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I choke behind my n95 too, but yea I did get used to it. One clinical site had Powered air respirators (PAPR). full face masks with a little fan in the back that blows filtered air in your face. Alot of nurses loved them over the N95 although you look like an scuba diver! Google it and you'll see alot of examples of these mask hood things. some are super high tec $1000's and some are relatively cheap. This is simmilar to one I saw on the floor. 3M BE12 Hood-PAPR Hoods

Nepotism!

Every epic is a little bit different, thats why we are all saying you need training and extra help! goodluck.

You need additional training, now! You can't be expected to learn the short cuts on your own, epic is clear as mud for a new user. Kinda harsh you got an ultimatum like that.

YES drug card database is a must!! I also broke up my careplans into individual nsg dxs and saved them individually. My last clinical I was able to cut/paste a lot, saved myself hours. What worked well for me was powerpower point believe it or not. Each drug card was a slide, then set it to print 4 or 6 per page and it would literally print drug cards.

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May'12 Grad. My last interview in Norcal had 600 applicants, I've heard through word of mouth the popular public hospital gets 1000 apps per newgrad position, also on here I've read the uc system in socal gets 2000 per job. so yea, i can understand your issue. My classmates are starting to get picked up by SNFs, a few in acute care that already worked as er techs. 3 of us myself included are found jobs out of state. The ones in SNFs are helping each other, small places relying on word of mouth. Maybe start hitting up your old classmates for referrals. I leave monday, byebye CA you can kiss my butt.

Happens all the time, split a cheap hotel with a friend near the hospital.

Could you call their HR and pretend to be hospital x checking your own reference? Not that it helps anything, but you could at least know what is being said rather than speculate? Agreed, church influence is disturbing. Could you travel for a bit and let things settle down? Wish we had more for you bud. Kudos

BWAHHAHAHAHA!

Watch-out for HIPAA on this!

Woo sounds HOT! Seriously, yea curious George will P/O his entire class fast. If i were in your situation where the teacher wasn't handling it, I would confront the student, first alone.. with a group if necessary. We all deserve to learn. Honestly my experience with said student was they didn't know the basic material and had to go home and READ.

I went for a children's suitcase. $15 vs $50+

Call your local community college nursing program, I'm sure they'd be happy to have them. Our lab was mostly expired/donated supplies.

So I had to google the 18D thing.. Holy cow dude, recruiters should be kicking your door down!! Someone get this guy an appropriate job! Kudos, goodluck

I feel qualified .. I AM qualified! I believe that I will bring a multitude .. I WILL bring a multitude!

My school did the pass/fail, satisfactory/unsatisfactory thing, it was totally subjective on the CI. and she made daymn sure you knew it.

We had an IV start party at a classmates house

I doubt there is an expectation to know SQL as as nurse informaticist, sure nice to have. But overall try to understand how DB's work, implemented, designed, so you can have a useful exchange with your programmers. Nothing was worse that when a non IT person would dictate requirements to the moon and not understand the feasibility, or more accurately non feasibility.

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I've been through this one! I understand how your feeling! When everything was said and done my "preceptor B" and I got along really well! Sounds like your "A" & "B" have different standards. Do not tie your confidence to this persons feedback! You are psyching yourself out way too early! Take it as an opportunity, nurse B probably has TONS to offer. Accept that she is nit-picky, to super-newgrads (such as yourself) and so-so new grads, because she has high standards, not because of the person. I bet she really does want you to do well. Also accept that she probably isnt all huggy feely, she probably does approve of some of your work but isn't the type of person to compliment. She said "I am not competent and need a lot of work yet" she said you need work.. who doesn't? she could have said that you wont make it, wont fit in etc. One of my last shifts with my "B" she ran me like a dog and nit-picked like mad. After our shift she said "Do you feel proud?!" I was like hun? "Cause you should be, you did everything on your own!" That was my first and last compliment from my B. Good luck!!

What a patient patient!! I had to LOL, i can picture 2 newbies inadvertently terrorizing the poor copder. just teasing, i'm sure i would have done the same.

this thread is starting to get good!

Norcal, cohort of 25 graduates this may, 7 with jobs, locals are 3 acute-care, 1 ltc. 3 moving out of state, all to acute-care. 6 got jobs via a connection, 1 on his own.