BlueEyedGuy

I moved out-of-state for the past 10 months to get a new grad job on a Telemetry unit(we're also the step-down unit) at a regional level 2 trauma center in the northern midwest. I'm looking to find a hospital that hires into their ICU(s) with my one ...

I work at a mid-sized hospital on a 32-bed 'Telemetry' unit, but we are THE step-down unit. We titrate NTG, dopamine, dobutamine, diltiazem, and a few other drips (not levo or epi). We have monitors at bedside that we can wirelessly sync to the Tele ...

We had the Effient reps in last week, and I have the literature in front of me, because I was curious about this too. Effient reaches the therapeutic level of about 75% platelet inhibition in about 2 hours with a loading dose. And since it's an irrev...

Okay, so I found a new grad posting (rare), and the want ACLS (which I have), but also: Basic Cardiac Monitoring Certification and Telemetry Certificate required. Are those easily obtained? How do I do it? Are there online ones? Do I need these if...

You can fight if off locally, the counties have to allow it individually.

It has been a week since anyone's posted about getting an interview. Anyone getting calls? What unit(s)?

I was wondering if people have gotten calls from other units. We've only heard from Reebles on here so far. I'm really interested in critical care units and emergency.

I read a post of someone who did this, and I was wondering how it worked. Do they orient you like a full time employee and then you just get called off a lot, and obviously no benefits. Is it a good idea? Is it easier to get hired this way? Did you g...

No one said this yet on here, I think. I talked to someone from nurse recruiting on Tuesday and they said they are hiring 40 new grads, "the most we've ever taken." So, all other things being equal 40/500 x100% = 8% chance of getting a job if you go...

Same here. My school didn't do senior preceptorships, that's why I want a solid nurse residency so badly. I hope that doesn't hurt my chances. I'm also a UC alumnus, I wonder if that helps at all. I didn't see any unit preference form in the applica...

I've read accounts of people getting into training programs with companies out of school, and some companies have hints about these programs on their websites, but no real information It this a state practice act thing? I called one clinic (a Freseni...

Stanford is desirable experience for new nurses to get on their resume, but from what I hear they are not the best employer in the area(as far as benefits, salary, etc). It costs tens of thousands of dollars to train new nurses, and these nurses tend...

That's not how tax brackets work. You don't even hit the 35% bracket if you're making under 90k. Or are you just estimating and adding in state income tax as well?

Everyone feels like they failed, because the nature of the test is to find the limit of how hard the level of questions you can take. If you get a few questions correct in the beginning in a row, then you could get every other question wrong and st...

Look, your scores are good. You've been out of school for three months. Why wait any longer? Some studies show waiting longer just decreases you chances of passing. I'm the taking it next week and your scores are higher than mine so far.

I thought the rule of thumb on Kaplan Trainers was >60% = good to go, and >65% is excellent.

ATI has this function, you just have to click the bubbles to the left of each answer. 77% of the Ati Comphrensive practice tests is pretty good. I got a 73% on the A one, and a 76% on the B one, and my predictor score was: Adjusted Individual Total ...

Not that this means anything, but I was drinking with some alumni of my program the other night, and she was saying Kaplan is bulls***. Awesome chick btw, she made charge nurse 9 months into practice on an ICU-step down unit. She said Hurst is awesom...

Here's my plan: 1.) Hurst Review for content. The cool thing about hurst is that it's a targeted review, their philosophy is NCLEX 80% med-surg content, so they focus on that core content. Hurst isn't REALLY a book though, it's a review course. If yo...

It's funny how fast these threads deteriorate into, "Please PM/email me at ____." I wonder it there are Pearson agents on here trying to get people to talk about specific test questions to bust them. Sorry to thread jack, but i just wanted to point o...

I had a simple brown clip board with a cardboard folder clipped to it. A lot of my classmates got a cool clipboard from Walmart that was plastic (easy clean), you could fit paper inside the body, and it had a calculator on top. All I brought to cli...

Yes, all those success series books are pretty good (the questions and rationale aren't always the best). I had the pharm one, and the med-surg one (for med surg and every class, I also used Lippincott's NCLEX Q&A, best question book IMO). Some p...

I love these stories! Our know-it-all, 'I know everything about OB, la-la-la, I am awesome' student reportedly passed our scrubbed into a c-section. All of our OB clinical instructors currently work on that unit too. I'm sure they all had a good la...

It really depends on your local job market. Apply for the BSN (flexibility), and if get a job out of school, then drop it or go part-time on the BSN; or drop it an find a more convenient online BSN if you still want to finish it.

Personally, I got as many of the books as I could used for cheap (ask the class ahead of you), AND got most of the pageburst books. They are like half the cost of the new version of the paper book. Pageburst is AWESOME. It probably saved me dozens of...