camiluvsNURSING

Hello and Congrats! I was just accepted today, when do you start? I start April 10th.

Hello, I just got my acceptance for the April 10 start date this AM. Have you applied or are you still researching schools?

We had alot of overdoses, CPR, one MI, handful of suicide attempts. The rest INFLUENZA!!!

The Dr. that had that pt was fairly new to our hospital. He over reacts alot, the pt questioned him several times as to why he did that. What didn't sit well with me is my preceptor went to talk to the Dr. trying to save face and told him "I want to apologize for the new nurse i'm working with." As if i did something wrong, if that pt was that critical it should have been caught during triage!

You may be right, his secret lover (seriously) got fired a couple of weeks ago because it took her 4 hours to do a EKG and every since all he talks about is making sure you cover yourself...trust no one. Then he told me by next year he is leaving before they fire him. Sometimes it's just too much, he worries about keeping a job more than he precepts!

I have a question, this happened on my last shift. I am a new nurse and this is my 4th week in the Emergency. I have had a full load since i started. My preceptor will go help in the Trauma rooms when an ambulance comes in or help the female nurses he has a crush on and usually i'm by myself. A pt comes in through triage with numbness/tingling in his right hand has a hx of a TIA a month ago, no c/o pain and the triage nurse brings him to the room. I hook him up to the cardiac monitor, do a NIH stroke scale and swallow screen (no signs of a stroke and he passed the swallow screen) and do an EKG. I walk the EKG to the Dr.'s ask which one has this pt one of them took the EKG (which showed a 1st degree AV block) and signed it and gave it back to me. The Dr. (another Dr. not the one that signed the EKG) took an hour to come assess the pt. Then he calls a code stroke and i get questioned about the pt by my preceptor because he hasn't been around and he didn't know anything. He says i should have made the Dr. come sooner. He then says you better be glad the pt did not have a stroke (it was another TIA) or you would have been in trouble. Was i at fault? If so, how?

New grad with 3mths LTC exp starting ER next week :) in Dallas, TX at a big medical center. $23.50/hr + $3.00/hr nite shift diff and $4.oo/ hr w/e. They give $1.00 more for your base pay every 6 mths up to 18 mths.

Thanks for the info, Congrats again!

@Hardline- YAY!!!! Excellent, may i ask how did you study?

SATA= Select All That Apply

Thanks bornleader

I just want to know is anyone else's report was similar to mine. I took the NCLEX on 4/1/11 and i failed, so i got my report a couple of days ago it showed that i was "Above" or "Near" passing in all sections. WTH, i swear that made me failing even worse. That's like needing a "80" and getting a "78"!!! So i wanted to know has this happened to anyone else and what did they do differently the second time. -Thanks in advance Caminurse

I did too, i took the assessment over today (Saunders) and created my study calendar. I truly believe content was what i was lacking on. God Bless to everyone!

I know how you feel i'm in the same boat. I took mine last Friday, i had 265 questions and a ton of SATA, infection control, a bunch of med calc and priority. I did the Kaplan, i think i'm goin to geet my money back and do Ready to Pass, or Davis.

Thanks for that follow-up and Congrats WunMsJay:up: I take the NCLEX in the morning.