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Thanks for the replies! I did end up taking the OR job... and I'll just keep my fingers crossed when I'm eligibile (after 1 year) to transfer horizontally in the organization...

Nccity, I definitely hear ya about the economy... I'm just worried that an ICU nurse manager would rather see that I've had experience in acute medicine than OR since at least medicine floor nurses have bedside skills... you know?

help! i just graduated from nursing school with a bsn on april 30, and unfortuantely i have been hitting some road blocks when trying to achieve my goal of working as an rn in an icu. a local hospital had an icu fellowship, but i never heard back from them, and it's been 2 months since my application was submitted. therefore, i decided to apply for jobs at another local hospital, a world class teaching hospital, but for positions that are not icu positions because this particular hospital doesn't hire new grads for the icus unless they have had prior icu experience as a tech. i have been interviewing for a cardiothoracic or position, but i'm concerned because i know that or nursing is night-and-day with bedside nursing. if i accept the or position, will it be even harder to get into the cardiothoracic icu because the type of nursing is so different? do you know anyone who has transferred directly from an or to an icu??? or should i try for another bedside nursing position (there's an acute medicine opening)??? or will it help me since i will be working in the cardiothoracic or with the cardiac surgeons, and therefore i'll be experienced in the cardiac area at least??? what should i do???

Hi there. I'm just curious as to what the shift differentials are exactly for BJH??? I'm going to be graduating in April, and I have no clue what to expect with this whole nursing salary thing!

I am in a BSN program, and I have taken 1 out of 3 exams in Pharmacology. Unfortunately, I simply didn't study enough for my first exam and I got an 84. In my school, a 94 is an A so even if I got a perfect score on the remaining 2 exams and the final and the other coursework, the best grade I could get for the course is an A-. After speaking with former students in the course, it is pretty much impossible to get perfect scores on the exams, so I'm thinking even with tons of hard work and some luck I could get a B+ but most likely it'll be a B. I've heard that CRNA programs are so competitive that getting anything lower than an A- in pharm will drastically hurt chances of admission. The school I'm going to currently only has 6 slots a year in their program. Should I withdraw from the course now before it's too late and retake it the next time it's offered so that I can be sure the same thing doesn't happen again? In other words, what do you guys think about how much the pharm grades influence CRNA admission? And do you think I should retake the class at a later date if it means I can get an A in the end??? Help!!! I don't want to waste my time and money now finishing out the semester if a B is going to kill any chance I have of getting in.