floydnightingale

I don't see why not as long as you can handle it. I'm unfamiliar with the Kaplan entrance exam but my experience with Kaplan educational materials is that they are subpar, I'd charitably describe them as less than worthless. Good luck.

Actually there's a local hospital, recently sold by Ascension, which did exactly that, you didn't even need to be told by your doctor. It was in the city but adjacent to a "posh" suburb and for a small donation you belonged to a "society" and one call to a woman, I'll call her Beth because that was her name, and you skipped the line and if you were admitted you got a bed almost immediately. They even had a special wing for these clients, the irony being it was lousy care, I assume staff didn't want to work it.

HR needs to get rid of him and what you described is battery but if by "seeing" you mean dating a patient you may want to rethink that

What's a CSU? I'm guessing maybe a California State University? I'd begin by avoiding obscure abbreviations or jargon which require a definition. And your 3.89 GPA sounds good enough, even impressive... maybe, as you give no information. Was this on a scale of 4.0? And what kind of school; a respected? university, a community college?, classes set up in a strip mall to separate people from their money? CNA experience isn't necessarily good for much beyond maybe giving some comfort in a clinical setting and B's in A&P are really the minimum that should be achieved.

What's that thing they say about squeaky wheels?

If you can't do so much as check a BP and HR where are you going to find a scanner? I can't imagine what kind of facility this is.

I worked with a woman who discharged a patient and another patient's papers were mixed in on the printer, a common occurence, and a family member who imagined themself as some kind if HIPPA expert complained and she was fired. I said something to my manager about how I couldn't belive it and he said "Floyd, you know us better than that." They wanted to be rid of her as she was prone to spark dissensions that were unwanted but not fireable events.

If it's regular thing the teacher can buy their own aquaphor and a supply of bandages but in 20 years of ED nursing I've never heard of the stuff and wonder why you'd even stock it. Seems like you'd be busy enough adminstering the boatlads of psychotropic meds today's kids are on.

Lost me at farm psycholgy and what's an ED program?

Never saw much difference between an ADN and BSN for the most part, the ones who seemed to really know their shi... , sorry, knew their poop went through diploma programs, but how long ago were those a thing? I was orienting in the ER and they had hired a new grad, went to a school called a "public Ivy", he had no common sense, I don't remember if he lasted through orientation, I heard he quit and went to law school.

12 weeks sounds like a very short orientation, intubating and admitting a DNR to the ICU are two contradictions, and unless you're a CRNA I can't imagine you actually intubating anybody. Every place I've worked a physician did that. As far as drips being the ICU's job, I dunno, I'd get out before blowing up my license.

Sounds dodgy to me. In the US employees are either exempt (salaried, they can work you like a dog) or non-exempt (usually hourly). 'Non' means overtime rules apply, I'm unaware of exceptions to that. I did x-rays before nursing and they came up with a schedule over two weeks which was technically 4 hrs OT on one of the two weeks, like 36 + 44 to make 80. The schedule looked good to me and I fugured if it came down to it I'd complain but otherwise why not go with it. Years later a couple old x-ray colleagues got into MRI, I'd sit with them when I had a critical patient getting scanned, one day they told me I wouldn't get anything because I was part-time back then but they were getting paid. I didn't think too hard about it but not long after apparently they did an audit and I got a decent check. It wans't some fly by night operation, this place was on the level of a Mayo, you would've thought the hospital would've known better.

Were you fired for being intoxicared at work? I've heard worse things and employers are usually happy with a resignation. I wouldn't even mention it. You'll find work. Avoid etOH.

When I first started as an RN, (level one ED year 2000) there were two LPNs who were grandfathered in and only worked in observation where they were allowed to pass meds from a restricted list, 25 years later I'm sure they are long gone, to consider hiringb LPNs for the job seems insane especially in an age when hopsitals are seeking BSNs for entry positions.

When I was taking science prerequsites at Wayne State a woman who was my lab partner, I guess she was premed, said it was difficult if not impossible to get volunteer work, I think because it looked good on school applications.

Things have apparently changed. I was in a 4 semester CD2 program Class of 2K, after the first semester someone from the city medical center (5 or more hospitals and God only knows how many clinics) showed up and offered to pay evertbody's tuition for the remaining year in exchange for a two year contract. I interviewed for a position at the emergency hospital. My future manager had a heavy accent and I didn't understand much of what she was saying but when she said I'd need to take a physical and get a locker assignment I figured I was hired.

When I graduated the university hired a company to put us through a prep class and they gave us a study guide. I wish I could remember who publshed that guide because it was really good but any decent guide should be good enough. I also looked at other guides. In the end I was overprepared if anything. Having said that, avoid anything by Kaplan. The NCLEX is not difficult, just take it and get on with nursing.

I second that emotion

I have never consented a patient, maybe I witnessed one really don't remember but we aren't opening people up in the ED except for the very rare thoracotomy. ED care is general, it's about keeping patients alive. When the place I worked started doing more complicated monitoring only common in an ICU a very experienced nurse wasn't hired by a competing facility because they "knew she was lying" when she said we were doing CVP monitoring, just like they didn't believe that people walked in or were pulled out of cars with GSWs. We stopped putting new hires through ICU orientation and created our own because we'd never see a grashong or other things more common upstairs. A coworker once summed it up when she concluded a report with "I'll take care of the ABCs and you can worry about the rest of the alphabet."

Setting aside the fact that I don't have the time or interest to read ultrasound reports, if a physician tells me there's an ectopic that's good enough for me, what exactly would YOU do as a nurse if the ectopic was on one side vs the other? I'll wait for your reply.

You mean the ones who ask about popliteal pulses? And then follow it with "are you a nurse?" It's not just the ICU, thinking now about calling report to the woman's hospital and she asked me which side the ectopic was on. In my experience ICU nurse don't transition well to the ER, they can't focus on the emergent problem, and ER nurses who move to ICU always ask for their old jobs back.

Exactly what I wondered last year when it came out that graduates of fly-by-night nursing schools in Florida were taking the NCLEX and getting licensed.

should be simple enough for management to know if she was in your chart of just found your papers on the printer, of course if she opened your chart they'll be obligated to at least discipline if not terminate her

figured it was something like that but it didn't come up through a Google or Duckduckgo search, when I was in school I worked as a student nurse associate and after that I was a graduate nurse but I wouldn't throw SNA or GN at people, nursing is full of abbreviations that even people in the profession can't decipher, notice how many people follow their RN with an alphabet's worth of unintelligible letters