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Thank you very much, sounds very nice... It looks like a very nice hospital :)

Okay, thank you very much, you have answered my question!!! :)

I would love to move to AZ by next year. At the moment I am in a med/surge/oncology floor... I am moving to the orthopedic/neurosurgery and some med/surge floor. I love that floor as there is no more oncology patients and I love to work with ortho patients the most. They have less co-morbidities for the most part and lesser of a cancer background. Anyways, do they have hospitals with orthopedic floors over in AZ? 12 hour shifts? if so, which ones? I've been browsing online and all I see is mostly med/surge positions, and what do the med/surge positions consist of in AZ, here we have half and half, half med/surge, half oncology... is oncology involved there too or is that on a different floor? Thank you!!!

Congratulations Nurse, and happy job hunting!!!

Very doable. I remember taking A&P II with chemistry part I together while working full time. A&P was the one I had to concentrate for and study for. Chemistry wasn't bad, it was fun, I would read a chapter the day before the quizzes. I would suggest for the future, you pick classes after checking them out on ratemyprofessor.com, I went to that site and got the professors with the highest ratings and obviously, I learned a lot, but they didn't make the classes be unpassable. Also, I would suggest dropping the sign language class. Why are you taking that? for fun? just take it later. If you are on the bachelor program they probably will put you for two years on the waiting list, you can take it then.

Get to know at least one person from the class ahead of you, and make sure you ask for detailed tips on how to pass the class before each semester starts.

My goal is to get a 12 hour shift job.. I would love it if it happened to be three days in a row... Since I have no children, I would see it as a reason to hybernate from the outside world for three days and then enjoy my four days off... I see it as not a big deal or tiring, because during clinicals when I had my 12 hour shifts, I literally slept all day long, ate quickly, showered and went to the hospital... then came home, slept and repeated it again. It wasn't bad for me and that would be my dream shift!!!

They are minor skills, but a lot of nurses in my program haven't even performed NG suctioning or hung up the tube feedings, or hung up piggyback meds... I was able to do that in my last semester at my preceptorship, so that's why it makes me think that it would be a good idea to list it... Thank you for looking at this JustBeachyNurse

Yes, that's what I was thinking, I hear short and to the point, but to me it doesn't sound like it matches the whole resume. I was thinking of one of these two: Spanish – Expert Fluency Proficient knowledge of disease processes and medical terminology Proficient knowledge of monitoring chest tubes, performing nasopharyngeal suctioning, administering tube feedings, and administering meds via oral/IM/IV route including attaching piggyback IV tube sets Excellent computer skills and ability to work in a fast paced and stressful environment or (this one is divided into two columns) SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Spanish – Expert Fluency Disease processes knowledge Chest tube monitoring Nasogastric suctioning Tube feeding administration Meds administration via oral/IM/IV route including attaching piggyback IV tube sets Excellent computer skills Ability to work in a fast paced and stressful environment

Everything doesn't look as spaced out and actually fits in one page.... and it aligns nicely, I just need some feedback.... Thank you!!!

The way we were taught in school was to list our clinical experience, I tried to shorten it a bit to make it fit into one page. At first I made a resume that was two pages long, excluding the reference page, but I have not received a single call in a month!!! It makes me think it may have been too long. Is this one single page better? Any help needed please. I took off the objectives and some stuff that seemed repetitive. My nameaddress ⟡ city, state zip93883 ⟡ emal@gmail ⟡ 125-255-2568 EDUCATION Bachelor of Science in Nursing Science, University of unknown Aug 2013 Honors: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND CERTIFICATIONS State of Hawaii, Registered Nurse License #1251 Sep 2013 FEMA ICS-100, ICS-200, & IS-700 Certified Sep 2012 Basic Life Support CPR Dec 2011 SUMMARY OF SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Spanish - Expert Fluency Proficient knowledge of disease processes and healthcare terminology Knowledge of utilization of hospital equipment including chest tubes, tube feedings, administration of meds via oral/IM/IV route including attaching piggyback IV tube sets and performing nasopharyngeal suctioning. Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, Access, PowerPoint, & Outlook CLINICAL ROTATIONS Medical/Surgical Unit Unknown Medical Center Summer 2013 160 Hours preceptor experience; performed patient and family education according to hospital policies Provided quality care to clients with acute and chronic, complex illnesses including total care patients Progressive, Pediatrics, Psych Unit Unknown Medical Center Spring 2013 175 Hours; assessed, monitored and managed patients with complicated disorders, including renal failure Provided emotional support and participated in group activities with Psych patients Medical/Surgical, Obstetrics Unit Unknown Medical Center Fall 2012 126 Hours; administered all medications, gave injections, and recorded time given using computer charting Taught new mothers about child care and assessed family needs before discharge Orthopedics Unknown Medical Center Summer 2012 70 Hours; provided patient care and support to post op patients with hip, knee and back injuries Provided care in stressful situations and successfully prioritized and delegated work Assisted Living Care Unknown Home Summer 2012 56 Hours; performed brief psychological assessments and provided emotional support on one on one basis VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Kuddle Korps Unknown Medical Center Nov 2010 - Mar 2011 76 Hours; cuddled premature infants in the NICU to promote psychological and physical growth WORK EXPERIENCE Job title Workplace Aug 2008 - Present Collaborate to accomplish tasks in a time sensitive manner with a high level of accuracy and productivity. Excellent computer skills with the ability to work in a fast paced environment Job title Workplace Aug 2007 - Aug 2008 Excellent ability to efficiently communicate with customers Excellent ability to analyze information to make decisions Cashier Workplace Mar 2005 - May 2006 Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales

Depending on how long it takes to get a CNA, it could be a waste of time and money, or not. From my quick reading that I read online a couple of minutes ago, I think it would be a good choice. It appears that is a one semester training course, so is quick and once you are done you can work in the hospital and make connections!!! I think she may think is a waste of time because most nursing students do not work while they take their nursing classes, so I'm guessing she thinks you will go to school in January of 2014, get your CNA certification by May 2014.. be on the search for jobs for a month... then work for two months and quit to start Nursing school. To me, it sounds like a good idea if you could be a CNA part time during nursing school, otherwise, volunteering in the hospital until the start of the Nursing program would be good.

