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Go with straight nights. I was hired for a day/night rotation and it wasn't pleasant. I recently switched over to straight nights and it has been good.

My hospital is out of Reglan and dangerously low on Zofran. Zofran is not loaded into the pyxis and must be taken directly from the pharmacy. It is very unfortunate, a lot of patients suffer as a result.

As a new grad transplant nurse, I would recommend you choose the transplant floor. The learning opportunities on a transplant floor are great. Transplant nursing involves a lot of teaching about medications, but you get exposure to many disease processes. It is kind of like a specialized medical-surgical floor.

I am enrolling in SUNY Delhi in spring of 2012 and have been accepted. I looked at a lot of other RN-BSN programs, but this seemed to be the best program I could find that met in the middle ground of being both affordable, respectable, and convenient. WGU only allows you to go up to a 3.0 GPA and is on a pass/fail basis. I just don't like the sound of that and I am planning on pursuing graduate school as well. I find SUNY Delhi has a solid program (with clinical requirements as well, which I find to be a plus) and is affordable at about $210 a credit. Also, SUNY Delhi has 7/8 week semesters. So what if it takes you until 2013 summer? What is the rush? Unless you are hoping to apply for a certain position by then that requires a BSN. Take your times and things'll be fine. In general, I fnd SUNY Delhi to be a more reliable and respectable institution than WGU.

Ask for a raise and if you are not given an adequate one, leave the unit. You do not owe the unit anything. If they do not honor your request for a raise, they are taking you for a fool.

"Can you stay until X time? We're going to be short next shift."

Thank you all for your insight and advice. It was very helpful. Ashley, to begin with, the program would only be led by myself. It would simply be me leading the hike once or twice a month on set dates. However, I appreciate your forward thinking and I believe the questions you presented will be very pertinent if this idea catches fire and draws the attention of other nurses in my community who may wish to participate. :)

I am a new RN and have been playing with the idea of leading a program in my community. The program would be titled "Walk (or Hike) with a Nurse" and it would be a free event for members of the community to participate in. It would be somewhat similar to what some hospitals lead, i.e "Walk with a Doc." Each walk/event would have a set topic and the event would begin with talking about said topic and answering any questions related to the topic, along with a walk or hike and perhaps further discussion during the mid-point of the event or at the wrap-up. My question is in regards to liability and whether others think this is a good or plausible idea to implement in my community. (There is only one "Walk with a Doc" program in my state and it is only held once a month and is about 15-20miles away from where I live.) I have led hikes before and I understand what goes into it. When I led hikes under the umbrella of a local hiking organization I would use a registration form that also doubled as a liability waiver. I plan on implementing this for these events as well. What are any obstacles or liability issues that I am missing? What can I be held accountable for? Is this too "high risk" liability-wise as I am advertising myself as an RN? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. :)

I was fortunate enough to get a job in a hospital prior to graduating from my program. However, I would not say health care is booming, at least for RNs.

Welcome to the plight of every nursing school student.

Be calm and just keep doing questions everyday. Don't push your test back. It is normal to feel anxious and unprepared. I felt the same way when I went into NCLEX and I passed. You know your abilities best, try to be confident. EDIT: I only used Saunders to review for the NCLEX. I found it did a great job and covered many aspects. I would start to review using Saunders as much as possible.

I got the good pop up. I passed the NCLEX. The trick works.

I chose to go to a community college right out of high school because it would be more affordable. I ended up paying nothing for my education and essentially acquired my RN license for free. I am now set to begin an RN position in a large, well respected hospital in my state making almost $60,000 a year. Friends of mine went to other 4-year institutions and paid anywhere from $10,000-$47,000 (!!) a year. These friends have either a. not graduated yet and are accumulating debt or b. have graduated with debt and have been unable to find a job in their field. I went to a community college. Boy, I sure was stupid to do that. P.S Assuming I had to pay for my RN degree, it would have cost me roughly $9,000-$10,000 for all pre-reqs and the program.

I just got a letter confirming my acceptance to Capital Community College today!

I have seen a topic in which someone states they have been accepted to a Connecticut Community College program, as of yesterday. Do CT Comm. College Nursing programs really have rolling admissions? Do they just select people they see fit via rank and the time they applied? Am I at a huge disadvantage because I can't apply until January 09 as opposed to November 08? (Deadline is Feb 2, 2009.)