RW23RN BSN, RN

I'm in the AGAC/FNP dual program, started Fall 2020. If you don't get any bites here, there are some active FB groups you can search for by the school name. Good luck!

I emailed the help desk yesterday to see if they could give me my jagmail and they said there was no info on my account yet like it hadn’t been set up. ?

Yay-hopefully that means the rest of us will get them soon!

I had one through work, but you can go to any of the Request a Test or direct to consumer labs and order one. That’s what I did with varicella titer.

You might be right about that, and maybe I’m just a random outlier..but kudos to y’all for getting your apps in early and having great GPAs. I was worried about mine not being good enough but that was well over a decade ago for nursing and two decade...

OP- I’m so sorry you are in this boat. You are entering nursing at a very strange time! Today I’m starting a new job at a new hospital (like my 10th new nursing job in my career!) and interestingly, what I see is everyone is anxious, confused, frustr...

I missed the email last Thursday because I wasn’t expecting it this soon! Saw it Friday-I applied for the Dual Role FNP/AGAC for Fall. I know several that are in or have gone thru the dual or adult programs. I keep hearing if you follow the directio...

Depends on the hospital you are working in-if it is a large or small ICU. Don't be scared-just absorb what you can and ask lots of questions. The nice thing about ICU is that you have 2-3 patients usually so you know much more about the history and c...

Interesting-I'm thinking of leaving bedside (ICU) and agency work (ICU, MS, LTC) and getting into Case Management but I have been worried that I wouldn't be qualified. (5 years as RN, with BSN). Maybe I need to move where you are!

I don't know that its a right or not. But I can get used to the concept. I think done correctly it would lower hospital admissions for chronic diseases. However, I'm not sure we've gone about it correctly. We probably should have spent a few years bu...

Just be aware, before facilities go improving ratios in favor of long term cost savings, they will pass the buck to the nursing staff. Hopefully none of us lose our jobs when patients don't get turned/groomed/walked and have negative consequences. Do...

That happens too. My point is, it doesn't matter if you're a good worker or not, still an employee or not. Bad references happen to good nurses and you just have to have some back ups and roll with it. If you have reason to believe an employer has gi...

I did the same thing, on a telemetry unit. The only thing I would add is to take advantage of their extern program. I externed in the ER there and an ICU, very helpful in choosing what I wanted to do out of school. Float when they ask you to float, l...

This happened to me today actually! I have been awaiting reference checks for a new job, I got a call today saying they needed another professional reference because I had a negative one from a previous manager. What was so terrible that I'd gotten a...

Oh, also you can thank the computerized EHR for that. On my initial patient screen all your info pops up-regligion, allergies, insurance-and sometimes a nice scanned photo of your insurance card. Its not that everyone on medicaid gets a free ride, it...

So I've been do some agency work at some smaller outlying hospitals in my area. I've been working a couple of them long enough to recognize the frequent flyers which generally consist of nursing home patients that ping pong between the facility and t...

Agreed. But I am so sick of writing incident reports. The wheel fell off a bed with a patient in it yesterday, scared the both of us to death when it crashed to the floor but fortunately that's all-no injuries. When I called my supervisor immediately...

I don't have the expectation when I'm out shopping or anywhere else that I frequent that I am always right. I recognize that I should have a certain level of expectation but that people have off days, things happen beyond their control and that somet...

My Ex used to work in the ER downtown...oh the stories!!! I could never figure out why this particular hospital's policy was to give homeless guys with headaches 3 times a week a bed overnight, 2 meals, and a "to go basket" with toiletries and SCOPE!...

I've been talking about traveling for awhile and recently started researching different agencies and such. When I started talking to my husband, who works as an ER Tech/EMT, about traveling, he was excited and said he was all for it. He's tired of h...

I agree. I quit that job for that very reason. I went to my manager and told her I didn't feel safe with those ratios, I didn't think it was good that more than half my shift was new grads or less than 1 year experience that can't help me with my SLE...

Sometimes when we have been on the job awhile, we get a little bit lackadaisical about policies and standards. There are times that I run into an insolation patients room quickly to stop a pump without gown and gloves, and I shouldn't. Although I hav...

Interesting debate. I had the same problems with Cerner-maybe the bolus should be a seperate PRN order so we can chart them appropriately. At my new hospital, all of our patients on narcotic drips have PCA pumps, if they are on a vent and sedated (us...

We have NP's that work with the hospitalists. I wish Oklahoma would give NP's more latitude, because it seems like they run back to the hospitalist on anything and everything. But sometimes I can win over the NP who the doc will listen to and get wha...

Don't be too discouraged. I started in the ICU as a new grad-its a whole different ball game. Fortunately I had a preceptor that liked to teach. I kept a notebook in my pocket and scribbled questions or unfamiliar terms then looked them up when I had...