I tried to work full time and do Nursing school, and it was hard lol. After the first month, I began working part time hours depending on my schooling, 20-30 hours a week, back to 40 hours whenever I was on break. With working, you can expect to work, study, go back to school, work, study, go to school, and coffee coffee coffee in between, lol. It was a crazy and fun year, lol. Glad is over :)

Thank you all very much, I will try Banana Republic one of these days, those other stores mentioned, I don't have locally. Anyways, thanks for all the help, and for those that shop in Nordstrom, they currently have a sale, I just got some non-interview clothes from there, and yes, the prices are not bad when on sale, lol.

I'm pretty clueless about this because as most new nurses, I have not been interviewed for a "professional" position thus far. I wore casual wear for my current non-professional position. In Nursing school, I heard is good to invest in professional looking clothes. I know I should wear dress pants and a blouse. My question is wear do I invest for this clothing, Nordstrom? The clothes there are pretty expensive, and I really do not want to invest that much, but if I must, then I guess I'll have to, but can interviewers even tell if is brand clothing and is that what they want to see? Would JcPenney or forever 21 be good other options too? Do you guys have any other suggestions and their price ranges. Thank you very much p.s. I do not have an interview scheduled anywhere yet, but I want to get ready in case if one pops up soon :)

Like the above poster said, how much studying do you think you will need. Is all up to you. I felt like I would needed at least a month because I would be working full time as well and I would not be strictly studying in that time. Without work, I probably would've taken 2 weeks of strict studying otherwise.

Wow, type in prison nursing or correctional nursing in the google box. I just did and it lead me to a bunch of threads about correctional nurses in allnurses.com. After reading a bit in one thread, you have to have a lot of guts and be able to not take a lot of their insults personally and to keep them under control, I guess you have to be very tough to be there. I'm a recent graduate and I'm looking for jobs too, my last resort is prison nursing, but I don't think I could handle being insulted much.. ayayayay... Good luck!!!

Have you done the Pearson Vue Trick, they have a youtube video on how to do it. I'm sure you passed, if you had 265 questions is because the NCLEX had faith in you and let you made up others that you got wrong. Good luck!!!

I know school takes a lot of time. I've studied for my NCLEX while working full time, but work is work, I find school/homework more stressful than just working at my same old job of five years. My tip would be to install NCLEX apps that have the highest ratings, I would use it here at work whenever I was bored and whenever I went to the bathroom, during breaks, before I slept, at home whenever I felt like it (whis was a lot). In addition I would do lots of questions, Kaplan Q trainers is what I did, I also did Hurst review online which to me were very useful because I could listen to one to two lectures a day and when I got done with all the lectures I did all their Test trainers. Good luck, you can do it. And since you're in school and the semester is over in December, I would recommend to focus mostly on school, and study for NCLEX whenever you can, but focus on taking the NCLEX a day before the start of your next semester. Study continuously during that 2-3 week break and take it a few days before your next semester.

That sounds doable. Before Nursing school (during my pre-reqs), I took 2-5 classes at a time and worked full time. The thing is that I went to ratemyprofessor.com and took the best rated (easier) professor who taught at the times that I wanted (mostly weekends for like 3-4 hours at a time). I mostly had to take online classes for the bio and chemistry portions, both because it was more convenient to me and because I work with computers. I picked classes that would have playback lectures that I could listen to over and over. So basically, is obviously doable because you will get a lot of days off. I only had 3 days off and worked crazy 10 hour shifts starting at 4 .a.m. Also make sure you pair your classes right, one difficult with two easy classes. Or two difficults with one easy, or if they are a bunch of easy classes you can even take four or more.

Congratulations, congratulations and congratulations!!!

I used Hurst online review, and I think that is good "tutoring" per say for content. They also answer your nursing questions quickly supposedly, I never used it, so I can't say. I believe Hurst would be a cheaper way of doing a review (They had a running coupon earlier this month and it costed me 270) and I like their structure, must do so and so or else no refund if you fail LOL. I did everything and everything they said to do so I could qualify for my 100% refund if I didn't pass, and everything went well. I also did all the Kaplan Q trainers and several NCLEX apps whenever I had a chance, I made sure they had very high reviews. Honestly, the more you quiz yourself the better you will do and always read the rationales.

lol, those are the exact apps I used the most. I would also suggest doing all of Kaplan Q trainers, there's also the NCLEX pediatric and NCLEX reviewer app, those two have some questions too and are free. I have an android too, so I know they work.

lol, that's exactly how I feel, but in a different situation. I was in the cubicle, got accepted, saw the cublicle less and enjoyed Nursing school. Nursing school is over and am full time at the cubicle again. Ahhh.. waiting to get some calls for an interview, just started applying yesterday. I look forward to the day I can turn in my two weeks notice as soon as a place hires me

Remember that this is school and you are there to pass. Study however you've studied in the past because it brought you this far. I always studied alone and I continued to study alone throughout Nursing school, there's nothing wrong with that. As to socializing, do whatever makes you comfortable, you'll be fine :)