UcStudentNurse

No its never really a god idea to talk / ask about pay openly in a public forum.

The Pearson Vue trick is the best way to see if you passed. You can do that pretty as soon as your done with the exam.

Sara Nunnery sent the email I'd contact her. Ill be starting in the ED

Congrats on getting accepted. Did you email the recruiter? She sent a Emil out a couple weeks ago to the guys seeing if anyone wanted to share a place I unfortunately cannot. Good luck and I hope you find something!

I haven't started yet but I have friends that have gone through them and think they are really.good learning experience. She was in the one at Wake Med and loved it. I apllied for a few of these internships because I think there is a gap from what we learn in school and the real world of nursing. Eight week preceptor following a nurse around or 16-22 specialized training and a year of monthly meetings and support makes the benefit of the programs crystal clear for me.

I'll be in the ED.

I'll be starting in Feb too.

If you haven't already apply and pay for the test. That way as soon as your ATT comes in you can register. In the mean time start doing min 75 practice questions a day and work up to taking 265 which is the Max that way you are used to sitting that long. Good luck!

Thanks for all the input everyone. This has been the hardest decision ive had to make. I think I will at least interview because I'll never know if I don't go. Bad thing is both Ohio and fayetteville are second choices for where I want to live but I can't get on at the hospital I want. Fayetteville is just a lot closer to the place I consider home

First with a quick bio. I'm a 34 y/o male new grad of a AN program in Ohio. I graduated with a 3.59 gpa, was awarded a college student in involvement award and a nurse program excellence in clinical practice award, founding member and treasurer of the student nurse association, an organization that brought the pinning ceremony back to the college. A tradition that has long since been gone from there. Needless to say I worked really hard in my program and that hard work got me noticed by a manager of a local hospital. So my problem is this. I was offered a job here that I turned down because i was under the impression that I was getting a job in out of state, but when that fell through I called back explained the situation and was given the job in Ohio. Prior to getting the Ohio offer I scheduled an interview for a New grad residency out of state that I would still like to interview for. That program starts Feb 25 2013 where as the job here begins Dec. 3. What I would like input on is. I feel a moral obligation to work the ohio since they were so willing to hire me and would feel guilty working from Dec to Feb and quitting ( I am not a job hopper my shortest employment was 3 years.) BUt I also don't want to miss out on a excellent opportunity in a part of the country I want to live in. Is it wrong to leave so quickly?

Congratulations on the offers! I live in Cincinnati and have been waiting for this fellowship to be posted for a while and of course it comes after I accepted a job here! Best of luck and I'd definitely go with wake since it a Level 1 trauma center and you get great exposure and experience.

I am really hoping to get into the ED program as well. Sent you a PM with a couple questions. Thanks !

Hello all, I recently graduated in June from the ADN program at UCBA in Cincinnati. I moved up here from Wilmington where I worked as ED registration @ NHRMC and always hoped to get back on there as 7 years away from the beach is WAY too long. I have had 0 luck getting selected for an interview there but then I came across the Nurse Academy at CFV. I had a great conversation with the recruiter and feel good about the possibility about getting on there. Has anyone gone through or currently in this program? IF how how do you like it and how was the interview process? On paper this looks like an amazing opportunity and exactly what I was looking for as a new grad.

I just submitted my application for this program starting Feb. I had a great conversion with the recruiter and she sent me the "packet" to fill out and return. It sounded positive that I may get an interview so fingers crossed. How was the interview process for you guys and do did you feel like the program was a good choice?

I think I walked out of there at like 10:30 so about 2.5 hours for me as well. I tend to go to fast on those online tests which is probably why i took 265! It was not a pretty sight when I came home I was sooo mad at myself. When that pop up box showed up on the screen I burst into tears which isn't pretty seeing a 6'3 210 guy crying like a baby lol!!! All the years of stress and the initial thought that I failed built up I guess.

I was actually happy with each SATA question I saw as I thought I was doing well, but damn never dreamed I would have to take 265. I'll take some solace in the fact the usually the PVT is accurate and hopefully there will be a license number by my name tomorrow.

I just left the testing center here after taking all 265 questions and assumed I failed. Seemed impossible that I passed. did the PVT and got the pop up. God I hope that its accurate. I know countless of people have done it and its been correct. Is there a time limit to how low you wait to do it.

What an epic nightmare that was. I sat down feeling pretty confident right off the back bam SATA questions I think Im doing pretty good. They keep popping up, SATA, Priority, passing lever questions from what Kaplan told us. Questions 75 comes and goes, 100, 150, 200, crap crap crap I'm bombing this 250 ugghhhh 260 oh well ill take it again 265... just get me out of this room. Tears on the way home frustrated ticked off whatever. Log in with credit card in hand to reregister and I get the beloved pop up. God I hope that trick works.

Good luck Otizz. I'm about to leave my house as well! Trying to eliminate getting stuck in traffic. One less anxiety builder to worry about. I don't think I have the guts to do the Pvt. Would really have to find out I failed that way

I'm not planning on doing much tomorrow. Probably gonna go get something unhealthy for lunch and go watch batman.

Well the time has come. I'm scheduled to take the test @ 0800 on Wednesday and to say I am nervous is an understatement. Things went so well for me during my 2 year program had a B average never really struggled to hard, won a couple awards things were good. Then the Hesi Exit exams came along. I failed the first 2 with 760 and 764 and finally passed the last one with 984 but those two fails totally crushed my confidence hard to believe that it all comes down 75 to 265 questions! I feel like I have studied my tail off. Took the Kaplan course averaged about 55% on the Questions trainers which is pretty low, but got a 63% on the readiness and about 60% on my Q bank. I just took the practice test 3 thats all about who do you see first and got a 74%. I HOPE im ready!!! No real point to this post just had to vent :)

Do you guys know any little prayers that you can say when asked to pray with a patient. Iv been in this situation before and dont really know any prayers but its something I dont mind doing the it helps put them at ease.

Thats exactly how the question was written im guessing is was supposed to be 400mcg/kg/day micrograms to mg would make ALOT more sense.

Thats the way i worked it but 32800 mg seemed way to large of a number thats almost half body weight in meds