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Hello all! I'm looking to move on from my Med-Surg job and need some advice on my resume. Here's what I have so far: Work Experience (Hospital Name) October 2016 - Present Provided Nursing care for adult and geriatric patients on a fast-paced Medical-Surgical unit. Preceptor to orient new hospital employees and senior Nursing students Selected as the unit Survey Ambassador for (Hospital Name)'s 2018 Workforce Engagement Survey Served as a member of the hospital's Evidence-Based Practice Committee Member of the hospital's first Evidence-Based Practice Fellowship class Involved in hospital research project with Evidence-Based Practice Fellowship Chosen as the unit CAUTI Champion to educate staff on new CAUTI prevention policies and procedures Proficient with Sunrise Clinical Manager for patient documentation Licensure and Certification New York State Registered Nurse - License Number - (license number here) July 2016 - Present American Heart Association - BLS May 2016 - Present Education (University Name) August 2012 - May 2016 Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Magna Cum Laude Grade Point Average - 3.628 Honors/Achievements Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing - Member May 2016 - Present (University Name) Dean's List 2012 - 2014, 2016 Should I add anything else? Skills? Any other experience? I feel that my resume is too short. Any advice that anyone can offer would be great. Thank you!

I've actually done a few day shifts on my floor when staffing allowed me to. The day shifts I worked weren't overly hectic in my eyes and I was able to handle it all. I also oriented for 6 weeks on the day shift before I went to nights off of orientation. The day shifts I oriented were busy, yes, but nothing horrible! I'm sure some days will be very, very busy, but I've also had nights like that as well. I guess once I get used to the pace, it'll all fall into place. Thank you for your comment!

Hello all! So, I've been working as a nurse for almost a year on night shift now. I started my job in September 2016. I work on a medicine floor the 7p-7a shift. Nights have been hard for me (sleep schedule wise, diet, emotional and physical health, etc.) so I asked a few months ago to be placed on the list of being interested in a day position when one opens up. I thought it would take much longer than it actually did. Well, it seems that the time is coming, as someone is leaving the day shift, and I was told by one of the Assistant Nurse Managers on my unit that, if I am still interested, I can move to the day shift in the beginning of August. I told them that yes, I am still interested, so I will soon be a day shift nurse! I am excited to get back on a normal schedule, but also extremely nervous about keeping up with the pace of day shift (fingersticks, family, doctors, changes in plans of care, etc.) and wondering if I can handle it all! I am still a fairly new nurse and obviously still have lots to learn. I feel that I've been able to manage my time well on nights. I just wonder how I would fair on day shift. Any advice you all can offer about transitioning from nights to days?

Thank you all for your comments. This is my first nursing job. I am a new grad. For sleeping, I have blackout curtains and an eye mask that I use to sleep. When I wake up, I feel all thrown off. I don't feel hungry, but I force myself to eat what I can. As far as eating, before I go to work, I eat whatever is for dinner, which is usually food packed with protein. When I get a break at work, I have a sandwich, fruit, and a protein bar usually. I notice, though, a few hours later, I starving again. When I get home, I have breakfast and go to bed. If I have work that night, I find myself only able to get 4-5 hours of sleep. On my nights off, I can sleep fine, and I stick to the night schedule as best I can, but it takes a toll on my emotional health. I hardly get to spend time with my family and I miss them a lot. I hope I can last a year in this. It's already so hard and I just began.

I'm a new grad who just started working nights (7-7) and I am not adjusting well at all. I feel sick all the time. I can't eat. I feel shaky all the time. No matter how much I sleep, I feel exhausted. I keep crying over the smallest things. I'm physically and emotionally exhausted. I just started this job and my body can't handle it. I feel like asking if there's a way I could be moved to the day shift, but I'd probably be at the bottom of the totem pole because I'm brand new. I don't know how long I can last in this job feeling like this. And it's not like I can just leave and move somewhere else, I have no experience. Can someone guide me in what to do? Because this is killing me.

I've been licensed since July 2016 and have applied to almost 100 positions since the day I found out I passed. I've been on interview after interview and everyone has said no. Almost everyone I graduated with in my program has been hired right off the bat at all of the same hospitals I'm applying to and have interviewed at. I seriously don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have an answer for each interview question I'm asked. I'm professional and polite during the interview. I send thank you notes after the interviews, both e-mail and handwritten. With all of this, I'm still unemployed. I'm getting really frustrated and angry at this point. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. I can't move out of state because I have no money to do so. I really don't know what to do anymore.

Adelphi does, yes. I believe Molloy College does as well!

