SoulShine75

I'm in KY. New grads make between $18-19 base pay in the Western KY area, plus differentials which avereages to about $20-22 an hour.

Thank you. This post helped. I think it confused me because of the hourly thing. Plus, I'm learning everything in bits and pieces (precepting) as there isn't much time for her to really explain everything I'm doing, I'm just sort of doing what she te...

It was the RN.

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The thing is she told me to set the rate at 100, not 200. I don't get it.

I know I learned this in school, but when I was on the floor it confused me for some reason. I had a bag of Zosen that was 100ml and it said to infuse over 30 minutes so I set the pump to admin 100ml (RTBI) at a rate of 100. I understand the amt to b...

We have both and I think I'll attend both because I won't be going back to school for a looooooooooong time.

I graduate in December (14th) and was planning on waiting until afterward to study because I'm busy precepting etc. I will probably take the NCLEX in February, which gives me approximately 6 weeks to study. I was wondering how much time you gave your...

I'm glad to hear that you're a survivor. I need all the hope I can get to make it through. Did you happen to know what your stats were? Aidan is standard/low risk pre-B cell and is on an experimental study. Any info and advice about what you went thr...

Hello everyone. On December 14th I will attend our pinning ceremony and I can't wait. I'm so ready to be done with school and get on with life. Currently I am precepting and have 5 more shifts to go before that is over. I can't wait for that either. ...

i'm thankful for my son's remission,:balloons: my upcoming adn graduation, my new job on the general surg floor, most of all-my awesome family! :icon_hug: so...what are you thankful for?

Hey, do not put yourself down. Let me tell you a really stupid thing I did today....and keep in mind that I am about to graduate from an ADN program in 3 weeks.... I walk into my patients room to REMOVE HER CATHETER...she said she went to the potty a...

Hello everyone. I wanted to update. I am from Western KY and although a lot of new grads here are hired in specialty areas (OB, Nursery, Cardiac etc), those positions just aren't open. I got a job on a general surgery floor (med-surg basically). I'm ...

I graduate in December and am fast learning that there aren't any jobs available. I'm applying at a pretty big hospital and they only had 5 openings. I am interviewing with 3 of those on Monday and I can't say I'm overly thrilled about any of them. ...

Unfortunately it's too late for me to sign up for the Kaplan. Hopefully the Hurst is sufficient. I heard it was good...guess we'll see. :uhoh21:

You aren't alone. I geaduate in December and still ahve no clue. In the meantime I got a job on a general surg floor. It's hard work, but you learn SOOOO much. I don't think I'll regret it. Good luck to you.

5 more days of precepting and it's over! :balloons:

That's awesome! I'm so happy to hear you're a "survivor". It gives me hope. Aidan will still have to do 3 years of chemo because that is the protocol, but we know he will overcome this and live a long and happy life. My sister in law was just diagno...

Hi Don and thank you!!!! Have you had a similar expereince?

Hey everyone! I took my final exam on Halloween and passed. :balloons:It was one of the happiest days of my life! The next day was my last clinical day, which was another happy day and the day after that was the first day of my precepting...so a lot ...

Hey all! Our final exam is on Halloween and I cannot wait!!!! :w00t:We technically have 11 days left of class (including clinicals), and that is it! Within that time we have one more exam and a final, a few papers that need to be written and several...

Before I started, I thought that a lot was exaggerated...now I know they were telling the truth and I was living in fantasty land before. The only things I have noticed that was exagerated was sometimes talk about how nasty some of the instructors ...

Good luck...I graduate in December and am having a hard time even finding a job. I am pretty dissapointed...what's all this talk about a shortage? I don't buy it. p.s. I commend you for choosing oncology. My son has Leukemia and I was so impressed w...

thank you so much. I can't wait.

I got to sit in on a surgery and I saw an above the knee amputation. Can't say I was excited about it...it still kinda haunts me. Poor lady has no legs now. I think it was the actual "taking away" of the leg part that messed with me. It just isn't n...