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Hello Fellow nurses from California, I have a question. There is an issue going on in my hospital at the moment and I wanted to find out how you guys were handling it in your facilities. There is a labor law in California which states an employee mus...

I'm sure there is, but I have not found any. Like I said, I've heard that Police Officers for example are exempt from that law. I think the company has to have the employee sign a waiver, but HR has denied that option. I don't know if it's true or no...

Thank you, we are all 12 hour shifts. My hospital is a chain hospital, I'm in the process of doing the research to see how the rest of the facilities are doing this. I have heard of a waiver that Police and Fire department use so they don't have to t...

It's definitely a cost saving issue. The entire year has been driven by cost saving techniques and what can we do ti save money. It is just very frustrating when we just clocked in at 0700 and management tells us to go to lunch at 0800.

Two can't go at the same time because there is no one to cover their patients. If that happens, it means that one nurse would go out of ratio 8:1 for 15 minutes or 30 minutes (we are a telemetry unit). The hospital has already had issues with DHS abo...

Hello Everyone, it has been a long time since I've posted. I have grown a lot since I started as a new grad and I have enjoyed every part of it. I have always been interested in education. Improving myself and helping others improve has always been a...

Thank you all for the encouragement. I will use this mistake as a learning opportunity and make sure it never happens again. I will make sure I'm part of the solution. I am aware that decadron and steroids need to be tapered, and our process generall...

Hello guys, I just need to vent a little here. I'm feeling pretty bad right now and like I should have known better. First a little background. If you guys look at my previous posts. I was having pretty bad anxiety and stress in my first job. Now som...

Hello everyone, I'm writing this just to vent my frustration. When I got my RN I was so happy, finally all the hard work had paid off and I was ready to start my new career. I got a job as a new grad at a tele floor and was exited about it because...

Nope, I can't transfer until a year from hire date. I don't think anyone would take me either because of my lack of experience. I was lucky to lad this job because everywhere I applied the wanted at least a year acute care experience. Thank you for y...

I have not been contacted by them yet either. I'm pretty sure is the fact that my program was Associate degree. If I would've known things were going to be this bad for ADNs, I would've gone to a BSN program. I have a 3.9 GPA, graduated with honors, ...

mine still says application accepted, assessment completed, all documents submitted.

Studystudy, i just checked my page after your post and they also took of the X under active, I guess that means I'm out as well. It's probably the ADN program because I had a 3.9 GPA at school, ACLS certified, and 7 years LVN experience, don't know w...

I applied to it October 25th, the day the applications opened. So far i have not received any info, my application status just says Application accepted, assessment completed and all documents required submitted. I'm hoping that i hear something soon...

Hey everyone, I applied on October 25th at night. My application went through, with no wait list. I'm anxious because I hear of people already being contacted to schedule their phone interview, but my app status still says received/assessment complet...

I just got my results this morning, I'm a registered nurse now!!!!!!!!!! I got the good pop up so it works!

MommyBSN, How long ago did you take your NCLEX? I'm also in Ca and I don't have my results yet. 4 of my friends from school had their names in the board by 48 hours, I took the test Thursday the 8th and my name is not there yet. I get the "good pop u...

oh oh, I took the test on Thursday and felt the exact same way. I had 125 questions, a lot of SATA and meds i've never heard of. I'm pretty sure I failed, i got home waited a few hours and did the PVT and got the good pop up, then tried again Sat and...

Congratulations on passing, I'm still waiting on my results. I wish California participated in quick results

I took my test on Thursday July 8th and still have nothing posted on the board website, I got the good pop up so I'm pretty confident that I passed. I do have this little fear in the back of my head that the PVT won't be accurate for me. I'll keep wa...

I'm hoping that the PVT works for me also. I left the testing center sure that I had failed, the computer shut down at 125 and I thought it was extremely hard. When I got home I tried the PVT and then again a few minutes ago and get the "good pop up"...

I took my NCLEX-RN today and the computer shut down at 125. I don't know officially if I passed, but if the PVT is accurate I passed it.

Ok guys, so I took my NCLEX today at 2pm. I thought the test was very hard, I wanted to cry in the middle of the test because I didn't know what I was looking at ha ha ha. I left the place thinking that I failed because of the difficulty and I got 12...

I took the Hurst live review and liked it. The lady was able to explain things in a simple way and made a lot of things click from nursing school, also they give you little things to remember important information which helped a lot. I don't take my...

I just took the Hurst practice test and I got a 68% I'm about to take it again tonight and see if I do any better. My NCLEX is on July 8th so we will know then if it's good enough. As a side note, I also got a 69% on the Kaplan test.