tinyhands4Him

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1. Moving to Nashville-need info.

   tinyhands4Him replied to cimae's topic in Tennessee

   I don't work in L&D, but my roommate is abt to start there next wk. I have worked at Vandy for the last 3 yrs though. It's a high-risk unit for sure...I think the current push is the higher-risk, the better....it supports our 76 bed NICU for su...

2. Moving to Nashville July 2008

   tinyhands4Him replied to soko2002's topic in Tennessee

   so vandy does have a GN program but will hire new grads without going through this program with the one exception of their children's hospital....all new grads MUST go through their GN program unless you have 6mo min. in peds beforehand (as a RN). t...

3. I need some Nashville RN info!!!

   tinyhands4Him replied to tommytwice's topic in Tennessee

   Vandy starts its new grads out at around 17.50/hr and then there's a critical care diff. if you go that route. I have heard that other hospitals in the area pay a little more, but pay in the south in general is a lot less than in California....even ...

4. Vanderbilt Program

   tinyhands4Him replied to michellemybelle's topic in Tennessee

   I just started working at vandy a few months ago and have run into a lot of nurses and NPs that went through the master's entry program and at first it did seem super wierd. But, if you think about it....MD's don't have previous experience or an ide...

5. Archived SC Nurses Posts from 2004

   tinyhands4Him replied to Tomskatt's topic in South Carolina

   Hey! I actually grew up in Clemson and loved it....it's a small college town (population about 13,000 plus the university has about 17,000 students), nice theaters and restaurants are about 15-20 min away. It has its on small town shops and restaur...

6. Does anyone hold additional certifications related to Neonatal nursing?

   tinyhands4Him replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in NICU

   CatRN, I would love it if you would recommend other reference books for us. I'm a new grad that's just worked 4 months in the NICU and I am excited to get my hands on anything I can. Thanks!

7. Pinning Ceremony

   tinyhands4Him replied to Nrs. LaLa-Land's topic in New Nurse

   we also had a senior banquet around feb....a wk before everyone was leaving for preceptorship (we do 9wks of precepting and can choose anywhere in the US so only about 6-7 out of the 60 in our class stayed around)...the juniors planned it and perfor...

8. nasty patients who whine too much

   tinyhands4Him replied to nadia562002's topic in New Nurse

   i like to try this method when i am faced with unruly parents (I precepted in Peds and I work in the neonatal ICU....so its usually the parents).....take a deep breath before entering the room....and slowly blow it all out....all your thoughts, anger...

9. I have a question

   tinyhands4Him replied to Born2BAnurse's topic in New Nurse

   She could try shadowing a nurse for a few days or even in a few different areas, but you don't have to know what area of nursing you want to go into to start out-lots of people change their mind in nurisng school anyway, and you'll have a wide variet...

10. new test change in nursing board

    tinyhands4Him replied to myabutrn's topic in New Nurse

    you should go to the nclex site (http://www.ncsbn.org)....it has new sample questions daily and talks about the new questions and when they are due out. I took my exam in july and i didn't have any of the new questions at all, but we were told that ...

11. Pinning Ceremony

    tinyhands4Him replied to Nrs. LaLa-Land's topic in New Nurse

    For ours we all voted on three people we wanted to speak...they could be actually professors or even clinical leaders that we just had during our rotations (we used some nurses in different hospitals we rotated through that weren't professors at our ...

12. How do I handle this?

    tinyhands4Him replied to nekhismom's topic in New Nurse

    I graduated in May and I encountered a similar situation at a hospital where I always got the run-a-round. I too became extremely frustrated....eventually I just came to the conclusion that I don't want to work for someone that is so stressed and un...

13. Does anyone feel as frustrated as me?

    tinyhands4Him replied to fourbirds4me's topic in New Nurse

    Please, please, please don't let them kick you off orientation no matter how short staffed they are....its not fair to you or your patients....4 wks isn't enough for a new grad in any area, mcuh less a speciality area such as OB where everything is f...

14. Last Semester--HELP!

    tinyhands4Him replied to Nrs. LaLa-Land's topic in New Nurse

    i was the exact same way....i knew if i had to spend even 6 mo. working with adults i would prob. quit nursing all together....i needed something that worked with pediatric patients....i didn't think i could get anything straight out of nursing schoo...

15. Last Semester--HELP!

    tinyhands4Him replied to Nrs. LaLa-Land's topic in New Nurse

    I agree! I just graduated in may and am now in a level 2-3 NICU....in clinicals i worked up to four on a step down icu floor but that was only for like 2 days in our last semester of having clinicals....our last semseter we did our preceptorship and...