nursewall-e

Thank you, colleagues. Your insights mean the world to me.

Opportunity knocks in a right-to-work state for this new grad with above ratios. Is this a good thing or a disaster in the making?

Thank you everyone for insightful feedback. Allnurses.com is like having a great professional consulting firm on retainer. I am so impressed by the professionals here.

Schools seem to be all for it. Nurses, not so much so. Opinions are all over the map. What is a nursling to do? Please weigh in with rationale.

I'm surprised the management did not have a 2 year employment commitment clause for the BSNs going to the ICU. That's what is required of new grad ADNs around here. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks much for all the fine input here. Will not let the language deter me and will apply to all except the BSN required postings.

Curious what the general consensus is regarding the matter. Please weigh in.

magnet status...many pros and cons here. Hard to know what to think. All I know is I very much appreciate the debate.

sure, wannabeRT. Main focus is to reduce test anxiety...the number one reason for failure among applicants! Well prepared students, many of which had more A&P knowledge than your's truly, nursewall-e, failed due to stress and not being in the moment. Keep focusing on A&P and Bio topics you may be weak in by reviewing your HESI study guides. Know your fractions, percents and ratios well, plus be able to convert metric to English/US system in all areas, including ºC to ºF and back. Most importantly, just stay in the moment and enjoy the test. When your shoulders ratchet up to your ears, it's time to back away from the PC and take 3 deep breaths. Someday, when you are looking at radiology of opaque lung tissue, maybe you'll recall having to perfuse O2 (and CO2) in your own tissues by using deep breathing to reduce your stress. Most of my material was sourced from practice guides developed by my predecessors. The local School of Nursing boast a 94% first time NCLEX pass ratio. Works for me.

a good example of a good negotiation. Nice work, flying_ace2!!!

My thought is you can get anything you can negotiate, but you rarely get what you deserve. If you don't ask, then the answer is always no. nursewall-e says, "GO FOR IT" :))

Did some research on fibromyalgia a few weeks ago and found out NIH.gov doesn't even have a medical diagnosis page for it. Just a mini-page. Even Google spellcheck doesn't know the word! (now added to my dictionary) so maybe I would call it something else in order to be taken seriously. As for pain, it is always what the patient says it is. As for judgment, I leave mine in the car before I walk into work.

Daily yoga has always been very effective for me. Difficulty is my companion...I am serenity. It really works.

Just ordered a pair of ITEM 97598395-1 Klogs Springfield from shoebuy.com with the 20% off allnurses promo email. They should be here 22 OCT. I'll let you know how they worked out.

Hello, I teach HESI class to pre-nursing at a local college. I have a public slideshow here: http://tinyurl.com/allnursesHESI It covers A&P and math only, which are the two big weed-out topics here. Works best with Chrome Browser, then click "present" to get animations. This is my first post on allnurses.com and I look forward to sharing more here when I can. nursewall-e