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  1. I was in a similar position, wanting to move back to Colorado, and also to be in oncology. I found it was really easy to move and find a job in my particular area once I had experience in that area. If you have a specialty that you're passionate abou...
  2. They didn't teach me that in school

    I've been a year and a half in oncology. I had a couple years experience when I started, and I think that helps. That first year of nursing is just so hard, and so scary, and you need to be very, very gentle with yourself. Hopefully the people you wo...
  3. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

    Really? I was SO nervous. I'm in oncology, so I don't use this stuff much, but it does still come up. I would not have passed without practice, that's for sure. I put Vfib on the weirdest one (it was multiple choice), what else could it have been? T...
  4. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

    Just a final update on this. I used a couple sites to study, including skillstat.com, and practicalclinicalskills.com, both of which have great EKG strips and quizzing software that makes it easy to practice. I practiced pretty much every day, though...
  5. Taking down IV Chemo

    I'm wondering about this, because everyone on my floor will just take down the secondary and leave the line, esp if it has continuous fluid going. I do the same thing, because that's how I learned it, but I agree, the whole system is exposed to the c...
  6. LP with chemo in peds

    I had always thought that too, about LPs, and just yesterday I had a patient go straight from an LP to a bone marrow biopsy. I questioned it because they are supposed to lie flat, and the guy down where they do the LP told me they don't recommend tha...
  7. bio/chemotherapy course from ONS

    I'm surprised you were able to receive certification without paid experience. I thought you had to be working 6 months in some area of nursing first -- not necessarily oncology, though. I precepted in Oncology, too, and learned a ton, but it's just n...
  8. bio/chemotherapy course from ONS

    We hired a nurse who had gotten her chemo certification, even though she didn't have oncology experience. Oncology experience is hard to find, and her certification showed a lot of commitment to the field, which we liked. She still had to learn the r...
  9. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

    Well, duh. Any suggestions about the best ways to study? I suppose it's too much to hope that someone who has taken the test knows what's so tricky about it. Is it just that nurses don't know EKG rhythms very well, or is it something about this test...
  10. Hi all -- I have a contingent offer for a job at University of Colorado Hospital, and have to pass an EKG test and a pharmacology test before it's completely official. Has anyone done the EKG test and know anything about it? I worked on a tele floor ...
  11. Where have you applied? Gotten your acceptance/rejection letter yet?

    I got my acceptance to CU-Denver last Wednesday. :-)
  12. Where have you applied? Gotten your acceptance/rejection letter yet?

    Where all did you apply for NP school? Just to University of Colorado - Denver Which school is your first choice and why? CU-Denver, but if I don't get in, I can apply to University of Northern Colorado in July for January entrance. What speciali...
  13. pump vs gravity

    We always do vesicants to gravity, rather then the pump. The idea is that it's safer than having something that will continue to push something into the vein.
  14. Denver Job Outlook

    I have not tested the waters myself, but two nurses from my floor just got jobs in Denver fairly quickly and moved there last week. I work on a med/surg/tele floor and both of the nurses were experienced -- one has 2-3 years, the other 1+.
  15. Legacy Health Residency, Portland, OR

    I'm not keen on the idea of moving, but here I go. I'm in Colorado, and I love it here, but I'm moving to Boise, ID. I'm excited about my new job, in a magnet facility, so I think it will be good. I think I could eventually get a non-hospital job h...