sugarbush

We are considering a move to the Waterbury CT area and I am wondering how the job market for RNs is in the area. I am currently a night shift RN on a post/op floor. I want to stay on nights and in the hospital setting, but am open to taking a public ...

I feel your pain... I am an experienced RN and can't get a job in CT. Thankfully I am employed in KY, but my wife's job transfered to CT. So Now we are living 700 miles apart and making frequent trips back and forth. The nurse recruiters I am speakin...

Hospitals have never liked hiring new grads. It usually is expected when you enter nursing school that when you get out you will have to work in a nursing home for a few years. The new grad thing isn't about the nursing shortage... Job openings in ho...

I don't think the "trick" is valid. You can't retake the exam for six weeks if you don't pass, so it isn't going to let you register anyway. You also already used your ATT when you registered the first time so it isn't going to be valid for a second ...

RUN!!! If you are the only RN over seeing 3 LPNs and they say you are not the one liable for the decisions you make they are not being honest with you. If you are uncomfortable with the situation then turn it down. The only way these places will chan...

I work nights and our shift goes like this: 19:00 Get report 19:30 start passing meds and doing assessments, BGs, Changing past due IVs left over from days, Check charts for orders left undone by days, call pharmacy 100 times for drugs that are not o...

I think the review courses are a complete waste of money. New grads just spent the last 2-4 years of their lives prepping for NCLEX. I know people who used review courses and the pass rate didn't seem any better than those of us who did without it. I...

Central and Eastern KY still has a nursing shortage. Lexington's St Joe and UK are both hiring New Graduates.

If the ANA has their way by 2025 we will all have to have a Doctorate of Nursing to even work with patients. We wait long enough maybe we all will be upgraded to a DR. without going back to school:D

One thing to keep in mind is that generally people do better on a comprehensive final than they do on a general test. The general test is 50 questions all on related material so you have to know a lot about the subject. A comprehensive final is 100 q...

State school instate tuition costs about 7 K per semester counting everything, tuition, books, room and board, travel etc. I currently have about 48 K into my nursing education.

Why waiting until Fall? I passed level one on my first try, but I have a friend who did not. At our school when I started if you did not have a 77 at mid-term they kicked you out of the program... He didn't make it, but came right back in and repeate...

I am male and had no problems in OB with patients refusing me because of it... I saw three C-sections...the day I was supposed to watch a vag delivery none occurred while we were there. I spent 4 days in postpartum massaging funduses and teaching bre...

I really liked OB and love pediatrics. C-sections rock.... My OB advice is do not forget Risk for Maternal Injury; Hemorrhage and Risk for Neonatal Injury; thermoregulation on your care plans. For Peds keep in mind that children compensate for hemor...

Write a letter to the dean of your school, they can override the readmission board decision. Follow the chain of command and maybe you will get re-admitted. I know how you feel, I am exactly 3 days way from the same situation. I have not progressed b...

We don't get a choice in classes and professors; you have to take the class with the professors who teach it.

Any school that admits 110-120 students and fails out 70-80 of them is keeping the absolute cream of the crop and of course will have a high pass rate on the boards. That is not a reflection on the program as much as it is a reflection on the student...

I am an upper level Nursing student at EKU (To protect myself I will not say which program) and my advice is RUN!!!! It is a terrible program and many of the instructors think they are Gods gift to Nursing students. The graduation ratio is only 30% o...

In the couple of hospitals I have worked affairs among nursing staff seems to be unusually common. The two hospitals I am talking about are in different parts of the country so I am wondering If it is a nation wide phenomenon? What about the job make...

lol... a "Sugarbush" is a stand of maple trees that are tapped for maple syrup. See; nothing sexual about it.

Maybe nurses have been spoiled too long. What other degree can you get and even find a job in the area you want without relocating? I think some new grads might just need to look at the bigger picture. Consider working in long term care or per diem. ...

ADN and BSN RNs have the same license and it should not matter what degree you have, both are qualified for the same entry level jobs. My opinion is that if you graduate nursing school without a job it is because your school failed you. They should b...

Many nursing students are "non-traditional" students going for second or third degrees. My class started at 104 students and probably less than 10 were freshmen right out of highschool. Most I would guess where in their late 20s early 30s.

Around here the pay is the same for ADN or BSN. The BSN programs are dieing out now that there are ADN-MSN bridge programs. ADN is more focused on nursing and the BSN adds in a bunch of management courses to bring the credit hrs up to 128. If I was a...

I am in Kentucky also; I am in Lexington. We have University of Kentucky Med Center, Saint Joe Main and East, Central Baptist, Good Sam, and two VAs and all are hiring new grads. Central Baptist alone employs over 900 RNs. UK is on a hiring freeze fo...