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Our health system reimburses for the exam fee once you pass, sponsors nurses to attend a review course, and there's an annual celebration dinner for all certified nurses. On our unit, our manager offers a one-month "no float pass" for all RNs newly c...

When we were accepted to nursing school, a friend of mine and I excitedly (and jokingly) decided that we were going to be such good students that not only would we get a BSN and RN after our names, but a BNE as well....Best Nurse Ever! No, I don't ...

A few months ago, I started a job at the top critical care transport program in my state. I'm still in orientation and (for now) only part time, but I wanted to share my limited, "new kid" experience. I tell people it's simultaneously the best and wo...

Every transport program is potentially different. As Medic09 mentioned, look to the program(s) you're interested in for guidance. For instance, I know some that have NICU-only transport teams, so NICU experience only works for them and isn't very use...

We work with sick people. In my case (NICU as well as peds critical care transport), I work with many small, immunocompromised sick people. They tell us - heck, they even tell families and visitors - to stay far away if they are even sort of sick, be...

I'm looking at applying to a couple of different NP programs. I have worked at one Level III NICU for three years, and moved to another, highly respected hospital about 7 months ago. I also have a new PRN job for an excellent critical care transpor...

Each hospital can be a little different in what their externs/PCIs are allowed to do, but in general it's a lot like what student_stephanie described. Since you can't do a lot of the RN duties, it's so important to seek out those learning experiences...

I'm a certified (RNC-NIC) NICU nurse who has worked in the same urban Level III NICU since I graduated nursing school about 3 years ago. I'm strongly considering taking a part-time job in our hospital's PICU to get a broader peds critical care experi...

Haha, love it!!

I took the NICU Solutions class and though I haven't taken the RNC yet (taking it ONE WEEK from today, so I'm all like ), but I still would highly recommend the class as it's a great way to solidify and organize your knowledge, especially if you are ...

Critical care transport has been a huge interest of mine for several years, and I am working on making it a reality in my career. The hospital system I currently work for has an excellent transport team (ground and air), and I am looking to get on th...

Thanks! I'm shadowing with the neo-peds team in ground and helicopter transport for a 12 hour shift next week! SUPER excited and hoping the weather holds out!

Yep, the certification is the RNC-NIC that I'm taking in March. My EMT-B expired a couple of years ago, but I can look into renewing it. After all of that, I'll work on being brave enough to get the CFRN. :) The transport program at my hospital does ...

Hi everyone, This is a pretty personal post for me, but I felt like it might be a good idea to share what's going on with me here, since fellow nurses might be the best way I'm a brand new graduate nurse...just graduated nursing school 3 weeks ago, a...

Where I live, it is pretty much THE reason that a lot of new grads get jobs. Hiring, especially for new grads, has been WAY down in the past several months and most units prefer to take an experienced RN (and seem to have many to choose from). We wer...

After just barely missing the mark on the Kaplan diagnostic NCLEX exam before graduating (very frustrating since I did well on all of the subject-based Kaplan exams we had to take throughout school), I took the 4-day long Kaplan NCLEX-RN review cours...

So glad to see this thread!! I'm a new grad (graduated just 12 days ago!) and am officially starting on the unit (a Level III) TOMORROW (in just 8 hours!!)! I worked there as a student for about 2 months before graduating, so it's not as scary as bei...

Hi everyone, I'm a nursing student who is very interested in the OR and am pretty set on becoming an OR nurse. I'm starting an externship in an OR next month and am VERY excited! However, the whole post-graduation as an OR nurse thing is still a litt...

Thanks so much for all the tips everyone! My plan is to just start out and see where it takes me, I was just curious what options are out there. Another question: some people in other fields have sort of tried to dissuade me from going into OR nursin...

I second what others said about learning more on the actual unit than in school (procedure-wise and unit-specific stuff). Also, something a classmate of mine told me a couple of times before some exams I was freaking out about really helped me: "You ...

I'd definitely sell back all non-nursing books if I were you...probably worth it to have the cash and you can find anything you need in other sources!

hahaha I love this thread...I don't work in NICU but I see enough patient names to be completely amazed by some of them!

Thanks! What do you need to do to become CNOR?

csab: thanks! Yes, I'm in my second semester out of five (which is technically called 5th semester because they go by the traditional schedule), just two weeks away from being onto the next! My previous degree is in neurobiology and physiology. I kno...

Hi everyone! I'm currently in the ABSN program at IUPUI (graduating August '10), so feel free to ask any questions about the program! Good luck getting your acceptance letters!! :) I highly recommend getting a BSN over an associate's degree if you ca...