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I've been at my job 6 months now, med/surg cardiac, I work 7p-7a and love it. I didn't think I could adjust to the sleep schedule but I'm so tired when I get off that there's no problem going to sleep. I did days for two months during orienting, it was fine but there was way to much drama. Don't get me wrong, there can be drama at night but there aren't as many people pulling you in so many different directions. My work is quite a drive, over an hour but it's a peaceful drive that gives me the chance to collect my thoughts before I get home. I hate that the drive is so far but right now I have no choice. When I go to bed, I turn down the a/c, put ear plugs in, wrap a t-shirt around my eyes/head and sleep for about 5 hours. I'm spoiled, when I wake up, someone (husband or daughters) usually makes dinner and even though it's 4:30 pm, they will eat with me. My family is very supportive and told me from the beginning that they can handle the house for 3-4 nights that I work. I thought long and hard before taking this job and talked it over with my family. I don't try to stay on the schedule when I'm off, I just do what comes naturally and let my self sleep. I try my best to work my days in a row so I can have at least 4 days off in a row. I go to bed early the night before I go back, get up early and enjoy a little of the day, then take a nap before work. The nap before work is a must. I like the pay on night shift. If I went to days, I would lose $1000 a month. No one is the same, what works for one doesn't always work for another. Good luck!

I'm Ms.Test Anxiety but I also have a bad attention span.I didn't think I would pass NCLEX but they gave me ear plugs and I discovered the desks had built in blinders! I passed the first time. It's not just 75 questions and you pass. I had 170 questions. I knew the material but I kept over thinking some questions. I know someone who had 75 questions and didn't pass. My classmates passed with 75-265 questions. I personally don't think a person should take this test so many times. I would give two tries and then it's time for remedial work. If you get the material, do the practice questions several times until you get a hang of how these questions work, you'll pass (and wear ear plugs). All the people I know who did not pass the first time, did not practice the questions like they should have. Just my thought on this subject.

I used my watch for everything in school, clinical's and providing home nursing care for my parents. I wear a $25 watch that I purchased at a medical supply store while in school. It also has the 24 hour time. I didn't want to wear my good watch because I knew I'd be washing it along with my hands a lot. Later our instructors told us to save the good watches for home. Same with our rings, only a band if we were married. If I ever get a job, I'll be wearing the same watch. My home watch is a Citizen and I love it but would never wear it in the hospital since I see the links as a source of bacteria.

CBsMommy, Thank you for your response.

I hope I'm posting in the right place, I do need advice. I have had my license now for 4 months. I applied to several places but I haven't received any calls. I did get two rejection letters so at least I did get a response. Anyway here's my question. I may have a job in a different city, the commute is about an hour and 45mins. I'll have 3 twelve hours shifts, probably night but I'm not completely sure. My question is...do I take the job and make that commute or keep looking for a job closer? Moving isn't an option at all, we just bought our house 3 yrs ago. I'm going back and fourth with this. I need to call the manager to set up my interview but I just don't know if it's the right thing to do. Thank you in advance.

