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Hi all! Tomorrow I finish the second week of my orientation on the floor. It has been a great experience. I feel welcomed by the staff. My preceptor has a plethora of knowledge and I am learning all sorts of things hourly if not more often than that....

NFB: Yes! I am sure we are both getting great experiences! I look forward to swapping stories with you! I got to do platelets and prbc's yesterday, along with drips. and i had a baby on versed. I am hopin to have the challenging patients now with th...

Yep. 24 weeks total. Its 12 weeks on day shift, then 12 weeks on night shift. Then I will stay on night shift once I move to being on my own. I am fine with a long thorough orientation. I am super excited to see what I will have next. Today was phen...

St. Christopher's hires new grads as well. I just started there 3 weeks ago and I love it!

Just Cause, I just graduated from the program. (my pinning was last night) Bucks county is a hike (I think) for school. I lived in Delaware County which is just west of the city. I don't think people really minded living in Stiles (the housing on cam...

Yeahhhh!!!

Hi everyone. I am officially nervous about the NCLEX. Despite Hesi scores higher than 850 which is needed for the NCLEX from my understanding. But after talking to a few friends who took the exam I feel like its hopeless.... I take it in about a mon...

Thanks! Your notebook idea is exactly what I was thinking of. Just terms of what is mentioned through the day that I would want to look up or become more familiar with when I get home from work. Like ECMO. When I went through my shadowing people kept...

Hey Everyone! I start working as a GN one week from Monday. I am so excited but so nervous too! I got my ATT to take my NCLEX. I went on line to schedule my test but there are no open Saturdays for the rest of the year. I feel so weird/bad asking my ...

Thank you for the response. I have not heard anything about my assigned preceptor. I was thinking about just emailing my nurse manager and letting her know how excited I am to get started and that I need to schedule my NCLEX on a weekday and let her...

Hi everyone! How is everyone doing? I have a couple of questions. 1. How did you get yourself started to work 7p-7a? How do you do it from week to week? Do you sleep some nights and then just get back into working nights and sleeping during the day...

Hi Everyone, Current ACE student here! Hoping to be done next week. I just skimmed some questions. About break, you do have a genuine winter break. It will be your longest break of the program. I wouldn't necessarily say that you need it to recover ...

Hi Everyone. I shadowed in the NICU today! Amazing! I have so many mixed emotions about it. I loved it. But then seeing some of the more critical ones got me so worried. What if I never get that good or competent to care for those ones? It makes me ...

Oh. I also sent the nurse recruiter and nurse managers thank you cards thanking them for the opportunity to interview and shadow for the unit.

Thanks! I'm still waiting. I spoke to the Nurse Recruiter today. She is still waiting to hear from one of the Nurse Managers. I think it will be kind of hard for the Nurse Recruiter to say a whole lot. The night I shadowed there was a lot going on a...

Hi Everyone! So... I go in for my shadowing as the second part of my interview for the NICU on Friday. I am super nervous. The nurse manager said she will also have me sit and talk with two nurses on her unit as part of the interview. Any words of ad...

Thanks for the advice Kate. I am slightly relieved to hear your words. :-) I was worried that I would go in there and receive some kind of a quiz and then drawing a blank, or flat out not knowing. I sure hope I get this job. It will take off so much ...

I am having trouble wording a Nursing DX for a patient that I had. Elderly woman in for pneumonia, cdiff, Acute Renal Failure. On A/C ventilation. I have to address her airway. Altered Breathing patterns r/t ??????? My prof was like "isn't her airwa...

HI. I am about to graduate from the program. In all honesty, it doesn't matter where you live. They will place you anywhere within 1+ hours for your clinical. I live less than 5 minutes from a hospital and was never placed there. I was placed in the...

Hi Everyone. I am back from my interview. I think it went well. I met with the Nurse Recruiter, and we discussed benefits and pay etc. Then she took me over to the Nurse Manager on the unit. I had wait for a while (the nurse recruiter stayed with me)...

Thought I would give everyone an update. I spoke to the nurse recruiter. Everything sounds very promising. She said that she spoke the the nurse manager in the unit that i want and that she spoke very highly of me from our phone conversations, cover ...

Hi everyone. So the nurse manager from the NICU at a local hospital called me yesterday to tell me that someone would be calling me to set up an interview. I haven't heard anything yet. When should I wait to call to find out about setting up an inte...

Hi everyone. I graduate in a few months and am very interested in NICU. I was wondering who the NICU nurses were here, what are some of your most memorable experiences and what made you want to be a NICU nurse. As with any specialty in nursing I th...

I too am in the program now as well. With Cathy. I went into it as a newlywed and the beginning of 2nd quarter adopted a dog. Its definitely hard to juggle, personally for me. School takes up so much time whether it is taking the train in, studying...

Hello Fellow Nurses. I am Jwan. I am doing the accelerated program at drexel university. almost 3/4 of the way done and tomorrow I think I am going to have one of my most difficult patients. (he isn't difficult, i fear I am going to make THINGS diff...