HathawayToGo

HathawayToGo has 10 years experience and specializes in Psych-Occupational.

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1. RN job market in Connecticut

   HathawayToGo replied to HathawayToGo's topic in Connecticut

   Thank you to Start2 and SwampCat! I appreciate your help. I will check some of these out today.

2. RN job market in Connecticut

   HathawayToGo posted a topic in Connecticut

   Hello CT Nurses, I am presently a native NY'er working as an RN in Albuquerque, NM. I am anxious to make it back to the NY area and thinking about moving to CT. From what I have heard, it seems to be a more difficult to get nursing jobs now, compar...

3. Please HELP! Where should I attend?

   HathawayToGo replied to LovinIt2010's topic in Career Support

   Hi Lovinit, Glad you decided to check the website! Thank goodness, I am working! However, some of the difficulties I have found with my situation (going to a school that is not nationally accredited by the NLNAC) is that the Federal government, suc...

4. new nurse starts in specialty, then wants med surg experience

   HathawayToGo posted a topic in Career Support

   Hello and thank you for reading! I am a new nurse, graduated in September 2009. Before going to nursing school, I had an MA in psychology. As a new nurse looking for employment, I was lucky to start right into a specialty and I am now a psychiatric...

5. Possible to be "Completely relieved from duties" if you're the only nurse on duty??

   HathawayToGo replied to lashuna1028's topic in Career Support

   Funny...I was just reading something about this today in a book I got, The Everything New Nurse Book. Of course, state and facility rules will differ, but this book says that if you are an "RN", only another RN can relieve you / cover for you. I als...

6. Please HELP! Where should I attend?

   HathawayToGo replied to LovinIt2010's topic in Career Support

   Hello and congratulations! I wanted to reply so that you don't fall into a trap that happened to me. Please make sure the program you choose is accreditaed by the NLNAC (not just the state BON). I went to Apollo College. I feel I obtained a good e...

7. Is this OK, when leaving my job?

   HathawayToGo replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   What a nice gesture! I did somethnig like this a fews years ago when I left a job (not nursing). I was able to get personalized key chains and pens for my supervisors and co-workers. They were meant as "thank you and good bye" gifts. The cost was...

8. New Nurse soon to be disillusioned d/t burn out stories and status of health care

   HathawayToGo replied to HathawayToGo's topic in New Nurse

   Hello Nursel56! Thank you also for your reply. I am new, and I think you are so right that I can make good use of my time now by really thinking about what is most important, and sticking to what I think is right and working on that. I do also have...

9. New Nurse soon to be disillusioned d/t burn out stories and status of health care

   HathawayToGo replied to HathawayToGo's topic in New Nurse

   Hello Walk6miles and Monicanurse: Thank you, Thank you! for taking the time to reply with such thoughtful comments. I really do appreciate it and your comments have given me some good things to think about.

10. first job interview in Psych Hospital. Please help!!

    HathawayToGo replied to blueflyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hi! Congrats and good luck! I work in a psych unit as well and agree with the last post. I would also add a couple of things I have been asked: How do you handle appropriate boundaries? How would you provide education to a patient?

11. New Nurse soon to be disillusioned d/t burn out stories and status of health care

    HathawayToGo posted a topic in New Nurse

    I am not new to the work force, but I am new nurse. So far, I love being a nurse. Unfortuneatly, in my first job as a psychiatric nurse, I feel very discouraged. I see a lot of things I don't agree with, such as "soft" admissions to keep beds fill...

12. i failed my nclex-pn yesterday...nurses please help!

    HathawayToGo replied to want2blvn's topic in NCLEX

    PS- Sorry, I thought you DID get your official results....Oh, give yourself a breather. Don't panic yet.....you may have passed!

13. i failed my nclex-pn yesterday...nurses please help!

    HathawayToGo replied to want2blvn's topic in NCLEX

    Hello, Sorry to hear the news that you did not pass the NCLEX. That is very difficult and discouraging. However, now for good news, you can take it again. I passed the first time, but not all my friends did. I kept studying with a friend who did n...

14. I'm 39 and want to become a nurse.

    HathawayToGo replied to quinnsite's topic in Male Students

    Hello! I left a federal job with a nice salary after 17 years, to return to school for nursing. I became very unhappy in my old job and as I thought of what else I could do, all roads pointed to nursing. It sounds like you are putting a lot of tho...

15. Anyone can get into Nursing.

    HathawayToGo replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I am sorry to hear you were upset by this conversation with your boyfriend. I am a new member here, and just started nursing school a few weeks ago. In only a few weeks, I am already learning things that are so new to me, such as nursing di...