AOX4RN

Never give up a license or certification you worked your butt off for, unless the next license or certification absorbs/trumps it.

I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure you'll get plenty of review in school

I was also accepted into class 146

Well since a bolus means to give the medicine as a single dose all at once, I can say that I've given many narcan boluses and seen heroin (and other opiate) ODs magically wake up to live another day of drug addiction. (But not before they curse us for killing their buzz and eloping)

The ER I work in is completely ridiculous and that's why I love it. I will take the EMS run for the 22 year old who is having anxiety r/t to dropping her iphone in the toilet any day... she frees me up to take care of the STEMI going to cath lab next door

Yup, I know many techs in my unit who wanted the job and thought it would be a formality of a title change when they graduated nursing school. Nope, most are in different units or at entirely different hospitals. Nurses get interviewed about new grads who are techs and the directors listen.

Easy. Don't cut the cord. In a perfect situation, deliver the baby to mom's chest and cover with warm blankets and stimulate it to cry to clear it's airway if needed. In about five minutes the placenta will want to deliver... keep it connected to baby. No hemorrhage and baby gets what it needs, especially if you're unequipped to deal with it bleeding out the vessels or it needs resuscitation. The vessels physiologically clamp themselves shortly after birth anyway. Apgar10, BSN-RN (and licensed midwife)

Wow. From which Ivy League school did you buy your degree? They, and Vanguard in particular, cater to nurses who are working full-time and have families. Four hours per week in the classroom with a strict attendance policy in addition to online presence via discussion boards. What is the difference if I take a nursing theory class for one hour a week for 16 weeks versus 4 hours a week for 4 weeks? Watson is Watson is Watson is Watson and "Knowledge deficit r/t Inefficient BSN School Information" is the same no matter how long the theory class is. Unless you're on a scholarship, everyone buys their education. We earn degrees by way of the hard work we put into achieving them. Lots of nurses are getting hired by West Coast University which charges a heinous amount of money for their non-CSU/UC BSN degrees. So much for "fly by night". This will be the second post I reply to in regard to your disparaging words about Vanguard and the so-called "fly by night" BSN programs in an attempt to educate you. While it is up to the individual institution to decide their candidates eligibility the usual requirement is a BSN from a CCNE or NLN accredited program (from which Vanguard and the others you discount are members) and a 3.0GPA. In my search for a MSN with the right fit for me, I have not encountered one that has said, "...except if you graduated from Vanguard". Correction: Yale will accept a non-nursing bachelor's degree for the Graduate Entry Pre-specialty Nursing Program which means this is a track for non-nurses who want to be nurses bu already have a bachelor's in another field. They will earn the RN mid-way through and graduate as MSNs with NPs at the end (I have two friends who did this track). Nurses with BSNs can apply to their MSN programs. Apgar10, BSN (Vanguard), RN

I'll write this reply for anyone who needs accurate information about Vanguard University. I have lived in Newport Beach nearly my whole adult life and knew about it before I was a nurse. They don't claim to be accredited. They are accredited by WASC (just like CSUF, CSULB, and APU) and CCNE (just like Yale, CSUF, CSULB, and APU). They recruit heavily at junior college nursing programs (and hospital education departments) because they are RN-BSN. No reason to recruit at high schools or anywhere else there are not ADN nurses. Also, at one night per week for two years with a strict attendance policy, this isn't the "fastest" route to a BSN. $515/credit for core nursing classes; $330/credit for general education. Also, I worked my butt off for two straight years writing and presenting more papers than I can count and your belittling of my "so-called 'degree'" as "fly-by-night" is really insulting. Nope, not only do I get the letters after my name, I get to dazzle my patients with my enhanced critical thinking skills and advancing education, impress my friends and co-workers that I managed to do it while switching departments and learning a new job, working the night shift, going through a divorce, and graduating two children from high school. Not to mention setting a stellar example of determination and the standard for educational excellence in all four of my children. I hope your RN-LCSW gives you as much pleasure and pride as my "BSN" does me! Where do you get your information from? Most MSN programs have prerequisites and are specific about them. All you need to do is read the requirements. RN in the state you practice in, BSN from an accredited school and usually a 3.0 GPA are the base requirements. As soon as I finished my BSN, our CNO sought me out to encourage me to apply for a MSN and get an NP because he sees that is the way our hospital is headed and wants me in on it. That is more than just placating the Magnet surveyors. Not true. Again, Vanguard is WASC regionally accredited and CCNE accredited. A university and nursing school doesn't hold those certifications by being administered by cartoon characters as you would have it made out to be in your detailed post. You're aware the the ADN degree isn't just nursing, right? In order to get a nursing degree from a community college, one also must take such courses as physical education, fine arts/language, humanities, social sciences, history/political science, in other words "general education". Vanguard requires those as well and if the student doesn't have them in his or her portfolio at the time of admission to the program, they are a requirement for graduation. What is general education to one university is not necessarily equal or equivalent to the next. Correction: Yale will accept a non-nursing bachelor's degree for the Graduate Entry Pre-specialty Nursing Program, which means this is track for non-nurses who want to be nurses but already have a bachelor's in another field. They will earn the RN mid-way through and graduate as MSNs with NPs at the end (I personally know two women who did this track). Nurses with BSNs can apply to their MSN programs. Every school can decide what it considers "General Education". For APU, they consider religious studies and chapel part of their general undergraduate education. I don't see anything on the APU website that requires anything above and beyond a BSN from an NLN or CCNE accredited school (which again, Vanguard is) and with the following classes as part of the BSN: health assessment, pathophysiology, nursing research, statistics, nursing leadership, and community health nursing... all of which Vanguard provides as part of the BSN. Oh yeah, and we also become Public Health Nurses at the end of the 90 hours of community clinical service we provided in two months in addition to our 36 hour work week.. Totally fly-by-night. Why did she pay almost double the usual tuition? She can still go to CSULB or CSUDH for a MSN to NP. I know this for a fact because five of my Vanguard BSN classmates start at CSULB in August (2015). I was told by their admissions counselor I could keep myself busy with CSUDH online prerequisites if I wanted to enter the 2016 CSULB cohort. I was told that I could not enter a private school's MSN program (like Vanguard), then transfer credits because they are not the same program. Not a problem, because Vanguard's MSN tracks do no interest me. If your friend would like the names of the people I talked to about admissions, I would be happy to connect her. Your friends should not have taken out that kind of debt betting on income they didn't have. That's not the school's mistake. Finally a statement of truth. Apgar10, BSN (Vanguard University), RN

