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Thanks for your response Rose Queen. I can definitely live with that call schedule.

Going to be travel nursing as an OR RN (circulator). Hoping to land close to home and be able to drive back after 3-4 days on job. Just realizing call might mess up my plan! Do I need to take call as a travel OR RN? Please share your experiences. Thanks very much.

Wisconsin RN here. Some BS at my former job may lead to a "Remedial Education Order". This is considered non-disciplinary, but shows up under orders on the licensing page, and apparently stays there FOREVER. According to my attorney this should not be reported to the national database (no Adverse Action Report). Has anyone had this happen? One attorney said don't accept any "agreement" or "stipulation". Another said it will not have a big impact on my career if I have an education order attached to my license. And again, the "thing I did" is not really that bad, by anyone'e standards. Has anyone had this happen, or know anything about this kind of order?

I think you might want to think about transferring to another unit (dialysis, ortho, psych, cath/stress lab) that could possibly be less overwhelming. Your feelings are valid and from what you describe you are extremely stressed. You need to take care of yourself. It also sounds like the culture on your floor kind of sucks (management at least). You should be able to transfer within the hospital at 6 months. If you can't transfer and have 6 months under your belt I bet you could find a better fit in another setting (dialysis clinic, home health, state or county LTC environment). You can be honest at the interview and tell them you have concerns about staffing/safety and the work culture on your floor. They will know what you're talking about. Just some things to think about. Not everyone is cut out for acute care. You very well might be....I'm just putting that out there. It's OK if you're not. You decide.

Thanks for your response, that's good information. I've been researching more about care in the pulmonary unit and it's pretty diverse! Lots to learn. And I'm going to be working on my therapeutic communication so I'm able to say the right things to families to provide comfort and information to them. Thanks again. Quote

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Thanks for your response, that's good information. I've been researching more about care in the pulmonary unit and it's pretty diverse! Lots to learn. And I'm going to be working on my therapeutic communication so I'm able to say the right things to families to provide comfort and information to them. Thanks again.

Thanks so much for your reply. Both of the positions are at the same hospital, and they appear to have the same orientation model, and central education classes (the formal orientation is quite lengthy). I don't know about the staff on either unit, but both nurse managers who interviewed me were EXTREMELY nice and professional. I'm glad to hear you think they're both good opportunities. I'm still on the fence, and hoping I just get one job offer, because I'm going crazy wondering what I'll do with these two offers if I have to decide. One thing I do know about myself is that I can get freaked out if I have too much ongoing stress, and I think perhaps the medical respiratory unit will be a bit less stressful. There are many new CVA patients in the neuro-trauma, and I think the family dynamics would be hard to handle (people coping with loved one having a stroke). Respiratory is more chronic, so perhaps less of that one that unit? Thanks again for taking the time to respond to my post, I appreciate your feedback.

Hello Friends, I am trying to decide between two positions, and could use some help. I'm in a lucky position, I know!! This will be my first nursing job. My choices are a medical respiratory unit (COPD, vents, traechs, pneumonia, with some medical overflow) or a neuro-trauma unit (new concept, neuro with nuerotrauma and general trauma including abdominal, ortho and thoracic trauma...think stepdown and neuro combined). The hospital just became a level 2 trauma center. Which one do you think is a better opportunity? The medical respiratory unit has a rotating schedule, which I've heard is pretty tough to get used to. Thanks for your advice!

Hello, If you have a moment to assist me with some simplified patient teaching for common cardiac meds, I would be most thankful. My instructor is big on teaching, but wants it to be concise. Do you guys have any pat phrases you use to explain meds to patients? The caveat is that I can't just say things like "This is to help lower your blood pressure", I have to give a bit more detail. Meds I am going to give include: -Beta-Blocker/AB Blockers/Calcium Channel Blockers (lumping these together) -Ace's and ARBs -Glycosides (Digoxin and Atropine) -Sodium Channel Blocker (Amioderone) Thanks in advance : )

I think you did what you felt you needed to do to keep your sanity, so keep your head high and soldier on. Maybe ask for more help next time, that's a huge life lesson we all need to learn. So I think you should leave out the short lived experience as a hospital floor nurse on your resume, unless you have the reference on lockdown (which is unlikely). But if you do have a reference from that job, you could say you were having personal family problems at the time that prevented you from focusing on the job as much as you needed to. Then perhaps you could still get a foot in the door elsewhere. Perhaps you could focus on home health care nursing, working with one patient at a time. Or maybe clinic nursing, where you might be handling more routine and non life-threatening issues. Best of luck.

Thanks for your reply. How did you do overall in the Science? It sounds like you studied beforehand, is that the case?

As I said in the post, if you know your school has a higher requirement, you will need to study more. But if you know you will be admitted with a lower score (less competitive schools and/or ADN programs), don't stress too much about the science, because something funny is going on with the scoring. After literally guessing on almost all the questions and scoring a 65% in that section of the test, I felt it warranted a mention. Another tester in my session had the exact same experience.

Dear Fellow Pre-Nursing Students, Just a note of encouragement. I did not study for the TEAS science, as the school I'm planning on attending said that I could use some of the mandatory science at their institution as "refresher courses", therefore if I did not pass that section I could still get in (and my curriculum plan wouldn't even change). So I sat down and took that TEAS. I had only studied the math (just for a week, and I'm no math genius folks, far from it!). When the science section came up I was stunned at the difficulty/complexity of the questions. I literally guessed at nearly all the answers, yet ended up with a 65% in that section. Another woman who had just tested with me had the same experience, and told me she'd nearly started crying while taking the science section, and had also guessed at the answers. She also passed (low 60's). I think that the questions are weighted so that there's not just one right answer for each. I think there's one correct answer, a runner up, and possibly even a .25pt possibility in each question. That's the only explanation for my score. What a scam!!!! My advice is to not worry too much about the TEAS. The questions on the exam are easier than the ones in the ati study booklet, with the exception of the science section, which is a joke. I would study the math, and briefly study language usage and reading. Now if you're trying to get into a really competitive school you might need to focus a bit more to bump up your total score (mine was just over 75%). But overall, the test is nowhere near as hard as you would expect.