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Laura G wins my vote the videos and her question book as well as PASS CCRN questions, don't bother with the book it will make your head spin. Kaplan's book was worthless, not enough detail and the online questions were not pertinent to the content ac...

I know it has been a little bit since people have posted but I just wanted to post on here from an alumni perspective. I graduated in May 2010 from the Accelerated BSN program and I am more than happy with the education I received at OCU. Some of the...

When I was in nursing school I was spending my day in the peds ER, 6 yo child comes in, apparently a frequent visitor to this ER with a lot of chronic problems, he was found down at home and is 20 minutes out by the time he gets to ER. His stomach wa...

We normally run Zosyn over 30 minutes

I work on a surgical care floor, pain is one of our biggest issues of course. I normally have no problem getting pain meds for a patient but when one of my patients started talking to me about the dosing chart and how heroin ranks compared to morphin...

Oklahoma City University

Aspirus Wausau Hospital is hiring on new grads still. In my orientation alone there were 6 new grads hired, so try applying with them. The pay is a little lower than Madison though the cost of living is lower. Good luck!

Do the best you can with what you are given. Some days you will be with what seems like a nurse that doesn't want anything to do with you. This happened to me often in school, but if you put forth the effort and dig in that is all you can do, some nu...

We have electronic scanners that also have some charting flow sheets so we can do pain assessment, med administration, acknowledge orders etc.

Stay at your job, the job market right now stinks and a lot of people I talked to recently that just started where I just started said no one took their LPN time as experience!! Money is better than no money and it is always easier to find a job whil...

No they do not have an entrance exam, as long as you meet all the pre-reqs with the needed GPA you are accepted in. The way they tell if you meet the pre-reqs is that Miss Clarey will request an unofficial transcript first and then sometimes they nee...

I recommend Kaplan, I took it and think it made all the difference in the world. The diagnostic test allows you to see what content you are lacking knowledge on and they have over 30 hours of content video for you to watch. This personally was the be...

Remember, the longer you put it off, the more information you will probably forget and the more anxious you will become. Make sure you know your lab values and common endings for drugs. Other than that, it sounds like you are doing lots of questions....

just wanted to write a post for anyone who tries the pvt and gets the lovely 'the candidate currently has test results that are on hold. a new registration cannot be created at this time.' message. i didn't see a lot of posts about it on here so i th...

I feel everyone's pain. I just graduated from an accelerated bachelors program. I have applied to many different jobs in many different places. You name it I have applied to it..I ask almost EVERYONE I come in contact with if they know of anyone that...

Hey so I don't know if you are still looking for info on OCU KSN accelerated bachelors program. Here is a link to the eligibility requirements http://www.okcu.edu/nursing/2bacadm.aspx I believe you need a 3.0gpa cumulative so I am not sure how they ...

I took the test yesterday also, tried the PVT and I don't get the "good" pop up, I get the pop up saying my results are on hold...not the same as the contact your board. So..not the good but not the bad CC payment. I felt so crummy about my exam I ju...

As far as I have heard different schools also get differently tailored versions of the Hesi Exit Exam. Also I am pretty sure where I go to school our accelerated bachelors that are graduating got a different version of the exit exam than our traditio...

There is an accelerated bachelors to BSN program at Oklahoma City University. It is rather pricey but they accept everyone who applies that meets their standards. The only standard you don't meet is they require a B in your last Chem class so you m...

SOOO ready to graduate we took our exit HESI today and I passed!! Only 96 hours of a preceptorship which starts tomorrow and I am done. For the people who are students to be and want advice: don't be a know it all especially at clinical, ask tons of ...

Sanja, Sorry it took so long for me to reply... No I don't think that the professors discriminate against people that they don't like. Overall I feel like most of the professors are more than helpful, but there is only so much they can do for you..i...

Just under $60k for a second degree BSN

The catch to everyone being accepted is really the high cost of the school, which you would get at any private university, and that if you can't hack it you will not pass. There is no rounding to percentages and no curve, so even if you are 1 point f...

I am going through nursing school currently. If you are concerned about making it through the pre-reqs don't let go of your job and try to take one class at night. Unless you are financially very sound and can pay out of pocket it might be more benef...

I am still in school so I cannot speak from experience as an RN, but from previous work experience at a clinic I would say it is not a good idea to keep your information sheets on the off chance someone finds out and this gets you into bigger trouble...