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If you are that unhappy, you definitely need to find something else. I am in the same boat as you are. I am just over a year as a RN. I have been out 2 months due to a critical illness and am now trying to get back in the groove of things. I am o...

Definitely apply now. I applied back in April 2008 and found out they were giving me a job on the floor I still work today. I started June 2nd 2008, but did not take NCLEX until June 17, 2008. If you do not pass, at my hospital, they keep you, but...

Unfortunately it does happen. I had a girl that was pregnant, but she was due in the summer. So, she finished third semester, then had the baby like in June or July when there was a break. For me it was a different story. I found out I was pregnan...

Also in Dallas, Texas, at least at the hospital I work for. I was a part of the June 2008 new grad preceptorship and we had at least 250 new grads. Don't know yet for this year, but do know they have been recruiting for this year's internships. (Ja...

Texas.....Days is 4-5:1 and nights used to be as many as 7:1, but they have taken some of the rooms to make surgical rooms, so now nights is 5:1 and no tech. Day shift gets a tech, but they leave at 3:00pm. This is a post-op surgical floor with som...

I had to leave my final semester d/t an unplanned pregnancy in Fall of 2006. When I tried to return in Spring 2007, they told me they lost my paperwork. Then when I tried to get back in for Fall 2007, they said that since I had been out more than 1...

On my floor, which is a post-op floor, we do hourly rounding until 2200 and then every two hours after that. I do not wake my patient and ask anything if they are asleep. I quietly walk in the room, check to make sure everything is right, breathing...

My floor has just taken over the bariatric service. I really enjoy watching Discovery Health especially about the journey of people who are morbidly obese and are seeking help. There was this one episode that discussed this very issue. I think the...

I went looking around on Google to see what I could find. On one of the websites that was a MD website, regarding the eye, drainage and discharge were used interchangeably. They even gave a listing of all the names of different eye disorders and us...

I guess it really depends on when it was taken. On my floor, the night shift tech will take the blood sugars from 0630-0700 before going off shift. We night shift nurses, do not cover with our sliding scale at that time, but tell the day shift nurs...

On my floor there are three of us that started back in June. As soon as we were off orientation, they started floating us, even though we were told that we would not be floated for six months. My manager hired too many people for night shift and so...

I used the website Google and found some information about Burkitt's Lymphoma. The first website that came up was Wikepedia, it even had some pictures of children that had the Burkitt's lymphoma. My mother died of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, so I knew t...

this website that i am sending you the link to has free nclex questions that really helped me during school and after. it is the nclex 3500, i know there is a new one out there with more questions, but hey the site is free and it has the dreaded mul...

Mine came via email, but in my junk email folder. I really do not remember what addy it came from because I deleted it after I got my license. Just make sure before you trash anything, you are checking to make sure it is not the ATT. Also, make su...

Back in May, we took the Hesi on Wednesday May 7, 2008 and I got my ATT on May 28, 2008 so about three weeks. Some of my classmates did not receive theirs until June and one of them did not get theirs until July, but that was due to ECC boo-boo. I ...

i have never had a patient with a cyanotic stoma, but if i had i would have done the same thing you did which was called the md. a cyanotic stoma means that their is compromised blood flow to the area and if not caught in time, necrosis could set in...

I was accepted in Spring 05, and at that time the lowest GPA of pre-reqs was 3.77 and the side courses was 17 and a GPA of 2.92. I actually did not have to take the Hesi because back then it was the NET test, but you only had to pass that test to sen...

To me, I thought I would hate trache suctioning, but it is actually ok. The patients I take care of that have a trache have not bothered me as much as the ones that vomit. I am a post op nurse, so the ones that do vomit, vomit only water or jello si...

I actually work with plastic surgery as a post-op nurse and what I have found with breast augmentation and implants is that you ladies jump back pretty fast. It really depends on your body and how quickly it heals. I have been around other people t...

I am at Baylor Dallas and this past March they had a job fair that I went to. You just talk to the hiring managers and they will call you for the second interview. I went for the second interview in April and was given a job offer at that time. Th...

I really do not like bladder scans. The patients I have had the scan says that they have 400mls in the bladder, but I pull off 900-1300 depending on the patient. I have never come across the instance where it says 900 and only pull off 400, so I wi...

Bowel eliminiation alteration, gastrointestinal alteration, those were the two that jumped out at me looking at the NANDA list. I know when I have had my personal bouts with ulcerative colitis, I would have diarrhea with the bloody stools. So you ...

Scorpio here. Plastics/ENT/Maxillofacial med/surg nurse.:nuke:

I had a teacher in school that actually had this question on a test. She put abdomen 2 inches away from belly button and other answer was in love handles. If you look in NCLEX books, they have Lovenox is given in love handles. I am so glad I read ...

I drew my own blood once because they kept trying to turn me into a pin cushion. I told them give me the butterfly and I will draw it. Her eyes got real big when I got blood and she was unable to in 3 sticks! I haven't given myself a shot, but I wo...