86toronado BSN, RN

neurology, cardiology, ED

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    I can't take it anymore!!!!

    86toronado replied to tannylp74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...
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    New Grads Who Are Having Trouble Finding A Job

    86toronado replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :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?

    86toronado replied to greenfaery's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...
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    Should I take Refresher Course?New Grad can't find job....in CA..

    86toronado replied to elprup's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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

    86toronado replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    :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

    86toronado replied to pottie's topic in General Nursing

    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?

    86toronado replied to cingle's topic in General 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...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    86toronado replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    "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

    86toronado replied to DolceVita's topic in General Nursing

    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

    86toronado replied to tolerantgirl's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...
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    Looking for a job but what does PT2N standard for?

    86toronado replied to Dyana143's topic in First Year After Licensure

    part time 2 nights a week, part time 1 night a week? that's just a
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    Just need to vent... it's so unfair!

    86toronado posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...
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    GN accepted job at a LTC facility w/ horrible reputation & aids..

    86toronado replied to kris1116's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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,...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    86toronado replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    "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!

    86toronado replied to 86toronado's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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!

    86toronado replied to 86toronado's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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

    86toronado replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    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,...
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    Nursing Student looking for experience in the field

    86toronado replied to Jets272's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    First job where? and Length of orientation?

    86toronado replied to debblynn13's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...
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    First code that shouldn't have been a code (long)

    86toronado replied to MJJFan1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Rapid Response,
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    Need some reassurance here!

    86toronado posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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!

    86toronado replied to 86toronado's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    :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?

    86toronado replied to Mrs07RN09's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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!

    86toronado replied to 86toronado's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Good
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    Need some reassurance here!

    86toronado replied to 86toronado's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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...