mikesinger

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1. Why do hiring managers say they will call and don't???

   mikesinger replied to Marshall1's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah baby. That's because you're cool as ice.

2. Can you be an er nurse with an assoc. Degree?

   mikesinger replied to ksm84's topic in Emergency

   Our ER is high turnover and hires no experience ASN new grads. Depends on if they like you. Helps if you did your clinicals there. ASN: best in clinical. BSN: shuffles paper really, really well. MSN: knows how to attend meetings.

3. Why do hiring managers say they will call and don't???

   mikesinger replied to Marshall1's topic in General Nursing

   I've been offered the job after my interview, went home and waited for the call from HR... and waited... finally days later I called back and got the preemptive middleman, who said they decided to go with someone else. Thanks, I guess, for wasting my...

4. why does medsurg nursing have to be like this?

   mikesinger replied to pale_pilsen's topic in General Nursing

   I really, really hope you have the guts to leave nursing and are not just venting. I work with too many nurses like you, who hate their work, who are always complaining about the patient, the family, the mean doctor, the aide who isn't helping enough...

5. Why does this stigma exist in relation to new nurses?

   mikesinger replied to VeraciousRN's topic in New Nurse

   This is eerily similar to a post yesterday that didn't go over so well. I'm not sure I'll be taking this one seriously.

6. Is hanging chemo a health hazard?

   mikesinger posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work on an oncology floor. The nurses I work with are kind of banding together to insist that the chemotherapy be rotated to different nurses. They feel it's a health hazard to be hanging chemo all the time ( some think they get all the chemo patie...