SandraDeeRN

SandraDeeRN specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac.

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1. Pittsburgh ICU nurses

   SandraDeeRN posted a topic in Neuro

   I am interviewing at both Shadyside Neuro ICU and AGH's trauma ICU. I have been working at UPMC for the past three years on a cardiac unit and I am very excited to go to the ICU, I am just not sure which one. I shadowed at shadyside as a GN, but di...

2. ICU jobs in Pittsburgh...

   SandraDeeRN replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Pennsylvania

   jamst...you shouldn't have any trouble getting into an ICU out of school. Whatever you're offered take it. You'll get the experience and will be able to go anywhere else if you decide to. I turned down a job at shadyside in their neuro ICU as a GN tw...

3. ICU jobs in Pittsburgh...

   SandraDeeRN replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Pennsylvania

   Thanks. I work for UPMC though and my contract is up this summer so I can't go to AGH yet if I wanted to. I've heard bad things about that place though....

4. Pittsburgh ICU jobs...

   SandraDeeRN posted a topic in Neuro

   I currently work for a UPMC community hospital and want to do CC but they're not letting me, its a long story, see my post in the PA nurses forum for the whole story but I wanted to post something brief in here asking about any openings in the downto...

5. ICU jobs in Pittsburgh...

   SandraDeeRN posted a topic in Pennsylvania

   I have been wanting to do CC since I graduated two years ago and seem to have a hard time getting in somewhere. I had the chance to work at Shadyside in their Neuro ICU but I turned it down as a GN and regret it. I have worked medsurg with telemetry...

6. RN to BSN in and around Pittsburgh...

   SandraDeeRN replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Pennsylvania

   The North Hills campus.

7. RN to BSN in and around Pittsburgh...

   SandraDeeRN replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Pennsylvania

   Well I started in the OR last week and their shifts are 7-3, 9-5 or 2-10 and I was going to just tough it out and work 2-10 during the week so I could have the days open for class and when I suggested that to her she was like I would just find anothe...

8. RN to BSN in and around Pittsburgh...

   SandraDeeRN replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Pennsylvania

   BCCC only offers chem 1 three days a week plus lab during the day which I cannot do since I work full time daylight mostly. CCAC offers it in the summer in the evenings which would be PERFECT BUT...I called the lady at Pitt today and she told me it'...

9. Average starting pay in PA?

   SandraDeeRN replied to mummer43's topic in Pennsylvania

   Yeah I know. It seems everyone else around the pittsburgh area makes much more....

10. Average starting pay in PA?

    SandraDeeRN replied to mummer43's topic in Pennsylvania

    When I first started at a pittsburgh hospital it was 18.95 two years ago. It's now up to 19 something for new grads.

11. RN to BSN in and around Pittsburgh...

    SandraDeeRN posted a topic in Pennsylvania

    I got accepted into Pitts RN to MSN program but I have a problem. I didn't have to take chemistry in nursing school b/c my high school credit counted as it. SO....when I got into Pitt they were like you need to take a college chemistry which is a p...

12. Finished first week of orientation....

    SandraDeeRN replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Operating Room

    Yeah I figured it was too early to make any calls yet. I haven't really done much yet like I said and I was just hoping that what I have seen already isn't how it is everyday. Right now I'm bored b/c I don't have many things to do or know what to d...

13. Finished first week of orientation....

    SandraDeeRN posted a topic in Operating Room

    So I just finished my first week of OR orientation. I came from a med surge floor looking for a change and I found it. It is totally different and I guess I like it so far. I have mostly been following my preceptor around and doing little things l...

14. Is it just me?

    SandraDeeRN replied to Diva Nurse Dani's topic in General Nursing

    You're not alone. I work med surge heart failure stroke and feel the same way. I've been there for two years and I'm transferring to the OR next month to try something different and see what else is out there. I get frustrated with the family meme...

15. What's your favorite type of patient?

    SandraDeeRN replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I like to have either the confused ones who don't ask you a million questions about what you're doing because they don't know any better (they also can say the funniest things some times...) or the alert, but nice, older patients who aren't demanding...