R.NICU

If it's my first day on I just go to sleep whenever I want [[somwhere between 11-2am]], wake up when I feel [[usually 8-10]], and may take a quick hour nap before work..but not usually. However, if I worked the previous night, after the shift, I st...

Hey guys. I started the RN program spring two years ago and was 21. Got my LPN license July last year and my RN license 3 days ago ...both at age 23 :-)

Hi everyone :) I'm nearing the end of my third semester of nursing school (one more semester to go, yes!) And I'm looking into my prospective opportunities as a new grad. I want to work in the NICU more than anything, second choice is PICU or peds fl...

sometimes. i tell them i'm a nurse and they ask me if i'm going to upgrade to doctor ...um, no.

what are the patient:nurse ratios (for day and night) on your acute rehab floor in a hospital setting? -on days it's supposed to be 6:1 but it never is. it's usually 7-10 patients to a nurse what is the ratio for patient:CNA? for the techs it's 1:8....

Hey. Sorry for the late response, but I've been M.I.A. d/t this last semester of school! omgoodness they are trying to kill us. anyway, that's another story, for another thread. At my facility, you may have also just met the person for the first t...

That sounds like a cute stehie! Make sure you keep track of it. If you lend it to a doctor or another nurse, keep track of them cuz they will walk away with it. A doc in the ED at clinicals asked for my stethescope and i followed her around for 30...

hey everyone, I'm in my fourth semester at Pima CC. You will have to have the following to be eligible for clinicals in the spring: 1. a TB skin test, good through the end of the spring semester. (TB test is good for one year) 2. Copy of your shot r...

i have a friend that works at tmc and she said alot of nurses got laid off.

...I get a new admit! I'm a new nurse chugging along through my orientation. Things seems to be going well, i started with 2 patients at the beginning of orientation and had 4 today + a new admit, so 5. I think i'm catching on nicely. Things were...

Maybe that will be good for you. There are several factors that could help determine that...how fast you learn, their new grad program, your preceptor, etc. I'm surprised your orientation isn't longer though, especially for a specialty such as ER. ...

hey rehab nurses, I'm a new nurse (passed NCLEX 07/01/10) and will be starting my orientation in an acute rehab hospital on August 4th. My orientation will be 6 weeks long and my DON said she will allot me more time if i feel that is inadequate. My ...

writing 101 and 102 was basically a repeat of what i did in high school. I don't remember but one or two things from my psychology and sociology classes. Child Development was fun, but not needed. My humanities class was a joke!...but an easy A.

stethescope, penlight, tape, alcohol pads, several pens, and atleast two pairs of gloves on me at all times.

I also work at a rehab hospital and would give it an 8/10. Reasonable patient load, docs are nice most of the time, wonderful co-workers....yeah, 8/10. What knocks it down two points is that fact that we don't always have the necessary resources th...

thank you all for your replies! I'm so stoked! Wednesday is my first official day, but the nurses have been allowing me to do little things here and there :) what do you believe is the hardest things for a new rehab nurse to adjust to? I'm absolut...

Hello! I just received my LPN license this month and have a job in acute rehab. I believe I have a leg up on you by having worked in this facility for the past year as a tech so I'm not as intimidated. But I'm intimidated nonetheless. You have to rem...

LOL seriously. Take a course in deciphering hieroglyphics

Seriously, what are these BSN students being taught?...the answer is yes, if you are working in a bedside capacity. You will be expected to clean up after a code brown. Often times you will have a CNA/PCT to take care of it, but it's awesome to help ...

Ditto! I'm sorry but when I'm at work, I bend over backwards, do all kinds of flips, and jump through various hoops to get the job done. I need my time away from work to maintain my sanity. On a few occassions, and after careful consideration I have ...

i'm a black male nurse, just got my LPN july 1st this year at the age of 23. Graduating RN school in december this year and hopefully will have my RN in December or January....also at the age of 23. We are out there. The few, the proud..

i passed the first time with the minimum amount of questions and i used saunders nclex-rn comprehensive review. I worried more about knowing my content. After two months of intense reviewing, I only used the CD for maybe a week or two to do practic...

i always say "why didn't you go to Med school?" ....silence.... yeah...you won't ask that again.

JPALI, Girl you passed. Don't even sweat it. Go Celebrate.

you are ready. i studied about the same amount of time, maybe a little less, and passed. My feelings were identical to yours. my list of study topics seemed to increase instead of decrease. Finally, I decided i was tired of looking at that cursed ...