BraeRN

I did my senior practicum in Community Health and I still got hired into Med/Surg after graduating. I learned so much and I absolutely loved it. It felt so nice to sit down with the people coming in and having non rushed conversations with them and g...

Young lady in her 20s admitted for tonsillitis and she had a dilaudid PCA.

What part of Kansas are you in? I'm in NE Kansas at a small hospital, getting $20 an hour on a med-surg/tele unit with $3 shift diff for nights and $2 shift diff for weekends.

I was thinking I remember this from my last shift! Very sad now that I think about it.

This is oddly familiar.......

I was giving scheduled IV Ativan to a very confused older patient. As I was pushing the medication, he looked up at me and said "I need you to do something for me. Open your shirt and show me the light." Another time I was getting ready to discharge...

Friday and Saturday at my hospital.

We do self scheduling at my facility so we pretty much get what we want unless there aren't enough nurses scheduled for a particular night. Your schedule sounds exhausting! I absolutely love nights though and never want to go back to days.

We had the ATI tests in my RN program too. We were required to pass the tests and if we didn't reach the required level on the test (usually it was Level 2) then we had to retake it. We also had to take a comprehensive predictor during the last semes...

I work nights in a small hospital too. Our med/surg floor is also the telemetry and peds floor and I think we have around 32 beds on the unit. At night we can get up to 7 patients per nurse. If it isn't too full we may start out with 4 or 5 and those...

I go by Brae and have it on my name tag since my full name is apparently too difficult for people to pronounce correctly. (I've had to deal with that all my life! :) I guess Brae is hard too because some of the nurses call me "Bree" but oh well, no h...

I have absolutely no idea how to respond to this. "How come nurses either failed to be admitted to medical school or didn’t try?" Excuse me? This is so offensive and sad. I'd like to see a doctor who has this offensive view to be in our shoes on the...

If I had accumulated that much debt in student loans, I certainly wouldn't buy a brand new car. How very irresponsible of her. I agree with lovelylpn, I'm not sure if this plan can work with a new grad salary. If she is getting paid that much money ...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions so far! And thank you nicole for the link! :)

Hi everyone! I'm starting orientation next week for my first nursing job (yay!) and I am wondering if anyone has any ideas on what will be included on the med test. I would also appreciate any links to websites where I can brush up on my dosage calcu...

I remember going to a plasma donation center when I first started going to college. Just like in your situation, it was in a bad area and the people in the waiting room looked pretty...interesting. It was even down the street from one of the hospital...

Hey everyone! I'm getting so excited right now! I had an interview with a hospital last Friday and it went really well. I was in a room with 3 nursing directors from units with open positions and a clinical nurse specialist. I thought I would be nerv...

Practice practice practice! Another thing you can do is be confident! I had an interview last week that went really well because I came into that room with the confidence of someone who had worked 20 years as a nurse, and I'm just a lowly new grad wi...

Thank you! It's a really tough time so I'm sending out good vibes for everyone!

Another thing you have to do is just keep applying. I didn't have any hospital experience besides clinicals too and I graduated in December and started looking for positions since January with absolutely no luck! I applied to a lot of positions, s...

Oh my gosh, you wouldn't want my cover letter, it's so general that it's a joke! That's not annoying at all by the way! :) I cringe at the thought that I actually sent it with my applications! But if you would still like to see it, I'll certainly sen...

Thank you for your reply! I GOT THE JOB! I'm so happy I could cry! I thought it would be another "interview" but the woman I spoke to just sat me down, said "This is the position we're offering, would you like to take the job?" I said yes of course! ...

Congrats!! That is a fantastic cover letter by the way, thank you for sharing. I'm sure it will be very helpful to those still struggling with writing them. The cover letter seems to make the best impression sometimes. It's often the first thing the ...

Congrats!!! Amid all the stories of new grads not finding jobs, it's still awesome to see people landing jobs! I wish you the best of luck and I'll keep trudging ahead because there is a position waiting out there for me and I'm gonna find it! :)

Thank you so much, I do hope it's good luck! :)