Hi everyone. Now that I graduated I have time to be here! I have an interview in three days at an O.R. where I did a leadership/management preceptorship my last semester of school. I got to know the...
Just came back to say that I got my job in the OR with the preceptor I had in my last semester of clinicals. I don't think I'd have gotten past HR if I hadn't known a little about the hospital and...
Congratulations! I was excited to pass, but I loved seeing my official license with the number on our state board website... I didn't think to check it til earlier tonight. Ahhh - it feels good,...
I haven't gotten an OR job yet - I just graduated in December '09 w/ a BSN - but I was able to get my last semester's clinicals in an OR (leadership and management clinicals) and so I have some...
one day at a time, and a good attitude, will get you through! ) my attitude wasn't great with my med-surg semester (which for us is 3rd semester), but what kept me going is that i will have a new...
1) I'm in a full-time day program, although my clinicals this semester are 12-hours, from 7am to 7pm (or whatever else...I am still waiting to know my schedule, and I start it in about 2 weeks and...
Notebook. I love flashcards, but I always use up so much valuable studying time writing them up! I only use them for things I think I need extra concentration on. I have a way of grouping my notes...
I am doing fine without one. I have a PC at home, though. And my school has this deal with some book publisher, they package all our books in one big box and it comes with all the books on CD-ROM...
The only person around me who complains about care plans is my boyfriend. When I tell him how much time I need to do them (time that is taken away from him and our daughter), he always says, "My...
As someone else said, usually cheaters come up short in the end anyway, they're just cheating themselves - although if you're a nursing student, you could be cheating a patient later on, too....
I suspect changes in the system might be a challenge. On the job I see women who have been beaten up by their Metro cop husbands and it happens on a regular basis and nothing is done about it. But it...