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NYC ER RN. We opened up 6 more ICUs, closed down psych, peds, surgical services and converted those to med/surg. Several nights ago, I was on my own with 6 ICU patients who were all unstable, vented, and on multiple drips that we are short on so the...

Gotta agree here. I find it hilarious when people whine about having 6 patients. NYC RN with an average load of 1:20 on just my last shift. Have gone up to 30s with several critical patients in hallways and chairs, no monitors, lack of life saving me...

Had a young adult call for EMS to pick them up because they choked while drinking water, with no continued ill effects afterward. During ED course, continued to ask me for water and food. Ridiculous.

This has got to be a joke. You were inappropriate by escalating it. You know how when people tell their side of a conversation - they'll downplay how they were and they'll demonize the person. The actual conversation was probably even more benign tha...

I'm just browsing through the comments and lamenting over how nice the ratios are outside of NYC. My last shift, I started with 18 patients to myself, all level 3s and up. 4s and 5s are sent to fast track/smart rooms with NPs and PAs. This is totall...

Yeah, I was born and raised in NYC, never left. I guess I'm used to working with the incredible costs here and getting by more easily than a transplant would. While I can live decently on my own salary, I have to say that my husband makes more than d...

No OT required in NYC private hospitals. I'm making >100k/year as a staff ED nurse. 36 hour weeks. This is due to night differential and CEN differential. Decently high COL though, but my family is living very comfortably.

They don't care about how high the Teas score is; the only factor is whether or not you passed their minimum required score. Your GPA is barely competitive. My group in spring of 2013 stopped accepting at 3.76. but remember, it's only the GPA for th...

Still waiting on the OP to reply that this was a joke post.

"I'm allergic to morphine. And tramadol. And percocet. And vicodin. What's that medication for pain that starts with a 'D?' It goes through the IV, I think. I think it's pronounced, 'dinodood.' Right? Oh yeah, dilaudid. That's it." "WHAT? The doctor ...

Unfortunately, there's a lot of backtracking and repetition. There are care plans to write, as well as ticking off boxes to show performance of an assessment on the patient. Down the list for the assessment, we often run into the same exact question ...

Working at a 1:8 patient load here. It becomes pretty hectic because we get a lot of transfers/discharges/admits during the overnight shifts. So a 1:8 patient load can quickly double, and this is in a hospital. Oh boy, the charting when this happens....

My program had a lot of older students (30+ age group). They graduated, and are having trouble finding jobs. Then again, our market is the most highly saturated other than California. I haven't noticed a single person over 35 working in a hospital ba...

I live 1 hour away from the hospital that I work for right now. A few of my classmates have to travel 1.5 hours to get to work at non-hospital jobs. Applying for 20+ jobs is nothing, my fellow classmates and I applied for several hundred. Do not be p...

I got a job with a fresh new grad with just my ADN this year. I was accepted at NYMH. I speak several foreign languages (self taught, there is a competency exam you need to take to verify), got my advanced certs (ACLS, PALS, NRP, etc.), and enrolled ...

Hi there, This site is worth checking out: Top 50 Nursing Jobs Sites Worth Bookmarking | The Web Nurse As it says, there are 50 job sites on there. But don't rely on job boards too much. I spent weeks doing stuff online, then emailing/calling the rec...

I understand how badly you want to become a nurse, I really do. But I think it is a much better idea to raise your grades up a bit, then go onto a standard route instead of an intensive accelerated route. Getting high grades on your prerequisites are...

Would not highly recommend City Tech, but I also have heard horror stories from BMCC graduates. Here are some pros of City Tech: - Excellent hospital choices (Kingsbrook, Brooklyn Hospital, Coney Island, Woodhull, Lutheran, Maimonides, just to name a...

I might have a different view on this than others - I would report all cheaters immediately, as it is happening. This way, the professor has a better chance of seeing it for themselves. I don't like the idea of anyone being so lazy/disrespectful of ...

Incoming cohort of 72. Out of us that started the same semester, only 14 of us made it through to graduate on time (in 2 years for our ADN). Our entire graduating class, including repeaters, was approximately 42.

You sound like you have some pretty bad anxiety and you seem like a perfectionist. It's okay to make mistakes during clinicals. Your professor is there to guide you and make sure you make no mistakes. And if you do, I'm sure it's not going to be life...

This post really hit home for me. I was made fun of and ridiculed (during nursing school, no less!) by my very own peers during classes for wanting to get into psychiatric nursing. My final goal in nursing is to become a doctorate-educated PMHNP. I w...

My entire nursing program for my Associates was self-taught. Seriously. We were not given any suggestions for good books to practice with or read for better comprehension - I found these on my own time. The professors always had a really beautiful lo...