saymo82

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1. What's up with all the Tele holds?

   saymo82 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a pretty busy ED in the STL area and it seems that lately (since January) we have a ton of tele holds everyday! Any other hospitals experiencing this? It's so bad that we're holding some...

2. Best St. Louis hospitals to work at?

   saymo82 replied to BSNgrad2010's topic in General Nursing

   I did all of my clinicals for nursing school at Barnes and Children's and when looking for a job I really wasn't too interested in working for BJC. I felt like they had an arrogance about them because...

3. SLU vs. BJC Accelerated BSN Program

   saymo82 replied to Katie22's topic in General Nursing

   I know this is a little long after your post, but I thought I would chime in just in case you hadn't made a decision yet... I graduated in May '10 from BJC's accelerated program and I would recommend...

4. Chief Complaints

   saymo82 posted a topic in Nursing Humor

   I just started working in the ER and have been thoroughly enjoying some of the "chief complaints" that I have been reading. One I remember from the other day is a female with UTI symptoms that states:...

5. accelerated nursing grads

   saymo82 replied to laughoutloud8's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I just graduated from a one year program, that was really more like 10 months when you take out winter break, spring break, holidays etc. My GPA in my program was 3.9, which is way higher than my...

6. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   saymo82 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

   Don't refuse an ambulance transfer to the major hospital in your area when you're having a heart attack at the local rural emergency clinic, but if you do decide to leave AMA and have your wife drive...

7. Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

   saymo82 replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I just took the exam this morning at 8am and got cut off at 75 questions. I was sure that I was doing terrible on the test and was terrified to try the "trick". I went home and tried it and got the...

8. Barnes Jewish college question

   saymo82 replied to Marie97's topic in General Nursing

   Almost every teacher I have had there has been friendly and supportive of students. Yes, not all of the instructors are great instructors, but there are some that are excellent, and overall with good...

9. Advice to accelerated students from a current student near graduation...

   saymo82 replied to saymo82's topic in General Nursing

   Having any experience as a tech should be helpful, so if you don't end up working while in the program then you at least have that going for you. Having said that I would still recommend trying to get...

10. Barnes Jewish college question

    saymo82 replied to Marie97's topic in General Nursing

    With 4 kids I would definitely not recommend trying to work and do this program.... Are you going for the accelerated program or the upper division program? If you're doing accelerated I will warn you...

11. Advice to accelerated students from a current student near graduation...

    saymo82 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am graduating from May from a 1 year accelerated program, and am scared I will be left behind when it comes to finding a job... get a tech job! Grades are important, but if you can manage to keep up...

12. Barnes Jewish college question

    saymo82 replied to Marie97's topic in General Nursing

    Once I completed my application and sent it in I think it took about 2 weeks to get my acceptance. I had all but 3 of my pre-reqs completed at the time, but I know some people who got their acceptance...

13. More challenging NCLEX book!

    saymo82 posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I have the Saunder's NCLEX review book, and I feel like the questions are not challenging enough. I used these questions to review for my HESI exams at the end of last semester and figured it would be...

14. Hawaii Pacific University

    saymo82 replied to LittleMissDingBat's topic in General Students

    I just moved back to the mainland from Oahu in August and was weighing my options for nursing school if we had stayed in Hawaii. Based on what I learned I would highly recommend not going to HPU. KCC...

15. Dosage Test Prep Class

    saymo82 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to post on here and tell people that I just finished the dosage test prep class at STLCC (Forest Park), and it was totally worth taking. The class is called NRSG 704, it's 1 day a week for...