MedicGA

:angryfire Well, I graduate in a couple weeks and my school sucks. We took the comprehensive HESI a few weeks ago and I scored over 900. About half the class scored below 800. Instead of failing, they had to retake it today. If they still have below 850, they still get to walk in graduate but have to come back to remediate in the summer before they get their degree. I think they should just be thrown out. How many free lunches should a peraon get anyway. It seems to me it just cheapens our degree to keep giving people second and third chances. I need someones unbiased opinion here? Medic

I am a Nursing student and graduate in a few weeks. I will more than likely be working in LTC. I have a scholarship from a hospital and the main positions they have open are in LTC. How do you organize your day to take care of 30 patients. So far, the most I've taken care of is 3, but that was doing total care. It would take me all day to assess 30 pts. How do you do it? MedicGA

Thanks for your suggestions. I also have the possibility of working in LTC as a charge nurse. Maybe that is the better route right now. MedicGA

Hello, I graduate from an ADN program in 26 days and will get my RN. I have an interview next wek for a home health position. I don't know much about Home health and need to know the good and bad. Would you recomend it for a new nurse? I am green as grass you know. Is Med/Surg a better place to start? I'll take all the advise I can get. MedicGA One more thing, can you give me some ideas for really tough questions to ask at my interview?

Thank you Snowfreeze, & GingerSue for your advise. I will try to make the best of it. Now I have another question. What is the best what to learn pharmacology. I did ok in it in school, but feel like I don't know very many drugs. Should I just be reading my PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook like a Bible or what? MedicGA

Hello everybody, Here is my situation: I will graduate in a few weeks with my RN and have a wonderful scholarship that requires me to work 2 years for a hospital in exchange for the tuition that they paid for me. It seems that I may end up working in one of their nursing homes as a result. I think they may have given out more scholarships than they had positions for, so we get the positions no one else wants. So, although I do not want to work in long term care at all. Can any of you give me some helpful advise or maybe some reasons why I might like it in long term care. My dream job is to work in the OR and I'm having trouble seeing how a job in a nursing home will help get me there. MedicGA:selfbonk:

Ok, So I am ADN-RN student and graduate in 42 days, but who's counting. My question is this: How far after graduation should I schedule the NCLEX and What is the best way to study for it. I'm already sheduled to take the HURST review, but would like other ideas. MedicGA

:monkeydance: Hello, I graduate with my RN in June and have interviewed for two positions so far. I really want to work in the OR, but several nurses have told me that I should start out in Med/Surg, that I'm boxing myself in by going straight to the OR. What advise can you give me? MedicGA

hello everyone, i am new to this site so i hope i am posting this right. i graduate in june with my rn and have interviewed for a position as a circulating nurse. some people i have talked to tell me that new rns should work the med/surg floor first and then specialize. i know that the or is where i want to be, but need some advice from people who are or nurses. what do you think of a new grad working a circulating nurse position? i hear that or nurses sometimes eat their young, but i don't want to be dinner. any advise?

Hello, I am going to graduate from an RN program in a few weeks and have been offered two jobs so far. One is a surgical nurse position with great hours. The other is a a staff nurse position on a med/surg floor with crummy hours. My dilema is that if I take the surgical nurse position I may forget all the clinical skills I have learned in school. Can anyone give me some advise on this. I have heard from others that all graduate RNs should start on a med/surg floor to get the experience. What do you think. MedicGA