designation. Although the ANCC sells it to hospitals as an important PR point.

To help with your list. WHC in DC is $10,000 a year for full time employees. Need to be an employee a year to get it and need to stay on a year after to keep it. Maybe if you collect enough information, you can post it for others.

1.There is no comprehensive list. 2. Hospitals, if they are not union with a contract, can change the amount of tuition reimbursement at any time. From a lot of money, to some money, to none. What is correct information today might not be correct next year. 3. A hospital with great tuition reimbursement might be a terrible place to work. 4. If all your interested in is having your schooling paid for, then join the military. 100% paid.

OP, I know that you are angry about this delay in being able to obtain your license but elkpark is correct, it is not the BON's job to make hospitals give you a preceptorship. The BON's in every State have a requirement that non-on-line Schools of nursing have a set amount of clinical time that students need to do. Those schools then have to go and find local hospitals willing to let their students have clinical time. Which is why you will read on this site about students having to travel over an hour to get to clinical sites. Hospitals that allow students in have a working relationship with the schools and they have an understanding of what clinical standard the student should be at. Clinical time is also supervised by a nurse with their own license that can judge the students clinical competency up to the point of the final preceptorship. Hospital do not have this with someone that has gone through an on-line program. They do not know what you or other students from your programs clinical experience has been. At least Georgia has allowed you the opportunity to get your nursing license this way, several States have in the past several years have stooped issuing licenses including MD, my home State. Put your name on the waiting lists, get your preceptorship and get your license. This is just another bump in the road that you can overcome.

Yes, next time say no I'm staying. Who cares if you p..d someone off. However, if your were asking questions needed for charting and not directly relevant to the acute situation at hand I too would have been a bit annoyed too. If the charting needed to get done then one of the helpers in the room could have helped with that. I understand that you were not concerned about the standard of care your pt was getting, but again it was your pt. Your in charge (and legally responsible) for what occurs and doesn't occur. Hopefully should be able to multitask and get relevant information from the transferring nurse and at the same time direct the care of the nurses in the room helping. Such as hearing that the pt possibly aspirated prior to coming to you and then directing the others to put in an NG/OG and getting it to suction. It's good to learn from things. In the future don't let anyone chase you away from your pt.

Is sorry but with three years expereince your manager is right, your should not have been outside the room charting while others stablized YOUR pt. You make it sound like it is an all or nothing situation. Either they all helped and you stayed out or you had to do everything by yourself. You said a couple of times above that you "didn't care" and was ok with stepping away. You need to care about your being part of your pt's actual care.

As per the terms of service, no one here can give medical advice. Please talk to the Doctors in charge of this patients care. They are the ones to answer this question.

OP, take this time with your child, it won't come back. Take the part time job if you can, it will give you an "in" when the economy hopefully changes and your daughter is more grown. You can always go back to school later. To somedaypeds, I think you are confusing a doula with a midwife. A midwife is a masters prepared nurse, doulas are not required to have a master degree in anything and do not have to be nurses either.

You do not have enough experience to do contract nursing. The agency will tell you anything to get you on their books. When hospitals look at agency nurses they normally want at least one year of experience (that is one full year after orientation) and most want a minimum of two years. That experience has to be in the type of contract nursing you will be doing. So if you have only done med-surg nursing you will NOT get experience in other areas while being a contract nurse. However, any hospital willing to take you as an agency nurse will as little on your own nursing as you say you have, will most likely be desperate for warm bodies. That normally equates with it being close to hell on earth. You will then possibly quit prior to the contract ending (having to pay back money to the agency) or the other bad possibility is that the hospital fires you prior to the end of the contract (because it will be very difficult for you to keep up) and you will have to pay back money to the agency. So, take the tele job if you get an offer and stay a minimum of two years even if you don't feel comfortable.

This is one rambling run on sentence that is impossible to read and makes no sense. The British government can nationalize industries as they choose and in the same way they can privatize industries that have been previously nationalized.

Required for everyone, not just people with direct pt care. Even vendors, maintenance people and cafeteria workers need to have one. There is a medical opt out form that needs to be filled out by your primary MD, if you have had past problems with the flu shot.