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So I have come up with an idea of possibly opening up a "night" care for the sole purpose of mother's and father's who work the third shift. There are so many people who are struggling with day care/school hour issues b/c of the 7p-7a shift at wo...

Thank you for the feedback! I would not be doing this in my home. I would establish an actual facility. I would like to take as many children as I am able to start off with given the number of staff I would have at that time. Hours would most like...

I work the night shift and we don't usually take a full hour break. We come and go as we please as we work. If we take a full hour and don't get all our work done in time we get in trouble for staying after to catch up. You're damned if you do and...

For those of you out there that have recently taken the NCLEX-RN and had to go the whole dreadful 265 questions-do not think you automatically failed! I took mine Friday morning at 8am..and just found out the results today Sunday at 8:52am and I PASS...

I started out as a new grad $32.50 working the night shift. At the end of that year I did well with surpassing 60k when it came to tax time. Hope that helps!

I think I may be making a move to CA soon! My nurse patient ratio right now is 1:10 with only 1 aide for the entire floor!

I know many hospitals hire nursing assistants without any experience at all! They have training sessions within the hospital and you start immediately. Save money and time, but might have a little more experience to catch up on- good luck!

Okay, let me start off by saying that I'm a new grad and started working on a Med-Surg floor in Feb of this year. I work the 7p-7a shift and we never have less than an 8 patient assignment! It's always 8-11..this includes post-ops, isolations, telem...

Thank you everyone so much for all of your input! I knew I wasn't just new and dumb! I knew deep down that everytime I went in just didn't feel right, and the patients were suffering because our hospital wants to "work with the least amount of nurses...

We're working on getting a union into this hospital-hopefully soon! We do have a grid but by NO means do they follow it. Beginning of shift they look it over. If we only need one more patient to keep a nurse they still will send a nurse home..yet ...

ALSO, I did a search on this website on patient ratios and was shocked to see that no one else had as many patients as we do! We are always understaffed..always down 1 nurse and 1 aide..and when asked about it we get the "well according to the grid ...

The thing is these new grads are all just coming off their orientation, thus all the float nurses who were precepting (who are well-seasoned) are heading out, leaving us cut and dry. (Not their fault) Also, even though these new grads are coming on, ...

I work at a Community hospital. I am a night RN 7p-7a..we have anywhere between 8-11 patients on our surgical unit!!! It's crazy, unfair, understaffed, and unsafe!

That would be night shift.

I am all too familiar with the short staff/patient ratios! I just got in under the belt before this whole economy situation...was working at the hospital before I graduated and basically was just promoted to RN. I love when I go in to find out just o...

I've come to the realization that it doesn't matter how many questions you answer..you can pass/fail at 75 and 265 and everything in between! Just have to wait it out, suffer the 48 hours your results need to get posted, and hope for the best!

265 questions took me about 3 hours..started at 8am and was done around.

Ahhh CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!! Today comes pretty darn close to the day I had my daughter in terms of happiness!! All that hard work paid off finally--Congrats again! Now go celebrate!

I used Saunders and Kaplan. I actually borrowed the Kaplan book from my local library! No review courses at all. And passed. I suppose it's different for everyone! Read the rationales!

Trust me I know exactly how you feel I did the same thing! Should be up very soon-however I'm not sure if it's different for other states or not? Keep us updated!

I took my exam this past Friday and started at about 8:05am and ended at about 11:35am..(had to sit through 265 questions) and I just found out my results today (Sunday) and 8:52 a.m.!!!!!

I passed at 265..no med-calc, lots of SATA, meds, and put in order questions which are on the higher difficulty level. Best of luck!

It's nice to see another 265 passer post! I just took mine on Friday and I'm waiting the results..I too went up to 265! I was thrown with 10 multiple multiples, 4 put in orders and a bunch of really tough med questions...I felt SO upset after I left ...

Hi everyone, Im currently a nursing student just finishing up my 1st semester. I just recently applied to a job and got a call back for an interview! It's a position as a Nurse's Assistant...(I can't do much without a degree unfortunately) which bas...

I work at one of the St. Barnabas hospitals (not as an RN yet) but I hear new grads coming in at $26/hr days with $5 differential for working nights! Also, if you go into the float pool it pays more also!