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Go classy with one chronograph Nixon watches. You can clean it at the end of your shift and you will love all the compliments instead of going with the generic gshock type watch.

Totally depends on your location. Come to northern California salary will be way over 100k. There are tons of nurses who travel out here from texas or south and end up staying. Check it out

Do it! The couple times I have worked upstairs in the ICU I always find myself falling asleep. You get different patients everyday rather than getting stuck with the same 2 GOMER pts for 3 days in a row.

You will be fine, just watch all Boswell videos on youtube, they are amazing. What a nice guy for posting them all for free for others to use. I can tell you for fact there is no free comprehensive CCRN review material. I think Boswell has the best overview of the test

Here in cali you can wear whatever you want. Shorts t shirts etc. Not sure how it is in the rest of the country...

Work hard and help others out and ask a million questions. Look up things you do not understand on uptodate when you have a second at work.

What is your interest rate? If it is super low might just be best to pay minimum payment for rest of life and let inflation eat the principal up

You can bring it up to charge nurse or manager, but as you are already aware it might backfire. My advice bring it up only when you are ready to switch hospitals or departments. Some ER just suck and it is best to just run away from them.

Move to the bay area or sacramento and you will make way over 100k. In Sacramento you can buy nice house for 400k. Plus schedule is so flexible. Psych nursing is very much in demand. Also have you looked into psych NP seems like a very interesting career. Best of luck

If you do not mind paying the money for the cert then go for it. Best advice to get job in the ER is to get job as tech, secretary etc, before you graduate almost guarantee yourself a job in ER. If you cannot get a support staff job at very least do your preceptorship in ER. During your preceptorship ask a ton of questions and work your A$$ off. I mean do not ever even sit there always something to be done in the ER. Nothing ER nurses respect more than hard worker after all we are the ones that pick up all the slack from the support staff and MDs. If you do this I would be very surprised if you didn't get job offer.

The answer to that question totally depends on where you live and what kind of unit you want to work on. If you are willing to live anywhere and work in any department you will have no problem. The first people to get jobs out of school were the ones that already have jobs in the hospital. Get a job as unit secretary, tech, phleb, whatever it will greatly increase your chances of getting a job.

Call the Dr or do intervention when pt is symptomatic. Think weakness, dizziness, pale, diaphoretic, etc.