Quota BSN, RN

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  1. Quota

    What city do you work in and how much do you get paid hourly?

    Quota replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    New grad in DC Metro, starting pay $27/hr. Evening diff $3, night diff $4, weekend diff $4. Surge bonus for picking up surge approved shifts is $360 bonus and time and a half for the shift. New...
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    Patient with platelet count of 3?

    Quota replied to FirstLadyRN's topic in General Nursing

    That’s unfortunate, hope the new trial helps him. My pt is in his early 20s
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    Patient with platelet count of 3?

    Quota replied to FirstLadyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just had an ITP pt last week. Came in at 8 plt, got 1 unit of plt, dexamethasone, and IVIG. Jumped to 16 plt on day 2 and 91 plt on day 3, last dose of dex on day 4 and off to home (I was off that...
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    Patient with platelet count of 3?

    Quota replied to FirstLadyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I work Oncology so plt count of 9 isn’t crazy on my unit. By standard protocol they are listed as high falls but a lot refuse bed alarms and walk laps independently around the unit. We only...
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    Nurse as a Patient?

    Quota replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well that sounds awful and stressful to deal with. I do have a former oncology nurse from another facility who is currently in treatment on my oncology unit. I’m a new grad, just hitting the 6...
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    ABSN Program

    Quota replied to Jazzi_CNA's topic in General Nursing

    No. ABSN programs are all second degree programs for people without any nursing certification
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    ABSN Program

    Quota replied to Jazzi_CNA's topic in General Nursing

    I finished my ABSN a year ago, zero regrets here. I went to a public university so in terms of ABSN programs it was very affordable, over in 12 months, and smooth transition into working as a new...
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    Is there any risks in becoming an Oncology nurse?

    Quota replied to lindsaymRN's topic in Oncology

    My unit is in the process of rolling out pay increases for being chemo certified, making me assume this wasn’t a thing in the past. I just got my voucher code to begin my online chemo classes so...
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    New Nurse Precepting a New Grad Nurse

    Quota replied to AllyAnnie2115's topic in General Nursing

    I’m pretty curious what’s going to happen on my unit in August. We’re set to have 6 new grads starting then, not sure who they’re going to get to precept them all without using some of us new...
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    Some advice on "Orientation"

    Quota replied to Birdsofprey's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry your orientation is going poorly. I’ve only been off orientation about 1.5 months but my orientation went very well. Very supported, lots of people on the unit willing to answer questions or...
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    I'm having a hard time finding an RN Job

    Quota replied to nurse0000's topic in General Nursing

    It’s not the case for everyone I promise. I’m about to hit 4 months in as a new grad and I’m feeling great about my career change to nursing. While Oncology wasn’t even on my radar as a unit...
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    port accessing tips.

    Quota replied to busybee04's topic in Oncology

    It’s been about 6 weeks since I found this thread and posted here but thought I’d share I successfully accessed my first mediport today. Much thanks to this thread and really grasping the...
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    Nurses Week Gift Jackpot!

    Quota replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Various little gifts each day of the week. I’ve came out with a nurse’s week t-shirt, hospital branded lunch box and Bluetooth speaker, assorted candy, pins, bath salts, and key chain. Wednesday...
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    RNs and up - Do you really use all of the "gen-ed" course material on the job?

    Quota replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in General Nursing

    To some extent it depends on where you end up working. If you’re on an ortho unit bones become more relavent, if you’re on a neuro units the nerves become more relavent. Sometimes no matter...
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    port accessing tips.

    Quota replied to busybee04's topic in Oncology

    Glad to find this thread. I’m a new grad on an Oncology medsurg unit and have been unsuccessful on the three mediport access attempts I’ve made. Leading me to just get more nervous each time...
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    How was your Nurse Residency Experience

    Quota replied to etakstat's topic in General Nursing

    All new grads are put in the residency program at my hospital which is a year long thing. Meeting once a month for 12 months, the year is broken into cohorts. I started the first week of Feb, some of...
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    New Grad Nurse Might Lose Job Struggling In Orientation

    Quota replied to Scrubba Dub's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to hear you’re having a hard time with your orientation on Oncology medsurg. I’m just coming to the end of my orientation on an Oncology medsurg unit myself, just finished week 10 of 11...
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    I accidently took home a zofran in my pocket.

    Quota replied to MarqT's topic in General Nursing

    I was close to taking a metroprolol home but have been good about getting refused/contraindicated meds back in the machine. My struggle has been not bringing my spectra link phone home with me. Week...
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    Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    Quota replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

    While there were many factors in my recent career change to nursing money was a big one. From a larger paycheck to significant cost savings from a drastically shorter commute with associated car...
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    Should employers check titers periodically?

    Quota replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Different field but in my previous career of diagnostic lab work Hep B vaccine was required due to exposure risk. They checked my titers when I started the job and roughly every 5 years or so after....
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    New Grad RN in California with 4 different unit offers, seeking opinions on which to choose?

    Quota replied to Mursthetics's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated back in August and also had a long journey towards a job offer but I just got the one and jumped on it myself. I start hospital orientation on Monday for a new grad Oncology fellow...
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    Only using UWorld to study?

    Quota replied to GlitterPrincess's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Agreed on not overdoing it on questions each day. I had a long time between activating my UWorld subscription and actually taking my NCLEX. We got subscriptions through school so activated to study...
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    I heard they were making the NCLEX harder in January 2019

    Quota replied to SilverNova's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I took my NCLEX in September and had the experimental format questions when I finished. Confirm they were in case study format and made me very glad I wouldn’t have to take the exam in that format....
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    RN Licensing by NCLEX in Maryland??

    Quota replied to tayrh's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Just register for your exam in MD, doesn’t matter where you
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    Only using UWorld to study?

    Quota replied to GlitterPrincess's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I mostly just used UWorld and passed in 80 questions. My school required a HESI exit exam, which we used UWorld to study for really, then we had to attend Hurst review. I’d agree Hurst review is a...