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here's some FVH Hoag (a lot) OC memorial coastal community hospital st.judes twin towers college hospital

I'd focus on the above

The important part to remember, though, is "communication" in itself won't give you a caring, competent student.

I've found it helpful to not even fill my scantron in until I've chosen all my answers on the exam because, as some have mentioned, your first choice is usually the right one. As for your teacher, the only way they could've "made" you get the answer wrong is by filling the incorrect choice in for you. Think of it this way, as a nurse you can't taken any information as true without justifying it. This includes something a teacher tells you. If they can't back up info with a reference/rationale, there's no validity to the action (or in your case test choice). And my experiece has been that teachers throw out questions that students are able to reasonably prove mutliple answers are correct. I'd route sounds more reasonable than choosing a answer based on your interpretation of the instructor's behavior, no?

Take pathophysiology if you can. Let's see, what else? There's a great NCLEX review that is quite expensive but I have a friend who took it right before starting the program and found it extremely helpful. The one I'm thinking of allows you to take the class as many times as you need to in order to pass the NCLEX. So, you pay once and can take it between semester as you please. Aside from that, brush up on your math if it's not a strong point and try to hook up with someone from the semester ahead of you. My school offers a mentoring program. Having connections makes a world of difference!

Well, I noticed Hoag has quite the impressive new grad program set up, when I browsing their computer system on one of my clinical breaks. And I must say, computer charting is a big bonus. I don't know if Scripps has computer charting as well. Oh, Hoag has a bunch of employee discount programs and their food is FANTASTIC. Do try the chilli if you go w/ Hoag

Or you'll make some ADN friends

Sounds like something my instructor would say

I almost thought you were a friend I spoke to earlier tonight! Seems like us 2nd semester'ers all feel slightly overwhelmed at this point. I've been hearing more issues with instructors, to be honest, but I don't doubt I'll feel similarly at some point when I hit med-surg. Last semester, I felt exactly as you are explaining. I think the change came through several means: 1) no pre-clinical paperwork for OB, 2) still needing to anticipate & prioritize patient care, 3) weekly journal assignment (have to pick 5 clinical outcome objectives w/ an example of how we met them AND have 3 goals for the following clinical) At preconference, our instructor writes down our goals for the day. In post-conference, everyone discussed what we've learned (which is helpful since we have to include at least one example of critical thinking we used and one observed in another student). If these things don't work for you, I always fall back on this: at AM report, after you tell your RN what you can and can't do, tell your RN specific learning experiences you'd like to observe. Tell other nurses as well, if you're permitted. And make a point of being able to verbalize the rational for Interventions r/t specific medical diagnoses. Hang in there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olg6ivg3Fms

Is it safe to say she drove to the interview drunk as well?

use of restraints, travelling internationally for procedures, birth control methods/laws, nurse-to-nurse hostility (as heard it called horizontal hostility), new grad retention, informed consent, confidentiality (there's a lot of current news reports), license renewal/reinstatement/petition, shift length? any of those appeal? good luck! :)

Thanks everyone! I'm not too worried about vital signs. Maybe you can tell me what the most the easiest s/s are to miss..or even the most common complications you see? I've been focusing on RDS and Hyperbilirubinemia. Do you perform many heel sticks?

go eat something. it'll take the edge off.

hey guys, i'm a second semester nursing student working on my women's health rotation. i've spent the last two shifts in postpartum and i will be heading to the nursery in a few days. i only have 2 12-hour clinical days in the nursery. i have quite a bit of information sitting in front of me but i feel very unprepared. i'd like to hear suggestions from anyone who has worked with nursing students in this sort of situation, specifically what i should focus on in the next three days. is there anything you found particular annoying that your student(s) didn't know? how can i avoid irritating my nurse and being belittled by my instructor? for those of you familiar with student rotations, how much hands-on experience is hidden in the word "observation?" i have a hunch that the word is termed incorrectly help :smackingf