raianne

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1. Interview Attire

   raianne replied to green34's topic in Job Hunt

   I wore a suit to the interviews for my first two jobs in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but the most recent job I interviewed for was in Texas. It was 100 degrees and there was no way I was wearing a jacket of any kind. I wore a black pencil skirt...

2. Well.. I guess I am going to be canned

   raianne replied to Phoenix2541's topic in Safety

   I'm sorry that happened to you. It makes me wonder if that could have happened to me...the very first job I had was on an understaffed med/surg floor, and one day I was so incredibly busy that one of the housekeepers took pity on me and, along with ...

3. I'm nervous!

   raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

   I absolutely hated my first job as a new grad. Looking back, I can see that it was actually probably a good unit for me to learn on...floor with tele, lots of post-op patients, a very busy "get 'em in, fix 'em up, get 'em out" type of floor. I work...

4. Be the Nurse You Would Want As a Patient

   raianne replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Rock

   Very good post. I am a nurse because I was a patient. I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma when I was 27. I had never been in the hospital before. I realized, over the course of my hospitalization and subsequent outpatient chemo, how much wo...

5. What is the point of becoming a nurse?!

   raianne replied to newRN121's topic in Pre-Nursing

   They're/their/there

6. Death

   raianne replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   "i have no experience with death. none. i am 31 years old, and in my life, no one close to me has died." those words could have come straight from me. i am 31, and i have lost a great aunt, a great grandma, and my grandfather. that's it. all of ...

7. How is your life working nights?

   raianne replied to AlexisNicole's topic in General Nursing

   I love nights. Less stress (usually), less people running around in the halls, and I'm (again, usually) able to do my job without feeling like I'm being pulled in 20 different directions at once. There are always rough nights, just like there are r...

8. Do the doctors and nurses really sit apart in cafeterias?

   raianne replied to Maui79's topic in Relations

   On the off chance that I do get to eat something, it's in our break room...and doctors do sit in there and eat sometimes. As far as actually having time to go to the cafeteria and eat something, forget it. There are days that go by in which I have ...

9. Do new graduates really get a job that easily in nursing?

   raianne replied to Bchung5's topic in New Nurse

   I have read many of the same posts about new grads not being able to find a job and I think that it depends on where you live. I'm in Pittsburgh, got my accelerated BSN at Pitt, and pretty much everyone in my class (20 of us) got jobs within a month...

10. Seriously? A hospital is NOT a hotel.

    raianne posted a topic in Relations

    So I work on a surgical oncology floor. We generally don't get medicine patients unless all the medicine floors are full. Last night we get a call that we're getting a patient...we're confused, because our floor was pretty empty, but so were all th...

11. If you had to do it over again would you?

    raianne replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    yes, but i'm still relatively new. i graduated in august and started on my floor (med/surg oncology) in october. i'm 31...i was a lab tech for six years and then i went through an absn program. i have never had a job that is so completely physic...

12. "That's where they keep big needles to stick bad little boys."

    raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

    A man tells his little boy as they walk by my med cart, "Know what that is? That's where they keep big needles to stick bad little boys." I didn't say anything because I was super busy and didn't feel like arguing with him, but I really wanted to sa...

13. Job market reality for new nurses

    raianne replied to DNS on the go's topic in Job Hunt

    I just graduated from an ABSN program in August and I would say that 90% of my class has jobs. Some had jobs before we graduated. It helps that we went to a university that is affiliated with the largest healthcare provider in the region, so I'm su...

14. Thanks to an awesome nurse recruiter!!! (and preceptor)

    raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

    Here's my story. I graduated in August from an ABSN program, and began trying to find a job. I absolutely LOVED the floor that I did my transitions on, and my preceptor was amazing. I've read mostly negative stories about preceptors on this site, ...

15. opinions about 1 year "2nd degree" BSN nursing programs

    raianne replied to pghfoxfan's topic in General Nursing

    I'm currently 1/3 of the way through a one year ABSN program (fall, spring, summer), and so far we have not lost any of the people in our group. It's incredibly demanding and challenging and tons of work, but I love it...and I'm managing to work two...