RN_2_B_5/2004

Illinois is one of the states that makes it difficult for Excelsior grads, the following is directly form the IL Application for Endorsement: NOTE: Excelsior College a/k/a/ the University of the State of New York Regents External Degree Program is an unapproved nursing education program in the State of Illinois due to the fact that it does not have concurrent theory and clinical components as required by the Illinois Nursing and Advanced Practical Nursing Act. Therefore, it is considered to be a correspondence course which is identified by the Act as not meeting the requirements for licensure. There is a provision in the Act to allow for individual review of applications from applicants who are graduates of such programs provided the applicant is currently licensed in another U.S. jurisdiction and has been actively practicing in clinical nursing for a minimum of two (2) years. The applicant must have an employer complete a VE (Verification of Employment) form verifying two full years of clinical practice as a registered nurse. This must be submitted with the endorsement application. When the application is complete, it is reviewed by the Board of Nursing for a determination of eligibility to be rendered.

Another good suggestion is to go to roommates.com and do a search for rooms for rent in your immediate area, see what they are charging for a room by the month. Think of it as comparison shopping.

I am a traveler and I will be renting a room from a wonderful person in the area to which I'm traveling. I will only be there 3-4 nights a week and I am paying her a monthly rate of $350, which includes utilities. My contract is for 13 weeks and I will essentially be paying her for 3 months rent. Given the fact that she is a traveler, she is most likely collecting a housing stipend from the company she is traveling with. I'm not sure what area you are in, but I will be traveling to a large city (80,000+ in MN) Hope this helps.

Cross Country Travel Corps. is the company

HI! I am trying to find my first travel assignment. Just wondering how common it is that a travel company asks you to contact the perspective hospital for an interview? I have been given the phone numbers to contact the hospital for an interview. I thought this was kind of strange.

I wanted to congratulate you on your job!! I was a new grad last May and started on a Oncology/Hematology right out of school. My first suggestion to you is join ONS (Oncology Nursing Society- http://www.ons.org ) you will get loads of information from them and a few great cancer nursing journals. If you do decide to join please use my name as your referrer, Jennifer Peters. Big stuff to know in Onc nursing is management of side effects related to treatments, Nausea, Pain, radiation side effects, fatigue, infection, and don't forget coping and grieving. I wish you good luck, it is a very rewarding part of nursing!! Jenn

Zippy Girdlejuice!! :rotfl: Thanks for the laugh!!

Thank you for your input, the more I thought about it the more I want to quit. I wll be talking with the nurse manager on Monday morning and if I do not get a response that I feel is appropriate I will be asking HR for a transfer to another unit. Even when we are supposedly staffed correctly it is not unusual to have 8 patients at NOC on my unit. Thank you!

I could not believe my eyes when I showed up for work last noc and found that I had been assigned 10 patients. I work on a 36 bed Onc/Hem floor with many high acuity patients. For the whole unit we had 3 RN's for 29 patients with 3 aides. We are also a stem-cell transplant floor with many leukemia's and myeloma's. I did not feel safe at all. I am just so mad :angryfire and frustrated at this and need to vent. To top off m noc, I was giving an update to the nurse who was taking 2 of my patients, one of which is a relapsed leaukemic with VRE in his blood and stool, well while I was updating her, she noticed that the doc and three residents were going into the pos. pressure room, she said "Oh, you better make sure that they alll gown up" Well being the newer grad that I am, I did, and boy did the s__t hit the fan, the doc screamed at me and said that I had totally insulted him :imbar , well needless to say I looked back at the desk and she was laughing, she totally made a fool out f me...ON PURPOSE!! :angryfire Today I left the hospital in tears.. I am so frustrated with the unit I worl on, I want to quit right this second. The problems I mentioned are just a few of the many. Thanks for lettiing me vent!!

Recently had a patient receiving IVIG. Increments fo administration at our hospital are: start infusion at 54cc/hr x 15-30 minutes then if tolerating well (no side effects) increase to 108cc/hr x 15-30 minutes if still tolerating increase to 210cc/hr x 15-30 minutes then finally 320cc/hr Treated very much like blood as far as assessments go. Hope this helps.

Here is the website for the Z-coil shoes: http://www.zcoil.com/ They look comfy, anyone know how much they cost?

Just wondering if any of you might know the wording for passing the lamp of knowledge to the next class? Can't seem to find it anywhere, last years grads passed the lamp to us at their pinning. Thanks

I heard back from Brian the admin on the board and he said they will be putting up an NCLEX only area on the allnurses.com BB. Thanks for all the votes for this, I think it wil really help to separate all the nclex/new grad issues.

Took the test, and found out that my chosen specialty was ranked #3 on my results. Kind of fun to see where you fit.

I am hoping that the admin. Brian is watching this thread, check out those in favor of a NCLEX only thread. Please, post your opinions, I really think this would improve this area of allnurses.