mickeyrose912

I bet you will rock it! In My opinion a good nurse is honest with his or herself regarding what they know and don't know. You aren't expected to know everything. I worked M/S for a year and came to the ER. I was terrfied, hell sometimes there are sti...

I envy your current situation! I graduated with my BSN in 2014 from Boston, but there were barely any jobs at the time, so i relocated to Florida. I have been working as a nurse about 2.5 year with 1.5 of that being in the ER and I make $28 an hour....

Hello everyone! I am currently working in a local 28-bed ER and I plan on traveling after i get two years in the ER under my belt (currently 1 telemetry and 1 ER). I want to make myself more marketable and am preparing to have my TNCC and CEN by the ...

Awesome! I am going to take TNCC and then read over Sheehy's mannual and watch some youtube videos. Any other suggestions? Is there a recommended site or book to do practice questions? for those of you that took the CEN what did you do to prepare/t...

I am looking into taking my first Er travel assignment and would love some insight on what it is like to transition from ER to ER (as a traveler, or job change). I have been a nurse for 3 years (1 cardiac and 2 in ER) in a 28 bed local Er. The faci...

Thanks for the great tips so far!

I am looking into travel ER nurse assignments and would love some insight from not Only ER nurses that have traveled, but general information about getting the first assignment and the transition process. I have been a nurse for 3 years (1 cardiac a...

Thank you! I am really concerned about going from a local ER to a level 1 or 2 trauma center. I wonder if the acuity is higher or how things are different. I know a nurse that works at the Trauma Center up the street (as a 'regular' Er nurse) and he ...

Hello :) I have been a nurse for about 15 months and worked in various departments (OR, Med-Surg and telemetry). I finally worked my way into the ER! I Just finished a 6 week orientation and have been on my own a few weeks. I have not felt stressed ...

Thank you very much! I really appreciate your honesty. That made me feel much better. I am just going to continue keeping to myself and offering help to everyone else anytime that I can:) even if I am busy, if another nurse has a critical patient the...

Hello :) I have been a nurse for about 10 months. I was working med-surg night shift and i fairly recently put in my transfer and started working telemetry days because it was run by the ER and i wanted to work my way up and get tele experience. I wa...

Thank you everyone for your advice!

Hello, I am in desperate need of advice from my fellow nurses. I need to freely talk about my thoughts and feelings with those that would be able to understand or relate. I am not seeking attention, i just really need help. I am a 24 year old nurse ...

I am a new nurse working in outpatient surgery. I am in a 6 month orientation from January to July. I am being cross trained in Preop, Postop, Blood Transfusions and possibly endoscopy. I have completed pre and post. Been doing transfusions for 2 wee...

Hello everyone! I submitted an application a few weeks ago for a New Grad position on the Short Stay Unit at a local hospital. I went into HR today and spoke with the nurse recruiter. She really liked me and set up an interview with the unit director...

I just got the call with my first job offer!!!!!!!! So excited, yet terrified! I am going to be working the day shift on a short stay unit off of the operating room. Bonus: No nights, no holidays, no weekends. This is killer, especially for a new nur...

i am still trying to understand how things work. I was told that my unit is an out patient unit, but yet on the tour i was told that we prep patients for surgery and can take them after as inpatient if there is an overload. My unit takes care of fair...

I got the job!!!!! :) They just called me! I start mid January!!!!! So excited, yet terrified! I am going to be working the day shift on a short stay unit off of the operating room. Bonus: No nights, no holidays, no weekends. This is killer, especi...

So... What happens next? Dropped my resume off Monday. Got an interview Tuesday. It went well. It was 2 1/2 hours with a tour. Sent out thank you cards to my interviewers and connections on Wednesday morning. What next?

I took my NCLEX on July 23rd 2014 and passed in 75 questions. Honestly, i found the test to be very easy because of how I studied. The practice questions i did seemed much harder than my boards. When i was asked about something i have never heard abo...

I got it, I just know I did. I will hear back from them within a week :) my interview was 2 1/2 hours long. The first 30 minutes was them talking to me about the unit and then they gave me a two hour tour. I explored throughout the operating room, pa...

You mean the level of needs? I created my own from review class, what my clinical told me and what my friends were doing. If you want you can delete it. The information I used to prep was from many different sources and I made it my own. Even memoriz...

See my recent thread under nclex. It's called "valuable nursing tips"

Thank you VERY much!

I graduated in May and passed this summer with 75 questions I found Saunders to be much easier than Kaplan. I got the most up to date Saunders comprehensive review. Kaplan i got 60-80% Saunders i usually got 70-100% I would read the chapter and then ...