trooperwifey

Just curious... how big is your ER, where are you located, and what is your patient load assignment? I am located in the north east, a level 1 trauma center. We see about 350-400 pts a day. Our patient load is 4:1 nurses, mostly. In the higher ac...

You should be good on your skills, since they are not much different. I would say just the enviornment is probably going to be very different. I am not sure how busy your ED is, but when I was a PCT in my ED, it was also extremley busy and people e...

I also think that most tuition programs are for current employees, who already met requirements (PT, FT hours..etc). I have heard of RN loan forgivness though. It may depend on what state you are in. When I graduated from my program, my dean forwar...

I would personally get your RN license ASAP, then you can get a PA license. It would look better to an employer that you have an actual RN license number in hand, rather than trying to jump through hoops of getting the PA first. I am in a residency ...

That is awesome! I too, like others have been struggling to get weight off gained from nursing school.

I just wanted to reply, maybe it will help you. When I first read that question, I didn't read the answer right away. I too, picked A. defib the patient. Here is why I thought that. If you are in the ED, then you have the equipment, ready, right ...

So, I have been lurking this portion of the site everday since I scheduled my NCLEX. I just wanted to post that I took my exam today, 75 guestions and got the GOOD POP up! Yessssssss! I am super happy but will be even more estatic when I actually s...

I'm a total fan of Kaplan, honestly. The decision tree was helpful and the Qtrainers/Qbank were priceless for me. And your scores are great, you will do fine! Of my 75, I had about 20 SATA. I am terrible at SATA anyways, but *most* of them were ve...

Absoutley!! Good luck to you. I honestly felt like I was taking another qtrainer/qbank test. Kaplan's questions felt just a bit harder. Your on the right track by reviewing and learning from the rationales.! My last Qtrainer scores were: QT6: 66% GT...

I'm in the same boat as you. I take mine this week...., eek. I've just been studying Kaplan questions, and an ATI book that I like the way is formatted. QT 6 / 7 trainers are harder, and 7 took so long I still have a headache from it. I too, am fr...

I would take the job too. Any job is better than no job :) Plus, now that you will have 'experience' you can apply for PRN hospital jobs and get your foot in the door that way too.

These are hilarious but I am not suprised in the least! I have two that I would like to share. 1.) Triage is slamming to the point where all ambulance patients are lined up in the hallway. I finally get to a lady who came in via ambulance. Compla...

I finished my Kaplan class today, and am about 3 weeks out from taking my NCLEX!! Kaplan was very helpful and I scored a 60% on my readiness exam, which I guess is around a 90% of passing? I HAVE NOT studied a lot of content, which makes me nervous. ...

I graduated the first week of May 2011 I landed an internship new graduate position in the ED in April. My hospital (in DE) and many in the area have these internships offered twice a year.