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I received my nursing license June 19th! I was unable to get a job at the hospital I was employed during nursing school due to there was no openings for nurses in my department. I started working in a SNF and soon was offered a job as a DON in a assisted living home. I recently was offered a job at the hospital I was working at during nursing school. I don't know what I should do. I love both equally! I dreamed of working at the hospital all through nursing school. I also feel bad to leave my current job due to I have really amazing co-workers. I feel that I don't have all the necessary skills needed for my current job. I really feel that I need to work in the hospital to obtain the clinical skills. The position I now hold is a mon-fri 5-9 job. I am also on-call everyday. All I do is push paperwork in my current position and that really doesn't satisfy me, I love to get my hands dirty. I know if I work at the hospital I will be required to work every other weekend and the department I will be working in will mean I will be working any time between 8am and 11pm. If I go to the hospital I will be taking a pay cut as well. I'm I crazy for thinking of changing jobs? I feel so conflicted.

I passed!! My name is on my states BON!!! Thanks for everyone's input.

My state does participate. I just can get them till tomorrow. I think I am going to go crazy waiting.

I guess what I meant was I seen some post were it was saying that people who get 265 questions get the good pop-up and fail. I know its a trick and that it doesn't mean you passed 100%. I got the one pop-up stating "Our records indicate you are already scheduled for this exam. You can not schedule another at this time." I have tried multiple times and get the same pop-up. I am stressing big time.

I took the nclex-rn today and had all 265 questions. Does anyone pass at 265? I did the PVT and got the good pop-up. Just nervous I failed.

I am in my last semester of nursing school and I was wondering when should I start applying for jobs. I live in NC and we were told that the local hospitals aren't hiring many new grads, except I already work in one so I think I have a good chance of getting a job at the hospital I work at. Some of my instructors have said you should be looking now and some say wait. We finish in May and they said we won't be able to take the NCLEX until June.

Congrats! I wish my school let us practice on each other. The first time I actually got to start an IV was on an actual patient. I was successful. Lucky I got the chance because most people finish my program never actually starting an IV.

I have a hard time with getting very nervous when am about to stick people with needles. To the point that my hands start shaking badly and people ask me if am nervous. How to I stop this? I recently got a job at my local hospital and they will require that I draw blood. I want to do it with confidence and not look like a student. Any advice?

Do any of you find it hard to be super excited over an awesome test grade when most of your class failed? Am in my 3rd semester and in ob class. I find it very simple to understand and I find the test super easy compared to some the med-surg test I have taken. It seems that most of my class finds the test difficult. The last test we took I made an A on it and was super excited for that grade, till I learned that most of the class failed that very test. I feel like I shouldn't celebrate my success when others are failing out. We have taken 2 test so far and I currently have an A average.:) A lot of the people in my class have failed both test and are worried they are going to fail. So when people ask me how I did on a test I feel like I can't say I got an A in my super excited voice because that would be insensitive. I always just say I passed.

I am in my 3rd semester and I don't have any close friendships with any of my school mates. Like you I have lots of people who I can talk to but I don't get invited to join study sessions or anything else. I did have one girl I had become friends with but she had some personal problems and dropped last semester. The problem is that while its not really an issue most of the time, it is when we have to do something in a group or have a peer look over something. I find that once everyone kinda finds their clicks its hard to get in.

Well it turns out that not only would I have to miss the first day but I also would have to miss a clinical day. I refuse to do that and they can't do it another day. So looks like am going to have to pass on the job (even though it really sucks). Thanks everyone for your input. I have to believe that in the end everything happens for a reason. Hopefully when I finish in May I will be able to find a job.

I say were CNAs have it better is at first its just a review, but once you get through the first half of the first semester they start learning new things too. In the state where I lived they can also train CNAs to pass meds and do sub-q injections, that puts them ahead when it comes to learning medication administration. Also makes them less nervous when passing medications. I agree with what others have posted that CNAs seem to be more comfortable with patient care. I am about to start my 3rd semester and now everyone seems about the same. So at first they have a small advantage, but as the time goes by everyone evens out.

Also I really need the money! My family is not really getting by too well with just my husbands income. This part-time job will provide just enough that we don't have to worry about getting all our bills paid. Some people can go all through school without worrying about work but am just not one of them.

In my program they say you can miss 10% per each semester class, so am not really worried about that. I also am not really worried about getting behind. I had to miss class back in Feb due to a death in my family, and I actually did better on the test after than I did on all my other tests in that class. I could see if someone will up date me on stuff I missed, but am not sure who is in my class yet. They are splitting my class into 2 different classes and we will switch in mid October. I guess the thing that is bothering me is missing the first day. To be honest if it was any other class day then I wouldn't even worry about missing class. I just little nervous that I will miss something important. It was either miss the first day or a clinical day for my orientation. I would rather pick a class day anytime. I have to do the orientation it is the hospitals policy or I can't start.

