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  1. Question for nurses who passed NCLEX using Saunders!

    Grapenut replied to Learz13's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I used Saunders and I didn't get more than 70%, sometimes not that high, on practice tests. I passed the NCLEX on the first try with 76

  2. Moving to Alaska. Please Help

    Grapenut replied to RNnadeau's topic in General Nursing

    If it's going to be another year before you come up that will help you get a job -- at least a year of experience. There are jobs but most hospitals want a couple of years experience at least. If...

  3. Fingerprinting in Georgia for TX, FL, and CA RN License

    Grapenut replied to godbless-yute's topic in Travel

    That's weird, because I have fingerprints for Alaska and Oregon (those states mailed them to me), and I live in Georgia, metro Atlanta as a matter of fact, and cannot find anyone to do ink scans. All...

  4. Continue to Beware of MEDCEU.com

    Grapenut replied to norma_njm's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I joined MedCeu October 17, 2012. Paid $39.99 for a 2 year membership, as evidenced by the charge to my Wells Fargo account. Now I need to send my certificates to one of the states I'm licensed in,...

  5. Anyone have any info on Regional Hospital Seattle?

    Grapenut posted a topic in Washington Nursing

    Looking at an ad for a position at Regional Hospital Seattle. It's an LTAC. Anyone have any personal experience there?

  6. Anyone have any info on Regional Hospital Seattle?

    Grapenut replied to Grapenut's topic in Washington Nursing

    It's a Long Term Acute Care hospital (an LTAC). Most people don't know what that is unless you've worked at one. It isn't LTC, like a nursing home. It's an acute care hospital that the regular...

  7. For those who had to repeat the CPNE...

    Grapenut replied to tnmarie's topic in Excelsior College

    What part did you not pass? I would focus on that. I passed the first time. Rob's CPNE helped me know what I was walking into, but you already know because you've been there. But his study guides...

  8. I need a reputable place to get continuing ed credits

    Grapenut posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I don't know if this is the right forum for this topic, though it deals with a career issue - continuing education credits. I've been using a company (medceu.com, if I may mention it). I spent...

  9. I need a reputable place to get continuing ed credits

    Grapenut replied to Grapenut's topic in Nursing Career

    Thanks! I'll check it

  10. Advice on finding a job???

    Grapenut replied to happa511's topic in General Nursing

    From all the posts I've seen, and my own personal experience, it is notoriously hard to get on somewhere in a specialty without any experience. Having said that, I know that Providence occasionally...

  11. Advice on finding a job???

    Grapenut replied to happa511's topic in General Nursing

    Try St. Elias Specialty Hospital in Anchorage. They were hiring new grads a few months ago. It's an LTAC (Long Term Acute Care), meaning, it is an Acute Care hospital, not a long term nursing home...

  12. Advice on finding a job???

    Grapenut replied to happa511's topic in General Nursing

    Where did you do your clinicals? I'm guessing Providence, Alaska Regional, Native. I didn't go to school in Alaska. But I was in a similar situation. When I graduated, first I waited until I passed...

  13. "Nurses Are So Mean"

    Grapenut replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with your point that if everywhere you go you get treated with some degree of hostility, maybe you need to take a longer, harder look at yourself. But that's not to say that bullying doesn't...

  14. What does your username mean?

    Grapenut replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    My former user name was AreWeThereYet. When I first joined allnurses, my main topic of interest was the distance learning program I was working my way through. It seemed all of us posters on this...

  15. New grad discouraged about job oppurtunity

    Grapenut replied to Maciver's topic in General Nursing

    I don't. I think it's a specialty that you need to feel a calling to, just like any other nursing specialty. To be honest, I didn't want to work there initially -- I just applied because I had to...

  16. New grad discouraged about job oppurtunity

    Grapenut replied to Maciver's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated with my LPN 6 years ago and didn't want to apply anywhere until I had passed the NCLEX and had my license in hand. The hospital where I did my clinicals had hired several of my classmates...

  17. Time to call a duck a duck?

    Grapenut replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    As Fungez pointed out : When I started they had things like transportation, hospitality, etc. Our time was considered too valuable to do nonnursing things. Unit clerks were staffed every shift,...

  18. Male LPN in Rn pgm through Excelsior moving to Eielson AFB Feb 10th 2010...advice!!

    Grapenut replied to pcolaqtfighter77's topic in General Nursing

    We drove from the deep south also. We left on a Saturday driving, made it to Seattle by Wednesday night and spent 2 nights with a friend there, left Seattle and drove to Bellingham Friday morning to...

  19. Male LPN in Rn pgm through Excelsior moving to Eielson AFB Feb 10th 2010...advice!!

    Grapenut replied to pcolaqtfighter77's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to Alaska. I came up as a travel nurse 11/08 in order to make enough money to do the CPNE. It took me a couple of months to get over the move, my new environment, etc, before I could get...

  20. Excelsior College and Georgia. How are the Precepted Clinicals Working?

    Grapenut replied to Pmdc's topic in Excelsior College

    Hmmm. The BON is in Macon. One of the few hospitals doing the precepting is in Macon and they're charging $500. Nursing in any town, especially one that size, is a small community. As usual,...

  21. Excelsior College and Georgia. How are the Precepted Clinicals Working?

    Grapenut replied to Pmdc's topic in Excelsior College

    I had finished all my EC courses and just had to come up with the money to do clinicals when this ruling came out (summer 2008). I had worked 4 years as an LPN on a med-surg unit at a 200-bed...

  22. CPNE 20 minute check

    Grapenut replied to TiffanyRN!!'s topic in Online Distance Learning

    Don't forget I&Os. While doing your 20 minutes checks you want to explain to your patient that you will be measuring their intake and output. If they aren't NPO and they're alert, ask the...

  23. Medical Marijuana Opinions

    Grapenut replied to SL2014's topic in Arizona Nursing

    The fact that people had or caused accidents while working under the influence then is unrelated to legal use of pot, because it's illegal, and these things happened anyway. So you jump to the...

  24. Medical Marijuana Opinions

    Grapenut replied to SL2014's topic in Arizona Nursing

    The World Health Organization released findings of a recent study regarding the "gateway" theory stating that unmeasured common causes rather than causal effects of specific drugs on others at least...

  25. Med Surg Tech Orientation from Hell!!

    Grapenut replied to letmein2nursing's topic in General Nursing

    They are abusing the Tech position. They either need to hire more techs to divide up the unlicensed duties or some of the nurses need to get out of the nurses station and help you. No, it's not like...