NurseEllis

I work at Wilson Regional Medical Center in Johnson City, part of UHSH health system. I started in the ICU as a GN making 22.03/hr with 4/hr night diff. General Hospital (the other hosptial in the UHSH family) is the same. Our Lady of Lourdes Hos...

Graduated from EC on Feb 20th got my ASN diploma in the mail on the 21st. I interviewed for a ICU position on Feb 10th and offered a position on feb 25th. I accepted the position and Im now officially working as a GN in the ICU with a 2 week GN orie...

I do love Critical Care medicine, it is what I do....in my blood as they say. Unfortunately in NY you have to have 1 year RN experience to work in the ER, state law. I did try to get a waver as I'm a paramedic but I was shut down by both the Dept o...

All I can say going into the ICU is "culture shock". That about sums it up. I have had some bad patients, and very comfortable with 1 hour, but the ICU nurses must go to all "rapid responses" and CPR's in the hospital. I ended up doing CPR for lik...

hehe should have been more specific, 2 week general GN orientation....then up to 6 months of unit specific orientation with a preceptor. The ICU manager said she expects me to have less but I won't rush things! OMG, there is no way I could function ...

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NY uses GN's and loves them. In NY if you graduate from a approved nursing school, they allow you to work 90 days without anything! all you have to do is send of your paperwork for licensure. I graduated from Excelsior Feb 20th and Im now working a...

Yup thats right Im a GN, just waiting for my paperwork to go thru and get my Auth. to test for the NCLEX....I did all the nursing theroy exams in little under 7 months and studied for the CPNE in just over 30 days......it can be done, study, study an...

agreed Ms Tammy, I already have a BS-bio...looking at a RN-BSN program or RN-MSN one....We have a nice program here that meets one night a week and you can have your BSN in little under 15 months....My ultimate goal is a CRNA, or at least a FNP at th...

Thanks everyone! it feels really good to be done with the long journey and to slay that CPNE dragon! Looks like I missed teh cut off for the Jan 20th graduation and must wait now till Feb 20th to get my degree conferred and get my ATT for the NCLEX....

I know in the city NYC they scoop up new nurses hell GN's are getting hired there, hop skip and jump from NJ

oh I forgot, I work in upstate NY (Binghamton NY) and starting wage for a nurse is 23 (plus night/weekend diff). I was lucky enough to have the hospital pay for school. I was accepted into a nurse incentive program, for a 2 year commitment while I ...

THAT has to be wrong, Im sorry, 33k a year for a RN??? no way.....I work as a paramedic, (albeit as supervisor and Assistant Director) and I make 17.50/hr with full benefits (fully paid family health insurance, full dental and vision, life insurance ...

YES NY BON accepts EC as a "offical" accrediated school ... here is the website (would be a little dumb for the school that is in the same town as the BON not accept a EC's RN!) http://www.op.nysed.gov/nurseprogs.htm

about 8500 for me, NC1-7, CPNE, Life Span and A&P.....I also took all the practice exams for each test (HIGHLY reccommend!) Chris, NREMT-P, BS, GN

Hello all, I haven't frequent these boards in a while but I thought I would post. I passed the CPNE Oct 10-13 at AMC. It was the single most stressful event in my life to date. I have a journal Im almost complete and I will post it when I'm done, ...

as soon as you walk through the door you are marked with intake. Either record what is in the cup or a good tip I got, fill the cup up and move the pt pitcher away from pt so that they dont fill it themselves, then you know what and how much the pt ...

I'm actually contracted through the hospital I work for, and now owe them 2 years of full-time work as they have paid a little over 8k for the EC program. I currently coordinate the ACLS and PALS courses for the hospital and fortunate to have some c...

**MODS can I get a sticky, this will help all EC students, Thanks** This letter I received today from EC student advising. Dear Christopher: There are three states right now that would block your initial licensure and endorsement of your eventual RN ...

i did not want to highjack any of the other threads with my concerns/rants, but i just have to get this off my chest. i have been reading a lot about ec and how specifically how ca bon has rejected ec grads. also several other states will only let lv...

Dream_nurse does your state mention the displinary rate for non-excelsior grads?

Ahhh, and we come to the "it is a load of crap but u have to learn it argument" I guess it is my realism or mabe my road experience as a medic but I have never agreed with that. If it is non-essential in the daily operations of your job or has no bar...

wow from the tone in your post it sounds like you have had some bad experiences and i'm truly sorry for your experiences. i just wanted to state that imo money should not be your only consideration but as you progress in a field and your family matur...

ohh and thirdly they will not let you take the exam until they have been updated that you have fully paid. I was very confused the 1st time I used this and was very disappoint. I used the payment plan to pay for the 1k enrollment fee and they consi...

yes the payment plans are very nice, but remeber that you cannot take the practice exams until you are fully paid for that current exam, they will not let you take it if say you have only paid the 1st half of the exam. Secondly it takes UP to 10 bus...