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Collecting too much urine at one time can cause your patient to become hypotensive despite the fact that they cannot empty their bladder.

I work in a hospital.

I graduated with an ADN in January, 2015 with and ADN. I also have a BA and I moved from NY to Florida. I'm currently finishing my BSN online

On #3, you should not reopen the NS clamp. It should be closed when the blood is running which prevents blood from entering the bag of NS. Also, you should check vitals before you start blood, 15 minutes after blood has started and every hour while blood is running and an hour after blood is finished. I would also mention that you will monitor the patient while up to 24 hours after the transfusion for adverse effects. Once the blood is completed, then reopen the NS clamp to flush the line.

City: Orlando, FL Position: Residency GYN/ONC PAY: $23.00 ASN, 23.75 BSN, Differential 10% weekends, 30% nights Benefits: Yes for full time Housing: Depends on where you live, I pay $1185 for a one bedroom downtown.

I had a previous non-nursing bachelors degree and obtained my ASN while working a full time and part time job. I am now completing my rn-bsn online while working full time as a nurse. I had some semblance of a social life but it involved a lot of strategic planning, a great boyfriend and great friends.

There was a reality tv show about traveling nurses on MTV called "scrubbing in" and it was awful.

I just completed a part time ADN program and I worked full time and had a part time job(10-15 hours). Our classes were Mondays and Wednesdays with clinicals on Saturday or Sunday. Took 3 years to complete including prerequisites but I had most of those completed from my previous bachelors degree.

I agree with purple_roses. Freaking out about it won't change anything that's going to happen. Focus on excelling at your program and then do an RN to BSN program once you're done. There will be places that will hire you; you might need to move out of state if you're in a saturated area. Network with the nurses while you're in clinical. Let them know that you would like to work at the hospital so they can put in a word for you with the hiring manager. Treat your clinical as a job interview so they see you as an asset to the floor.

You can take the NCLEX in NY and apply for endorsement in DC and Maryland. Endorsement means that other states acknowledge that you have taken and passed the NCLEX so they don't require you to take the test again. Each location would have their own requirements so visit their BON websites. Typically you need a background check and also an application on Nursys and then a fee to each locations BON.

Why are you feeling discouraged about your ADN? There are many RN to BSN programs that you can do part time and online enabling you to work full time. I am currently working full time and enrolled at University of Louisiana at Lafayette in their RN to BSN program and I will finish April 2016, I started this past May. I had a previous non-nursing Bachelors but I realized nursing was what I wanted to do but I could not stop working to enroll in a full time BSN program. If you want to be competitive and get hired as a nurse, you'll do whats necessary. In my case it meant leaving NYC which is overly saturated to move to Florida where there are more opportunities.

My externship preceptor started her career in an ambulatory clinic last august and received an offer for an OR position 8 months later. I think its great experience.

That's kind of harsh. People don't choose to be sensitive. Speaking as someone who is sensitive it is a burden which I work very hard to not let affect my life. It's like saying if you have blue eyes please don't bring that to work.

University of Louisiana Lafayette. All online and can be completed in a year.

Through the Florida BON.

I applied from NY to Florida via endorsement and it took a week to receive my license once they received all of my paperwork.

I'm currently working full time, not as an RN, and getting my RN to BSN at University of Louisiana Lafayette and about to start a new position as a nurse in July and it feels a little stressful. I graduated in January and passed my Nclex in March. I don't have a child but my boyfriend and I are moving to a new state. I would say it's possible to do it but be prepared to be a little stressed.

I think it's really interesting that some people comment on these topics saying buckle down and study and just get what needs to be done done. I've done all of that I even have a job but if your child went to a school that was subpar with a teacher that didn't do what she was getting paid to do, your responses wouldn't be the same. So let's just have that marinate for a bit. The argument of I was never given x,y or z but I did what I had to do does not suffice. We are paying to be educated. There is a level of excellence that we expect from nursing whether it is a clinician or an instructor. These people who fail to do their jobs represent us as a profession. So yes again students need to take an active role in their education to ensure their success but I want my hard earned dollars to go to someone qualified and interested in teaching. It's as simple as that.

I think a lot of people are missing the point. The entire reason I commented on this post was to say that people need to stop making sweeping generalizations about one group. The example I gave was to explain why I thought those generalizations do not apply. Sure some students don't work as hard as they should and some professors are terrible. But it always seems like its one side against the other. As I have said several times in my posts, this was one specific instructor. There is no need to be rude or condescending.

I wouldn't have been half as upset about the professor had she not mandated that we show up to every class and then refuse to teach the material. So valuable time that I could have spent learning the material on my own, which is what I did anyway, was spent listening to ridiculous anecdotal stories and being chastised anytime we had a question related to our nursing material.

Well, I asked to meet with the professor to discuss our issues and she wouldn't meet with me and became defensive. I asked to set up an appointment with the chair of the department afterwards who refused to respond to emails or phone calls. I attempted to meet with the president of the university which also did not happen. My classmates wrote a letter and we all signed it detailing our grievances and sent it to the chair which again was met with silence. So we eventually just had to deal with the problem, which meant paying for outside resources to learn the material that we were paying for to learn in class. The professor was terrible, the school was terrible. My classmates and I were not waiting for a perfect scenario. This is my second degree so I know how the real world works and how a good education is supposed to work. I am not naive or an idiot but some people are not meant to be professors. I am not making a general statement about all professors but I am saying that some are terrible just like some students aren't willing to do the work. Lets stop saying its one or the other and just admit that the fault lies on both sides.

I am a new grad and rarely ever comment on topics like this but I felt compelled to. Sometimes it is the instructors fault. I worked 2 jobs, one full time and one part time while I was in nursing school and I did well until I had a professor who refused to provide blue prints for exams, notes for her lectures, go over exams once they were administered or lecture for that matter. We spent the mandatory classroom hours listening to her anecdotes about her childhood and were forced to learn everything on our own at home. Half her class failed from the previous semester and the semester after ours she was forced to leave classroom lectures and was only retained as a clinical professor but our semester was not given the same opportunity. I agree that sometimes students aren't willing to put in the work but for my class who was made up of adult students with families who were working full time, to spend our classroom hours listening to stories about the beach = a bad professor.

What about student loans?

I applied and was accepted into the July program in Gyn/Onc. It took about a month for the app, interview and recommendations.

Florida hospital in Orlando has a new Grad program and they're always hiring.