In my opinion this is the path to take. My advice is to volunteer to be a Super User or equivalent position for an IT initiative to get your feet wet and go from there. I can't count the number of...
BIGBLOCK472 replied to anonymurse's topic in Men in Nursing
I introduce myself as, "Hi, I'm Matt, I'll be your nurse tonight." Since the nursing assistant on my rotation is named Matt as well, I invite them to call me anything they want, as long as it's not...
Oh no, sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. Actually, I made my post not considering that not everyone had nurse aide/ward clerk experience like I did going into nursing school. I hadn't considered that...
Hmm... a changed perspective you have granted me :) I originally said no to working as an aide because all through school I worked as an aide and unit secretary. Had my hospital wanted to continue to...
BIGBLOCK472 replied to Little Panda RN's topic in Orthopedic
I'm a new grad ortho nurse (though I've been working ortho for 2 1/2 years now) and we routinely have 6-8 patients nightly. There's usually me and a CNA, but sometimes I'm coupled with an LPN. Our...
Absolutely not! RN licensure is way too hard to come by to be a nursing assistant...even just for a few months until a job comes open. If a hospital has dozens of jobs posted but won't hire a...
I'm a new grad (5/2006 from NEMCC) and I started out at $19.20 per hour plus $2/hr from 7p-11p and $3/hr from 11p-7a at a privately owned hospital near the TN state