sugarbush replied to Lala27poodles's topic in General Nursing
There is not a lack of available nursing positions as there is a lack of money to fill those positions. Hopefully one of the healthcare reform bills will be passed and that will take a lot of...
sugarbush replied to Lala27poodles's topic in General Nursing
The hospitals in our area are grabbing up all the new grads they can get every year from the 5 local nursing programs. I know two brand new grads that got hired straight into ICUs. I don't know of...
I would be truthful with them about nursing school... it is tough and many waste a lot of money and never make it through. Nurse Educators tend to think it is their job to eat their young rather than...
My school does give 10 question practice exams in some classes. They don't count for anything, just to guage yourself. We also re-take the exam as a class after the exam so we know how we did and have...
Okay, I just registered here and hope reading here teaches me some things. I am in an ADN program and need help with a care plan for labor and delivery. I am revising a care plan and my clinical...
Okay here is my problem. Client as oligohydramios, with fetal distress. She was delivered by c-section that day. I can write risk for maternal injury R/T preterm caesarian delivery. I can only use a...
We need 78%, based on 5 exams and one research paper,plus the pass on clinicals. last semester we had to have a 78 at midterm or they dropped us. This semester it is at the final. We need 90% on the...
Ours are twice a week, 0630-1300. We practice on the nursing student level... When we chart we chart as nursing students. We have full patient care with the exception that we cannot pass narcs. The...
We rotate through our clinicals so fast that we have to carry our med book with us. I had a patient recently who was on 52 daily medications. I think that trying to commit the top meds to memory is a...
The tests are rough. I don't know about other programs, but for ours we have several professors for each class, they take turns teaching and they all write test questions so it is hard to know what to...