Bekahlynn

i have a friend who works at a children's hospital, they rotate days and nights, with self-scheduling. she loves it. those shift diffs seem low to me. where i work, night shift diff is over $4 an hour, with 20% of your base for weekends. do what ...

just graduated in may, my check last week was a little over $1400 after taxes and insurance. thats for two weeks. it makes me happy

as a brand new grad in the midwest, I will make over 45K my first year. I am thrilled. I am 24, and that is more than enough money for me. Don't let this women bring you down. Best wishes to you!!!

always 1:1 for us as well. calculating the I/O's, readjusting the machine, (and trying to keep it running), changing the dialysate and replacement fluid bags, checking coags q2 and adjusting the citrate as needed, and doing everything else that i...

Our end of life protocol consists of orders for MS and ativan IVP PRN and MS and ativan gtts if needed, and Robinul for secretion management. Our food services provide a cart with cookies, tea and coffee for the family. We have nice handouts that w...

I am a brand new RN, graduated in may, passed NCLEX in june. I work in Indy, live pretty much right on the Marion county/Shelby county line. Graduated with my BSN from IUSON at Indianapolis. Good luck to all the nursing students. GRRR the Colts ...

President? :rotfl: just kidding. I too would love to go to culinary school and be a chef. Maybe a teacher (my older brother is one, and my little brother who just started college wants to be one).

Not from NC, but I have vacationed there 4 times, and my parents go every year, sometimes 2x a year. They/I have always stayed in Carolina/Kure Beach or the outer banks. I love the state. Mountains, forests, beaches, all within a few hours drive o...

At my hospital, they used to do the same thing, make GN's work as techs if they didn't pass the NCLEX on their first attempt. But now they are saying that one is still a GN, and needs to learn the nursing role. The hospital even pays for a remediatio...

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I am 11 weeks in to my orientation, with 4 to go. I go to nights, the shift I will be working, next week. I cannot believe how much I have learned in the last three months. Feels like more than what I learned in four years of nursing school combined...

ME TOO!! I was so pumped the other day to get one on a lady whose pressure was 70. (She was on levophed, and the drip rate kept going up,up,up) Weak, barely there radial pulse, and I did it (BTW, the lady was extubated, BP stabalized, transferre...

silly, but central line dressing changes. I love to see a spotless central line site, with a perfectly applied dressing with no wrinkles.

aside from the general charting/IV, etc classes during general RN orientation, I had to take a 2 day ortho/neuro class, a 3 day arrhythmia interpretation class (lead II), a 2 day respiratory class, a 2 day metabolic class, and a 3 day cardiac class. ...

At my school, we also had to take a multi-systems failure class our senior year. the clinical time was ICU and ER. They also offer an elective OR class with clinical time and an elective NICU class, without clinical time. If one was going to do ca...

Roland, if I remember from a previous post, you live in Indy. I just graduated a couple of months ago, and just took the NCLEX three weeks ago. I was hired and am now working in an ICU. I worked on this same unit for a year as a SNE. However, the h...

What is the problem with you watching her do something, especially if you have nothing else to do? I am assuming that the nurse tech position is specifically for nursing students. Why have the position at all if the students do not learn from it? If...

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I say do it. You will gain so much experience, plus get paid for it. You could work two twelves a week, and still have five days off. I am so glad that I worked as an extern for a year before I graduated. Sometimes I feel like I learned just as m...

My pet peeve about nursing school was being so busy that your family and friends (friends who were not in nursing school) would call you and say,"I just wanted to make sure you were still alive." :chuckle

I have noticed that as well. When I read a thread that has tons of negativity in the first post, most of the time I don't even want to read the rest. Just finished reading the one about new grads (being a new grad myself), but it had a point and wa...

I did. I am a new grad as well. The unit that I have worked on for the last year as a student is awesome, but for RN's, they only had 12 hour night shift available. So I took it, because I love the unit. I will have 10 weeks of orientation on day...

I just graduated, and have only worked in a hospital setting for the past year. Prior to that, while in school, I was a server. If you really need money, and are willing to work in a non-healthcare job for a while, this is an option. On a good shi...

I am happy for you. IUMC is a world-class facility, and a member of the first network to get magnet in the state. I just graduated, and two of my friends, who worked there as SNEs, are going to be working there med-surg. They ADORE it. Best of lu...

I didn't dream of becoming a nurse growing up. I was originally a nuclear medicine major. My older sister became ill with leukemia, and fought an amazing fight. She was the strongest, bravest person I will ever know. She always said that when she...