NotoriousK8

So I agree with both of these people. I felt like a new grad. I began my career on an ortho floor with med surg overflow. I worked there for a year then transferred to an adult (18-65) inpatient psych unit for two years. I wanted to be back in medical and I knew I didn't want to be back on the floor. Long story short, I've been in the ER for almost a year. I'm incredibly happy with my decision. I still have days that I feel like I have absolutely no idea what I am doing but I keep trucking. The team work is amazing. I've never experienced something like that before. As far as skills, my ER did a skills check off upon hire. It was scary because I felt like I didn't remember how to do anything, but the skills come back to you. Good luck!

Are you clicking it off on the EMR at the nurses station then pulling it after to go give it physically in the room?

Hey, I've used Cerner for about four years now. I'm a "super user"í ½í¸‚ I find center is easy to master and user friendly. You can use the bands to chart assessments, flag annotations, and write notes. Most facilities have requirements on what they want to to utilize more. In the ER we flag a ton of annotations but also use the bands to chart assessments. The cool thing about FirstNet is definitely the tracking board. It's organized and user friendly once you learn what things mean. Power chart is straight forward and just like FirstNet.

Waiting list with a 3.4? That's pretty much unheard of over here. I know a ton of our class had 3.1s. I got in with a 3.2.

Well this seems like an old post. I'll add this anyway. ULL nursing is hard as heck to say the least I started clinical in January and it has been one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life. We had about 140 applicants and they always accept 110 as long as your GPA is over a 2.8. The lowest that got in this year was about a 3.0 I think, which is pretty great compared to many other schools. ULL has one of the best programs in the nation. Our grading scale Is super high with a 77 being the lowest C and lowest passing grade. (D's=fails in our program) you are only allowed to fail one nursing class. After that, you aren't eligible to be in the program for like five years. The instructors Are pretty cool. They know their stuff and make sure you do too. We've already ha about ten or More people drop this semester. 208-fundamentals is the well known hardest class. Even non-nursing majors at ULL know what 208 is and sympathize for us. It'll be worth it though. We get so much experience. Good luck if you are in it!!!