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  1. NICU Guy

    Am I likely to fail the NCLEX?

    NICU Guy replied to Rebekaha95's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    A better indication of your ability to pass NCLEX is your performance in nursing school and your school's NCLEX pass rate. If you were an A/B student at a school with an 85% pass rate, then you...
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    Medication Tech count as experience

    NICU Guy replied to VidyaNC's topic in General Students

    While CNA/ PCT gives you hospital experience, only a nursing job will give you nursing experience. On a job posting, when they ask for one year experience required, they are referring to nursing...
  3. NICU Guy

    Night shift lighting

    NICU Guy replied to Alex Egan's topic in Private Duty

    Using a red or green light will allow you to see without disrupting your night
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    Adults who prefer wearing diapers

    NICU Guy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Have them start assigning male nurses and/or PCAs to him. His little sexual fetish will not get satisfied if you tell him to do it himself. It is one of those fetishes that they want to be treated...
  5. NICU Guy

    Are student loans worth it???

    NICU Guy replied to Wildflowerlover's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I would do your prerequisites at the community college (save a lot of money on tuition) and then transfer to a university for nursing
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    Financial and Career Guidance Needed

    NICU Guy replied to Atelophobia's topic in General Students

    If you have decided to go to Lewis, my advice is to work as much as possible before nursing school and save as much as you can. Every dollar you save is one less dollar taken out as a loan. Once you...
  7. NICU Guy

    How are people surviving financially while in a full-time ABSN program?

    NICU Guy replied to Vandrews's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    How marketable are ASN nurses in NY? The new law is another reason for hospitals to discriminate against ASN nurses. The risk hiring an ASN nurse is that they get hired, get married, start having...
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    I'm scared to death about upcoming preceptorship.

    NICU Guy replied to Noellenervous's topic in General Students

    A Preceptorship is with a nurse. You will work one on one with the same nurse each shift. As time goes by, they will give you more and more responsibility for the patients until you are taking the...
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    PROGNOSTICATE: The Future of U.S. Nursing relative to the changing cuture

    NICU Guy replied to jhill134's topic in General Nursing

    Like those hovering balls with cameras in the Sci-Fi movies that dart around
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    PROGNOSTICATE: The Future of U.S. Nursing relative to the changing cuture

    NICU Guy replied to jhill134's topic in General Nursing

    With the major headaches that airlines have with emotional support dogs. I see this as a major issue when someone can get a harness and badge online for their emotional support guinea pig/...
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    How to figure out what field of nursing to go into..

    NICU Guy replied to Curly1965's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Go into nursing school with an open mind and see which area appeals to you. Like Sour Lemon said, the peds unit at most hospitals are small because children are sick less often. If you want peds.,...
  12. NICU Guy

    How are people surviving financially while in a full-time ABSN program?

    NICU Guy replied to Vandrews's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I worked two 12 hr shifts (Fri and Sat) throughout my 15 mo. ABSN program. That allowed me to continue to pay my bills. In addition to creative financing. I had a credit card that offered a balance...
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    Biggest weakness

    NICU Guy replied to Sunshine54327's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    My go to answer is "I have a tenancy to not ask for help when I get busy. I am will to help anyone else that gets busy, but struggle to ask for help for myself." It is a weakness, but implies that I...
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    Help with board complaint

    NICU Guy replied to FrenchieB1986's topic in General Nursing

    Your personal love affair is not a professional misconduct and the BON has other more important issues to deal with instead of your love
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    Trouble Finding Work

    NICU Guy replied to FatElvis's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have had no problems. I was a new grad at 48yr old and had 2 job offers in NICUs which is definitely female dominated. I have never heard any discrimination talk from any of the charge nurses,...
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    Dosage calculation test

    NICU Guy replied to Jodirenee8's topic in General Students

    We had a dosage calculation test every semester. First semester we needed 80% (2 tries) and by final semester we needed 100% (2
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    PICC line question

    NICU Guy replied to FDBMath's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In the NICU, it is a non-sterile procedure. We place a small vaseline square over the site and cover it with Tegaderm for 24
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    I'm an NP student - How did you choose your specialty?

    NICU Guy replied to abc616's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    No, we are not brutal on students and new grads, we actually care that they learn what they need to know to be a safe bedside nurse because they WILL be my colleague. We are very supportive of them...
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    Hands On Experience/Preceptorship?!

    NICU Guy replied to heychelle's topic in General Students

    This is a for-profit school that has one of the typical for-profit accreditations so they can say they are accredited. State BONs require lecture and clinicals in Med/Surg, Peds, Maternity, and Mental...
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    I'm an NP student - How did you choose your specialty?

    NICU Guy replied to abc616's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This proves the point of many members on here and bedside nurses I work with. New grad nurses (BSN) that aren't even out of orientation and applying to NP schools. I am lumping in the Direct Entry MSN...
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    Low GPA Accelerated nursing programs

    NICU Guy replied to Morgan888's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Just because a program has a minimum GPA required to apply, it does not mean that if you have the minimum GPA you will get accepted. ABSN cohorts are smaller than traditional BSN class sizes. They...
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    Its 5 months and still no update on NCLEX Results

    NICU Guy replied to gorgeous_me's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    go to nursys.com and search your name under verify license. That would tell you if you have a license issued to
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    Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist

    NICU Guy replied to BeccaNICU-RN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use it all the time. I like the fact that once they can be extubated, we can put a nasal prongs/mask on them and continue to use it NIV NAVA
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    New nursing student. Advice?

    NICU Guy replied to hbnursing's topic in General Students

    I did a 15 month ABSN program. The key to getting through it is to keep organized or become best friend with someone that is highly organized. I got a day planner and put all of my assignments and...
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    ABSN 1 year v.s. 2 Years

    NICU Guy replied to lhiris's topic in General Students

    I did a 15 month ABSN program and had a 135 hour senior practicum in NICU. It gave me a head start when I got my first job in the NICU. So, in my case I felt that the ABSN program prepared me for my...