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I forgot to tell you that a 36 hr/week employee is a 0.9 FTE so this allows you to have an extra person for every 9 36 hr employees. Also decide is you want to spend your FTEs on unlicensed people for the unit. Whenyou are not given a dollar amount as a budget, you can staff with higher priced employees. If u were given a do.lar budget, you need to take that into consideration as well! 1 f t e = a 40 hour/week employee!

You have your FTEs now decide whether to staff 12 hour shifts or 8 hr shifts. Next divide your FTEs accordingly between 7A and 7P (ex). The next step is to determine an average daily cnsus (adc). Once that is established you will know how many nurses are needed each shift. You need to staff higher for 7A as opposed to 7P so you may want to establish a percentage split such as 65% for 7A and 35% for 7P. Always remember you will need a minimum stffing of 2 licensed each shift for safety. Good luck on this project. Hope it helps!

Dont forget to try the Pearson test. Try to enroll again for the exam and if u passed, it wont let u!

I happen to teach Peds and I always tell students, If you need to draw up a dosage that is less than 1 ml, always use a TB syringe. You can then inject your drug into a 5 ml saline syringe to further dilute. This allows you to administer the dosage ina slow controlled fashion. Diluting drugs means you need to make sure that the diluent is compatible with the medication and that your patient's specifics can tolerate the extra volume. For instance, you would not give that much diluent to a neonate. Give your med in the closest port to the patient and administer it according to the manufactors recomendations! Good luck!

Congrats new RN!

The way I see it is you seem to have 5 options. 1. Do as they are asking, risking failing their exams and losind your opportunity to take NCLEX.2. Contact your State Board of nursing and discuss this with them to see if this is even allowed.3. File a grievance with your school to force them to assist you4. Ask them to administer an exam that has been shown reliable and valid to predict your NCLEX success(such as ATI or HESI). You might even pay for the exam yourself. ATI is a very well respected program and is known for their willingness to assist students.5. Seek out the advice and assistance from a reputable nurse attorney in your area.The important thing to remember is your goal. As far as I know there is no time limit of a year to take the NCLEX and you may take it as amany times as neeeded. I understand if you were to take it and fail the first time ( which by the way will not be the end of the world!) you can contact the ncbsn and ask them to give you a breakdown of your strengths and weaknesses prior to taking the exam. You are wise to be concerned to base your future on an exam that is homegrown by your school. You are correct tto say not all school exams prepare you for the NCLEX. Questions must be at the application/analysis level to prepare you for what the NCLEX offers. Good luck to you. The effort is worthwhile! Nursing will change your life, everyday!