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It may have been my old unit, but the culture I remember from almost a year ago has changed quite a bit, which is why I was shocked to see this happening. To see inexperienced people over a unit of even more inexperienced people (new grads) on a telemetry floor is straight frightening to me. This is a floor where codes happen on the regular.

Wow just scrolled down and saw someone else posted the same issue. Sorry about the repetitive post.

I visited my old job yesterday, and I was shocked to find how many new grads are working as charge nurse, supervisor etc over a busy cardiac floor!! I always thought that experienced nurses would be in charge over a floor like that. I was thinking of picking up occasional days at this hospital, but now that I see the trend of putting new nurses in charge, I'm reconsidering this. Why would a hospital do this?

A coworker of mine has an issue and I wanted to put it out there to get your opinions. One of her patients was found on the floor by another nurse and cardiac rehab. I don't think they witnessed the fall but they found the patient on the floor. My coworker was the patients nurse. Who would fill out the incident report? The assigned nurse or the staff that actually found the patient on the floor? Please respond!!

Poor management. If management sucks, everything sucks. For real.

I worked on the telemetry floor at a hospital for 4 months as a graduate RN and quit. I was sick of the cut throat nurses (only a few I could trust) the unreal workload and the long hours. I graduated last december and I am at my 3rd job at a surgical hospital doing preop and pacu and I'm hoping its my last move for a long time. Life is way too short to be miserable all the time. If your job aint cutting it, make that move.

Hi, I don't know of any companies, but I'd love to learn more about what you do. Would you mind sharing?

Its true, I've worked with some students from southern and they confirmed that SU Nursing program in on probation.

You sound just like me. Im always wiped out, I've lost weight, my house looks like a hurricane hit it, etc, etc. I'm still trying to adjust to the 12+ hours.

Liz, you don't even know me, so MAYBE you need to think before you type, how about that?? To everybody else who posted with intelligence and forethought, thanks so much for the input. I probably do need to work in a clinic or somewhere where the hours are doable.

I sure its not always greener, but you wont know for sure unless you step over to see if it is in fact greener. Im a single parent whose child is also suffering because I can't get home at a decent hour to help him with homework and spend time with him. Im willing to make that step for him. Thanks for the insight.

I'm well aware its a 24 hour job but I'm not a freaking robot, either. Nurses need to eat sleep and rest just like everybody else. I can't be allowed this then I need to move on, which is what I intend to do.

I'm a new grad and I've been working where I am for almost a year. I work 7-7 days. One of my main reasons I'm throwing in the towel on this job is be because of the 6:00 admits, ER, or some other department wanting to call report and transfer patients in the same hour that we have to give report to the night nurse. The floor I work on is already a zoo, and by the end of the day I AM DOG TIRED AND READY TO GO HOME. I get sooo pissed off, this is driving me insane. Im spending my days off looking for another job. Many a nights I don't get home till 9 pm because of this crap. I can't understand why they wait till after 6:00 pm. Am I missing something here?

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I found out Saturday morning at work that I passed!!!! They are pretty quick putting up the results, I didnt think Id get results till today.

But I took my nclex today and it shut off at 75. I'm hoping and praying I passed this exam. It wasnt easy IMO, but it didn't have a lot of select all that apply and put in this order question. No dosage calculations questions at all.

Hurst Review is the only one i know of. I think I'm going to get the video because the Hurst review in lafayette is one the same day as my graduation

Thank you. Everyone is at a loss right now because it seems that studying for this instructor's exam is wasted time.

And the majority of the student scores were in the lower 70s, upper 60s. To pass an exam at our school, you must make a 80%. Even some of the students with stellar grades failed. We all studied faithfully, nobody slacked on this test because we had heard the horror stories and made sure we knew the content inside and out. The OB instructor at our school, (and some of you may know what school I'm talking about) is notorious for failing seniors. The same thing has been happening semester after semester. I would like to take action, but before I do anything I would like some questions answered. 1. What are the usual procedures ( I know it may vary from school to school, but I just want to get an idea) for requesting a retake of an exam? or have an exam thrown out? if there are any students who had to do this please pm me. 2. Is it possible to take legal action against a school that refuses to investigate the reason why semester after semester, in some cases entire classes failing exams and failing the same course. All the questions on this test were critical thinking questions but even the instructor admitted that her questions were considerably harder than the NCLEX. We had math tutoring for her math problems, and even the tutor, who is also an instructor could not answer her math problems. The OB instructor refuses to review her math problems with us. Please contact me via pm if necessary, if you have any input.

I already have a job and have been interning there since june. There's a few nurses there I can't stand, and I know I'm probably going to be miserable when I start working there after graduation. I signed a contract and probably will buy myself out of it as soon as I can.

Amen. Shouldn't it be against the law to give a nurse 9 patients? Thats like asking for medical errors and a lawsuit.

I had no prior experience either. The downside IMO is that when you have no previous experience, you tend to be more nervous and anxious than those who worked as nurse assistants, techs, etc. I think the best thing to do is to work as a tech or intern as soon as you can.

Our clinicals are pass or fail. No letter grade.

I'm sure its doable, especially if you are straight out of hs with no responsibilities but its still makes keeping up more difficult. The poster has a choice to take it with her nursing classes or before. But I personally wouldn't want to take it together, even if I didn't have to work.

My opinion, make it easier on your self and finish the pre reqs first. Nursing class and clinicals are difficult as it is. I finished ALL prereqs before I even applied because I didn't want to be miserable trying to keep up with extra classes. You have to remember to that with clinicals, you will be in the hospital the majority of the days you go and afterwards you will have to do your paper work like concept maps, drug sheets, lab sheets etc etc. Then you got class which the odds are you will have a huge amount of material to read and study for tests. You will have check offs and will need to set aside time to practice in the skills lab. Any research papers that they may request, you'll have to do that. And if you work, that's more time that's NOT available to concentrate on that other class. I say do yourself a huge favor, finish a&p and micro first.