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This became a "thing" at the hospital where I had my guest nursing job back in 2011. I worked on a busy ortho floor. Fortunately, I left shortly after. But I remember thinking it was absolutely ridiculous.

Thank you for your reply! I have quite a few friends from Chicago and a sister who lives in the area, but I am hesitant to use their address as I think it would get tricky when I need to arrange interviews because I would need to fly and then I would...

Hi all! I am a BSN prepared nurse with 3+ years experience (one year ortho, two years gen med/surg). I currently live and work in Minnesota at a very well known medical center. I am interested in moving back to Chicago (originally from suburbs), and ...

You guys are going to love Summer III! I was a Summer III in 2010, came back to work at Mayo as an RN and am now a clinical coach. Maybe I'll be working with some of you this summer. We are excited for you to get here!

Hello! As another poster mentioned, if you have good time management skills, you will easily be able to maintain a social life while in nursing school. I graduated in 2011 magna cum laude, and all four years of nursing school I worked 20-24 hours/wee...

I adopted a seven week old lab mix puppy my senior year of nursing school. Looking back, I realize that if was probably not the best decision for her sake since I was very busy with school and I also worked 16 to 20 hrs per week. I was fortunate to h...

I have not heard of any floors that utilize travel or agency nurses at Mayo Rochester. None of the ones I have worked on at least...they might on the closed units such as OB but I'm not sure.

1. Minnesota 2. 2.5 years experience 3. Med/Surg, large hospital 4. $32 base pay, $1.90 eve diff, unsure of night shift. $2.00 weekend diff 5. No OP.. I have to agree with your user name :)

Sounds good.

I moved out of IL almost a year ago, but was making a little over $22/hr working on a surgical floor in a hospital in central IL. So your rate of pay sounds about right for a new grad.

I am not a new grad (one year experience), but will be moving there at the end of August to start work Sept 10 at St. Mary's :). I'm moving from Illinois. I did the Summer III program at Mayo in summer 2010, so am somewhat familiar with the area. Se...

I work 3-11... water bottle (no coffee or I won't be able to sleep when I get home!), black and red pens, yellow highlighter, black sharpie, alcohol swabs, bandage scissors, and my chapstick.

I just started seeing a chiropractor this week for neck/back pain that has persisted despite pain pills, muscle relaxers, and heat/ice therapy. Hopefully chiropractic will work for me! As far as insurance goes, my insurance does not cover 1 cent of c...

I just graduated from nursing school in May, and now have students assigned to me. It is very different from the other side of the fence, being the nurse instead of the student. I am just off orientation, and still working on my time management, a...

Since I am not married and have no kids, but insurance is very affordable. It is about $120/month for health,vision, and dental, which I think is a very good deal. I still have to pay a small copay for office visits and for prescriptions, but it is...

My institution has this policy in place. Will not hire anybody that smokes, and if you were an employee when the policy was put in place and you still smoke, you pay a higher insurance premium. Going along with the thread about Baylor, my institut...

On my floor: Days 1:4-5, 1-2 aides, unit secretary Evenings: 1:5(6 on really busy days), 1-2 aides, no secretary Nights: 1:6, 1 aide I work evenings and it can get extremely busy if you have 5 totals (knees/hips).

You will definitely get orientation with a preceptor, mine is 8-10 weeks, more if needed. At least where I work, you are not expected to "hit the ground running". It is recognized that you just graduated and will not know everything, and may not kn...

I graduated nursing school in May (BSN) and have been working at my first job for about a month. I am working 3-11 on a post-surgical floor, and I got the job about 2 months before graduation. Pay is a little over $23/hour with shift differential.

I took NCLEX this morning, and had 11 SATA questions and one ordered response question. I finished with 75 questions and got the good pop up! In my opnion, the more SATA you get, the better you are doing :)

Hi! I just took NCLEX this morning and it was EXTREMELY similar to Kaplan questions. I found that Kaplan's strategy did not help me (I was already a confident test taker), but the QBank and question trainers were invaluable to my studying! My scores...

Hi! I am scheduled to take NCLEX on 6/20, but am feeling ready to take it sooner. I was wondering if I could view earlier available dates without losing my current appointment; that way if there turn out to not be any, I will still have my appointmen...

I graduated in May, and I had a job lined up in March. About 75% of my graduating class of 68 have jobs, most with connections (worked as techs there, had an internship, etc). I am from central IL. I know up by Chicago it is almost impossible to get...

Having just graduated with my BSN a few days ago, I can tell you that it does not get any better. However, as you move ahead in the program you will get a better feel for what "actually" has to be read vs.what can be skimmed/not read but will be cov...

I lived at Crossroads last summer.... The townhomes all have 3 floors. The bottom floor is the kitchen, living room, and half bath. The second and third floors each have 3 bedrooms and a full bath (there is a separate room for the shower and anothe...