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1. How to get a PostPartum job without related experience?

   jo716 replied to jo716's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi! Thanks so much for your feedback! Is there any particular company/organization that teaches lactation education that's recognized as being best to learn from or get certifications from for nurses? Thanks! Jo

2. How to get a PostPartum job without related experience?

   jo716 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hello, I'm a nurse with experience in home care, medical surgical, telemetry, and inpatient psychiatric nursing. What could I do to get a job in Post Partum nursing? It seems most places are either looking for New Grads with past related precep...

3. How to get NICU job without experience?

   jo716 replied to jo716's topic in NICU

   Wow thank you so much to everyone who replied with great tips and insights!! I've had experience in medsurg and mental health and working with families so hopefully parts of those experiences and skillsets will apply towards the NICU setting. I have ...

4. How to get NICU job without experience?

   jo716 replied to jo716's topic in NICU

   Thanks so much for your time and input!! I found it quite helpful ? Are there any courses online or otherwise that might help prepare me for the NICU setting?

5. How to get NICU job without experience?

   jo716 posted a topic in NICU

   Hi, I've noticed that most hospitals require NICU experience in order to apply for jobs but how can one get into this specialty without any pediatrics/baby/NICU experience? Thanks!

6. Looking at Master's programs in US w/ diabetes specialty- any thoughts?

   jo716 replied to WindyCDE's topic in Endocrine

   Gosh, this is an old thread but hopefully people who have been in these programs or similar ones can still see this and chime in! I'm interested in becoming a Diabetes Nurse Educator and see that several people mentioned the same here. I was wonderi...

7. What's your day like working as a Psych RN case manager? (Community based especially)

   jo716 replied to jo716's topic in Psychiatric

   Davey Do, Wow that's a lot of stuff you did! Would you say that patients in the outpatient setting were generally more calm and stable compared to inpatient patients on average? I understand especially working with Crisis Stabilization or when patien...

8. What's your day like working as a Psych RN case manager? (Community based especially)

   jo716 replied to jo716's topic in Psychiatric

   Every Learning LPN, Thanks so much for all your insight and tips! I have actually been working in a locked psych facility for the past 2.5 years now and I totally understand all the things you've described though there's some useful info I can apply ...

9. What's your day like working as a Psych RN case manager? (Community based especially)

   jo716 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hello, I'm curious about case management as a potential next job in mental health nursing & there is currently a position that is mostly clinic based that I'm looking at. Does anyone work in such a setting and what is your typical day like? Do yo...

10. SF Bay area lactation courses for RNs?

    jo716 replied to jo716's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thank you for your input!! :)

11. SF Bay area lactation courses for RNs?

    jo716 replied to jo716's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This was Exactly the information I have been looking for!! I wasn't sure what was appropriate for me to take or not and also the lactation course info I found on my own was super extensive and a little much for the current time but your info and opti...

12. SF Bay area lactation courses for RNs?

    jo716 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hello! I am aspiring to become a postpartum nurse (have had some years of experience in various other types of nursing so far but wanting to break into the PP world. Recently spoke with a unit manager who suggested learning about breast feeding as a...

13. Cover Letter Content if the job i seek isn't what i precepted in?

    jo716 posted a topic in New Nurse

    Sorry if that title had some grammatical errors ^_^, but anyway, I had my senior preceptorship in pediatrics, specifically on a surgical unit in a children's hospital. Since jobs are hard to come by right now I am wide open to all sorts of nursing j...

14. How soon to call nurse manager about job if you precepted on unit?

    jo716 replied to jo716's topic in New Nurse

    haha, well actually i did ask near the end of my preceptorship and there weren't any openings in the foreseeable future at the time. But i ended up calling today :)

15. How soon to call nurse manager about job if you precepted on unit?

    jo716 posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hi, how soon should I call the nurse manager of a unit if I applied for a job on the unit and shift that i precepted on (to let her know i applied/am interested/etc.)? I applied yesterday, and the job was posted the day before. Should I just call t...