witty_online_moniker

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1. am I a nurse or home maker???

   witty_online_moniker replied to jack1339's topic in Private Duty

   I'm still new to nursing, but each client that I've oriented to so far needs meals prepped if they are PO and the nurse is responsible for cleaning equipment and maintaining a neat and tidy patient area. Including patient laundry if the family doesn'...

2. Private Duty for New Grads

   witty_online_moniker replied to reginarn88's topic in Private Duty

   I accepted a PDN job for pretty much the exact reasons you stated in your post. I'm about 5 weeks into it and there are only two patients that I'm comfortable taking on my own at this point because they are not as complex. I just did my first solo sh...

3. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

   witty_online_moniker replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   Thank you both for taking the time to share that info - definitely sounds like a lot to learn, but it's helpful to at least see some of the acronyms and ventilator-specific terminology before getting a crash course. I can't imagine how a single day o...

4. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

   witty_online_moniker replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   I'm usually a quick study, so I could see wanting at least two shadow shifts for a new client -- one to get the basics, the second to fill in the gaps and be able to ask specific questions. I'd expect that during a second shadowing shift, I'd be the ...

5. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

   witty_online_moniker replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   I've been offered positions with two different agencies. The first offers two days of in-office training, a day of orientation to the case and then they turn you loose. The second agency has you do two days of shadowing/assisting right off the bat...

6. new grad, PDN, and experience for the hospital

   witty_online_moniker replied to clearblue3's topic in Private Duty

   I am in the EXACT same position as you. New grad, hospitals won't give me the time of day despite all of the networking I've done, and I am considering a PDN offer with an agency that feels like it would be a good fit for me based on the training/sup...

7. Suggestions for keywords that will get my resume onto an actual nurse manager's desk?

   witty_online_moniker replied to witty_online_moniker's topic in Job Hunt

   This is such a different experience for me as every other job I have landed has been on my own merit with my cover letter and resume being enough to get me an initial interview. Nursing seems to be an entirely different ballgame and I struggle qui...

8. Suggestions for keywords that will get my resume onto an actual nurse manager's desk?

   witty_online_moniker posted a topic in Job Hunt

   New grad RN, graduated in May and passed my boards in June. Been looking for jobs since getting my license with absolutely no luck whatsoever. Like every other new grad, I'd prefer an acute care position, but I will consider other options for gettin...

9. How long did it take you to land your first job?

   witty_online_moniker replied to Sessa RN's topic in Job Hunt

   I graduated in May, passed the NCLEX in June and am still looking for that elusive first job. I have applied for about 50 or so different acute care positions, some that specifically stated new grads welcome, some that put "experience preferred" inst...

10. Nursing School Blues??

    witty_online_moniker replied to Nili927's topic in General Students

    This is exactly what I needed to read this morning, even though the original post is ancient. I had my first day of my advanced med/surg clinical rotation yesterday and was feeling down over my general incompetence at this point. The combination of i...

11. How's your dating life?

    witty_online_moniker replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    Two words: Time Management. I'm a single parent in my second year of nursing school and it is a bit of a balancing act, but I have a social life, a dating life, and I'm pulling A's in my program. I use my time wisely during the week so that I can re...

12. Portfolio or not?

    witty_online_moniker replied to EMT-B BSN RN's topic in Job Hunt

    Is there a "standard" list of what types of things should be included in a nursing portfolio? I'm a student and our instructors want us to have all of our peer skill check-offs included in our portfolios, along with a summary of the skills we have pe...

13. Clinical simulation fears

    witty_online_moniker replied to mamataeangel's topic in General Students

    Argh, I have the same issue! I feel so unnatural doing the skills on a plastic person and I ended up leaving out some important components of skills because the mannequin didn't respond in the same way that a real person would have when we had our la...

14. Nln Prep Book

    witty_online_moniker replied to Aisel's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I recently took the NLN and used this review book: http://www.amazon.com/Review-Guide-RN-Pre-Entrance-Exam/dp/0763762717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295420688&sr=8-1 The practice tests were very similar to the actual exam. I have always had stron...

15. Will you delete your Facebook account of you get into nursing school?

    witty_online_moniker replied to RscodADN10's topic in Pre-Nursing

    No - I make it a point to keep my Facebook page tame enough that I wouldn't be embarrassed if my grandmother, my classmates, or my employer were to have access to it. I don't air my dirty laundry on Facebook, complain about my job (or school) on Face...