ZooMommyRN ADN, RN

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    Each job title wears it's own color.

    ZooMommyRN replied to borzoilady's topic in General Nursing

    ER - White &/or Maroon, Med/Surg - Ceil blue &/or white, ICU - teal/white, RT - turquoise, lab - whatever they want, L&D/Mother-Baby - purple/white, peds - white or ceil blue pants with...
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    Nurses, what do u do on ur day off?

    ZooMommyRN replied to love-d-OR's topic in General Nursing

    I usually come home from work and once the kids are off to school I work on laundry and cleaning, get whatever needs done out of the way before I sit down, once I sit I crash lol I usually catch a...
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    Ideas for health care/nursing dual major?

    ZooMommyRN replied to tlynpink's topic in General Nursing

    If you are going for your ADN, take all the gen ed co-req's you can get, and then look to see what gen ed pre-req's you'll need later for a BSN or MSN program, that's what I did and now I only have 2...
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    Hospitals in South/Central Florida that give scholarships

    ZooMommyRN replied to H_2_O's topic in Florida Nursing

    Florida Hospital/Adventist Health System does, you're better off NOT being an employee tho, as an employee you are reimursed based on grades each semester, if you are non-employee they just pay it all...
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    Nursing jobs

    ZooMommyRN replied to WhybeNurse's topic in General Nursing

    It varies depending on where you are and the cost of living, I'm in SW FL and start out at 20$ + shift diff for
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    Anyone get results <48 hours?

    ZooMommyRN replied to shannonFNP's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I'm in FL and I found mine thru a backdoor in the DOH website, verified that I passed and then the next day my license was up on the BON, others that passed around the same time took 3-5 days for...
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    I failed at 265 I am NUMB

    ZooMommyRN replied to momofthree's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    "Failure is the option to begin again, more intelligently" ~Henry
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    Am I Weird? I Love Med-Surg!

    ZooMommyRN replied to NewTexasRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have loved Med/Surg since my 2nd semster of school and now work on a small med/surg unit at night, I plan to start my BSN, med/surg certification and eventually get my MSN-NP and continue to work...
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    New, and have a question!

    ZooMommyRN replied to exsnohs's topic in General Nursing

    Most likely there will be a certain list of classes you will be required to complete first, then you can apply for entrance to the nursing program at your school (unless you are doing the private...
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    Best shoe for the ED?

    ZooMommyRN replied to oohappyday's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I'm in love with my Nike's lol I don't work ER (yet, I'm on the list for cross training lol) but I'm on my feet just as much on the floor, the hospital believes in tennis shoes as well since they...
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    Worried: have to spend 5 hours doing IV sticks tomorrow.

    ZooMommyRN replied to locolorenzo22's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would LOVE a chance to do something like that! I'm about 50/50 on getting them first try and there are always the teeny little old people with veins the must crawl clear back into their bones that I...
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    Nurse practitioners and Crna

    ZooMommyRN replied to meyun06's topic in General Nursing

    It's never too early to think about post graduate studies, I took as many of the gen-ed co-req's as possible before the program actually started and then added in my BSN or MSN bridge requirements...
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    Overall question

    ZooMommyRN replied to studymom39's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We took a Hurst review, but out of the dozens of question banks and review cd's I used, Pearson's Exam Cram NCLEX-RN book & CD were spot on with the real thing in content and difficulty, Hurst...
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    South Florida LPN's

    ZooMommyRN replied to a4432's topic in Florida Nursing

    inland SW FL it's not much better, experienced LPN's make around 15$hr while a fresh RN makes
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    how many patients for a new grad on the first day on the floor?

    ZooMommyRN replied to Surgical_RN08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had one my first night and 2 the next 2 nights, not sure how many I'll get tomorrow night, depends on the census a bit
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    Single Parent joining the Air Force!

    ZooMommyRN replied to HIGirl1995's topic in Government, Military

    It is lawful as I know several who have done it, including my sister in law to join the Navy, do I agree with it? Of course not, my children are the reason I got out of the Army, but it's possible and...
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    Did You Settle for Nursing?

    ZooMommyRN replied to sarahrn2be's topic in General Nursing

    Doesn't matter what the career path is, if you feel that you "settled" for it, you will be miserable and not do a good job, in nursing you'd start out already "burnt" out and care would suffer, you...
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    Asap

    ZooMommyRN replied to sphinx23's topic in General Nursing

    I was motivated by my own desire and want, I didn't grow up wantingto be a nurse, but I always admired them and loved hearing my great aunt talk about how much nursing has changed in the ast 50+ yrs,...
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    Single Parent joining the Air Force!

    ZooMommyRN replied to HIGirl1995's topic in Government, Military

    You would actually have to give legal custody of your child to a relative and once you graduated from basic training and your advanced training or even officer school as with a BSN you'd be eligible...
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    What to do?? I failed!

    ZooMommyRN replied to RNFinally12's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Let us know what they say, good
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    tracking nursing movements

    ZooMommyRN replied to candycane267's topic in General Nursing

    I did many clinicals at site using this and most of the nurses didn't mind in fact it came to their defense at times when a family would holler and complain that the nurse had never been in all day...
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    I am really worried~

    ZooMommyRN replied to nghtfltguy's topic in General Nursing

    Best of Luck from a newbie! Keep us posted how it
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    Sht off at 86 ugh

    ZooMommyRN posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    That is such a weird random number ughh the questions kept getting harder and nothing really repeated as fas as topic so I'm crossing my fingers that it's a good sign, should be able to get quick...
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    Sht off at 86 ugh

    ZooMommyRN replied to ZooMommyRN's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Thank God I live in FL lol I was able to obtain my pass results shortly after posting this on tuesday! and by Weds afternoon during orientation break my license was already up on BON site! now THAT...
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    NCLEX CDs

    ZooMommyRN replied to Seagate's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I found the questions on the Pearson CD that came with the review book to be the closest to NCLEX in difficulty, wording and had alot of practice for prioritization &