juliaann

I work what we call "weekend option" at my hospital. It's a contract that adds an additional hourly differential. It's still 3 12-hour shifts a week, either F, S, S or S, S, M. They have to be consecutive - Friday, Sunday, Monday wouldn't qualify. Bu...

We SLED our own patients. It is a 1:1 assignment. Our dialysis nurses do bedside HD.

When I first started working at my hospital a few years ago (I was a CNA then), it was owned by Ardent. My hospital is now a public city trust. This hospital loses money. It was potentially going to be closed when Ardent was done; thank goodness my c...

I knew where I was going to work (ICU - got my job offer in my 3rd semester), so I viewed my leadership semester as one last opportunity to get any other kind of experience. I left my preferences blank, assuming I would learn from wherever they put m...

I have 2g lobes and wear/wore Pyrex colorfronts throughout nursing school and now at work. No one in school noticed, and only my preceptor at work knows, because one day I forgot to take my earskins out and put in a pair of colorfronts until she ment...

You have to wait to know for sure. You got the "good pop up" message for the Pearson Vue trick. I tested this summer on a Thursday and my quick results were not available until Saturday morning. It isn't instant.

I received my ICU job offer while in my third semester of nursing school.

I received a job offer for the ICU of my 1st choice hospital while in my third semester of nursing school. My inexperience did not seem to concern them. I will have a long, thorough orientation and am so excited to be starting where I want to work!

At my hospital, we actually work 0630-1900 and 1830-0700. We refer to it as 7a-7p and 7p-7a as "shorthand" for day shift/night shift. We overlap for report from 6:30-7:00 and are out the door by 7 on good days. :)

Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children. I sold it back in my third semester. I don't think I ever opened it.

Hmmm...we've lost 0 students due to academics (1 left because of legal trouble and 1 left for a job offer in her former field). We picked up 2 students from last year's class who got pushed back for either an academic or personal reason...I don't kno...

This is exactly what I saw during my psych rotation. It is really, really sad. It turned the one person in our class who was interested in psych nursing completely against the idea. She was hoping for meaningful patient contact and education opportun...

I'm in an ABSN program and I was offered my dream job (ICU) during my 3rd semester. I did an externship at the facility, worked my ass off, introduced myself to everyone, and then applied when I saw an opening posted. :) I cannot wait to graduate in ...

Yes! My hospital offered a differential for any hours worked after 3pm and any weekends. I don't remember exactly how much (I've been a full-time nursing student this past year and haven't worked as a CNA since last year), but it was nice. My hospita...

In Oklahoma, I made 9.25/hour full-time in a hospital.

Congrats everyone! I'm a current ABSN at OU-Tulsa, so if anyone has any questions or wants a current student perspective on anything, feel free to ask here or PM me!

I use my iPad allll the time for nursing school. I have a bluetooth keyboard and I'm good to go. I don't even bring a backpack most days, because I have all my textbooks on my iPad, so all I have to do in the morning is throw my iPad and keyboard in ...

We're required to chart anything that we do. Daily assessments/PCA assessments/restraint assessments have to be co-signed (electronically) by the patient's nurse. Daily care, meds, IVF, skin score, food, and pretty much anything else we can chart und...

I agree with waiting until after you've found work to buy very many pairs (or super expensive ones).For my CNA class I had to wear royal blue for clinicals, but at my job we have to wear khaki. I only wore my royal blue for about a month and I still ...

In my BSN program we had skills lab starting the first week of the first semester and we were in the hospital doing our first med-surg rotation at the end of the first month of our program. I'd say we've had as much skills practice as possible - both...

You mean parenteral? We do in Oklahoma, and in my program we did in our first clinical rotation and ever since.

It will probably depend on the job market in your area. Can you look at pct listings at the facility/ies you're interested in and see what they put down for required education and experience? Or maybe call and ask? It definitely wouldn't hurt to hav...

As a fellow nursing student who has had the full range of positive to negative interactions with the staff nurses in clinicals, all I have to say is I've learned for me it's very important not to take it personally. You're there to learn, but if the ...

Even if we don't have our three shifts for the week yet we sometimes get canceled if the patient census is low enough to not need all the scheduled staff members.

I'm in OU's ABSN program in Tulsa. Have you seen the admission statistics? That should give you a pretty good idea of your chances. Go to http://nursing.ouhsc.edu/Prospective_Students/index.cfm and then in the right column under Counselor Links there...