cheez1285

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1. Med Surg Nurses: How many patients do you care for?

   cheez1285 replied to cheez1285's topic in Med-Surg

   Do you work nights? Yes, having 6 patients in a day is crazy. It's even crazier when you discharge 2-3 during a shift and get 2-3 admissions right back! The life of a nurse!

2. Med Surg Nurses: How many patients do you care for?

   cheez1285 replied to cheez1285's topic in Med-Surg

   Do you guys think having 6 patients on a med surg floor on days is too much? Just curious to see what people think!

3. New Grad in Rockford Hospitals?

   cheez1285 replied to haunani's topic in Illinois

   I did my new grad residency at Rockford Memorial Hospital. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. There is classroom days and days where you will be on the unit. The first three months, you typically start on a med surg/tele or med surg/re...

4. Next shift RN took over - help

   cheez1285 replied to Do_Good's topic in Relations

   He probably was trying to help but he should've told you that he would let the doc know about the situation.

5. STRESSED OUT! Need to vent!

   cheez1285 replied to cheez1285's topic in Stress 101

   I know! It is nuts! We get up to 6 patients on our med surg floor. Last time I worked, all 6 of my patients were confused and were on bed alarms. 5 of them were incontinent. 4 of them required blood sugars. 2 of them had feeding tubes. I think ...

6. Angry Nurse here!

   cheez1285 replied to beeker's topic in Relations

   This happens to me so often that I started just bringing instant oatmeal to work and just eating that with a banana. Basically, I dont bring anything that needs to be in the fridge so I can just lock it in my locker.

7. Med Surg Nurses: How many patients do you care for?

   cheez1285 posted a topic in Med-Surg

   Hi all! How many patients are you allowed to care of at a time on your med surg floor during days or nights? In our hospital, on days, we go up to 6 and night shift can take up to 7. Just curious. I work at a hospital near Chicago.

8. Angry Nurse here!

   cheez1285 replied to beeker's topic in Relations

   It blows my mind that people do this. It happens so often too.

9. STRESSED OUT! Need to vent!

   cheez1285 posted a topic in Stress 101

   These last few weeks have been hell at the hospital I work at. Our census has been high for the last couple of week and the acuity of these patients we are getting is insane. Typically, I am pretty mellow and able to handle stressful situations wel...

10. New Grad w/ License - Job market

    cheez1285 replied to Tito RN's topic in Illinois

    The company is called RSA Medical. I worked there for about 2 years before I started a new grad program in Rockford.

11. Good Sam RN Residency Program

    cheez1285 replied to cheez1285's topic in Illinois

    hey! yes, it would be an amazing opportunity. i will cross fingers for both of us. i have a bachelor's in public health with an emphasis on health promotion as well as an ADN. did you get sent that online survey?

12. Good Sam RN Residency Program

    cheez1285 posted a topic in Illinois

    Hey! I was just wondering if anyone out there applied for the Good Sam RN Residency Program. I applied last month and have not heard anything yet. I did get a link to fill out some sort of questionnaire type thing, but no phone call yet. I am cro...

13. ATI RN exit exam

    cheez1285 replied to GHOT-Anes's topic in NCLEX

    The ATI predictability exam told me that I had a 97% chance of passing NCLEX. I waited 4 months to take NCLEX, read Saunders & my ATI books, and found out today I passed :) For me, I really thought that ATI helped a lot in preparing me for NCL...

14. Pearsonvue Trick Is this TRUE? Does it work every time?

    cheez1285 replied to brichielpn08's topic in NCLEX

    HI! I took NCLEX this past Monday, did the PVT 5 hours after, and received the "good" message. I found out this morning that I PASSED! I am officially an RN. The PVT worked for me!

15. I took the NCLEX-RN today!!! I'm scared :(

    cheez1285 replied to cheez1285's topic in NCLEX

    I passed :) i am officially a registered nurse. The pvt worked for me! So freakin' happy!!!