I'm in south Florida and we graduated December 2016 and almost everyone has found jobs and most in departments we wanted. The holdouts are looking for the dream job and it's hard as an new grad. I...
cgambino70 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Emergency
It's so hard to explain to people what it's like to work in the ED. Getting 3 rescues at once and they all have to be triage fast while you monitor your DKA patient in the next room. Controlled chaos...
The nursing supervisor should have explained to you why or she probably did not know yourself. I am new myself but our docs have no problems explaing why they ordered or did not order something. I...
cgambino70 replied to Newgrad1984's topic in Emergency
I can tell you that I am in a busy ER and hardly ever sit except for lunch. I have had 3 ankle reconstructions so I am hurting after a shift. But so is everyone else. I try not to work more than 2...
cgambino70 replied to chul_soo's topic in Emergency
They make one for 24.99 called Illumivein. I got one in nursing school when I worked as a medic in the ER. It helped but a few thousand IVs in and I don't use it anymore. We use ultrasound for the...
My ER also faxes a report with all of the pertinent ino to the floor. I do my quick head to toe and focus on chief complaint. If I have to give report I focus on how stable they are and what we are...
So I got the good pop up after my test Friday Jan 20th but until I got my quick results I didn't believe it. 930 on Sunday morning almost 48 hours exactly I paid my 7.95 and I passed. I am so elated...
Someone in my class took it last Friday and quick results were available sunday. And last Monday was MLK day so even on a holiday weekend it was 48 hours. With my luck it will be
I just did the trick and changed my cc info and when I hit submit it said you already scheduled this exam and can't at this time. That's what I want to see
Graduated in December and took my NCLEX about 1 month later. Walked out feeling like I failed. Had around 100 questions and so many SATA. The one promising thing was my last 5 questions were 3 SATA...
You had to put in your cc info to find out though right? Took, mine this morning and want to know. Shut off around 100 questions and had a bunch of sata and my last 5 questions were 3 sata in a row...