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Well, that time of the year has come around and I need my 15 hours. This is my first full year out of nursing so I must get them on my own. Are there any great places to look for these hours. I found a place called myfreece.com, but it isn't real...

In the big scheme of things I think he means 5k isn't much. I bought a new truck in august, it's already worth $10,000 less than what I paid for it. That $5k isn't sounding so big. I know people with TV's that cost more than that. I am PRO makin...

Well, I'm glad that you aren't a lemming like many out there today. You also have quite a age gap on my generation, and I'm afraid your logical approach isn't shared by a large group of people my age . I hate making broad generalizations, but your ...

I understand/agree with most all of that, but the american society is kind of like of a herd of cattle. What they see is what they believe. Values change, morals change, the media displays this everyday. I like numbers. They are real, and I under...

I'm not going to argue my ideas on the liberation of females. The divorce rate will be in the 80% range before I die and the # of marriages will be greatly reduced. American's have developed a attitude that will not work with marriage. I know 30 ye...

Times have changed. If things were still this way the divorce rate wouldn't be so high.

I went to school with some girls that purchased cosmetic surgery with student loans. I thought it was funny, but the interest rates were better than a credit card. I have a bud who is 100k in debt, but that is for a Masters in Finance from LSU. He ...

Good career, doesn't seem to be too hard of a job after seeing what they did in the hospital. The school work is pretty difficult. Gross anatomy could be fun and hard at the same time. My ex wife was in a DPT program when we divorced. Pay is great ...

Well, I have come to the reality that I probably will not be going back to nursing for many years, if ever, and I want to keep my skills/knowledge up. I was only a RN for around 9 months and worked med/surg night shift. Since my fathers death in Apr...

I think being a male makes this even worse. Almost every night I went to work I had a patient ask if I was working towards becoming a MD. I got tired of explaining myself so I just told them I didn't even graduate from high school until I was 20 (w...

Just CEU's. I'm not in a position to work 4 extra days a month. I'm glad my state doesn't require hours worked, because I might just have to give up my license. Life is so funny. I started college as a finance major before switching to nursing, no...

Thanks for the ideas. No agency nursing is done in this area. Too many new graduates to fill the spots, which is also one of the main reasons the pay is so bad. I would still work a day or two a month for a decent wage. I'm going to talk to a few ...

So you worked 24-26 days a month? Thats not possible for me to do. I feel twenty days a months is plenty, and the list of things I miss about nursing includes working 12 days a month. I was working almost 100 days less a year than I am now.

I really needed to better explain my skills definition. I can pick up things like IV's and such rather quickly if needed. It didn't take me long the first time. I am mainly worried about a loss of knowledge, ie: what to do during certain dysrhythm...

I don't believe that males entering the profession will tolerate the poor pay as well as the females, and is a reason many males leave the field. I graduated with 5 other males, and a year later two of us are out of nursing.

I did like the guy you know. I studied a couple of hours a week for a month and went and took the test. I really just wanted to feel the test out so to speak. I failed in 120 something questions. Next go around I did all the questions on my Kaplan...

Pretty much a southern thing I reckon. It pretty much means standing your ground and letting them know how it is. Simply put "I respect that you are more experienced than I am, but this doesn't allow you to walk all over me, and you don't sign my pay...

First time I took the Kaplan review course and answered half of the questions on the disk, along with reading two-thirds of the book. I failed. Second time I did every question on the saunders disk and finished the Kaplan disk. I bet I did around 5...

I have noticed some programs don't go by just the first time pass rate. My school had a 85% first time pass rate, but I believe it was 95% after the second try. It took me two attempts to get it right, but the second one only took one hour and 75 q...

You work with the number of women you are going to be around, there will always be one with a chip on their shoulder or a know it all. I only work with one of the eat their young type, but after telling her how the cow eats the cabbage, I don't see a...

The 75% rule was there to keep the students whose knowledge wasn't up to par on the material out of the clinical setting. A instructor who has a student who is doing poorly in class will need to spend more time with the failing student out of fear o...

Ask your doctor if xanax is right for you. I know a few who have needed it for test anxiety

I just wanted to let everyone know that I passed my second NCLEX RN attempt. It only took an hour and a half to finish my 75 questions. I felt it was a good bit easier than my first test, which I failed in 120 questions. My test had a lot of deleg...

3 pt gait = Advance the crutches and the Affected leg 2 pt gait = Advance the R leg followed by the L crutch The cane is the proper length if the elbow is bent 30 degrees. Know immunizations for infants/peds.

Level 1 was the most difficult due to me BOMBING the first test and struggling to pick my grade up to a 75% by mid term (which I heard is no longer required). Three tests to go from a 53 to a 75 did not make for a fun time. I had to pass the final ...