RNStudentJJC

Thanks ladies. I have applied everywhere. I was offered a acute Rn role and I am just having doubts about taking it, should continue to look or wok in a sub-acute nursing facility? just trying to make the best decision:uhoh3:.

Well, gotta get a call in ICU first. How do I get expereince if they are not hiring new grads. Maybe I should not say that I am a new grad. I have a little over 1 year of med/surge exp. and I have been a LPN for 3 years working in the prison setting also as a recovery room nurse. I am asking if I should consider Dialysis nursing or go into some subacute facility for critical care exp until something opens up in the area I really want to work? ? ? just questions.... What direction shouldI go. I am interested in ICU, L&D/Mother Baby, or Surgical nursing...???

Well, gotta get a call in ICU first. How do I get expereince if they are not hiring new grads. Maybe I should not say that I am a new grad. I have a little over 1 year of med/surge exp. and I have been a LPN for 3 years working in the prison setting also as a recovery room nurse. I am asking if I should consider Dialysis nursing or go into some subacute facility for critical care exp until something opens up in the area I really want to work? ? ? just questions....

Will I gain valuable critical care expereince in a acute dialysis nurse role (working with critical Pts needing treatments in the hospital setting)? Someday, I hope to work as a OR Nurse or possible ICU or maybe even L&D? Please help. Am, I on the right tract?? Any help will be apreciated. I need motivation!!! I am a new GRAD.

Thanks... Just looking out for future. Thank GOD that I have options.

Do you have any contacts or know of any hiring managers at UIC?

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! I hope that I will soon be saying those same words I am taking mine this Thursday.

Can anyone give me names or information on live review classes in the Chicago area including NW Indiana? I would like to take a good live review class. I am even open to any hospitals offering live review classes.:grad: Thanks in advance.

:bugeyes: Thanks, I am going into my second semester, after studing with my notes. Yea... Any advice for my second semester? Which teachers are the best? I really want to get all that I can from the Nursing program at JJC.

Hello nurseviachicago, remember me, I am now in my second semester of nursing at JJC. I had a very good clinical teacher 1st semester. Since you have been thru the program, please let me know who are the great teachers so that I am able to get all that I can form the program? My e-mail address is princesscashawn @hotmail.com Thansk in advance, RNstudentJJC

Thanks, for your reply. I am just looking for some tips or any other helpful information that I can get. Please let me know if any of your friends might be interested in helping. Thanks in advance,

Thanks,for your reply. I am just so nervous, I think that I would feel better if I knew I had someone to talk to or a mentor. I just want to know the do's and don'ts for the program and any advise that I can get. Would be very helpful. I can give you my e-mail addres if you think that any of your friends would like to talk.

I am not interested in the notes to take the place of my own. I would just like the use them as a additional study tool and possibly read others point of view on different topics. I think that looking at others notes and the various styles of thking notes may help me in developing my own style of taking notes during the Nursing program. I am very new at this I start next Monday : )

Thanks for your replies.... I wish that I had the necessary chapters so that I can begin reading and studing before classes begin. I would like to stay a little ahead so that if I do have questions. I can ask them during the lectures. I have taken your advise and got a copy of the Lippincotts Review for NCLEX-RN Examination 8th edition. I will begin to look over the questions that relate to my lectures. This book has over 5000 questions, It looks very helpful so far. New Student.

Thanks! I will have to find a good NCLEX study book. Thanks!!!!