Elevense

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1. Working as a student nurse

   Elevense replied to marie813's topic in General Students

   It depends on the program. Folks who did it through hospital generally tended to be more CNA/PCT, sometimes with shifts of RN shadowing or extra classes thrown in. The pay was better than I made as a PCT in a hospital. My school offered a paid stude...

2. Helpful Information For New L and D Nurse

   Elevense replied to LaurenEdge's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Congrats! I started as a new grad in L&D myself, and love it so far. :) Here are some of the resources I love: AWHONN is the professional organization - it is expensive to join, but they offer a monthly payment plan and send 2 journals in the ma...

3. Job

   Elevense replied to Lanie_82NS's topic in General Students

   It depends on what interests you. I would recommend a new grad program if at all possible. What units available to new grads in a hospital can depend on need. For example, my hospital's last new grad class most new hires went into ICU, ED, L&D, N...

4. soon to be newgrad needs advice!!

   Elevense replied to copebm's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was a PCT on a med-surg unit during nursing school and went straight into L&D as a new grad. I had a wonderful orientation that lasted 18 weeks, almost entirely with the same preceptor who was very experienced with orienting. In the area I liv...

5. ATT NCLEX RN in Illinois

   Elevense replied to jaice's topic in Illinois

   You probably will not hear anything until you pay Pearson. We had a couple of classmates not realize they had to pay both, and did not hear anything or receive an ATT until they contacted them, were told they still needed to pay for Pearson, and did ...

6. Nclex vs uworld sata

   Elevense replied to milady_sohail's topic in NCLEX

   I only did Uworld studying for NCLEX. The rationales are so great, aren't they? If there was a topic I seemed to be missing a lot, I would stop and get out my Saunder's book and really review that before I kept going. I was told when I took NCLEX th...

7. Is nursing a good career?

   Elevense replied to HannahSierz's topic in Student Assist

   One of the great things about nursing is if an environment doesn't work for you, there are many other settings where people need nurses. I had a friend who started as a new grad in an inpatient setting and realized very, very quickly that it didn't w...

8. Illinois license posted online??

   Elevense replied to LPN0411's topic in Illinois

   I took mine a little earlier than most folks I knew, so it might slow down when it gets busier. But it took 9 days to get my letter in the mail after passing, and then once I sent back my check (via certified mail - just something a nurse I worked wi...

9. Anyone used Picmonic? Cool interactive study tool?

   Elevense replied to SleeperHold's topic in General Students

   I think they sent out something to check it out before they finalized the site. It was alright, it didn't seem worth paying for though. But maybe there's more to it than there was at the time. I'm not crazy about monthly subscriptions in general. It ...

10. NIU 2016 Nursing Admissions

    Elevense replied to Dominique1006's topic in Illinois

    As a note, largely because of everything I heard, I was convinced the year I transferred I would end up being a spring admission because I was still taking prereqs during the application and hadn't started A&P II which I'd be taking in the summer...

11. Interviewing in L&D

    Elevense replied to rubyagnes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Congrats! :)

12. Interviewing in L&D

    Elevense replied to rubyagnes's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Obviously every place is different, but when I interviewed, most of the questions for L&D interview were things that either came up or you almost expected to come up during other interviews, such as talk about your greatest strengths, talk about ...

13. How to find out NCLEX results in 24hours in IL without paying $8 to Pearson Vue

    Elevense replied to night_owl_rn's topic in Illinois

    It worked fine for me and most of my other friends, but a few weeks ago, it didn't work for anyone for a week or so. I think one of those people said their results never did end up showing up there, even later. So they just had to wait and pay for th...

14. Advice for new grad nurses

    Elevense replied to amiceli's topic in General Nursing

    For NCLEX, I thought uworld was awesome. I heard good things in my last semester of nursing school. I subscribed for 1 month, even though I took my NCLEX 2 weeks after I signed up and only used half my subscription, I still don't regret it. I was pre...

15. TEAS is my Weakness

    Elevense replied to nursing96student's topic in Illinois

    NIU does not use any sort of entrance exam, admission is solely based on GPA. You have to demonstrate competency in reading, I think I just transferred my ACT though. Though because of that and public school tuition, they do seem to get a pretty comp...