dodgegirl713

20 cent. Cost of living raise. Less than half of what I got the year before.

I know the pain of going to a private college. I pay $525 a month for my student loans. My parents income was too much (was still claimed on their taxes since I lived at home) to help me get more for financial aid, so most of my loans are private. ...

I love my Koi pants. Tops I have about 30% of solids and the rest prints. Not super crazy prints, except a few I wear once and a while. I work with the elderly in a LTC facility and my little ladies love the prints I wear. They like the bright flo...

I drive 25-30 minutes from my house to work, roughly 20 miles. It's mainly all expressway driving. Which doesn't bother me at all. Plus there is a lot of other routes I can take to work that are main side streets incase the expressway is bad from ...

In Wisconsin, on a subacute/rehab floor, 1430-2230 35 residents for the unit, 2 nurses to each take one of the halls. So when it is full I have 17 residents to care for. Have 3-4 CNAs for the unit, so I get 2 CNAs. But I do everything with 2 med pa...

A lot of hospitals in the Milwaukee area are laying off nurses. Heard it from former classmates and fellow coworkers who have friends in the hospitals.

Take what you can get. Around my area a lot of the hospitals are actually laying of many nurses. LTC is hard to work, been there almost a year and have finally got in to a rhythm for my shift to get things accompished without lots of overtime. Tha...

In LTC where I work: Only time that is 1:1 is if someone is physically combative with staff. And if they are combative with staff we have to get permission from the DON for the 1:1. If she says no then you deal with it. Usually if it happens durin...

I was given a 10 day orientation at my LTC facility. My first day I followed the nurse that I was with to get the feel of how the day would go. I didn't do the med pass that day but I did do assessments so I could learn how to do Medicare charting.

We got a employee lunch and a free lunch box with our check last week. We also have a '12 Days of Christmas' drawing. I won a $50 gift card to Chili's from that drawing. Also the day of our employee lunch they have multiple drawings with everyone'...

Merry Christmas from Milwaukee, WI!! Cold, windy and icy night!

About 46K. I was at a private career college, accelerated ADN. Most of it was from there but there is like 5K of it that was when I was at the state university for a 1 1/2 yr.

If it is the Comprehensive ATI, which at my school the last ATI you take before you graduate, it predicts what your chances are with how you will do on the NCLEX-RN. I had scored a 84% which translates into a scoring scale of 99% chance passing first...

I have applied to postings for the new Summit hospital. There are specific ones, just look for the town/city saying Summit. They WILL NOT hire new grads. They are looking for experienced RNs since it will be a new facility.

Ours are royal blue Landau scrubs. Any style pant you can find to fit and the V-neck top. We look like smurfs. Good thing is I only have to wear them 2 more times in my college career at my school. :)

I have senior-itis bad. Graduating in December and I have to force myself to get the last few assignments/papers done. My brain is shot from these last 2 yrs and I just want to be done with writing papers. Just have to get through it and study for...

I believe I am one of the youngest in my class that is graduating in December. I'm only 22. Most of the others are older, have a family or married. I'm the baby of the group!

Also with the last class that graduated in July, out of the 13, 1 person failed NCLEX and 1 has not taken it yet. So the pass rate has greatly increased for NCLEX compared to what has been said in the pass about the pass rate. Most of them that hav...

Where I am it along the lines of this if I remember correctly Sem 1: Intro to Nursing, A&P I Sem 2: Fundamentals, Micro, A&P II Sem 3: Med/Surg I, Patho, Pharm, Lifespan Sem 4: OB/Peds, Psych Sem 5: Med/Surg II, Leadership, Internship/Advance...

I was told in my leadership and internship classes to do at least 50 questions a day up until you take NCLEX. Practice in the areas that you need a little extra in. Also they had told us that if you are a weak test taker and know that, that you sho...

I had that feeling in OB during a C-section and also the first cardiac cath I saw in Med/Surg. All I did was take a few steps back near a wall and calmly took a few really deep breaths and I was ok again. I did look away while I was taking the deep b...

For me it is all the reading I have. There are not enough hours in the day to get it done and work. My mind would wander onto other things that needed to be done besides the reading. Also there was the whole OB rotation. I do not have an intrest i...

No matter what semester it is tuition stays the same. Unless there is a tuition change and that would affect every student there (like a drop in price) at the college. There is a $400 clinical fee with each clinical you take. The only way that the...

I do know many of my fellow students who have graduated in the 5 semesters from Bryant and Statton. They were all different ages and places in their lifes (families, job situations). I can be done in the 5 semesters going full time year around (tha...

It is about $500/credit, books for the classes you can order through their "bookstore" but I get mine from amazon.com for a cheaper price. The program is 72 credits...so rough math it would be $36,000 for the whole program outta pocket without any f...