UHRN2004

Mahalo for your help! I am so thankful for this website, especially since no one comes to the nursing senior students to give them advice like this website has done. Mahalo again, UHRN2004

Thanks so much for all this information!! I am graduating Dec. 2004 with BSN, and wanted to know the best way to study, and you have answered so many of my questions!! I did want to know though, did you take the Kaplan online course, or did you take the course offered "in-person" lectures?? I know that I want to take the NCLEX sometime in feb. 2005, I want to study and prepare myself well. Any advice on what field of nursing a new grad should look into?? there are many programs in Hawaii, but I don't know if I should start out in med-surg or just go right into the specialty areas. any help would be great.

thanks indynurse#2, i hear different things about med/surg, some say it's horrible and they don't remember anything, and others like yourself say it's great experience. i honestly am very confused at this point!! here in hawaii, the majority of jobs available for new grads is the night shift as you have described it, and this is a very difficult shift to get used to. another option i have been looking at is going into public health nursing, the pay is about the same, great hours 8-430pm, state holidays off, benefits galore!! they only hire bsn grads so demand is high. only drawback is the safety part, depending on which neighborhood you are assigned to, and also the paperwork is crazy!! i am working there now as my last rotation before graduating, and love the clients because it's mostly children!! i am confused because there are so many options out there, and i don't want to commit to a job or contract if i am not totally sure of what i want. most of the new grad positions in the hospitals require signing on for minimum of 2 years. i found med/surg clinicals to be frustrating and i never enjoyed going to those clinicals, and know that is not the field i want to pursue, but if it's just to gain experience, that's another story. congratulations on your new job!! i hope to hear from you again, your advice was great, any more advice would be greatly appreciated. also any tips on how to study for nclex? did you take the kaplan and if so which one?? mahalo again, uhrn2004:p

thanks indynurse#2, i hear different things about med/surg, some say it's horrible and they don't remember anything, and others like yourself say it's great experience. i honestly am very confused at this point!! here in hawaii, the majority of jobs available for new grads is the night shift as you have described it, and this is a very difficult shift to get used to. another option i have been looking at is going into public health nursing, the pay is about the same, great hours 8-430pm, state holidays off, benefits galore!! they only hire bsn grads so demand is high. only drawback is the safety part, depending on which neighborhood you are assigned to, and also the paperwork is crazy!! i am working there now as my last rotation before graduating, and love the clients because it's mostly children!! i am confused because there are so many options out there, and i don't want to commit to a job or contract if i am not totally sure of what i want. most of the new grad positions in the hospitals require signing on for minimum of 2 years. i found med/surg clinicals to be frustrating and i never enjoyed going to those clinicals, and know that is not the field i want to pursue, but if it's just to gain experience, that's another story. congratulations on your new job!! i hope to hear from you again, your advice was great, any more advice would be greatly appreciated. also any tips on how to study for nclex? did you take the kaplan and if so which one?? mahalo again, uhrn2004:p

Thanks so much Smileyblueeyes & Fergus51, I need all the advice I can get. It gets overwhelming to choose which field since there are so many out there for RNs. If you have any more advice, please let me know!!! Aloha, UHRN2004

Hello, After reading your post I learned how important PP can be. I live in Hawaii, am graduating Dec 2004 with BSN. Some of classmates joke about the PP floor being too easy, and you don't learn anything, but I have to admit that the PP rotation was the greatest for me yet. In Hawaii, they have new grad programs in the L&D dept, but I am not sure about the PP dept. If you were a new grad again, would you apply to go straight into L&D, or go to PP to get experience; HONESTLY. Any help would be great. Mahalo, UHRN2004:chuckle

Hello:chuckle I will be graduating Dec 2004 with my BSN degree and was wondering if you could give me some tips for applying and how I could attend any orientation sessions?? I don't know exactly which field I want to go into yet, so any advice would help. Also, do you enjoy being a new nurse?? Thanks so much, hope to hear from you, UHRN2004:rolleyes:

Thanks so much for the advice & great link!! SOme people say that Kaplan helped them alot, and others say it didn't, but they don't say what did help them. Thanks I will definitely try this website after graduation!! I am so excited about being done with school, seven years is long enough!! UHRN2004

ALoha, Graduating in December, anyone have tips for NCLEX!! I also wanted to know if anyone has taken or is taking the Kaplan course. Is it worth it? Thanks to all, UHRN2004:p