In the hospital I work at there was an incidence the other week where there was a short staffed nursing-unit. Our unit offered up some of our RN's, but they declined because one of their on-call nurses was coming in. So thats what my hospital does ...
Rachelwhs2013 replied to reddellrn's topic in General Nursing
A lot of new graduate nurses choose the med surge floor because it has a wide variety of cases, and they dont know what or if they want to specialize. I doubt you are too old! New grads need the veteran nurses to help and teach them along! :)
Rachelwhs2013 replied to peppapig123's topic in CNA/MA
You'll probably be making around $27,000 a year (from indeed.com's statistics for Ohio). And, from what I've heard it is better to just go the 2 extra years and do RN because the pay is $20-$30 higher (what they said) and they are phasing out lpn's n...