head3rd

head3rd

Oncolgy, Neuro, Med/Surg

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About head3rd

head3rd has 1 years experience and specializes in Oncolgy, Neuro, Med/Surg.


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  1. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    Its a tight market in most parts of the country right now, the Shortage started about 10 years ago and schools have steadily been churning students out with new programs opening all the time. If you combine that with the economic situation where nurs...
  2. Do Nurses Eat Their Young?

    I don't know that I would go quite that far but as a male nurse I noticed a difference in how I was treated compared to 4 females that started at the same time. We were all brand new nurses with basically the same level of experience. I was treated g...
  3. You might want to think about relocating, The hospital system I work for hires new Grad's or any RN with less than 1 year experience into a residency program called Versant. They have a website versant.org, if you go to clients it shows cities that h...
  4. Difference Between a New Nurse and an Old Nurse

    While I'm a new Nurse, years as an Paramedic have made me old in medicine, I love grossing out the young nurses I work with at night by heating up my food in an emesis basin or making tea in a urinal. (we run out of break room supplies a lot)
  5. Difference Between a New Nurse and an Old Nurse

    So true, so true
  6. Jobs for male nurses

    It is true there are quotas to be filled, in Nursing males are a minority. When I graduated I knew of 10 guys that all applied to the same residency and we were all hired. We made up 20% of the new hires
  7. Male Nurse, Female issues?

    As the only male nurse on the night shift on my unit, I want the females to treat me as a peer and not an outsider. Luckily I guess the ladies I work with are all very cool. I found it funny that after a couple of years working with them They really ...
  8. Benefits of being a male nurse vs Female nurse

    I think its funny I get assigned Pt's that the last shift say were a nightmare and after explaining to the Pt how "we" will be managing their care, its usually smooth sailing. Problem Pt's seem to be less of a problem for male nurses
  9. Have you ever been mistaken for a doctor?

    So True, it happens all the time, my last shift I had a patient calling me Doc all night, I kept telling him I was his nurse but he just kept at it. Finally he said you should be the Doctor you are the one actually taking care of me not him.....gotta...
  10. Get a job at a local hospital as an CA/Tech/whatever they call it in your area. That way you will be seen by the people in charge of hiring GN candidates for that unit. When I graduated my facility hired 18 acute care GN's, 14 of us already worked th...
  11. Help with Scrub color.

    I would have gone with gray personally, all through nursing school our uniform color was light Teal, wasn't a fan but hey, they man makes the clothes not the other way around
  12. is nursing right for me?

    Every Nurse I work with has something that grosses them out, Poo, snot, vomit etc. They all work through it when they have to. It also depends on where in Nursing you end up. ICU, Med/Surg, Nursing homes = POO ED, Home health, surgical = No POO
  13. Just got a new grad job in neuro - what to expect?

    Thats awesome to hear, I work on a Neuro unit and love it, My best days are when I come back after 3 or 4 days off and see that pain in the A** patient that was combative, pulling lines every 10 min, in a halo, and 4 point restraints walking down the...
  14. Guys: what made you want to go into nursing?

    Good pay after a few years Always a job once you get your 1st one Go home most days knowing you made a difference in someones life So many options with a few years experience....hospitals, home health, corporate health, medical technology, list goes ...
  15. Nursing Preceptorship Problem

    If you are choosing based on finding if you really want to work in OB vs Med/surg, I would go OB. A coworker of mine thought all through school that she wanted pediatrics, after her preceptorship she knew she didn't want that after all.