k_worRN

Honestly, I know from working in the ED the last few years, some of the people who look best on paper are not offered jobs in the ED. I don't know exactly what they look for in ED nurses, but I don't think it's always the obvious. Keep your mind open. I never expected to be an ED or Trauma nurse, but LOVE it. I have a friend who wanted ED and ended up in the MICU and loves it.

I work in an emergency department. It's very large, it's a level 1 Trauma Center, burn center, stroke center, etc. I work night shift, and usually keep my shifts together so that I can live a normal life on my off days. However, after 3 night shifts this last week that were particularly stressful im having trouble getting back to real life. With just extra critically ill patients, drug overdoses, traumas, mixed with everything else and I was in charge my last shift.... I can't switch out of ED nurse mode... For instance, I'm a normally very talkative person, I can gab with anybody, especially other moms I know, moms I've spent bleacher time with. But last night at an end of season banquet for my high schooler's sport I just couldn't.... couldn't make the small talk, couldn't even really just chat. I had come home from a brutal shift, slept 6 hrs and gotten up to go to the banquet... I don't know if the lack of extra downtime made it worse, but It was a super odd feeling, and I've never had a time I couldn't just talk to people. Is this something other people have gone through before? This hangup , for lack of a better description, between nurse life and "regular" life?

So it did let you reregister for the NCLEX or it didn't? I would try again, you're supposed to wait at least an hour... but if it lets you reregister then I'd be surprised if you passed... I am sorry :-( , but the Pearson Vue trick was 100% accurate with my graduating class a couple years ago. Plus I've heard of numerous other people in other states and it always worked... for the people who passed and failed. Everyone who passed got the popup that wouldn't let them reregister. Good luck.

And a girl I graduated with got a RN job at Children's without being enrolled in RN-BSN, but she already worked there as a PCA.

I just graduated with my ADN, just took my NCLEX and was hired at OSU pending my NCLEX - I start the beginning of next month. So... but honestly it's who you know, if you work there, and what kind of worker you are. But to say that OSU completely doesn't hire ADNs is not true. The DON encourages hiring of BSNs and word is that Ross and James won't hire an ADN that isn't already accepted to a RN to BSN program.... but it is possible. I had to verbally commit to getting my BSN in the next 5 years.