tbeck14

I started working in the ER in July as a new grad and definitely have had a few days where I just wanted to give up. Now six months in, I don't regret challenging myself by working starting out in the ER. My orientation was only seven weeks and was challenging, but it pushed me to bring my best every day. I am lucky, though, to be in an ER with patient ratio's of 1:3-1:4. There are rare times where we may have more patient's, but it is by no means the norm. We don't have patient's sitting in the hall, they have to wait and continue to be triaged in the waiting room unless they are a class 1 or 2 patient. We have two designated CCRN to take on 1:1 critical patients if they come in during our shift. When that occurs, we report off our patient's to other nurses and go down to a 1:1 with the critical patient. Hang in there!!! As a new ER nurse, I feel your pain and frustrations. What I have learned, though, is that you need to stand up for yourself. If you have an unsafe number of patient's due to their acuity, speak up! Don't risk your nursing license that you worked so hard for because your hospital allows you to work under unsafe conditions. As I can atest to, there are other hospitals to work at that actually allow you to work in a safe environment and give your patients proper treatment.

I ended up passing! Deep down I knew I probably didn't fail, but that didn't stop me from playing the what if card haha. I tested the highest in my class on our ATI predictor but that still didn't help my nerves for 48 hours.

I passed! As you get closer to your test date, I would focus more on prioritization and management questions versus reading through the huge saunders book. You could use the book as a resource when needing to brush up on a topic. I did the comprehensive test at the end of the book that helped me out. The most valuable study book I would say that I used during school was a leadership prioritization and delegation book. All of the questions in the book were similar to the type of questions I got on the NCLEX test. Good luck! :)

I am officially Trisha BSN, RN :)

SATA are a weakness for me too, but during the test I was happy to see them because it meant I was doing ok. Remember if you are over the passing rate line, then you only need to get every other one right to remain there. I thought the SATA actually were more straight forward than the ones I studied. I still haven't gotten my quick results, though, so I don't even know that I passed haha. I used the Saunders book more back during the last semester of school for a review class to look over areas I struggled in. I actually haven't finished half the book yet, and will probably go back to it as a resource to learn more for my new job. What I liked the most about the book was the rationales it provided for the questions in it. I really like the questions ATI provided and the resource books they provided. The only thing that they lacked was their rationales.

I tested yesterday and feel the same way! I don't think we can understand the anxiety of waiting for the results until we are in the situation ourselves. Mine shut off at 75 and had almost 30 SATA.

My school had us do the ATI virtual tutor and green light program, I used the saunder's review book, and did the free q bank questions on the Kaplan app. I haven't received my quick results yet from pearson vue, but my test shut off at 75 with 26 SATA and 3 drag and drop questions. I thought both ATI and the Kaplan questions were both really relatable to boards. The questions on boards were even more simple than I thought the review questions were. Hopefully I actually passed and don't think the questions were easy because I failed miserably at 75 questions. I am sure you will do great! It is all about confidence at this point in our careers.

I took my test yesterday and my experience was similar to yours. My test shut off at 75 questions with 26 SATA, 3 drag and drop, and the rest mostly prioritization or delegation. Every SATA that popped up, the better I felt. The more time that goes by the more anxious I become, but I keep telling myself that based on my test and questions, I hopefully passed. Good luck!

Thanks! I just joined! :)

Has anyone found living arrangements for the summer?

Well the wait was finally worth it! I received the position on the SNICU for the summer.

Congrats! I am still anxiously waiting for hearing a reply haha

I was interviewed for the urology clinic and the neuro surgical icu. When I called they said I was still in consideration for the neuro surgical icu, which is the one I want but I would rather have had either one then none at all haha. I am from instate about two hours away. They said they should hopefully know by today but I don't want to call again because I feel like a nuisance. The more time that goes by the more I doubt myself on getting an offer :/

When I called they still said they are deciding the final offers for the one I interviewed for so I hope the fact that I haven't heard anything yet is a good thing. The waiting is just about killing me haha. Congrats to everyone who already received an offer!!!

Last year there were sixty positions available but I'm not sure if they cut any this year due to budgeting. The Mayo cut their internships back to fifty this year