irishrnbsn

irishrnbsn has 5 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg/Telem.

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1. What Are OR Managers looking for?

   irishrnbsn replied to irishrnbsn's topic in Operating Room

   Thank you so much, there is definately a lot of helpful information in your answers. I currently live in Orlando and am willing to move anywhere in Florida, Georgia, Texas and North & South Carolinas to get into the OR. I worked med/surg for 3 ye...

2. Trying to transfer into OR, any advice?

   irishrnbsn posted a topic in Operating Room

   I am an RN that has been working in Med/Surg/Telemetry for 5 years. I have been applying for OR positions and realize that in order to work in the OR I will have to apply for an internship. I have called a few hospitals and found out when they will b...

3. What Are OR Managers looking for?

   irishrnbsn posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hi, I am an RN that has been working in Med/Surg/Telemetry for 5 years. I have been applying for OR positions and realize that in order to work in the OR I will have to apply for an internship. I have called a few hospitals and found out when they wi...

4. No advocate in management

   irishrnbsn replied to lacunawestward's topic in General Nursing

   I know that in my experience trying to switch departments now is a friggen nightmare! I went into nursing partially so that I could move around and change it up but somewhere along the line hospitals decided they didn't want to do this anymore and it...

5. No advocate in management

   irishrnbsn replied to lacunawestward's topic in General Nursing

   Don't forget about LITIGATION as a reason for these problems. The last place I worked we had a very tall and intimidating man who would come in with "chest pain" and be found to be positive for cocaine each time. Because we were a large hospital syst...

6. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

   irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

   Well call me crazy but I consider psychology to be in the medical field as well and any social worker that works in a medical facility also works in the medical field in my book, we all have varying degrees of knowledge and scopes of practice, but to...

7. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

   irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

   I didn't even know you could become a PA without a Bachelors degree in something. Maybe out of the military? Not sure. I'd have to check that out.

8. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

   irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

   Thank you for backing me on the DNP thing (people are very particular about semantics here, I'm not publishing this in a magazine for Christ's sake), where I am schools are also going to DNP programs only.

9. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

   irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

   I apologize for all those that have attacked you, you can easily see why you hear "nurses eat their young" frequently. If we would stop b*tching at each other, and instead worked together, maybe we could make some positive changes for nurses in this ...

10. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

    irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

    What field would you consider nursing in, if it requires no medically based learning? I'm pretty sure I had to learn alot about medication, anatomy, pathophysiology, etc to get my nursing degree. No, it isn't to the extent of Doctors and I didn't say...

11. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

    irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

    Sorry, I should have clarified I live in Florida, so calm down before jumping down someones throat. All you had to say was it is different in different states. In Florida you have to have an agreement with a physician to work, see below from the Boar...

12. Have you ever had the kind of day

    irishrnbsn replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    If there is a nurse out there that HASN'T had that type of day, I'd like to know if your facility is hiring!

13. Nurse Practioner Diagnostic Ability

    irishrnbsn replied to guest_57352's topic in NP Students

    I am an RN,BSN who has just applied for a DNP (Doctorate of Nursing Practice) program, which is going to be the required degree for a nurse practioner soon. As an NP you are technically always under a Doctor. Your patients may never see that Dr. but ...

14. can I still become a nurse, though I had bad grades in college?

    irishrnbsn replied to janthi's topic in Career Support

    Well it depends, you have to take prerequistes before you can even apply to a nursing program so if you take those, you definately want to try and get an A or B. If you got low grades in some of the basic classes required for any degree like English ...

15. What part of your job do you enjoy most/least?

    irishrnbsn replied to GirlDotson's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was told to do Med/Surg when first coming out of nursing school and I did, but unfortunately hospitals aren't the way they used to be. I became a nurse because I wanted to be able to move around to different specialties. At the time I applied for m...