CareerStudent10

CareerStudent10 has <1 years experience.

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1. New RN Grad Need Guidance Please :()

   CareerStudent10 replied to NewICUNurse93's topic in New Nurse

   I too am a new grad nurse. I am working in a trauma one CVICU. This coming week will be my fourth week off of orientation. I completed a 12 week orientation and I was previously a nurse extern for one year on the unit while in nursing school. I have ...

2. Floating to CVICU

   CareerStudent10 replied to SE2010's topic in Critical

   When I began in CVICU I found that researching various medical device companies was very helpful in understanding the basic mechanism and functions of each device. Companies such as abiomed, syncardia, thoratec, medtronic, etc have excellent resource...

3. Exploring the Gender Pay Gap in Nursing

   CareerStudent10 replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

   I find this to be an interesting topic as I am a male nurse who is also a new grad. I went back to school for an ADN after working in inpatient mental health/Social Work for several years. My wife is also an RN with a BSN. My wife makes more than I d...

4. How do you handle manipulative/demanding patients?

   CareerStudent10 replied to kimmyanne02's topic in Psychiatric

   I am currently in nursing school and working full-time as a mental health tech in a 6 unit stand alone psychiatric hospital. I currently work on our high acuity men's unit. I have worked at this hospital for about 2.5 years now and I began working on...

5. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

   CareerStudent10 replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

   Having left a full time job at Costco in Marketing to begin nursing school and to work as a behavioral health technician I can tell you it takes about 10000-12000 working hours to get to the top of the scale with incremental raises every 1000 hours o...

6. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

   CareerStudent10 replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

   As someone who left a job at Costco in Outside Marketing to pursue a career in nursing, I would have to say that the the grass may not always be greener on the other side. This is actually my first post here as I am a long time reader. I have worked ...