I haven't read all the posts on this but I'm just itching to say something. I'm in my last term of nursing school. I have just had the worst two days of clinical's. I'm beating myself up because of what I could have done or done better. I have seen all kinds of nurses as a student, patient and daughter of the patient/s. I have to say, if a nurse is bitter...well after today I can understand why. I'm not bitter after today but I am upset about all that went on and all that continues to go on. Nurses sometimes get too large of a pt load. I shared 6 pts with my nurse today. I was to document on two. There was one pt that I experienced the minute I got on the floor, 30mins before I was due. This pt cried the whole day and was in constant pain. Every time I would go to pass meds to a pt, this pt would start in, I went to the pt instead of my nurse because I can't pass meds by myself and it only made sense. When I'd go to document, she'd start in (let me tell you she was very loud and bothered all of the pts), I couldn't document because of her. When I finally got her calmed down, my instructor told us she needed to leave early. I couldn't document and had to explain it to my nurse. I know she's giving a bad report to my instructor and I feel like total crap and I'm wondering how I'm ever going to make it because I had no time to document. I wouldn't change the care I gave to the pt today because it was what she needed but I will be figuring out another way to document and talk to the pt at the same time. I think you have to truly walk in the shoes of the nurse in order to pass judgement. I didn't walk in my nurses shoes, I wasn't even halfway in them but after these two days I sure understand why a nurse may be a little bitter. There are days when they are given a vary large pt load. My dad received a 5cm x 8cm skin tear during an IV removal in the anticubital area from a nurse that had been on the job for 3 years. She tried to blame him, and then tried to say he had the wound when he got in there and that it was from his skin cancer. Never mind the cancer was removed 2months prior and that site was healed, or that it was an obvious fresh wound. The charge nurse handled it after that point. Then a 5yr nurse tore his skin as he rubbed the mess out of it before inserting the iv. We told him he was doing it too much but he said it has to be clean. I brought the tear to his attention, he denied it and was saying "let me see" next thing I know he slaps tape on top of the tear. I was in complete shock. He also tour his skin with tourniquet, started to do wound care and left up. He did come back 20mins later and bandage him up but in recovery (he had a procedure done) as I walked in the nurses were arguing with my dad about the bandage. The told him it was his skin cancer. I took the bandage off and showed them how clear it was where it came from. They then treated him nicely but it shouldn't have taken that. They were new nurses who felt a nurse could do no wrong. There is a lot of attitude from nurses but what I have noticed is, it's from those who aren't as experienced and feel their position is being threatened. I have been in management and you can't treat nursing with the same type of customer service. What about the customer is always right? You're doing something to a pt that may save their life, they say they don't want it...are they right? With that said, you do need to provide customer care. There are some pts that act like the hospital is a hotel. No matter how much ice water you give them or how many snacks, it's never going to be enough. One of my pts told my nurse "I left ____hospital because they wouldn't give me any ice water. It was always I left _____hospital because of ____, I hope it wasn't a mistake coming here. I love those seasoned nurses, I have learned a lot from them. You bring up a good subject but I really don't believe you have been able to see all that goes on. Nurses that treat pts like crap does happen, it has happened to both of my parents lately and myself in the past. However, society this day and age treat each other with so much disrespect it's awful. Life is about karma.

I haven't responded to anything in a while but I felt the need to respond to this one. I'm a 4th term student and I think I have seen my fair share of "situations". I have seen students do the same kind of things and then some. The bit about the student being too good looking is no joke. I seen that on here a long time ago and I thought it was the biggest bunch of bull I had ever heard. I actually heard that comment in the elevator by a 3rd term student last week. I asked her if she was kidding. She was the age of one of my daughter's. There are nurses who eat their young but I can sure understand why. So far I haven't had a problem with any of the nurses I have worked with (cross my fingers). My thing is, the nurse has to feel comfortable with me before I can expect her to let me take care of HER patients. It will be her license on the line if I mess up. I also won't do anything I wouldn't want a student nurse to do to my family members unless my nurse tells me she feels comfortable with me doing it and will be there with me. I'm not about to harm someone's family member. I try to help my nurse as much as I can while there. Karma goes a long way as far as I'm concerned.

the way mine works is, i have clinicals on tuesday and wednesday. i pick up my patient on monday, do up a care plan, except for the nursing dx. the instructor looks them over and on wednesday we term in the completed copy. i think the syllabus says it's due the 2nd day of clinical. i would pick watts ( this is her last year) for psych, barrett (for ah1 lecture) and mebane (ah1 clinical).

Okay thank you. I wasn't sure if I wanted to play around with that evolve since we have that class on it in 4 wks and Miss E had told me to wait. It also looks like it gives you a grade. Not knowing anything about evolve I didn't want to touch it unless I had to. Did anyone buy those e-books (the ones that were $96 only if you bought the box of books)? Thank you for the info. Good luck everyone.

Has anyone gone into the online med term? I noticed our reading assignment is to complete the on-line med term for supplemental information related to the chapter. I'm not sure if that's the evolve or the bb. Does anyone happen to know? Any clue on what the med term test is like? Thanks in advance.

I was wondering, is everyone printing all the stuff on bb, i.e. the chapters and power points. Also, does anyone know if the instructers give us handouts, like the syllabus etc? (I've already printed them out.) Like everyone else I've been printing away but I hate to print if they'll be giving us handouts. Has anyone had a problem with the class schedule? When I download it, it tells me it's corrupt. Just curious. Thanks.

There's a map of the school on the last page of one of the booklets we received. I believe it said the auditorium is in c building but I could be wrong, I've only been to that campus once.

I don't think I ever received an email version, it wasn't in my school email. Thank you for letting me know. :)

How many of you received an email acceptance and did it go to your school email or personal email? Is there any information in that email that wasn't in the packet? If I received an email, I think I deleted it by mistake. I've had a lot of junk mail since researching different programs. I really didn't expect to receive the acceptance through email and I had deleted so many different nursing offers that I may have deleted the one that was actually real. Just curious.

Congratulations on your new baby! From what I read, you need to at least provide proof that the test was done when you turn in your paper work. Then the March deadline kicks in.