unreallly

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1. advice please?

   unreallly replied to Isitpossible's topic in Psychiatric

   Maybe you can keep the dialysis job as PRN or

2. Truman College Nursing Students starting Fall 2011!!

   unreallly replied to chicagonurse2b's topic in Illinois Nursing

   cprassociatesinc.com offers cpr classes for $40 and you are in and out with-in 3

3. Burned Out.

   unreallly replied to Gracian's topic in General Nursing

   Don't lose hope and i'm sure you will find a Nursing job real soon. BTW, there are crime everywhere not just

4. New RN Grad's First Job - $23/hr. Is this a rip off?

   unreallly replied to mfr69's topic in Illinois Nursing

   THis pay is not right new grad RN's in chicago is making at least 25 an hour at the bare minimum. Most or making 26-28 an hour with the latter being 30 in some suburbs where it is hard to keep nurses....

5. Calling all Truman College Nursing Students

   unreallly replied to 4hana9's topic in Illinois Nursing

   Hello, I took Math 125 because I knew you need this to get into any BSN program in the future. I took Math 140 a long time ago but it didn't count because it was 5 yrs

6. Nurse Acuity Bill vs Staffing ratios

   unreallly replied to trulynurseatheart's topic in Illinois Nursing

   I heard California passed a bill that Nurses to patient ratio cannot be more than 6:1, Is this true? If this is true, I wish IL would do the same. At my facility, if we have less than 18 patients...

7. Continuing Education credits

   unreallly replied to slr921's topic in Illinois Nursing

   Ok, let me understand this. If the renew license notification goes out May of 2010. Does anyone know how much time they will give us to get our 20 continuing education credits? Also, I obtained 20...

8. Sign On Bonus in Chicago for New Grads?

   unreallly replied to lookin4ER's topic in Illinois Nursing

   Hey SPower82, does your nursing home offer part-time for a semi-new

9. Olive Harvey College....

   unreallly replied to teacher08's topic in Illinois Nursing

   I went to Olive-Harvey from 2006-2008 and they were accredited. The lab is always open for the most part since we have 2 lab nurses on the spot. If the lab wasn't open, we could ask someone from the...

10. Sign On Bonus in Chicago for New Grads?

    unreallly replied to lookin4ER's topic in Illinois Nursing

    The only Hospital I have heard that still give sign on bonus is Loretta Hospital, but you need at least 2 years

11. City of Chicago College

    unreallly replied to TeeTee1982's topic in Illinois Nursing

    The CCC Nursing programs listed are from best to worst based on NCLEX passing rate: ADN 1) Truman 2) Daley 3) Olive-Harvey 4) Kennedy-King (Bridge Program) 5) Malcolm X LPN 1)

12. City Colleges of Chicago and HESI exit exam

    unreallly replied to 2btmanrn's topic in Illinois Nursing

    WOW! The most I heard was 6 tries but 10 is the new

13. Anyone know how many HESI Exit exam versions there are??

    unreallly replied to nursingstudentbp's topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    There are 7 versions of the Hesi test. Each version has 3 sub-versions within. For example V-1a, V-1b, V-1c, V-2a, V-2b, V-2c,

14. New Grad ASC salary?

    unreallly replied to JMRN09's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    The avg salary in a large market is around $25-27/hr. Asking for $55K is around $26.44/hr which it is on the high end. If you can manage to neg a salary of no less than $52K, it comes out to $25/hr...

15. New Grad ASC salary?

    unreallly replied to JMRN09's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Yeah, 40K is pretty low. It only average about $19.23/hr. Try to ask for $55K and if your future employer says no, you can always