86toronado BSN, RN

neurology, cardiology, ED

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    I can't take it anymore!!!!

    Don't listen to everyone who says the NCLEX is "the hardest test ever". To be honest with you, after all of my nursing school exams, I thought it was relatively easy... Just do your practice...
  2. :yeahthat: Great Post! It's very true that all of us who graduated this year were told when we started there would be tons of jobs available, only to be told in our final semester "Oh, by the way,...
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    New Grad RN working as aides?

    I'm a graduate nurse working as an aide. Although I have a job lined up, orientation doesn't start for another couple of weeks, and I can't go that long without a paycheck, so I'm still working as a...
  4. It can't hurt, but it is a lot of money. Can you talk to your local hospital first, and see if they would offer you a job without
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    Question about getting that 1st RN job

    :yeahthat: I just have to say that I worked with that nurse!! Actually, not just one of them, but a whole staff of
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    Getting called off

    We're getting called with the option to either stay home or float to another unit... I always choose float- I don't have the PTO to waste, and I don't mind working on other
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    Hierarchy in Nursing?

    Where I currently work, everyone gets along. You have cliques within the group, but when one of our PA's moved recently everyone docs, nurses, techs, unit clerks, etc. got together for his going away...
  8. "No, I cannot give you the results of your father's head CT. Why? Well, first of all, because I'm not his doctor, and therefore not allowed to interpret the CT. Second of all, because you are not...
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    Question about getting that 1st RN job

    During school did you work in a healthcare environment as a CNA or something similar? Yes. I started working as a unit clerk about a year before I even started nursing school, because I wanted to be...
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    help with charting

    How about something like: "Patient is resting in chair/visiting with family/sleeping etc. In no apparent distress. Vitals signs WDL, call light in reach, will continue to monitor." It will get...
  11. part time 2 nights a week, part time 1 night a week? that's just a
  12. So I finished nursing school in May... graduated at the top of my class, was one of the first to pass the boards, and one of the first in my class with a job offer. I started applying back in...
  13. It sounds like the management is trying to change things, and change can't happen without people who are willing to make it happen... you can be one of those people. Just go in and do your job,...
  14. "I'm sorry you think that we are killing your father, but I really think he's doing a pretty good job of that himself, based on his end stage cirrhosis... and based on the smell of your breath, you're...
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    Just need to vent... it's so unfair!

    I wondered that too... but my employer is continuing to let me work as a tech, and I need $, I can't go without working, so I hadn't brought it up to them. According to the other RN's on the floor...
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    Just need to vent... it's so unfair!

    I would have, but at this point all the new grad jobs in my area have been filled. There are plenty of others that graduated with me who still don't even have positions... plus I've worked at this...
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    Letter to My Manager

    Sounds like something I'd have written to my past manager. I worked there as a PCT while I was still in nursing school. They did all sorts of things like "PCT appreciation day" and a "kudos" board,...
  18. I had no hospital experience whatsoever when I started applying for unit clerk and pct jobs. I just mentioned to the recruiter that I was attending nursing school, however, and they were happy to...
  19. 1) Area: Neurology/NCCU (both units are housed on the same floor, so we staff both) 2) Orientation: 6-8 weeks for the neuro floor, then after several months on the floor, another 12 weeks of so to get...
  20. Rapid Response,
  21. So, I'm taking my boards tomorrow, it's kind of a long story, but I pushed my test date up from the 19th to the 8th. So, I am now (of course) feeling that I should have taken that further 2 weeks to...
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    Need some reassurance here!

    :1luvu:just wanted to let everyone who helped me out here know how i did... 75 questions: ~10sata, no maternity, lots of infection control, a couple of math, some peds. it took me about an hour......
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    Saunders success stories?

    I used mainly Saunders to review. I was averaging 70-75% on their practice questions... took the test yesterday. It shut off at 75 questions. I did the pearsonvue trick, and it won't let me...
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    Need some reassurance here!

    Good
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    Need some reassurance here!

    Saunders, mostly. I also have the Prentice Hall reviews and rationales CD that i've been using. I have a Kaplan book that someone gave me, but it's a few years old, so I'm hesitant to use it, in...