WANTAFUNJOB

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1. San Jac Uniform Question

   WANTAFUNJOB replied to Tonks's topic in Texas

   SAS carries a nice white supportive shoe. Very comfortable. Worth the money. I know, they look like old lady shoes - but you will find when you are working you need comfort - not fashion statements.

2. Rotating Shifts?

   WANTAFUNJOB replied to Purdue_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Shift rotation is NOT a good thing. Avoid it if you can. Some places will give you a straight evening or straight night shift. It is usually with day shift that you must agree to rotate. It has been my experience that it is better to take a ful...

3. Don't be a Psych nurse if.....

   WANTAFUNJOB replied to IMustBeCrazy's topic in Psychiatric

   Psych Nursing is facinating! And, as in everything else, there are different areas of psych nursing which some nowdays refer to as BEHAVIORAL HEALTH! (I had a mother get angry with me for saying that her child was admitted to a psychiatric ward.) ...

4. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

   WANTAFUNJOB replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

   Okay, I remember - The bedscale was green = it had a solid board that tipped up so you could push it up and down the hall - it had the ballancing weights. It lived in the equipment closet (dirty utility room) with the blood pressure machines that ...

5. Attention office nurses

   WANTAFUNJOB replied to iloveofficenursing's topic in Tennessee

   I thought that perhaps all of this had changed by now but I see that it has not. This is what prompted me to go to nursing school. I was a young mother, bright, interested and in need of work. The physician's office that I worked in trained me ...

6. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

   WANTAFUNJOB replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

   Ya'all are scaring me! = I remember all of this. I think I still have a nursing cap up in the closet somewhere. Remember when DRG's came in and everything changed. I blame DRG's for the nursing shortage now - shakey times = and how did the in...