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I have taken NCLEX and a computer shut off at 75 questions. I feel horrible. How bad can one do not to pass with 75 questions? Does anyone know? I've been studying non-stop and tried to do my best. But I wasn't sure with some questions and took an ed...

Any profession where I could find a job and not to hear:"No new grads".

People get irritated to easily.This is why nursing is so difficult. Nurses compete with each other in professional and personal life. Why can't we just respect each other and try to understand each other?

According to you a student who is rubbing the entire staff wrong doesnt deserve a chance to be a nurse?! What about a patient who is rubbing the entire staff wrong? He/she doesn't deserve to be your patient? A lot of nurses don't want to admit that n...

OMG! Nurses are mean! Not every person is the same. Do not volunteer to be a preceptor if you don't have patience to handle different personalities. The first nursing experience either makes or breaks a nurse.Have you ever considered that this studen...

1. Please, don't tell your students they would be able to find a job anywhere in the US and right after the graduation. Tell them to be prepared to be unemployed and to take a job anywhere else to pay their bills. 2. Cut down on nursing theories and...

graduated in dec 2008, in CA, got my BSN, licensed in Apr. 2009, still looking for a job, had 3-4 interviews, no job

Why did you go into nursing? Right now it is very hard to find ANY nursing job. I'm RN, BSN with ACLS PALS graduated in 2008 and I'm still looking. You need 1 year of experience to be able to land a job. Where do you get it? Employers don't care. The...

It is very true that nurses eat their young, dear Preceptor. Have you ever been a new grad yourself?

Wow, what state do you live in? In Cali most of the nursing jobs start at $30.00-$35.00/h. $20.00 for LVNs.

I'm so sorry to hear this. Have you considered per diem or travel nursing?

Go with your gut feeling. A lot of times it is right. You did the right thing, at least it sounds right to me.

How did you get into nursing? I've graduated with BS in Kinesiology and got into DPT program. It didn't work out. I wanted to be in healthcare and a lot of my friends told me I should try to get into nursing. I enrolled in community college, complete...

Once I have worked for a nursing home, and was responsible for pushing meds to at least 50 pts. Most of them had GT and I had to flush all of them, hang feedings, do boluses, do accu checks, give insulin. I also was responsible for hanging IVs for ev...

It is out of the scope of practice for LVN to administer IV drugs, unless the LVN Iis IV certified. At least in Cali this is. This actually is NCLEX question.

I love nursing, but I hate politics that come with the job. I hate being treated like it is a high school, I hate gossip and cattiness, I hate backstabbing and competitiveness. I hate that nurses eat their young and forget that they were new nurses a...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get 1 year of experience required by every hospital in order to get a job. I just accepted a position in subacute nursing home. One of the nurses has told me that this experience wouldn't count if I'd want to apply to a hos...

I can't believe there are so many angry people on this website. And they do eat their young. They have forgotten about being a nursing stident, getting their first job and trying to learn and fit in. There are experts now. Does it give them a right t...

You shouldn't be bothered with what kind of scrubs people wear. It is the atiitude and professionalism at what these nurses do that should count. Some people may think that you look ridiculous in your plain scrubs and have no sense of being sensative...

You can't work as a CNA with RN license.

It has been a year and 2 month since I have graduated from nursing school. I look back at my graduation and I see myself as an excited new grad nurse with hopes and dreams of making a great nurse and loving every moment of my decision of becoming a p...

I have started my first nursing job 2 month ago. I need help because I feel like I'm drowning and no matter how much I try I can't float up to the surface and take a deep breath. I try hard, but still make a lot of mistakes. I forget things and beat ...

I'm a new nurse and I have been trying very hard to make it and I feel as I'm not making it. I make mistakes and forget things. I'm not in ICU, but the floor I'm at is very busy. I had a preceptor who expected me to remember things right away. I'm no...

I'm a new nurse too, Couple of days ago one of my patients cried because the MD told her she had to have a surgery. I came into her room just to give her meds and she was upset. She said her husband died a few months ago and she didn't want her child...

I have applied to San Antonio a while ago and never even got a response. ED is my dream and I took ACLS and PALS on my own, and it still did not help me to get a job in ED. Instead, I had to take a job on a medsurg floor, just because I have search...