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hello, i am currently a rn in a level I/level II nursery in south carolina. i am relocating to nyc in may and i am wondering what is the base salary for rns with a couple years exp? also how are the working conditions?? i have seen a lot of stuff ...

the post was more than i expected. i currently make 30.00 per hour base pay without the hospital's benefits. the salaries may be around the same for me between carolina and nyc, only with benefits.

thanks for the very informative post -jt. it was truly more than i expected. ltm

hello, i am currently a rn in a level I/level II nursery in south carolina. i am relocating to nyc in may and i am wondering what is the base salary for rns with a couple years exp? also how are the working conditions?? i have seen a lot of stuff ...

hi brianna, it sounds as though you want to work in the newborn nursery or in labor and delivery. i currently work in the level 2 section of the newborn nursery and every once and a while i get to work with the healthy newborns in the level 1 sectio...

i graduated in may 2000. i used both the mosby's cd and the cat by kaplan. i had questions on my nclex from that kaplan disk verbatim. kaplan was the most valuable source that i studied from. i had 75 questions which took about an hour. the kapl...

just relax. first at least you feel like you passed. i took it in may, got 75 questions and was sick when i left the testing center. i truly felt like i would have to prepare to take it again. by the grace of god i passed. the only thing i did t...

of all of the graduates of my class (35), i know of only one person that has failed with 75 questions. i too had 75 questions and i feel your agony of waiting. i did not know how i did once it turned off, but i passed. so best of luck to you and t...

hey jeanne, you must remember that you could pass or fail with any amount of questions, even 75. i too had 75 questions and i thought that the test was pretty hard. it was totally not representative of any practice tests that i had ever taken. the...

the best way to study for these questions is to remember the ABCs, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and always see/treat the most acute patient/life threatening illness first. Always take care of a person's most potentially life threatening problem firs...

This message is for julie, sn. can you tell me what nc board of nursing's website address is? i have a classmate that took boards here, in sc, but she will be licensed and working in north carolina. she took the nclex last tuesday and still has no...

according to the sc state boards, nclex, and kaplan the computer keeps asking you questions until it determines that you are competant. you could pass or fail with any amount of questions. i had 75 questions and i still agonized until i got my lice...

wow, this is a really interesting and heated topic. i can see both points of view. i am not intolerant of a nurse that has a substance abuse problem, but as it was said earlier the use of drugs or any other substance is a choice, no matter who you ...

i used kaplan and mosby's books to study for the nclex. i studied for about two weeks to put all of the information in perspective. after my final week of school about 15 of my friends and i took a kaplan course. i found remembering their strategi...

Amen GoldilocksRN. i see your point also. i got my bsn, so that i would be able to go get my master's in midwifery. i truly care about my patients holisticly and that is why i am an RN. so to each their own until there is one route to becoming a...

relax, which is easy for me to say now. i got my license in ten days after taking the nclex. my state's website was under construction, so i could not get my results in 7 days. it turned off at 75 questions for me also and i was nervous eveyrday u...

thanks for you post angela. i agree with it 100%. it was all that i have been saying since my first post. different scopes of practice get different pay, while people with the same scope of practice get the same pay. i truly don't have time to arg...

hi palpitations. obviously there are advanced practice nurses that have a greater scope of practice than that of a person with only a RN license, but last i checked this discussion was about RNs with either a adn or bsn and compensation. i still k...

all i would like to add is that there was a study done that stated that bsn and adn nurses perform at an identical level within 6 months. the adn/bsn thing should not be a debate in the nursing community. personally in my area both bsn and adn stud...

hey michelle. be encouraged about medsurg. i have to agree with the other reply that medsurg is the basis of all nursing. i did not exactly love my medsurg class and i don't desire to work in medsurg for the rest of my life that's why i choose OB....

sure lpns may do the same job, which is not so in my area, but they do not have the same education as an RN and that is why there is a pay difference and a difference in their scope of practice. All RNs perform the same tasks and that is why they sh...

hey, i truly understand your concerns. i just took boards on May 31, 2000. it was much harder than everyone said that it would be. i think i did pretty okay and am currently awaiting my results. i did a kaplan review course and took some virtual ...

congratulations newnurse. i too am a recent graduate(may 2000). have you taken the nclex yet?? in my area(SC), the hospitals have no problem hiring new grads. i am awaiting my results from the nclex, then its onward from there. in my area grades ...

This is just a message searching for some basic info on informed consent. I just need to know the laws on informed consent and when a nurse can be obligated to intervene. My understanding is that if you suspect that your patient has not received pr...

I am currently a student in a BSN program and this is a very hot topic at school. From my understanding, both ADN and BSN programs take the same amount of time to acquire. ADNs have to have two years of prerequisites, just like BSN students. Then ...