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Our policy is if the admitting nurse can't take report right away then the charge nurse has to. They will absolutely not send the patient up without report.

Speaking from personal experience, I rotated 7p - 7a and 7a - 7p while pregnant. I actually did better on nights, it was slower, etc. When I was on days it was so busy, sometimes I didn't take a break until 3pm, I wasn't able to sit down because it w...

We use a fall risk score and most of our total joints come up with a high fall risk score and require a bed alarm. We actually had an alert and oriented patient fall and fracture their wrist on POD 0 because they didn't want to call anyone and ended ...

I'm an RN, but our aides have between 12-14 during the day and up to 22 (or more!) at night. This is on an ortho/neuro floor. It's so ridiculous...

I took it back in July...75 questions in under an hour.

A high percentage of students that started with me for new graduate orientation (maybe half) went to a very respectable university that does clinicals at the hospital and has some instructors affiliated with the hospital as employees. Most of the res...

I had a phone screen middle of May, interview June 5, shadow interview two weeks later, and was not offered a position until July 29, started 8/19. It was a long process. This is for a new graduate position. I have a friend with experience that wait...

1. Connecticut 2. New graduate (BSN) 3. Ortho/Neuro 4. $30.90/hr 5. 12% evenings; 20% nights; +$2/hr weekends 5. Non-union

We could not use a calculator, and had to get a 100% on our last dosage exam. All you can do is practice, practice, practice; it will make it easier!!

I worked as a med tech and the only thing it was helpful for was that all my prerequisites were done to get to nursing school, as well as my general studies that would have been required in nursing school (history, sociology, etc.). It took me 3 year...

I've worked at two different places that utilized panic buttons which we wore at all times. I've never had to use it but had coworkers who have. It initializes a code so security will report to the unit ASAP.

We had to drive one hour each way for our pediatric and psych clinicals. We carpooled and took turns driving. One facility also cost $20 to park per clinical day. We split it up.

I will be perfectly honest and say I have made up scenarios or bended the truth to answer these questions. There is no other way, especially coming from someone with little to no experience.

New grad BSN in Connecticut. 30.90 per hour, 12% eve differential, 20% night differential, +$2/hr on weekends.

I got very similar scores with a 72% on both QT6 and QT7; these are very much similar to how the NCLEX was. I took the NCLEX on Saturday and passed in 75 questions...I found the test to be very similar to Kaplan and even found some of if easy. Based ...

Sorry for the long post... I am currently a nursing student and am trying to get my foot in the door at a couple of hospitals doing different things. I recently started as a patient sitter at a large nearby hospital. My first couple of shifts were ma...

This doesn't work for everyone, but I've had a lot of success just reading the chapters/class notes over and over and over until I feel like it's sticking. I've tried everything else: typing things up, copying over my notes, taking notes out of the b...

Me and most people I know say "called out" here in Connecticut. The only other phrase I've heard is "called in sick" but never just "called in"...

I have a biology degree (I graduated with a 3.7 GPA) and had originally planned on going to medical school before changing my mind because of the difficulty I would have with financing it and a few other reasons. I found a job at a hospital laborator...

Hey, I'm a new member, but just had to say I completely agree. I am fearful every time I have to go to my college because I know that it's going to be one problem after another. Today was no different. Met with advisor who called admissions to give m...