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  1. I want OUT!!!!

    SCSTxRN replied to shoegalRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with you to a point - the job doesn't get easier, but you do get better... and your confidence in your ability to do your job gets better. The skills become more automatic and you're able to...

  2. "Fired for NO Reason"

    SCSTxRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is going to sound stupid, because it's not like you don't have enough to do starting a new job.... but pick up a book of logic problems (about 4 bucks from the magazine rack), and start with the...

  3. I want OUT!!!!

    SCSTxRN replied to shoegalRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    YAY for you!!! Just a suggestion - you might want to keep a journal of sorts, and write down the good days and the bad. Because you'll still have bad days; it helps (at least it helped me) to be...

  4. "Fired for NO Reason"

    SCSTxRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Actually, I believe my ADN program offers another semester of clinical preceptorship if you're terminated for cluelessness, but I could be

  5. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    SCSTxRN replied to zefutebolera's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    In the event that you end up here at URHCS, the nurses are really really great - it's not a 'teaching hospital', but the nurses sure are willing to teach you everything they know.. at least all the...

  6. Will i have the same chances of being hired if i get a ADN?

    SCSTxRN replied to RedXIII_'s topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    At the only hospital here in town an ADN from the local community college is just as - if not more - likely to graduate with a job offer than the BSN from the local university. As far as I know, no...

  7. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    SCSTxRN replied to zefutebolera's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    The hospital here starts R.N. out at 21.50 per hour (give or take a couple of dollars) + s.d. I am in Wichita Falls, Texas, about 2 hours away from DFW and OKC... in the middle. The climate here -...

  8. Post here about your new grad hiring woes....

    SCSTxRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm so sorry - that totally sucks. From reading other posts here, though, seems like you might be able to work L&D through agency. Good

  9. Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    SCSTxRN replied to nursingstudent424's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OMG, I realize you are likely almost out of school now - but reading this made me laugh so hard my stomach hurts. I agree hands down though - poop in its most disgusting forms has NOTHING on a GI...

  10. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    SCSTxRN replied to zefutebolera's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Oh baby, just wait till the summer. Summers here suck rocks. Tyler isn't as bad as west Texas though, at least you still have trees. :) Glad to have you as a transplant,

  11. I want OUT!!!!

    SCSTxRN replied to shoegalRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    FWIW, I went through a VERY similar experience when I first started teaching - actually, it was my last semester, during student teaching. I had the preceptor from he77, she stood in the hallway...

  12. What should I use to study for NCLEX / HESI

    SCSTxRN posted a topic in General Students

    I'm starting the last semester of the ADN program, and my grades are good.. I can't believe I'm starting to freak about these two tests, but freaking I am... So those who were successful, what did...

  13. What should I use to study for NCLEX / HESI

    SCSTxRN replied to SCSTxRN's topic in General Students

    TYVM... I almost wish we took HESI finals or something, as all I have heard is how big and bad this stupid test is, "harder than NCLEX, blah blah blah". I just don't want to have to retake it; and I...

  14. Dropping out of nursing

    SCSTxRN replied to Shadai's topic in General Students

    In the event that you do decide to throw him out on his ear, look into available financial aid through your campus (mine has New Beginnings), workforce, etc - in addition to loans, pell grants,...

  15. Nurses Going to Med School

    SCSTxRN replied to freakjojo06's topic in General Students

    I'm with Kay... although I did get into medical school at 20... it was just too much for me at the time. I think it is more my ability to put things in perspective now than any huge decrease in the...

  16. Much Older People Going Into Nursing

    SCSTxRN replied to MissMaryMack12's topic in General Students

    At first, when I responded to this post, I thought it was just a matter of the OP needing some real life experience. Reading her subsequent clarifications, it is a combination of that and culture. I...

  17. Just curious...

    SCSTxRN replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    78 - you can fail one course and get back in, the second course you're permanently out... 98% pass, but they also require an 850 on the Hesi in order to graduate; which predicts a virtual 100% passing...

  18. Dropping out of nursing

    SCSTxRN replied to Shadai's topic in General Students

    I know that "stand by your man" isn't really the tune of our generation - but what about trying to make the marriage work? Counseling, therapy, whatever you want to call it.. has it been brought up?...

  19. Nurses Going to Med School

    SCSTxRN replied to freakjojo06's topic in General Students

    I have a cousin who graduated BSN school a year ago - she hates the job because, "all I do is wipe butt or empty pee". I'm busting my butt in nursing school too - and used to think I was 'above...

  20. Mom/Student Planner

    SCSTxRN replied to brittany_micah's topic in General Students

    I have a 4foot by 4foot white shower board divided into a monthly calendar with black automobile pinstriping tape. Each member of my family has a different colored vis-a-vis marker assigned to them,...

  21. New RN Student

    SCSTxRN replied to nursingstudent714's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I graduate my ADN program May 2010 - I never used them, but the ".... Success" books helped many of my fellow students. There are two ways to memorize them - memorize the questions (a lot of them...

  22. Much Older People Going Into Nursing

    SCSTxRN replied to MissMaryMack12's topic in General Students

    I can appreciate your pov. At the same time, I come from a family full of second careers - a welder turned lawyer, an accountant turned teacher - and now I'm a teacher turning nurse - with a goal of...

  23. Can I make it through nursing school being scared of male patients?

    SCSTxRN replied to nohika's topic in Nursing Career

    My male patients (with possibly two exceptions) have been nothing but nice to me from the word go. They're sick, you're there to help - the only verbal abuse I've gotten is from an ER DON - and even...

  24. low census

    SCSTxRN replied to blackpants22's topic in General Nursing

    I would ask for some guidance with scheduling and prioritizing... and I would bring in the last couple of weeks numbers to get the help on. "I know that this has been decided on and someone has done...

  25. 46 too old to start nusring school?

    SCSTxRN replied to cute2's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 30, and I'm one of the youngest in my class of 50. If you're up for the job I say go for it!!! My sister was 35 when she decided she wanted to go to school to be a teacher. She didn't because...