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I wouldn't know what the highest has been for my unit. The hospital I just started working at is still paper charting & the insulin protocol is confusing. Most of the time I have the pump programmed incorrectly!

Most of the companies that offer these travel positions do offer health insurance. However, no other benefits like vacation & 401k.

I want to move out of the state of Florida to California. I have my resume ob Monster & CareerBuilder. I get lots of phone calls from nurse travel companies that only have 13 week assignments. I need a stable, permanent job that will pay for relo...

Why not JU or UNF?

I didn't go to mine. Our pins coated $60! I just wanted my papers so I can take the boards & get a job! I don't think you'll regret it. Ive been a nurse for 2yrs & I don't ever hear anyone talking about their previous pinning ceremony.

I live in a conservative state so I get comments all the time about politics. We have TV's in patient rooms & it's always Fox news on. I ignore the comments patients & families make as Fox news commentary goes on. I didn't get a 4yr degree to...

Wow, that's crazy but I can see my hospital doing sone crap like that!

It's not expensive to live in Jacksonville but according to these posts. Im living in the wrong city myself. My hosp is one of the top paying.

I took the 2 week course in class. I learn better in classroom. The. I studied about 5hrs a day. About 1-2hrs at a time.

I graduated last year. Took Kaplan a week after graduation. Took the NCLEX 3 weeks after that & passed. It's well worth it but you have to put in the time to study. The Kaplan is all about how to answer the questions not just content. When I took...

I'm a new nurse with a BSN. Specialty hospital in Jacksonville, FLa. My base pay is 23.59/hr with me working nights & weekends comes to about $29/hr.

Be confident in everything you do. I'm 35 but people say I look early 20's. It's. Kind o a disadvantage looking young because I don't think I get the respect that I would if patients & family new I was really 35. I'm constantly having to prove my...

My hospital is all about customer service. And screw how many patients we have, dressing changes, meds & what education we have to do. It's all about customer service. My patients constantly call out for water, ice, coffee, they dropped the remot...

I graduated July 31st & took Kaplan a few days later. I took the 2 week Kaplan course & studied while waiting on my auth to test letter which took almost a month to come. I did all my qbank questions & question trainers for Kaplan. The cl...

I jsut finished OB & Peds so I know how it is to try & come up with some care plans for those babies. How about altered family processes r/t hospitalized infant. If she's constantly at the hosp, then whose taking care of home? Impetigo is c...

Does the lab have props you can use? My last power point was about breast cancer so we had some play breast with lumps in them from our nursing lab.

In my program, during our last semester we have Nursing Integration where we have to spend 90hrs with a preceptor. We basically care for patients on our own without the instructor, just the nurse you're following. After that, we graduate & hopefu...

Dito, welcome to nursing school. I'm in Jacksonville FL. in a BSN program & they give us a book with a bunch of math questions & we have a math test at the beginning of every semester.We have to get a 95% or withdraw from the program. We ev...

I wouldn't worry about it. Med/Surg is hard enough as it is. You should focus on yourself. I've been dealing with cheaters since 1st semester & they are still sticking together & we're now in 5th semester. When it comes down to the NCLEX &...

Congrats! Thanks for the info. I'm really not that close to taking the NCLEX. I have 5 months before I grad, but I'm already freakin out about it.

I'm in a BSN program here in FL. Supposed to grad in April but I'm a semester behind now because I failed Leadership class. So now I won't grad til July. It was an easy class so I think I put so much effort into my OB/PEds class I didn't keep a 70 av...

Hang in there. Everything doesn't always go as smooth as you want. I was supposed to graduate in April so I was about to put my house on the market because I'm moving after I take NCLEX. Well I failed one of my classes. Now I won't grad til July. It ...

All of what you just talked was on our tests. Last week we were going over "change" but he goes off on these tangents that have nothing to do with lecture. It drives me crazy. But now I realize I'm going to do some self teaching if I want to pass th...

I know how you feel about community. I barely passed family community. We had to do a windshield survey & go out to neighborhoods, walk up to people & ask them questions! That was crazy Well try to stay focused, we have to get thru these bs ...

The other relies you got are correct. My EB question is a systematic review. This was my PICO question: In a population of diabetic adults, how does continuous insulin infusion compare to multiple daily sticks, impact glucose control. *