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Elementary education

You're welcome. To be honest in the hospital I was making 23/hr without shift differential. I am making slightly lower than that now. I don't really know what the other nurses are making. They have all been at the practice for several years. I have a...

I do telephone triage for a busy peds office. We talk directly to the parents. They call in and tell us what it going on. From there we decide if they need to come in for a sick appointment or if they can treat at home. We have a book of triage proto...

I drive 64 miles round trip 4 days a week. It takes about 40 to 45 minutes. I don't mind the commute.

I am working 8 hours! I don't mind though. We celebrated tonight like we always do. The kids will open their gifts before I leave for work then head to their dad's for the day shortly after. I figure if they aren't around why not work and make the ex...

I could have wrote this post and this time last year. I was so incredibly scared to graduate and get a job. I worked so hard in nursing school but didn't feel ready to leave that safety net. The last 5 weeks of our program was dedicated to us being o...

ACLS and APLS (advanced pediatric life support)

There were 3 of us that went to school together precepting on the same floor. We all went together and got an edible arrangement sent for the floor since all the nurses really worked with us and were so kind. I also sent my preceptor a nice card with...

Best of luck to you! I had about 20 SATA questions. I took the NCLEX-RN and passed with 265.

I took the Ati RN predictor twice. The first time I had a 40% chance of passing the NCLEX-RN. I had 5 weeks left until graduation. I did so many questions and retook the predictor. My second time the results were much better. I got a 91% chance of pa...

Voted for Romney/Ryan!! I live in Pennsylvania.

I graduated in May and just started a position on the oncology floor at a small community hospital. It isn't my dream job but it's a job and I'm super thankful to have it.

I am a very private person so I keep my personal life quiet in a setting like school or work. I did become very close with a fellow classmate and opened up with her. We are still close post graduation. I don't keep private to keep someone from getti...

I am in Pennsylvania and graduated May 2012 from an ADN program and passed boards July 26, 2012. I went on 4 interviews and just accepted a part time position last week. I started applying in June.

I passed NCLEX the first time using primarily ATI. I used some other materials as well (LaCharity, NCLEX 4000). I did not use Kaplan or Hurst to prepare. Best of luck to you!

I passed my boards last week. Yesterday I called the nurse recruiter at the hospital I did my student nurse preceptorship. I let her know that I passed my boards and would love to work at the hospital. She offered me an interview for today. So maybe ...

I graduated May 22, got my ATT June 25th (!!) and took NCLEX on July 25th. Good luck to you!

I took the NCLEX-RN yesterday morning. I had all 265 questions and cried the entire way home (including the added 30 minutes stuck in traffic!) I did the PVT about 2 hours or so after I took the exam. I got the good pop up but of course I was sure th...

I got a 40% chance of passing the NCLEX-RN on my first time according to the ATI Predictor. I did 150 questions a day for 5 weeks and re-took the predictor at the end of my preceptorship. According to the retake I had a 90% chance of passing on the f...

Congrats!!! I got the same pop up today too. I really hope it works 100% of the time.

Also I loved the ATI books. I did a lot of my reading from them. They were very straight forward and did not include a lot of filler "fluff" if you know what I mean.

At south our kit contained every thing we needed for skills lab. So in first year it had catheter kits, IV tubing, and other skills we learned. It also had a BP cuff and a pen light. I really don't remember what all was in it but that's what it was u...

Thank you for sharing!

We use ATI but it didn't count for points or cause us to fail the class. It was kind of silly. If we did not get a level 2 we had to retake a practice exam until we got a 90%. We did do the ATI Live review which I feel was a good thing.

Regarding lecture there is no policy on attendance. It is recommended that you attend but you don't have to. You must find the notes on your own. The only time you cannot miss is on exam days. With clinical you are allowed to miss between 8 and 16 ho...