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  1. I wish I would have more time to write now... (I try later on) but all I say now that wherever you end up to, try to get a job from a teaching hospital. Not a smaller community hospital, as my experience (as a foreign nurse from Scandinavia) is that ...
  2. It's been a while I posted this, but I wanna thanks for all the replies I got! Thanks for the encouragament--actually something happened and I'm on my way (hopefully) to more stress-free life now:). I talked to my manager and told what's going on. H...
  3. Thanks guys for your replies so far:). I've thought about the same things... I just talked to my boyfriend, the very exact thing: "life's too short to be this miserable". I am sure not everyone on the floor is as miserable as I am--but I know more t...
  4. I'm looking for opinions and maybe just plain sympathy... I feel like my life has changed to the worse since I started my new job a few weeks ago. Sounds dramatic, maybe I'm exaggerating as I still have a wonderful spouse and I am happy in life in ge...
  5. Hi all, I relocated to Fayetteville to live with my dear Ft. Bragg-based boyfriend :redbeathe and got a job on a surgical unit in Cape Fear Valley Hospital, will start later on this summer. I've never worked in this hospital before and I'm just plain...
  6. I was wondering about this thing... I gave my current job a month notice of resignation. Now, during this 30-day period, I had to call out for one shift due to migraine. I was told that I should not take any PTO during this last month, which I never ...
  7. uniforms are killing us

    Just a foreigner's point of view here... I didn't even know before that there's a possibility to wear whatever kind of scrubs you like, such as colors, prints... In my country nurses wear mostly white, and the scrubs are ALWAYS provided by the hospit...
  8. MrsCleverclogs: I agree about the language. I'm not native in English myself, but don't have a heavy accent and feel I'm able to communicate fluently (have learnt English since I was 10.) I know there are some "slang words" and abbreviations which m...
  9. As a foreign nurse (from Northern Europe) who is about to start working in a big University Hospital soon, I'm interested in knowing how are international nurses generally welcomed in American hospitals. Of course it depends on the hospital, unit and...
  10. New International Nurse to this Board...

    Thank you both :) SueIP, I'm living in NC. I'm sure this board will be very helpful and I'll learn a lot from here!
  11. Hi all, just wanted to say hi as I'm propably gonna spend some time in this board after finding out I'm gonna start working in orthopedics soon! I'm an internationally educated nurse (Scandinavian) and transitioned to the US a few months ago to do nu...
  12. Handling long shifts and pets

    Thanks everyone for your good replies! I will certainly seek and find out about those options you mentioned. Thanks!:balloons:
  13. Hi all, I'm an international nurse about to work as an RN here in the USA later on. I have already passed my NCLEX and will get a job trough a recruiting agency. I've seen threads here about managing long shifts and family/children, and my question i...