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You don't have to wait a year for the clinic. It's a year or manager's discretion and I've never heard of any manager turning anyone down.

Cleveland Clinic offers 5000 tuition reimbursement for BSN and 7500 for MSN.

Are you doing the Xavier direct entry?

Did your credits from OU transfer? I'm not digging the program either and thinking about transferring

There were 3 in o e day in my town. One crashed his car at a busy intersection. Luckily they caught the dealer who sold it. Such a mess!

Right now CCF and UH are hiring like crazy it doesn't matter if you have an ADN or BSN. Things change quickly though so by the time you finish your ADN (most likely 3 years if you haven't done any pre reqs) it could change. I got my ADN and they wouldn't even talk to you until you passed your NCLEX. the group that graduated the semester after me all had jobs lined up pending nclex results. That's how quick things can change.

Just apply to an open ED position. They are not usually listed as new grad positions but like I said the non trauma EDs will hire new grads. If the manager decides to hire you then you are put into the residency.

There is t specific information about it. I am currently in the New Grad ER residency with the Cleveland Clinic. It's the same as any other residency, except that when you get to the class portion of the residency (~6 months in) your classes are ER specific. Most of the non-trauma EDs accept new grad residents. Main Campus has a lot.

Our ER has 2 "trauma" rooms (we are not a trauma center but these beds get typically get high acuity patients or lacs that need stitches/staples) 2 intake/triage rooms, 8 express beds, 2 psych rooms, and usually 11 monitored beds, although we can expand to 15 monitored beds. Express gets 1 nurse, with the intake nurse floating between intake rooms and express care. 1 trauma, 1 psych and 3 monitored beds for 2 nurses, other nurse gets 5 monitored beds. 1 charge nurse, 2 medics (one stays in triage and the other floats to help w/ ekgs). We have been looking for a while at how to redistribute assignments because our trauma and psych rooms are on opposite sides of the ER. If you have a critical patient in a trauma room and an SI in a psych, it's impossible to keep an eye on the SI pt. sometimes we get sitters but that's rare. It can be a real mess!!!

We have one in ours but rarely use it. It was out for repair or something for a month or more so I think a lot of people forget we have it. Also the last couple we have had were too big for the LUCAS which is another issue. As another poster said we typically have more than enough people to do chest compressions.

Being a Tri-C grad with a Bachelors I would have to agree. I didn't do Tri-Cs accelerated program because they only offered a daytime program and I had to keep working during the program and couldn't give up my day job so I had to go the night/weekend route. If you can afford to do the program during the day, you are better off doing one of the accelerated BSN programs. You will be done in the same amount of time with a BSN. TriC might seem cheaper but it's going to cost the same in the long run. Don't get me wrong, TriC is a great program, but the BSN is the key. If you can do a daytime program, definitely do the TriC route.

THICK SKIN!!

About a month, maybe a week more. I started looking at jobs I wanted to apply to and contacting the manager of that floor.

They change everyone to that once you're in the pool. Contact your recruiter. When I got interviewed my recruiter told me it would change to that statement but not to worry. I still got a job :)

Yea you are. You are in the pool for 6 months.

Due to the high acuity of patients in their ER they do not generally accept new grads period unless they have previous paramedic experience. Metro is BSNs only.

I work in an ER. A lot of times we will ask patients why didn't you go see your PCP and more often than not their response is "my PCP told me just to come here". The second most popular response is "they told me they couldn't get me in for 2-3 weeks!" So we end up with a lot of minor sniffles. Our ED does have a more Urgent care type area but that area and the main ED become blurred when we are really busy. The major hospital system in our area promises "same day appts" but that doesn't mean with your PCP or even in your community. I tried this system once when I didn't have a PCP and the only appt they could offer was 45+ minutes away! For those who rely on public transportation that's not going to help them, so they end up in the ED. This week we were super busy and a 2-3 hour wait all of a sudden made people decide maybe they really didn't need to see the doc :)

I live two miles from Medina Hospital! It's a very nice community! Hope you get it! If you do and you need any resources or help, feel free to message me!

No you have to wait two days!!

It's not, as long as you try. Everyone at the Clinic had me super stressed out over that physical test! Just push and pull as hard and as fast as you can. As long as you put forth an effort you pass!

If you are a new grad any position you take is a residency just so you know :) best of luck to you!!

If I were you I would do nights/weekends. A lot of people I went to school with maintained 40 hour work weeks with families and everything and succeeded. It's definitely doable!

I just went through orientation and there were two new grads, one in picu and one in nicu. It's doable but you have a lot of people who want to be in those departments so it is very competitive.

I will agree on the hiring spree! All of a sudden everyone I know is easily finding jobs in the clinic system! Lucky for all of us May grads!!

I would ask what to wear for shadowing. I had one experience where the NM said DO NOT wear scrubs because they don't want a patient to confuse you as being an actual nurse on the floor, then I had another once where they said wear scrubs. Depends on the NM or the hospital system. Best of luck to you!!