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60cc syringe and push. Peds. Use more than one access at once if you've got it and need to.

I completed my last year of nursing school with a broken foot and planned surgery after graduation. I did not apply for jobs because I wanted to allow ample recovery time and not hurt potential employer with a long recovery. The recovery was complicated by a diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, the underlying cause of the previous injury as it turns out. I could barely walk, but I've worked hard and am finally walking well and wearing shoes. How should I address the 10 months between graduation and applying for a job??? The past two months I got a low paying part time job to help prepare for working as a nurse. Do I mention the surgery, but not go into detail? Do I tell about the RSD? Aren't you entitled to privacy about disabilities? I am a very open and honest person. I feel like this experience has matured me beyond my years. This experience has changed me and I know it will improve my ability to care for patients in some ways. But several people have told me not to mention it because I won't get hired. I would love some first hand advice.

Of course it's obnoxious, obsessive, and they should probably all just calm down. But lucky for us they conveniently made a whole separate section for NCLEX discussion, (where it won't get in the way of other issues) where students can freak out to each other...and tell each other to calm down.

Yes, but it's only a voicemail and says they will call back. So figured I'd ask here while I wait, who knows when they will actually call back.

Has anyone tested in a cast, boot, or crutches? It suddenly occurs to me that the NCLEX proctors may pitch a fit over the fact that I'm on crutches and in an AirCast that comes to my mid-calf (2 weeks post-op fibular sesamoidectomy). This could get awkward. I of course read where it said "no medical devices allowed" and found a 2007 post of someone who said they got the OK to take crutches. Several more recent posts said they are not even allowing insulin pumps or glucose tablets and got a little more nervous. I CANNOT walk without crutches. I am only at like 30% weight bearing on the affected foot. I CAN take off the boot--I only have to wear it when I am putting weight on the affected foot. I am leaning towards not even wearing this because I can barely put weight on it anyway and it is not comfortable to sit in without it elevated (which I really doubt they would allow, right?). I'll probably wrap it up in a compression bandage. I plan to have an ice pack among my personal items in my locker if I need to take a break to ice it. I cannot fathom that they would allow me to have an ice pack in the testing room. I guess I can always crawl on the floor if I have to???

Thanks for the comments so far. I have only found the contact info of a nurse recruiter at one of the hospitals. And only Ben Taub have I been able to find an actual GN application. If anyone could help me locate the job title or knows the requisition number that would be a HUGE help. Feeling pretty stupid.

Can anyone help me find the link to job postings for new graduate nurses? It seems a lot of the hospitals in Houston have mandatory residency/internship programs to get new graduates into the hospital system and only hire a couple of times a year. That's fine. Maybe jobs aren't posted right now? The only listings I can find are the ones for experienced nurses. The jobs around where I am from are listed differently so I think I'm just having trouble searching for the right thing. And HR at Nurse Recruiters at all those big hospitals are pretty hard to get on the phone/email for help. I live in MS, graduated with BSN in May from an AL school, and am hoping to move to Houston, TX. I haven't looked for a job yet because my foot is broken (and has been for 14 months) and I'm finally having surgery this week to remove my fibular sesamoid. Since this has been such a chronic thing I want to ensure it's totally healed before starting work, so probably don't want to start work before late August or September. Looking at Methodist, Memorial Hermann, Ben Taub, Texas Children's, St. Lukes, etc. I'm interested in ICU adult or pediatric, especially cardiac. I know jobs can be hard to land, but I'm not going to get any if I can't apply! Can anyone help please! Thanks!

Thanks everyone! The mail forwarding here is not great. I guess with it being a college town and people moving constantly. But, I know the people who will be moving to the house in August so if not all my mail gets forwarded I can still get it.

Ok, I am graduating from a school in Alabama and plan to move to Texas (and want a Texas license of course). I am not moving until June or July so do not yet have an address where I can receive mail in Texas. On my application I used my Mississippi address (hometown, my parent's address) because that is my most permanent address and the one on my driver's license. My application was then rejected because MS is a compact state. So I called up the TX BON. I was told I could use my Alabama address since it is NOT a compact state (my lease on this AL house runs through July 31st) or a Texas address. The woman on the phone was very weird about me asking this question and I assured her I was not trying to "cheat" the system in any way. I would just like to take the NCLEX before I move to Texas because I will have more time to study and be less stressed/busy with moving and such. I would really rather not have to get a MS license and then change it to a TX one practically immediately. So...does the address I use need to match my driver's license? or did I just dream that up? Maybe it was only the name that had to match exactly to the driver's license?