studentgrl

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1. almost off orientation and crazy nasty day!

   studentgrl replied to erin01's topic in General Nursing

   im a lil over one year as a RN at a busy 40 bed tele/cv unit. at nights we get average 6 and lot of times 7 pts a piece, sometimes we dont have nursing aides, sometimes we dont have charge nurse and...

2. Is this too much or am I crazy...what are your units like?

   studentgrl replied to emersushea's topic in Cardiac

   i also work on a 40 bed tele unit in the inner city. i understand what your going thru, most day are "bad" days meaning super busy, having no time to pee or eat, giving report to day nurse when my...

3. Telemetry Staffing Ratios

   studentgrl replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

   sorry double post

4. Telemetry Staffing Ratios

   studentgrl replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Type of Hospital: community Type of Unit: medical tele which includes post cath and post surgerys Number of beds: 39 Number of patients each RN has: nomally 6-7 on my night shift but up to 8 i have...

5. Nursing Experience

   studentgrl replied to Wooji13's topic in Illinois Nursing

   wooji what are you looking at? i work in chicago area and my hospital is hiring, and they hire really easily. from my experience, it was very hard finding a job in a well established chicago hospital...

6. Nursing Experience

   studentgrl replied to Wooji13's topic in Illinois Nursing

   seriously i heard the same thing when i was in nursing school. its gonna be so easy to find a job because there is a need for nurses everywhere. i went to school around champaign and i saw my...

7. New grad hoping to move to Chicago

   studentgrl replied to AveryJane's topic in Illinois Nursing

   avery jane you should def check out loyola's new heart and vascular unit. they're

8. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

   studentgrl replied to studentgrl's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   igmirnor what i meant was make sure you know the different types of precautions you have to take for each infectious diseases. make sure you know all the diseases, you never know which one will...

9. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

   studentgrl replied to studentgrl's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   igmirnor, wat i meant for the infectious diseases is make sure you know what type it is like is it contact/droplet/standared, etc. TB, HTN, STDs, hiv, diabetes are very common topics and likely to...

10. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

    studentgrl replied to studentgrl's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    My scores were pretty low also when i started out on kaplan like low 40s 50s but it got better and better .. i think the videos and book content are the same so as long as you review one of them your...

11. passed nclex 1st time.. my advice

    studentgrl posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    i got 76 questions. i seriously thought i failed because i got ALOT of questions wrong. but it turned out i passed. i took the kaplan course also. like many other kaplan takers..i swear my the kaplan...

12. question about tuition reimbursement (northwest memorial)

    studentgrl posted a topic in Illinois Nursing

    i am a new grad who recently just passed the nclex. i want to get a masters later on after some hospital experience. i know rush, uic, uofc, loyola, or other university hosptials will pay 100% tuiton...

13. question about lithium tox

    studentgrl posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    hi guys. iv always been on this site, reading about tips on nclex cause im studying for mine 1st test on march. so i have several sources. unfortunately all of them are not 2007..some are even from...