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Hi all, I work in a busy OBGYN clinic. We have about 12 nurses, not all are full time though. Maybe only 5-6 FT. We have been asked to come up with some inventive ways that we could staff the office so that people have more time at home in case we need to homeschool/school from home our kids initially. We have mon-fri hours but are open evenings on Tues and Thursday till 7pm. My only thought was 12 hr shifts on our long days. Anyone else have any ideas??

Hi! Just wondering if there is anyone in or who has been through the RN-BSN online program through Drexel university? Looking for reviews! TIA, Jenn

Thank you both and congrats to you and good luck in your new specialty as well RNin'08!

After 6 months in med-surg which I've known is not where I wanted to stay long term in my career, my husband, son and I are relocating to near Rochester NY and I just got offered a position at a hospital there in their Birth unit!! I am soooo psyched. This is always the area of nursing I have wanted to be in! I start next month and have 12 weeks of orientation! It's very exciting. Any words of wisdom/encouragement - tips that I should know - from those of you who have been in this area for a while would be appreciated. Thanks, Jennifer

Hi, I have another question.....the hospitals in Rochester, do they normally do D/E/N rotating shifts? So everyone rotates through all of those shifts? That's what I have heard. If so how does that work? Thanks, Jennifer

Just wanted to thank everyone again. I am going to start making some calls and get my resume out there. I will look into the smaller local hospitals too, but I am used to a 40 minute commute as I did this to go to school 4 days a week, not ideal, but do-able. I just hope I can get a job somewhere without too much difficultly!!! Thank you!

Thanks for the reply! Do you know roughly the commute time from Canandaigua to Rochester? Maybe I will contact Thompson and see what they have to say. Alot of the jobs posted say they want you to have a years experience and I haven't got that yet.......even if I have to take med-surg again, although my heart isn't in it, I can move to OB later?? I am really interested in Strong, but worried I will get sick of the commute as we need to live somewhere between Rochester and Penn Yann. Thank you again for taking the time to reply!! Jennifer

No one live in the Rochester area? I've been looking at Strong Memorial Hospital.....any experiences there? Sorry to bug ya'll again. Jennifer

Hi. I will be relocating to the Canandaigua or Rochester area at the beginning of October. I will have 7 months experience as a med surg nurse by then and am just looking for some input on area hospitals up there. Any good/bad experiences, what the job market is like, will I have a hard time getting a job with only 7 months experience? What is the pay like in that area? Anything you're willing to share with me really? I would love to go into OB, it's what I got into nursing to do, but in MA where I am now you need at least a years Med surg before they will let you work in OB in most places so that's what I was working towards. Thanks in advance for any responces.

Western MA - I make $24.66 base pay and then $5.00 differential for working overnights.

I work 4 shifts a week 11p - 7:30 am (not that I ever get out at 7:30) It's considered a 32 hour full time position where I work......but they do both 12 hour and 8 hour shifts there.

I graduated last May at age 26 (6 months pregnant with my first baby then too!)

Hi, I just started my first job as an RN - It's on a med/surg floor - and I was just wondering what you have found to be the most comfortable shoe/sneaker to wear. The sneakers I have are killing me after a shift of being on my feet the whole day, have you found anything that helps with some of the discomfort? Thanks, Jennifer

I took it and wouldn't really recommend it. Although I did pass the NCLEX the first time I found that the content review was really really tedious to get through, then the questions at the end of each review section didn't even pertain to the content I had reviewed, so what was the point?? I didn't end up going through all the review content but I did do the random questions at the end (all of them) and although they aren't like the NCLEX questions - they are more content based - that was the only good part of the review.....I got anywhere from 50-90 on them but mostly 65-75. Hope that helps.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really sorry to hear your news Elfchen, hang in there, I can only imagine how upset you are, but please don't give up!! You'll get there. :flowersfo

Hey, just wanted to let you know that my questions were all over the place too. I had 75 questions - alot of them were priority, but they were randomly spaced out and I had a couple questions on the same disease as well, which makes you think you answered it wrong the first time, so you are unsure how to answer it again.....I freaked out after my test too and even looked up a few questions when I got home which you really shouldn't do.....but I did pass and I got I told you so's from everybody cause I freaked for nothing, I am sure it will be the same for you, it's just difficult to wait, I know!

Congratulations!!!!!! I found out friday AM that I passed and I agree, the two day wait killed me as well, it is the worst torture.

i actually e-mailed an instructor at ncsbn because i was confused about this as well. i have copied the e-mail below, not that it is too much help, but here is what they told me......and the question i had sent them is below that...... hello, my advice is to read the question closely if it is about rescue when a fire. if you look at prc and race the first steps are essentially the same - protect the client either by rescue or removal. for arce, if they tell you the alarm is ‘down the hall’ this is a clue to protect the patient first. the second point is that with conflicting protocols such as these i think will unlikely be a specific test question on the nclex. what you would more likely be asked is ‘which patient would you remove first?’ think in terms of disaster and that the most likely to survive are attended to first and those least likely to survive would be last. i hope this has answered your question fully. thank you, instructor sent: wednesday, july 05, 2006 3:09 pm to: instructor subject: question hello, i am just starting out with this review and have gotten to the content about fire safety and i see on your website that the [color=#003399]response to fire is as follows: arce: activate fire alarm system rescue clients contain fire by closing doors and windows extinguish flames with fire extinguisherhowever, in nursing school and in some of my other review books it is: race - remove clients from area, activate fire alarm system, contain fire, and extinguish flames. i have had review questions on this on some of the tests i have taken before to prepare for the nclex about what is the nurses priority in a fire situation. how am i supposed to answer that question? using race or arce and why is there such a discrepancy in information? thank you, jennifer

Thanks for that, I was so excited I didn't think about it

Congratulations!!! Just found out that I passed to, so I know just how good you feel right about now. Congrats again, job well done!!! Jennifer

Can't believe it and am still in shock!! The last two days waiting has been hell for me and I still cried when I saw the PASS on the pearson vue site. Thanks to everyone who sent messages the last few days!! YAY it's over!! Jennifer RN

Congratulations!!! :rotfl: *happy dance for you*

I had a post on here after my test on Wed. that pretty much said the same thing, I think I failed, I guessed through the whole test. The wait has been horrible and now tomorrow am, just like you, I should be able to find out the results, but I have still logged on a zillion times today - just to make sure the results weren't there. (Can anyone say OCD???) I almost can't wait to get tired and fall asleep cause then I can check in the morning! Good luck to you though, I am hoping that we both have good news to post tomorrow!! :rotfl:

I have read on here that some people got their test results by calling the BON and asking about if there is an active liscence under their name??? Is that right? I had my husband call our BON and he asked just that, if there was a liscence under my name and they said no. So does that mean that I failed or that they don't have the results yet??? I only just tested yesterday morning, finished the test around 11:00 so it's been only 24 hours. Any thoughts?? Thanks, Jennifer