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Have you ever had a surgeon want to/try to do a procedure not on the consent, or actually perform a procedure not on the consent? What other odd consent-related occurrences should I be on the look out for? I'm still on orientation and already observ...

Learning surgeon preferences and knowing where things are/what the heck they're asking me for has been hard. And I surely miss knowing what I'm doing. You're starting from square 1. Basic things that seem like "common sense," and coworkers think you ...

I don't regret getting experience on the floor, but it sure would have saved me a lot of grief and misery to just go straight to OR. I don't know that I would worry too much about getting a job on the floor after doing the OR. Floor jobs are a dime a...

1:5-6 for nurses, although we often have 7-9 patients in a day due to admissions and discharges. 1-3 techs for 28 beds 1 charge nurse, 1 secretary. We max out at 6, so after that the charge nurse will take patients.

Definitely definitely call. And apologize profusely. ETA: I don't think you've blown it...it's still worth calling about regardless.

I have just received my schedule for the next 6 weeks. I am on orientation. One week, I am working 4 days in a row, then I have 2 days off, then I'm working 2 again. Is it appropriate to ask for them to switch one of those 4 days to any other day? (a...

I edited my post, but the shifts are all 12s except for the first one. If it was 8s I wouldn't even think about trying to change...I could do many more 8s in a row than I could 12s. I've about decided to just do it. I do worry about my quality of car...

For what it's worth, that's exactly what I'm worried about. Is that common, to work 4 shifts with 2 days off before you're back on again? ETA: The first one is an 8, the other 3 are 12 hour shifts.

What do you find stressful?

I've read a lot of threads here about quitting nursing school. Most of them were someone saying "I have problems with this, this, and this" and people saying "well that's just not a good reason to quit." I had my first clinicals last week, and I was ...

I would talk to your manager...personally I would schedule a meeting on your day off. I wouldn't wanna be weepy and have to go back to work...this meeting may be stressful. I interviewed in an ICU, and the NM told me that if, during my preceptorship...

White and royal blue...we can wear either or both. I got my fill of white in school, so I'm tending to the blues.

Woo! Congrats. I agree, apply early. However, I would call the hospitals that you're interested in and ask when they take new grad applications and how to apply. Each hospital does it differently. We were told to wait till about 3 months out from gr...

I disagree, nobody was being rude. She's right, many hospitals around here hire very few LPNs. I'm sorry if that fact upsets you. And the previous post spoke truth as well. You may find some doctor's offices hiring LPNs. It's hard to get into Lexingt...

Cost of living is significantly less in the south usually :)

I wavered between posting this here or in the New Grad section, but I thought everyone might see it here. I'm hoping to get experienced and inexperienced nurse opinions. This week, I had two interviews. First was the PICU. I have really been pursuing...

Thank you so much for all the responses! I read them all and appreciate them very much. The Ortho interview was the recruiter's idea...while waiting for my PICU interview, she asked me what other specialties I liked. I said ortho, and she called up t...

You might want to call the hospitals and ask whether they're hiring new graduates and how they handle it, because I have found the hospitals handle it different ways. The recruiter at one hospital told me to apply anyway. One told me there was a spe...

Did you rule out an ADN program altogether? 4-5 courses in college is a full load, trust me...lol. That'd probably be labeled as 12-15 hours, but really you spend a lot more time in class and studying than they give you credit for.

Well I passed the NCLEX. So this is the official happy ending to the story...haha. :)

UPDATE: 215: Everybody's great. They're all really nice. I highly recommend Ms Rivers though. Everyone's at Lexington, except Ms Praelue (sp) but she's apparently not teaching for the spring semester. She goes to Providence. 264: Sooooo much better t...

Congrats! I just took my boards yesterday...now comes the agonizing wait to Monday. Haha. Where are you all at now?

Hi Jessica, I took my boards yesterday...pretty sure I passed too. :) I have a job interview on Monday. I stuck with it. Turns out the first semester, and indeed the first day (when I wrote this) was pretty much the worst. I hit another wall in the ...

How did you choose where you'd go when you graduated from nursing school? I have so many interests, and all I can say is not general med-surg or LTC...hated them both so very much. Pretty much everything else has been a blast. I guess I worry I'll be...

I did some searches and most of what I came up with was how to find a NICU job...but how do you find an actual unit to apply to? I'm moving out of state after graduation, and I know where a NICU is in my state (I had a clinical there ) but I don't kn...