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65% is actually above average for the APEA predictor, the national average right now is 62%. My school incorporated the APEA review and the predictor exam apart of our last 2 clinical residency courses. To graduate from my program you must pass the predictor at above 70% which is total madness in my opinion. APEA is extremely difficult, we had to do 800 of their practice questions with is apart of the review. Every question will literally feel like the hardest question. There are a lot of trick questions, questions with all right answers but choose the best, questions with vague symptoms and is asking you treatment based of them. If your School never provided you with the APEA review you will like score 40s/50s and high 60s at best. I scored 75% on the predictor last week but that's just because I'm use to the vague weird questions. The pass rate for my whole class was only 33% those who fail twice will remediate the whole class. So basically be happy with 65% it's just a predictor anyway you score high and still fail the boards also.

Hey just so others can use this as reference I ended up settling 124k salaried 7on 7off Cme $500 yearly, 401k, health insurance, professional liability insurance paid for, physician parking.

Hey guys so I'm 4 months away from graduating from NP school. One of my good friends who is a Internal medicine Physician got me a position with her physician group where I'll be working with her as nocturnist NP at a huge 1000 bed teaching hospital. I'm super happy because my main goal was to be an Hospitalist and I get to do it right out of school working and reporting only to my friend which is great.The company offered 120K 7 on and 7 off I live on south Florida. I asked 2 veteran NPs what the starting salary was for NP Hospitalist and they told me 80k to 90k and 90 to 100k for nights. Someone else told me the salary for NP went up a lot over the past couple months so I don't even know if this is a great offer or not. Anyone have in insight as to the new grad Nocturnist salary in south Florida? The doc who got me the job said she doesn't handle the salary part so she can't help me with that. thanks in advance.

4 days a week 115k a year as a new grad!?!! most will say that's a good gig I mean Great gig

No there aren’t many reviews on here for the MSN tracks to be honest.

Hey guys will be starting MSN at WCU September 7 Adult-Gero Track, they said they will help with finding preceptors. basically they told me if I have a preceptor I want to use I can but If I can’t find a preceptor they will help me, is anyone here in their program? Who can shed some light on this?

Yes as a Jamaican nurse whose practicing in the states now, in my country the unit manager is called "sister" I personally never called them that though it came out too corney. And the matron controls all the nurses

I wish my floor was like that There's some nurses who come in and expect you to tell them a whole epistle when everything is literally in the computer.

Maybe orthopedics, it's a really nice gig, elective patients come do a knee or hip replacement and go home in 3 days. They called for ridiculous things but our calling system allows the secretary to filter the tedious request to the PCA's. Work 3 days or nights, for the most part orthopedics is a really good time, the patients aren't sick so no codes.

3 in a row is the best

Ortho nurse here, I work full time and per diem at 2 different hospitals. My per diem is mixture of trauma and electives, my full time are mostly elective cases. Both are tele too, patients mostly stay 4 days max then are gone. Basically as mention already alot of heavy lifting, alot of Q3 narcotics, alot of dressing changes, vacs, cpm etc. Lots of discharges and admissions. Pretty cool specialty overall.

You sound like a great nurse and a good person, but I have to agree with the above poster, you're in the wrong here, kinda left them no choice but to write you up in my honest opinion. Also a side note, is there really any harm in calling a code? If one is called and the patient happens to be fine just simple turn the code button off, and everybody carries on. In my experience I've only seen people get in trouble for not calling a code, never for calling one whether the patient was actually coding or not. Also who cares if the doctors are mad, there was a situation on my unit 2 weeks ago where a sepsis alert was callled, patient met all the criteria to call the code. Doctor came and was pissed we called the code she even tried to turn the code light off the charge nurse had to step in make sure the code was carried out. Guess what im trying to say is don't get mad at nurses who have a light trigger finger for calling codes.

Run..

Location: south florida Experience: under a 1y: BSN Specialty: Med-Surg orthopedics Facility: big teaching hospital Base pay: $26.91 Differentials: $2.50 weekends; $3.50 nights (I work nights) OT: >40 hours is time and a half Also work per diem at another hospital $35 Specialty: med-surg orthopedic also

I live 60 minutes away from my hospital, and 30 minutes away from my per diem job at another hospital, one is north and one is south, and I live in the middle, I know sounds crazy right? I drive to the train station 10 minutes away and enjoy my train ride, when I get to my stop, I take uber to the hospital which is literally 5mins away. For my per diem I do the same, I prefer the train rides cuz its it's cheaper for me and I can sleep, read, relax and enjoy the ride. It's funny, because im actually on the train right now coming from work as a type this.

He didn't recommend any book, he just said to show up to the class.

I'm pretty much in the same boat, I found a AHA guy that is willing to do it for $150 this friday, I need this to start my new job in 3 weeks.

Wow these salaries are amazing

I accepted an offer yesterday for ortho, ortho isn't new for me but this unit is 90 percent elective patients, I'm use to more trauma and acute ortho patients.

I would say the market is better now, this week only I had 4 interview scheduled, the first I did at JFK gave me an offer the next day, thursday Aventura and they me a verbal offer after the interview with a start date. I ended up choosing JFK because of the pay and a nice sign on bonus. Didn't bother doing the other interviews

Congrats

Maybe getting fired is the best thing for you, now take advantage of time and do some hard studying. Study all the categories 8 hours a day for 2 months and you will pass.

Never give up However I don't think luck factors in here, most who pass study and know their stuff not becuase of luck, that's unfair to say.

Uworld questions are longer, precise and more complex for the most part, NCLEX questions in my experience were shorter simpler written questions. If its the same UWorld I used last year with those lengthy rationales, then you can basically use it as your main source to study from. I personally used UWorld nclex mastery and lacharity PDA.

Yeah UWorld makes it seem like a joke