I emailed my instructor for class and she said she didn't think I should miss class, but that I wouldn't get in any trouble or anything like that. I would choose school over any job. My only problem is that it is very hard to get a job at this hospital, I have been applying all summer since my classes ended in May. Also am nervous that if I call and say I can't do orientation that they will let me go and ruin any chance of future nursing job at this hospital.

I just received a job at my local hospital as a NA2. I was super excited about receiving it until I found out that I have to complete a full 2 days of orientation. In order to do this I am going to have to miss my first day of class (am going into my 3rd out of 4 semesters). I keep wondering is it worth missing this day? I had applied for the job at the beginning of July and thought if I received the job I would have plenty of time before school to get everything in order, but they just called and offered me the job yesterday. It is a very part-time position just 12 hours a week so I thought it would be perfect for school and help me get my foot in the door of the hospital. It is known that the hospital offers new RN jobs to their current NA staff that has completed school. Am so worried that I will miss super important info on the first day.

Coffee will be your friend. I worked nights for a couple of years and the first month was horrible. Try making sure you get a lot of sleep during the day and bring caffeine with you. It takes some adjusting but after I had worked it a couple of months it was easy to stay up all night. Also I bought black curtains for my room to keep the light out during the day.

I had to drive 45 minutes to go to my LTC facility and then over an hour drive to our mental health clinical. I had to be at both by 6:30am. That sucked!

I guess am one of those lucky people that care plans seem easy for me. I was given a care plan book which has helped, but I find that I barely use it. Of course my first one was difficult because it was new and it took me hours to do it, but once I got the hang of it, maybe takes me 45 minutes to complete 3. I look at my patient and why they are in the hospital and what needs to me taken care of and what they might be at risk for. The biggest thing is making a care plan for your individual patient, I find that this is where a lot of people mess up. We are given a very thick clinical pack to complete before clinical that can be time consuming if you have a very sick patient. I can usually have everything finished in about 1 1/2 hours.

I did some studying in fundamentals, but not nearly as much in farther courses. I will say that I have been a CNA for 6 years so a lot of fundamentals was like a refresher course at first. A lot of fundamentals is learning to do skills and why its important to do them in a certain way. I also found it quite easy to work 24 hours a week in fundamentals, but once I got past that and had to increase my studying I ended up quitting my job. Also in my program clinical in fundamentals was only one 6 hour clinical, but farther semesters I have had 12 hour clinical. In the third semester I will have 2 clinical days, plus a lab, then class 2 days a week. It doesn't leave a lot of time for work, kids, husband, etc.

They accepted 60 students for my ADN program, but only 56 started. We were down to 40 after our second semester, but there are 70 starting our third semester with people who failed and LPNs joining our class. Its the biggest class our program has ever had.

Well every college is different, but my first semester in my community college was not bad at all. The first day they scared the crap out of us by making us see how serious all the rules are. They explained all the ways you could be kicked out of the program or fail out. The first semester is just basics where you learn all your skills. Make sure you pay attention and truly learn all of them because you will need to know everything you learn for every semester from here out. I find as long as I take notes and do my reading things aren't as bad as some make them out to be. Don't stress if you don't make an A on every test or for every class. My classes first test in the first semester only 10 out of 54 students passed it. I was happy I passed it but there was a lot of freaked out students. You just have to learn how to take critical thinking test. Also I have kids and I try to do my studying when they are napping or go to bed at night. Sometimes I will find time while they are playing but I get interrupted a lot. Good luck on your journey!

I am in NC and my program doesn't use this book. I do know another girl who is in a different program and they use it. She never complained about her book. If you find that your book doesn't work for you there are tons of different resource material you can buy. I use my textbook and other resources to learn the material.

Am about to start my 3/4 semesters and I have seen Poo and Pee every clinical day, except the ones where I went to special observation sites. I find that my patient might not have a problem but I always seem to end up helping a fellow classmate, CNA, or nurse clean up another patient. Its something you need to be prepared for every single clinical.

In my program we have lab coats. We have to wear them when we wear our uniforms. So we wear them for lab, clinical prep, and clinical days. Once we are on our clinical floor we can remove them, but if we leave the floor we have to wear them. I hate lab coats. We have to wear white ones and they look like the doctors lab coats at my hospital. A lot of the guys in my class have been ask if they were doctors.