Re: ultrasound for PIVs... after getting one you'll need to train nurses to use it

Did you take it yet? The rules of the test are you can't miss any of the lethal rhythms on the strips they give you. Tele nurses and other monitored units have to take a rhythm test every year. If you don't pass it you get one repeat... fail it again you get some sort of counseling, fail it a third time and you get transferred to a unmonitored floor.

Yeah, start there. No biggie... on my current unit we have new grads fresh out of school. You get preceptored and mentored and if it's a good unit, you have a team environment. We have different levels of acuity in our unit so new grad assignments to veteran nurse assignments are different and appropriate for skill level. (btw, our hospital hires new grads into ICU type units too, so...)

I've got two years on tele and am going to the ED soon. According to the managers I interviewed with tele is a great place to get experience that will help in the ED. Our tele unit is also a step down from CCU/CVICU and it's a STEMI center, so it's a good fit.

I've been working as a telemetry nurse since graduation two years ago. I worked one year in a hospital that was very basic tele and now I'm at another that would be considered a sub-ICU environment considering we do everything from cath lab recovery to open heart recovery, drips, sepsis, observation, and everything in between for sick people with heart problems to people who just found out they heart problems. The next step from my unit is CCU and CVICU. Go for it! It's great.

Becoming a direct-entry midwife (DEM) is a waste of time for a nurse. Five minutes after earning whatever education and credentialing available as a DEM, you're maxed out in the field. It is far better to continue toward grad school and earn the CNM, giving you the broadest scope of practice in all venues. Too much opportunity for blurring the lines of what a nurse and a midwife can do independently and overlapping. Not so with a CNM. *Said with experience because I am a DEM and RN but not CNM.

What orientation are you talking about? Someone from the school called me today and said there isn't an RN to BSN orientation scheduled yet.

I just looked on their website and there isn't a nursing orientation posted. There is one from last Fall but the notice wasn't sent until April for an August orientation. I'd say there is still some planning ahead for the school

Our new admits on the night shift come up from the ED with IVs in place. There are always IVs that need to be replaced at all hours of the day and night.

Our tele ratio is 4:1. Brush up on your cardiac meds, rhythms, and all the usual med-surg common probs.

We aren't allowed to be interrupted on our lunches and have a sign on the door reminding people before they barge in. If we get interrupted we get to start over

So I'm an RN! I took the test on the 14th, the license was issued on the 16th, and posted to the CA BRN website on the 17th Yay me!!

I did the Kaplan classes and trainers as they were assigned. I worked through 65% of the Qbank questions and averaged about 60% on them... sometimes up to 68% and as low as 48% depending on my attention span I scored 65% on the Readiness and Trainer 7 (two days before). I only cracked open the Kaplan book before I went to sleep last night and scanned through it quickly. I didn't have a study plan. I just tried to do about 100-150 questions a day. I had another book but didn't really pay attention to it.

I took it today too... shut off at 75 questions. I got a boatload of SATA questions and one that made me LOL about humor as a nonpharmacologic pain relief. It made me channel a friend so I cracked up. Then when I got to question 74, I made sure to take my time on 75 because I'd heard you have to get the last question right to pass for sure. Anyway, all in all, the bark was WAY worse than it's bite. I should not have stressed over it. I definitely think the Kaplan test prep questions were scarier and harder. I think I only got 2 drug questions, 1 OB, 1 neonatal, and no peds. I got this pop up just now: "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Please contact your Member Board for further assistance. Another registration cannot be made at this time." Is that the good one? I'm in CA and the FAQ says 2-4 weeks for results. Anyone in CA see a license on the BRN site sooner than that?

i doubt your cosmetics will inspire a sex offender to go after you. it's not always about sexual attraction.

I would like to ask why you made a big deal about the awesome advantage we'd be at for graduating weeks ahead of our job competitors when you didn't bother to prepare our paperwork when we graduated? All of our competitors have received their ATTs and have started to take and pass the NCLEX and get licensed. So thanks! I'm still waiting