also, it is worth checking out new hospitals or hospitals that are expanding. My unit just expanded last year and we hired like crazy. Based on some of our hires - you'd think they just hired anyone that walked through the door! I think the new Palom...
I moved to San Diego from another state but I had secured a job prior to moving. That was in April 2008. The job market was tough then, but it has only gotten worse. The best advice I can give you is keep on trucking! You need to find out when hospit...
I currently work on an ICU step down unit but it has always been my dream to work in the SICU. At my hospital I originally interviewed for the SICU position as a new grad but did not get the position. Lack of experience was cited, as I had never work...
I work on an ICU step down that the hospital has not "coded" as an ICU step down so they do not have to follow ICU step down ratios. We are technically labelled as a telemetry floor but that is sooo not what we are. We have stable vent patients and g...
Hi everyone, I'm not looking to solicit medical advice but I've just been prescribed desogen by my NP and was wondering if anyone has any experiences with this drug (in patients or using it themselves) I had to get this prescription over the phone ...
pengoo2008 replied to lpn2rnMay2005's topic in NCLEX
1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX? 75 questions 2. What materials did you use? Did you take a test review course? Hurst 4 day review, Saunders comprehensive book and CD (the CD questions were kind of easy but good for learning content), D...
pengoo2008 replied to LittleWing21's topic in NCLEX
(xposted..) I had 75 questions...about 18 SATCs, two math questions (that took me entirely too long, I was so nervous!), maybe 10 meds? (didn't count those) Lot's of priortizing and lots of infection control. I think it is very important to get infec...
pengoo2008 replied to mommymartinRN2b's topic in NCLEX
:yeah:I passed too as you can see from the other thread. Way to go!!! This website is wonderful but sometimes it instills a bit of paranoia! I was not going to even look online for four or five days and then after visiting here I was checking twice ...
pengoo2008 replied to EDnurse2009's topic in NCLEX
I PASSED!!! I stayed up until three AM last night checking every hour or so and basically convincing myself I did not pass since the website had been updated without my name. I took my test out of state though so that may be the reason. I took my tes...
pengoo2008 replied to EDnurse2009's topic in NCLEX
I was wondering the same thing as the above poster. I tested on the 8th. I saw that the website has updated on the 9th but my name is not up. If you fail, does your name just not show up at all? In some states I know it says "pending" once they proce...
I took mine on the 8th and I do not feel confident at all about it I had 75 questions and took almost 2.5 hours taking it ! I took some very long breaks and even sat and had some fruit and juice during one. I had EIGHTEEN SATCs. I was really losing...
pengoo2008 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students
Most of my instructors/profs have been great...however to some of them... 1) Please, please do not lecture me on professionalism when you are the least professional person I have ever met. Mocking the doctors with accents in front of our clinical gro...
I graduate in April...yay!!!!!! When do you plan to take the NCLEX? A month or two after graduation...not sure yet. Will you work before you take the boards? Not too sure, I will be moving somewhere so I'm not positive I can handle the stress of movi...
I personally would not just give my notes away to someone who I don't talk to in class. The way she asked for your number and called you up at the last minute with a sorry excuse just SCREAMS to me that she is trying to take advantage of you. I would...
Hi everyone, I am graduating in April with my BSN in Michigan and am thinking about moving to Cincinnati (my bf recently moved there) upon graduation. I am deadset on working in critical care and would prefer a supportive environment (like a large te...
pengoo2008 replied to showbizrn's topic in Relations
There can't possibly a "too ugly for nursing", especially when we have to get up at the buttcrack of dawn to take care of people If that was true...most of us would be out of a job!! I know I look *you know what* when I'm at clinical anyway... But i...
Very interesting! I think there is some level of inappropriate treatment that goes on in my BSN program but it is not widespread and has been contained to a few cases. Most of which were brought to our directors attention and then resolved. The on...
That is an insanely depressing way to look at things. This nurse is not perfect just like anyone else. She has a poor attitude but this isn't something that CANNOT be changed. She probably is not even totally aware that she does this. First, she need...
First of all...CHILL OUT! Try to not get worked up over this. In my class of 45? people there are a few people I don't care for but you will find most of your classmates to be normal, mature adults. So don't stress over the 2 that make themselves mos...
pengoo2008 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in ADN/BSN
I think this depends on what expectations you have for yourself as a nurse and probably as a person too. I will not be a technician, I will be a professional. And while it is unfortunately true that nurses can function at anywhere inbetween the cont...
pengoo2008 replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in ADN/BSN
I may not be "trained" to do certain skills in my BSN program as others are in ADN or LPN or diploma programs but the skills that require training, as far as I'm concerned, can be mastered on the job. When I step into my first job as a "real" nurse a...