RossayRN

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Taking HESI Exit exam Friday. Anybody have any tips for studying out side of doing a ton of questions everyday?

Honestly, the area isn't good but it's not the worst I've seen either. It will be difficult being that you are coming here from another state and you will probably be staying on campus which I think is pretty safe. I wouldn't be out walking around th...

wow this comment is old i didn't know i did it. maybe because no one responded.

It wasn't easy, but it wasn't impossible. I don't think any nursing program is easy. Yes CSU uses HESI as their exit. The way I see it, if you prepare from day none of the nursing program, you will be fine. I always studied everything through the who...

Feel horrible, and frustrated. I don't go home crying (yet) but I am definitely feeling like I am never going to get the hang of this. I am starting week 4 tomorrow, and I should be up to 4 patients but I am going to have to take 3 again this week be...

I want to get become an advanced practice nurse, and am looking at attending loyola when I get enough clinical experience. The program I am interested in is an ACNP. I need to have 2000 hours in the specialty area I want to practice in with my msn. s...

Thanks everyone for your responses. I will check with that school as suggested because I work on an Med/surg unit and was planning on being there at least 2 years before trying to get into ICU or the ER.

Well my fiance is a Roofer. He did a house for a guy who knows the director of patient care. Gave her a call, and she had HR pull my application and get me an interview. This took about a month from time of talking to her and getting the phone call f...

As another poster said, it's who you know. I have put in a ton of Apps, got my ACLS cert. and I didn't land the job that I am starting on the 25th until my fiance (who is a roofer) put a roof on a man's house that knew the director of patient care at...

Graduated BSN in may 2010, took passes nclex june 19th, and will start my first job October 25th. so it took me 4 months and some help from people working in the hospital to get a job. If I didn't have help, I'd still be looking. I live in Chicago, ...

You don't have to have an ACT or SAT at a community college, GED is all and their placement exam so they can help you set up your initial schedule and get you in refresher classes if needed before your regular gen ed classes. As another poster posted...

I had my second job interview (first one was July 7th) since I graduated nursing school in may. I felt really good leaving this one. I interviewed for a medsurg/oncology position. I was interviewed by the recruiter and by the Nurse manager on that un...

I got the job! Start Oct 25. Thanks for your well wishes and prayers!

The nurse manager asked me first why did I want to work at that facility? Then she asked me yo recall a situation when I had to think fast under pressure, what was it, and what did I do in that situation? She asked me if a coworker told me that they ...

Thanks Jadu, and the same to you! I know it's tuff but nothing we can do but keep trying.

I totally disagree that MA should introduce themselves as nurses. why? BEcause they are NOT NURSES! Why is that so hard? if you are a licensed nurse then you are a nurse, if you didn't go to nursing school and get licensed then you have no right to c...

Graduated in June and still no job yet and only 1 interview.

I received it for 2009 and 2010. My gpa was 3.7 and my EFC was 0.

Happens too often with MAs, CNAs, etc. My brother had me thinking his fiance's mom was a nurse and had given her some anxiety meds that were hers (I'm thinking why would she try to treat her daughter with meds that aren't prescribed to her?) come to ...

I was interviewed by 2 nurses for OR clinical nurse I. The both had 3 pages of questions which they took turned going down the page asking my questions on. One emphasized several times that nursing there stay for a long time hence her 29 years. Th...

Lovelee, did you get the job? I am still waiting, I emailed HR lady last week and she told me that she hasn't heard anything as of yet and that she was going on vacation next week and hopefully she would know more when she returned. Well today is mon...

I used my Littmann Cardiology 3 through out nursing school and will use it in my career. I had a cheap one for the first semester. It gets the job done, but then after I tried the Cardiology 3, for me there was no way I was going back to my 25 dollar...

depends, there were 140 when I went there but that was in 2007, there probably more now. They only accept 40

I kept my medsurg book and sold the rest