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We have 6 pts per RN on our tele floor, most days I literally never sit down and often skip lunch. Any more than that would be insane. I am considering transferring to another unit because I think its unsafe. But I like tele ... not sure what to d...

On our tele unit we have 6 pts to a team, 2 covered by an LPN, 4 by the RN. I heard we will no longer have lpn's after 6 months or so and if that's true I will definitely quit and go to another unit. I have worked too hard to get my license and wil...

RN 6 mos Telemetry/north of philly 34.00 per hr weekend program/no benefits

I also did an Associate program. I agree with the previous posts - do NOT kill yourself worrying about perfection and all A's - I graduated with a 3.8 gpa, that and a dollar will get me a cup of coffee. An RN is an RN is an RN. I also got my first...

Hi all - went for an interview as a graduate nurse in Telemetry and was offered job on the spot. Definite shortage here in Pennsylvania.

Hi all- Just got hired for an 8 week orientation in Telemetry - not sure what to expect. I've heard MONITOR THE PATIENT, not the monitor. Anything else I should know? Also, they mentioned sending me to an EKG course, but not ACLS. Would I be out...

Yes, cheerfuldoer - it is my very first job!! I think you're all right - I need to take the basic EKG course, learn from my preceptor and refine my skills, and then think about taking ACLS later. I agree with KC Chick that ACLS should be required o...

Get into nursing school - a 2 year program is great, because you can begin working as an RN (associate degree) after 2 yrs and then go for your other 2 years (your Bachelors degree) after that. Or you can do a bachelors degree program all at once, a...

I just found out I passed! Thank God. And thanks to all of you for being a great source of support. Good luck to all, if I passed then you will too. Jackie

Have a friend who named her daughter Hanna and her last name's Gram. hannagram - I think that's terrible. My daughter has a friend in 4th grade named January, last name Waters - I like that. I also like Lyric - different but pretty. There are way...

p.s. Is it true that the prioritizing questions are the hard ones and the math ones are the easy ones?

Melissa - I took my boards on 7/25 and it stopped at 75 also - I came home and looked up a bunch of questions - I know of AT LEAST 10 that I got wrong so I'm convinced I failed - but I COULDN'T have failed, RIGHT??!! Wouldn't they have given me more...

Hi all - I'm graduating in 4 weeks and I'm thinking of skipping the $400.00 review course and just taking the boards. Has anyone passed without taking the class? Anyone failed the first time, then passed after taking the class? I'd love any advice...

Jill, you may be right, it just bothers me to read all the nitpicking and arguing about LPNs vs. RNs. Sure, lots of LPN's have more experience than lots of RN's. Every LPN in the world has more experience than me, a GN. But the RN's are always goi...

Regardless of the amount of experience one nurse (lpn or rn) has over another, RN's, quite simply, have received a different level of education than LPNs. It is for this reason that part of an RN's scope of work is to oversee that of the LPN. If an...

Thanks for the boosts of confidence. I think I can do it too.

perhaps your clinical advisor is unstable

I have a classmate who got married during 3rd semester and I know she regrets it - she was so stressed, she had missed one clinical so she was doing clinical on the day before her wedding - she said she would never do it again.

A & P is important because it's the foundation on which all other nursing classes are built. It's a ton of MEMORY and you have to find out what works for you - notecards, etc. Like UWEC it's also the only class I ever got a B in, but a B is act...