FutureRN2005

I cant really help w/ L&D M/B or NICU questions since I have never worked in these areas. But I did go through the ER residency program upon graduation, and can share some info about piedmont overall. All the nurses wear any combination of navy blue and/or white scrubs. As far as I know there is no onsite childcare. I would not hesitate from the piedmont scholarship program because you are worried about having to sign a 2 year contract. Because with most (not all, but most) hospitals will have to sign a contract anyways with your residency if you choose to do a residency in a specialty area. And I have found that piedmont will work with you with the contract. For example, if you take a job in L&D and find you dont like it ,you can change areas as long as you work at piedmont for your 2years. Overall, I think its a good place to work, and they pay above avg for the area, and most units you dont have to work any weekends because of the baylor program. I felt the residency was pretty good, I felt prepared to work in the ER when my residency was over. Hope this helps.:)

I found it was best to apply in person. Go to the HR office and ask to speak with a nurse recruiter. Almost all of the hospitals in atlanta have new grad residency programs.

I am in the same situation. After graduating I worked about a year and a half in the ED, which I love most of the time. But I never quite feel comfortable with the critical patients. Thankfully we have a good team, and you always have help with those pts. But I still feel like unless I do some time in the ICU, I will not fully understand the how's and the whys with critical patients. I have decided to get some ICU experience and am going to work prn in the ED.

I work in Piedmont Er and Im sure that there are several openings right now. So I think you will hear something soon. Good Luck.

Georgia participates in quick results so, 2 business days after you take your boards you can check w/ pearson vue online or by phone to get your results. it takes 2-4 weeks for it to be posted on the BON website.

Im sorry that you are having such a rough time, but it helps me a little to read these posts and see that I am not alone. Having a good preceptor can really make or break you. My problem right now is that I feel as if I am being tossed between different preceptors every shift. I have an excellent preceptor, but since she has been out I have been with whoever is available and it has gone from bad to worse. I have made some silly simple mistakes, nothing to cause anyone any harm. But then I come home and spend all my time dwelling on everything I should have done differently and wondering how I am ever going to manage when I am on my own. I just keep thinking things have got to get better....

My suggestion would be for each student to have his/her own personal list of things you want to work on during your preceptorship and share this with your preceptor at the begining of clinicals. Also it helps if you can be paired up with a nurse who likes to teach and wants to be a preceptor. :)

I took Hurst Review and I loved it. I passed NCLEX on 1st time w/ 75 questions. The review is 4 days and covers med/surg, ob, and psych and you get a 5th day dvd that had mgmt/delegation and pediatrics. Marlene makes learning the test strategies really amusing so you dont forget them. she also breaks down things into simple terms. You also get a cd with a mock NCLEX with rationales to take at home. The cd also has all kinds of useful stuff like lab values, and other basic reference things you can print out and study. Hope this helps.

Also just found out that I passed today!! Congrats to everyone else who found out the good news. And good luck to those of you still waiting for results.

Just took the NCLEX this am. Since no one has anything positive to say after the test I am not going to talk about the test. I would just say for the day before your test stop studying and just relax. It really is the best advice. But if it helps I also took Hurst review and made about 70 on the mock NCLEX and I think I scored in 60-70's on Kaplan. Most of the people I have talked to did about the same and passed. So I am hoping it works for me too. Good luck to you.

Just try to keep a positive outlook. I am in the same boat. Also took NCLEX this am and I am in so much stress. I dont know how i will make it through the next 48hrs. All my friends and classmates assume that I will pass. But I just dont know. I had 75 questions, mostly teaching, and I also felt like I didnt know anything. It really seemed like all of my studying didnt help. But I am trying to keep positive. Hopefully its a good thing that the questions were so hard we felt we didnt know anything. If they get easy then I think that means you are getting them wrong. Im praying for both of us. Hopefully we will both be RN's very soon.

My suggestion is not to wait. If you want to work in a "specialty area", many times they only will hire a limited number of new grads. I graduated in Dec. and waited until nov. to apply and caused myself alot of unnecessary stress. By the time i applied most of my classmates had offers already because they applied early. Good luck to you!

The last question determining whether you pass/fail was also a myth. Because this can also be one of the pilot questions and not even count. The thing they emphasized to us was that you must get more questions right than wrong to pass. Good luck to you.:)

I dont think that is anything to worry about. I just attended a week long NCLEX review course and on the last day they went over several "myths" about the NCLEX. One of the myths was that the computer figures out your weak areas and you get more questions in that area. That is not true. Also, 15 questions are pilot questions - so some of the questions you had on the same topic might not have even counted. Another myth they discussed was that if you get the last question right/wrong it determines whether you pass/fail. A lot of priority questions is a good thing since these are supposed to be the higher level questions. So relax, and good luck to you. I will be testing at the end of the month.

Apply early! Don't make the same mistake I did. I just graduated in december 2005 and I did not begin to apply untill the begining of november thinking that with so many nursing jobs out there I would not have any problems. Silly me. Most specialty areas only accept a limited number of new grads. Even if they have plenty of open positions in that area. And the spots fill up quickly. I found myself wishing that I had applied earlier like others did. Oh well, good luck to you.