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It depends on the ER. I work in the ICU and get may Pts from the ER with almost no info in the EMR. Forget about lines, you're lucky if they were entered. And most of the time the RN giving report has only had the pt for 5 min so they know nothing.

Check out Bakersfield and Fresno. They usually have new grad pools. Good luck! There really is no RN shortage in CA:(

Your gpa seems high enough, not to effect your pell grant status, why can't you take another semester or year and get the grant to go to RN school. Most school will only average a C with a repeat, usually can only R/D a D or F.

Sounds like an error somewhere to me! But I think what they are getting at is this. For example you primary is running NS at 250/hr. the you hang a ivpb to run at 50cc/hr. When the ivpb is done, the primary kicks in. All the meds left in that line will now run at 5x the rate it should be,until it clears. Most stuff that must run slow I used the concurrent setting and then do a flush of 5-10 cc at the same rate to clear the line. Great for drugs like lasix gtt that run at 1cc/hr. run a tko with a lasix chaser on the b-port(hospira).

When people say that we get paid too much or don't work at all, I give them a scenario. "You have two total care Pts in the ICU, both on insulin dips with Q 1 hr blood sugar checks, both in iso for CDiff. You have just had a code brown in each room and its not even 8 yet. So far, worth the 30 an hour. Maybe. Now do that every hour for 12 hours, would that 30 be enough." Most would probably say no. They obviously don't know what nursing is. Stand strong, you are tougher than them.

Take the ICU job if that is your dream! Give good notice to the clinic and offer to work until you re replaced! Don't say anything to the clinic until that job is in the bag!

Pvt works. But you have to wait till your results are sent from Pearson the the BON. Usually within a few hours but I've heard if people's taking all day. There is a pop up that says something like "the results are being compiled and have not been submitted to the board." I got this pop up so I waited an hour and retried. Passed at 75Q! Unfortunately I live In Cali so no early results, took 2 wks for the BRN to get it together.

It will take at least 3-4 yrs to get an ADN, the ADNprogram is 2 yrs, plus pre reqs. In Cali it can take 2-3 years to finish pre reqs. My BSN took 6, i finished all my GE before starting my program. It's tough to get into the needed pre reqs when your class standing is low. For BSN pre reqs are a minimum for 2.5-3 yrs.

Keep the snacks in your pocket. When you sit down to chart you be shoveling the snacks in. Keep the snacks healthy. Also you didn't say you were on any mess for the diabetes. If you are on insulin or PO meds you may need to adjust those in days you work. Obviously you need to talk with your endocrinologist. If you aren't on meds then I would Definitely talk to the MD as to why your liver isn't kicking in to drive up your blood sugar. We have a type 1 on an insulin pump on our ICU unit. She has ended up in the ER a couple of times. She allows here range to to set higher so she doesn't get to low. Good luck!

Most of the books out there are content review. They are all about the same do the questions and practice tests. You need to so some alternate style type questions and critical thinking questions as well. I used Saunders and http://www.learningext.com. NCLEX is critical thinking test, not solely content, but how to apply it! Good luck!

Sound like you need to do some content review. You should be shooting for 80% on content review. Since nclex is CAT, everyone's test is individualized. People will say, my test was all Peds or my test was Ob. That is usually bc they struggled in the area and the test is designed to give you that content till you pass the standard. It does the same for question type. Focus on content and then critical thinking questions. Nclex assumes you know the content so it throws a lot of critical thinking questions as the test gets tougher. After that? Think prioritization. Make sure you get that content down. Good luck!

ATI didn't really help me that much, get a content review book like Saunders, do the content tests, get at least 80%. Then you need some critical thinking questions. I used http://www.learningext.com. It tis more content but it has a CT Q bank. My school used ATI as the final for each content area. Then we had to get a 95 on the predictor exam. ATI is tough. It's almost too much content! Good luck. Don't over think or add info to the questions. When you are done, do the Pearson vue trick!

This happened to me last month. Drove me absolutely bonkers. After 4 hours of dressings and holding pressure I had the fellow come back. The lido with epi trick worked great. It was bleeding from the skin nick they do before the dilator was inserted. I was so ******. I spent all that time and he walks in and fixes it in 5 min. Can't use more than 10-12ml though.

If you can afford it, go for that bsn, do the accelerated program if you can. If not ADN will get you working so Long as you don't live in a large urban city. I live in SoCal. Many of the hospitals here do not hire ADNs right now. Our market is saturated with RNs(no shortage here) so they can be more choosey. Plus with Magnet status and all that BS, they want to have RNs with more educational training.

Study and retest! Be patient and don't give up