JustaNrsgStudent

As of October 2010 19$/hr

A Carilion HR representative came and talked to us at our school and she told us that they start their new RN grads at $19/hr. That was in October 2010, of course she explained that after a while you get a raise (lol). Best of luck!

I had clinical Saturday on Mother/Baby postpartum and I was in the nursery for most of the day. I overheard a resident talking to her attending about how she was more comfortable in the hospital setting, but in the clinic she couldn't get patients to...

Hmmm first real paycheck...Well of course I'm going to treat myself to a massage and definitely a pedicure! Then I have to get some bills paid. OH! and I'll be in a new apartment with no furniture...so I'll be looking at some furniture stores hopeful...

I think I am better at clinical, by far. And I love clinical! But when it comes to the tests...I'm horrible. I'm almost done with my second semester and am treading water to just pass. I study my butt off, and always try to do well in the semester so...

Maybe I'm young and naive, and I know I have no experience in healthcare (other than clinical), but I just think that's incredibly sad that all these people (nurses and doctors) who supposedly care about people and want to help let CEOs and insurance...

This was actually said by a medical student resident and an attending physician.

Stop whining!!!!!!!!!! I just got out of clinical today and had to come home and post on this thread. The whole way home (I carpool with 3 other girls, since our hospital is 45 minutes away) all they talked about was how our clinical instructor is to...

LOL, you're definitely not the only one. I started nursing school in September as well, and I was doing pretty good last semester to make it to the gym 3-4 times a week....however I have yet to go to the gym probably since last semester. I have gaine...

Okay so like a lot of people I seriously struggle with the exams. I study for days before hand and doesn't seem to pay off. I'm passing the exams, but just barely. All my friends who have already been through nursing school say that eventually I will...

Thanks all! I'll definitely look into NCLEX books, I have one so I'll start trying that :) RN2BDFW thanks I'm going to try that highlighting trick, sounds helpful! Courtney I do a lot of that now but I am definitely going to look into that Test Succe...

On my resume I have a section for Clinicals. I put the hospital it was it, the time I was there and what uniti I was on. Even though your school is in PA and your going to Texas I would still put the names..they may call the hospitals to verify infor...

1. To all you already medically trained individuals in my class...when I ask the professor a question, I am not asking YOU a question. I know you know everything and get all A's on your exams and blady-blady-blahhhh BUT I am paying the professor to t...

At my school your first two years were all gen-ed courses. This included basic math & english classes to microbiology to chemistry to a&p to pathophysiology. Honestly it's best to get as much out of the way while you can, if you can go ahead ...

In my program we only had a medical calculations 1st and 2nd semester. You had to get an 85% by the 2nd attempt or you were out of the program.

so i'm in my 2nd semester of nursing and love it! but i've come to realize there are going to be really amazing days and really bad days, i just wanted share with fellow nursing students a helpful experience. so friday was a horrrrrible day for me, i...

I would at least wait until the end of the semester to decide that. Last semester was my first as well and I had a few moments like that, but then you do something right or you answer a question or something just finally makes sense and you realize t...

I would say AP is about equivalent to most of the nursing classes. Some classes will actually be easier and then again some will be much harder. A lot nursing classes are just busy work, I'll spend weekends just catching up on clinical write-ups, sim...

For pharmacology you're going to want a copy of "Pharmacology Made Insanely Easy, it's only $30 online but it is WORTH IT! My nursing class was required to go to the VSNA conference this year and there was a workshop on pharmacology...things that i h...