teg9

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1. Hope for New Grads

   teg9 replied to teg9's topic in New Nurse

   az thanks guys.

2. Hope for New Grads

   teg9 posted a topic in New Nurse

   After 6 months of looking for jobs in my home state I decided to make a 3 weeks trip to florida to job junt. Within 3 weeks here I had 5 interviews and out of 5 I got 3 offers on the spot for a job, 2 from a nursing/rehab facility and one hospital an...

3. tips for nursing interview

   teg9 replied to redtshirt's topic in New Nurse

   Prepare for these type of questions since almost all of my interviewer asked these types of questions. Good luck with the interview! 1.Tell me about yourself. 2. What are your strengths and weakness. 3. How would you handle conflicts with co-worker o...

4. Pre-employment Drug Screen

   teg9 replied to teg9's topic in New Nurse

   got a call from hr and everything turned out fine, just worried about nothing. anyway now i need to figure out how to turn down the job offer since i got a much better offer today from a hospital medsurg floor:yeah:. mrsshifflette09 you should be f...

5. Pre-employment Drug Screen

   teg9 replied to teg9's topic in New Nurse

   It was a urine drug screen. I am not sure if they will be testing for ETOH, hopefully not, but from what I've been reading it's pretty common that ETOH is included in drug screens now. from what I read I should be ok since it was not a heavy drinking...

6. Pre-employment Drug Screen

   teg9 replied to teg9's topic in New Nurse

   about12 hours, also drank a good amount of water after realizing what I've done.

7. No JOB- Spare time=LOSE WEIGHT!

   teg9 replied to k.morris's topic in New Nurse

   You can easily achieved that goal! I too made that decision after graduating that I needed to get back into shape so Dec I was around 205 and five months later I got down to whopping 165lbs which is about the ideal weight for my frame. The key is you...

8. Pre-employment Drug Screen

   teg9 posted a topic in New Nurse

   I have no history of use of illegal drugs but could I fail it for having consumed alcohol a day prior to the drug screen? Just had couple draft beers and couple shots of vodka on a good sunday night. Didn't really think that I needed to worry about a...

9. How long should I stay in the city for an interview?

   teg9 posted a topic in New Nurse

   Just got a brief phone interview from an out of state hospital recruiter. After the interview they asked for my references. So now I'm just wondering if they ask for an in person interview how long should I plan on staying on that city? Maybe 3 days ...

10. My HESI story.

    teg9 replied to 2btmanrn's topic in New Nurse

    I think I got the lowest possible score on my HESI of what they considered to be a high risk score and passed the NCLEX with 75 questions. I think it's unfair to withhold your eligibility to take nclex based on HESI scores. Hope you guys find a solut...

11. NCLEX QUESTION

    teg9 replied to Andy123's topic in NCLEX

    You should be good just don't get too complacent, nclex questions are much different than the questions in the reviewer and not even close, degree of difficulty is up another level. Just practice with prioritization (which pt to see first), safety pr...

12. NCLEX QUESTION

    teg9 replied to Andy123's topic in NCLEX

    Just found out that I passed the nclex test that I thought failed miserably! Here's what I ended up getting on 2 different NCLEX softwares. Saunder's NCLEX -RN 4ed. 68/100 68/100 65/100 71/100 Kaplan's Question Trainer test1 60% test2 61% test3 54% t...

13. nclex rn stopped at 75

    teg9 replied to spongebob6286's topic in NCLEX

    Wow I just found out that I passed the test!! I really thought there is no way that I passed after leaving after feeling like I guessed most of the answers. Hang in there buddy there is hope!

14. nclex rn stopped at 75

    teg9 replied to spongebob6286's topic in NCLEX

    I have the same exact situation this morning also plus an added bonus of pearson server meltdown in the middle of the test to make it a bit more interesting. I guess we'll just have to wait it out. It's either we did really good or really bad. But li...

15. Palm PDA Question

    teg9 replied to jbjints's topic in General Students

    if you haven't solved this here's how to cut down the hotsync process. Click on the hotsnyc icon on the system tray (lower right)> click custom then double click on each conduit and select do nothing on conduits that you don't use > check the s...