DNS on the go replied to IndyJonesFan's topic in Job Hunt
Keep trying to look but expand outward...nursing jobs are scare. As a new grad it is worse...you cost to much to train and orient. While your looking, try to get a job in LTC. Even LTC is hard now with all the budget issues. Keep the faith an...
DNS on the go replied to tracytreiz's topic in LTAC
It is very hard for new nurses to get jobs. It is even hard for experienced nurses to get jobs. The future is going to be worse as budget cuts will cause hospitals and LTC/HH to tighten up on staff. It is a do more with less world. As a forieg...
Having spent a lifetime in nursing and having held many roles, I would like to offer my ideas about the profession of nursing. 1. While nursing is a profession it is also a trade. Being a trade does not lower or diminish nurses or what nurses do. ...
DNS on the go replied to katoline's topic in Geriatric
Medicare cut the reimbursement 11.1% starting with the MDS books that are submitted with an assessment reference date (ARD) of 10-1-11 (today). We were rushing to have as many books done with the ARD of 9-30-11 as possible. Too many cuts are coming...
DC lamb 3, My advice is get a job as a C.N.A. during the weekends-evening and nights. You will get experience and a chance to meet the managers who will be hiring. If I were you and had a good job, I would not have quit to go to nursing school full...
If you have the opportunity and the resources, please go straight to Medicine. Medicine is a more difficult route in that their is no part time training and residency is a killer. As a MD you have all the options you want, just pay your dues up f...
DNS on the go replied to kimmersRN's topic in Geriatric
Please do not run to LTC thinking it is easier or less stressful. LTC is chronically short staffed, little supplies and paperwork galore. Every bruise, scratch, etc requires an occurence form and pages of documentation with an update to the care p...
DNS on the go replied to DNS on the go's topic in Educators
As a nursing instructor and as your colleague, I have an issue that I would like advise on. If you read my previous post, from previous semesters you would see that the issue of training new nurses who would rather not be nurses is a major issue. ...
I am currently teaching a theory and clinical class for one year BSN students. All the students are college graduates and they have decided to enter into nursing. In the clinical site, the students are being exposed to the nurses and to the various ...
DNS on the go replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Geriatric
Dear Capecod Mermaid, I find it very hard to believe that any LTC facility would give you a month orientation to a new or any nurse. One month of unproductive time??? Additionally, no hospital will give 1 day orientation except for an experienced a...
DNS on the go replied to MadameFreckles's topic in Geriatric
LTC is a business-most LTC facilities are for profit. The mentality of the administration is geared towards cost containment which manifests itself in poor staffing, poor benefits, lack of supplies and lack of resources to do the job. Add to this t...
DNS on the go replied to beatrice1's topic in Job Hunt
While I understand the writers passion, the nurse needs a job not a "pie in the sky" peep talk. Even if our nurses gets a job, gets alots of experience and gets an IVY league MBA (all not even remotely likely), the sad reality is that nurses are a ...
DNS on the go replied to beatrice1's topic in Job Hunt
Please do not waste your money and time on further degrees including a BSN or an MBA, at this time. What you need is a job. If you can not find a job, either volunter or move on to another career. If you can return to your previous career and v...
Yesterday, in clinicals the students I teach had an opportunity to speak one of the senior nursing directors of the hospital. The main question they asked her was about gettings a job after graduation. The nursing director was polite but told then t...
Yesterday, in post conference a students asked me when are they going to learn "real" nursing. Each student had done med pass on one or two patients that day. When I asked the student what he meant he stated that nursing is not about vital signs and ...