Rook

Rook

Member
  • Content

    75
  • Visitors

    3,149
  • Followers

    0

About Rook

Latest Activity

  1. Being a male nurse?

    As a member of the Class of 2011 I'm going to assume that you are 20-21 years old. Well, I got news for ya fella, those "some people" are right. Once you hit drinking age then there is no going back from those life choices that you made all of 12 mon...
  2. UK Nurses working abroad

    Saudi Arabia and/or other rich Middle Eastern countries might take you as a new grad. Here in the United States we're closed (we still have a shortage but have decided to tackle the problem head-on by not hiring anyone; especially new grads). I thin...
  3. Why Hopkins? Those hospital rankings are bunk. They only have meaning if you have a one in a million rare disease or if you are rich and/or famous. The only Baltimore hospital I know that hires new grads is Sinai. They are currently building a new P...
  4. ICU position after BSN graduation

    My hospital hires new grads in the ED, CICU and ICU or they did until the budgets cuts came. If you can't get ICU right away go to Intermediate care for a year. You'll need a few years to get into CRNA school anyway.
  5. Just don't go somewhere where you'd graduate with 60-80K in debt when you could somewhere for 20K and probably get a better edcuation. In MD Hopkins has one of the worst NCLEX pass rates and they you pay 40K/year for the privledge of failing it. Nobo...
  6. Highest Troponin Levels You've Seen?

    Trop and myoglobin levels used to get diluted out at a lot of hosp in the 90s. Trop can easily go over >1000 as you are measuring nanograms of the substance. However, a troponin >1000 isn't any more clinically significant than a >100. It jus...
  7. Trop and CK-MB levels

    I'm a chem/hematology lab tech and a RN. CK-MBs aren't considered a good cardiac marker anymore and many hospitals including the one I work at don't use them anymore. AST and LH are also considered to not be good cardiac markers as well. If you are ...
  8. Springfield hospital center and Sheppard Pratt

    GF works at Sheppard Pratt. Its a decent hosp. 8hr shifts only. Extremely busy in the AM, night shift is pretty dead from what I hear. She works PRN though (gets as many hrs as she wants) and she said that she would never work full time there through...
  9. H1B Visa sponsorships?

    As long as you have a year under your belt in exp you'll be fine in that respect. Getting a visa is tough in this climate now though. Job openings are scarce. However you might have a shot getting a job in DC or North VA its one of the better markets...
  10. Maryland Hospital Starting Salaries

    1.5 yr exp. 36hrs/week. I usually work one OT day/month as well to cover my car payment. Could probably work 48 or 60 every week if I wanted to but I don't.
  11. Accelerated programs...expensive or cheap?

    Salisbury University in MD is much much cheaper ($3500/sem instate - $7500/OOS), and only 3 semesters. I think the 2nd degrees have passed the NCLEX 1st time at 100% for the past few years running as well. SU administration also doesn't look into res...
  12. Jobs for male nurses

    No quotas. The bias is experience. My supervisor was telling me about our last job opening. She had 42 applicants for 1 job most of the applicants being new grads and a couple who had experience. She was throughly unimpressed with the experienced RNs...
  13. Have you ever been mistaken for a doctor?

    All the time as well. Of course the majority of them have demensia. I've experienced both extremes. I've always looked young for my age. 12 years ago when I was a medical technologist, I worked in a dialysis unit and one of my jobs was recruiting stu...
  14. Accelerated Nursing Program People

    When looking at accelerated RN programs I looked at the Univ of Pittsburgh, discovered it was 30K/year and promptly went to the univ. closer to my home Salisbury University of MD. Its a decent school and was 6600/yr for tuition 3 semesters only.accel...
  15. Maryland Hospital Starting Salaries

    Sinai $25 After 7pm $2 Weekend $1? Shore Memorial Hosp (not hiring) Easton $23.50 Eve 10 percent Night 15percent Weekend 8percent Sheppard Pratt $26? unsure about diff Union (in 09) $24 All of MD is pretty much in $23-28 range