lepetitoiseauRN

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1. Which clinic specialties use RNs?

   lepetitoiseauRN posted a topic in Ambulatory

   I'd asked about this in the nursing careers forum with little luck. I'm hoping I can get some help here. Which clinic specialties seem to need/have RNs the most? Before I went to nursing school, I worked as a medical assistant for many years, but on...

2. Changing my path...

   lepetitoiseauRN replied to lepetitoiseauRN's topic in Career Support

   Thanks so much for your kind words. This has been particularly rough for me. I wanted to follow your advice and get some feedback from HR before I came back to answer here. My hospital is one of the most well-known in the country and it often seem...

3. Changing my path...

   lepetitoiseauRN posted a topic in Career Support

   Hi all! I was hoping to get advice on the situation I'm in right now. I've only been a nurse for about a year. For a few months I worked in the OR but it wasn't the right fit, so I took a new grad position on a critical care unit. I love my floor, co...

4. New Grad Interview Tomorrow!

   lepetitoiseauRN posted a topic in Career Support

   I'm a new grad and have been working for the past 3 months orienting to the OR. At first when I found out I got the position, I was really excited at the opportunity. But, as reality has set in, I'm thinking more and more each day that it's not the s...

5. Ever felt dizzy in the OR?

   lepetitoiseauRN replied to sameasalways's topic in Operating Room

   I'm a new grad working in the OR and thought I would freeze to death at first. But, you'll be running around quite a bit which always works up a nice sweat. My biggest problem is running around and getting sweaty, then standing still for a couple hou...

6. New OR nurse feeling lost

   lepetitoiseauRN replied to lepetitoiseauRN's topic in Operating Room

   Thank you all for the wonderful replies. I only wish I had nurses like you at my hospital. :) I took the past couple of days at work to try and have a better perspective despite how much things have been bringing me down. It ended up being better bec...

7. New OR nurse feeling lost

   lepetitoiseauRN posted a topic in Operating Room

   I graduated last December and thanks to the nursing oversaturation where I live, didn't land a job until late May. I was hired into a small hospital OR that's part of a larger hospital. At my hospital, we do general surgeries, bariatric, neuro, uro, ...