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bunnynuts I am a nurse and have several friends that have gone the ABSN route. The successful applicants commonly had work experience beyond student clinicals. It can be tough to stand out when you are one of a group of 4 or 5 students on a unit with a limited assignment. However, ABSN programs often include a clinical intensive, full time for 6 -8 weeks or more and sometimes that can lead to a job offer. New grad RNs with ongoing or previous experience as a CNA or other clinical role sometimes gain a "foot in door" that turns into an RN job offer. Google the HR departments of different hospitals and you will see that most want a year of RN experience. Search on this website for finding that first job.
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Wow - what determination. Good for you.
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My kid 2011 RN Hospital 27 dollars an hour Mass ------------------------------- Me (1977) RN Hospital - I believe it was 9 dollars an hour! Utah
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Michelle - are you from Maine? I am not sure if that is a helpful factor with getting accepted at U of Maine? Have you applied to other programs too? A friend (Mass resident) was accepted into the ABSN programs at UMass Amherst, Villanova, Drexel, and MGHIP, but was rejected by USM. Who knows how admissions make these decisions? I guess the trick is to apply to multiple programs.
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Linsmirn - congratulations on getting hired! Good for you. Come back and post and let us know how it goes.
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Friend works on 18 bed psych unit high acuity, 2 RNs and 3 techs per shift.
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I was in a similar situation.- working nights with an LVN who would disappear (sleeping off the unit). I paged the supervisor each time telling her I did not know where the LPN was and needed help to cover the floor. I suggest you complete an incident report, ideally with the problem employee each time you discover an error (find out the procedure at your facility). Copy the director of nursing on your emails. Ask for a meeting with supervisor to document the problem and state that that is a safety issue. This problem employee should be counseled or fired.
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Congrats on the interview! Good for you! You landed an interview in a very tight market and many people are reserving time on their busy schedules to interview you. Therefore, they already believe there is likely something special about you. Go in with the idea that you are going to prove them right! The first website below offers common nursing interview questions. I agree with the above poster that it is very important that you plan out how you are going to answer questions especially - tell me about yourself - what are your strengths and weakness. See the second web link below - it provides example responses to interview questions. Obviously, you need to make the answers relevant to nursing. Just like you had to practice to become skilled at nursing, you need to practice your answers to become skilled at responding in an interview. Ask a friend/relative to fire questions at you. Finally - consider checking out the website of facility you are applying - what is their philosophy of care, what are they proud of - make sure you are knowledgeable so that you can explain why you want to work there. Good Luck! http://career.ucsf.edu/nurs/samples/nrninterview.pdf http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/interviewquest.htm
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Have you tried psych nursing. I know some new grads in Mass that have gotten psych nursing jobs
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Hey - Dennis - sorry to hear. You must be very frustrated. I wonder if you want to try changing how you study, like signing up for a course? I apologize if you are already familiar with the how the NCLEX is graded, but if the machine shut off at 85 it may mean that you are not even getting to the more difficult questions where you have a chance of passing. See below. A friend of mine, not a great test taker, recently passed and felt the test strategies learned in a course then practicing thousands of questions on an online computer program made the difference. Best of luck to you. Do not give up!! ---------------------- Your NCLEX exam is graded in an adaptive form as well. Check out the following picture while reading this description. You start off with easy questions and are at the midline of the yellow block. If you get an easier question right, you get a point in the positive direction (towards the green), while if you get an easy one wrong you get 5 points in the negative direction (towards the red). If you get the easier one right, you get a harder one that will give you 2 points in the positive direction, and if wrong, 4 points in the negative direction. As you continue to get questions right, you move to harder and harder ones, where eventually you will get 5 points in the positive direction for a correct answer, and only 1 point in the negative direction for a wrong one. For incorrect questions you also move to easier and easier questions, which as stated, are worth less for correct and more for incorrect. At 75 questions the computer does an analysis of your trend line and if you are in the green at this point you are done and have passed your NCLEX exam, usually with greater than 58% correct. If you are in the red at this point you are done and have failed your NCLEX, usually with less than 42% correct. If you are located in the yellow, your NCLEX examination continues until the next random trend checkpoint.
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See post number 92 by "August Rain" on this thread. Lots of info about the ACE program. https://allnurses.com/pa-nursing-programs/drexel-university-ace-387702-page10.html
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Here is the thread about housing from last year's MGH ASBN students. See posts # 104 and 105 https://allnurses.com/ma-nursing-prog...40-page11.h
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Here is the thread about housing from last year's MGHIHP ASBN students. See posts # 104 and 105 https://allnurses.com/ma-nursing-programs/mgh-accelerated-bsn-443640-page11.html
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First day of classes is May 16, 2011 Academic Calendars from this website select 2010-2011 academic calendar and scroll down to summer session. Congrats to everyone