The main thing about UWorld is to read the rationales for every question and not worry about the percentages too much. My overall percentage of correct answers on UWorld was 55%. I felt reading the rationales for questions I got wrong and for the ones I got right really helped me. I used UWorld and took my NCLEX today. I was able to answer some questions because of the rationales on UWorld. As long as you can understand the questions and the concepts needed to answer the questions, you're gonna do great! If you really, truly feel that you are unprepared, delay the exam. Like I said, I took my NCLEX today and to be honest, I don't think anyone walked into that exam feeling 100% confident. You can't know everything, but if you practiced questions and reviewed, reviewed, reviewed, you're gonna do fantastic! :)

Hello all! Well, it's crunch time for me. Got my ATT yesterday and scheduled my NCLEX for July 19th (the next nearest day available, sadly). There are so many resources available and it all seems overwhelming. Any tips on what to do or what to use to study? I am currently doing Virtual ATI, but I don't feel that it's helping me much. I'm considering signing up for UWorld since I hear amazing things about it. I just did a demo of UWorld and was so shocked by how great the questions and rationales are! I also have a Saunders book and a Lippincott book. I have also signed up for a NCLEX course starting next week called Ready to Pass, which I hear is also fantastic. So, any tips for me as I count down the days until July 19th?

For my lab, the week before we were going to cover respiratory, my lab instructor told us to wear a tank-top underneath our scrubs because we would remove our scrub tops to listen to lung sounds. There were only 6 of us in the lab (7 if you count the professor) and we were all women. I'm sure if you tell your professor you're uncomfortable with it, they can make an exception. A student should never feel uncomfortable in a learning situation. As long as you're grasping the concepts, they should be fine with it. :)

I understand that it is difficult to place students in hospitals. And I'm sorry if my post seems like I'm complaining. I'm very happy to be in my final semester of nursing school after this long and treacherous journey. I'm just frustrated that my school promised each us that we would be placed to hospitals close to where we live. It seems that everyone I've spoken to in my class today were place in hospitals right near their homes, but for me, that was not the case. I really don't know what happened there. I know it can not be changed, and I made this original post in the midst of my hysteria. Maybe I should have thought it through a little more and I apologize. In any case, I will make the best of it. I don't know who my preceptor is yet or even what unit I will be on, but it may be the best clinical experience I've had yet and that's what I have to keep thinking about.

Today, I got the e-mail I've been waiting all of nursing school to get: My Capstone placement. I was so excited to see where I was placed. That excitement turned to pure hysteria when I saw I was placed at a hospital that I was not expecting. My school places us in our Capstone clinicals based on where we live. So, I was expecting to be placed in one of the 5-6 hospitals no more than 10-20 minutes from my home. Instead, I was placed at a hospital that is almost 40 minutes away (who knows how much longer with traffic) in an area that is not all that safe. A fellow classmate of mine that lives only a few blocks away from me, was placed at a hospital just 10 minutes away. I'm extremely confused on how we got placed in very different places. It seems that everyone in my class is getting assigned to these amazing locations and I'm stuck in a horrible place. Sadly, after e-mailing back and forth with my school's clinical office and getting the same general response, it doesn't look like my placement can be changed. Can anyone give me any advice on how to handle this situation? I'm just very upset at this whole thing and don't know what to do...

I was in your shoes just last year. All throughout my pre-req classes I was so excited to get started. However, I felt different once I started. I remember two weeks into the semester I wanted to quit because I was nervous about failing and whether I would actually like it and do well. I couldn't sleep or eat because I didn't want to disappoint anyone since I had already gone through 2 years of college. I decided to give it the semester and then I'd make my decision. When I went to my first clinical, I knew nursing was exactly where I was supposed to be. :) I'll be graduating in May with my BSN! I felt anxiety when learning all the material too. With textbooks, don't read everything word for word, because you won't retain anything. What I do is go over my notes over and over skim the textbook if needed. Just study a little bit everyday. Electrolytes are tricky to get the hang of. Believe me, I still struggle with them a little, but I promise it will click one day. With your anxiety, I would suggest maybe getting some anti-anxiety meds. That may help you with your symptoms! I hope my answer helps!

I know how you feel. Those nursing textbooks are sooo expensive! I went through the same thing last year and funny thing was that I hardly even needed to open the books! I maybe opened them 4-5 times just to get clarification on a topic, but other than that I never used them. Same goes for access codes, unless they said you REALLY need them. Some of my professors would tell us that we wouldn't even need the book when we got to class, so it helped me save some money. I would see if you could talk to people who have had the professors you'll be having and see if they relied heavily on the textbooks for studying. If the editions you need haven't been updated from those that the past students have used, maybe they'll be willing to sell to you for a lower price! Best of luck in school! :)

Nursing school is very time consuming of course. With all the schoolwork, studying, clinicals, and (if you work) on top of it, it can take a big chunk of your life away that you would normally spend relaxing or with friends and family. However, I've found it pretty simple to have somewhat of a "life." I see my non-nursing friends the same amount I saw them when I was just a pre-nursing student (which wasn't every weekend, but a few times a month). It's all about time management skills. Plan out your days, GET A PLANNER, write everything that's due, when there's a test/quiz, and any personal things (appointments, weddings, birthday parties, etc.) in there too. You can get everything done early on and have enough time to enjoy yourself!