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  1. Lifestyle Discrimination

    I would also like to add that pregnant nurses are the worst to work with, "Oh I cant take that patient. Oh i cant turn my patient." If you can't physically do the job, its time to go on short term disability.
  2. Please help! Was this a hippa violation?

    Employers are sneaky and sometimes unethical. The only reason to ever release any information is if the patient personally requests it. My mom called out sick due to chest pain and ended up having a heart cath. Never telling her employer where she w...
  3. Lifestyle Discrimination

    Plain and simple, you hire someone based on their ability to do a job. As a fat cardiac nurse, I sometimes feel hypocritical, but I also know that as a fat patient, I am way more likely to tune out the fit and trim nurse's weight loss lectures becau...
  4. Afghanistan

    Haha you can totally tell I just got off of night shift with that post. What was going on in my head was... I had considered contracting previously, but never got anywhere with it. My friend, who is currently another type of contractor, recently got...
  5. Afghanistan

    Does anyone have any thoughts on working for a contractor as nurse on the American base in Afghanistan? My friend who is an electrical contractor recently went to tbe clinic for sutures, and I have been looking into nursing there. Has anyone done t...
  6. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

  7. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    I don't understand why nurses as a whole cannot work together and educate the public about the ills of hospital life. If there is public outrage over how thin nurses are spread and how dangerous it actually is, we can see change in the work place. I...
  8. I have 15k from an adn, but I only worked 20hrs a week at $7/hr so most of that was living expenses. My program was around 6k. Its not hard to live with.
  9. Quit nursing school after two months...

    Being a CNA was the first job I ever loved, that's why I went into nursing. I love what I do, but hate the politics of nursing/ hospital life. I can promise you if you don't like nursing now, you will never like it. It won't be worth the paycheck ...
  10. I am going to be honest and say that I kind of glazed over and stopped reading your resume. I second the opinion that it needs to be quick and easy to read, consider how many resumes HR people look at and most of them probably just get a quick scan....
  11. Need Some Help/Need to Rant

    In the Washington DC area, the only place you will be hired with an ADN is at Washington Hospital Center. Period. And I am pretty certain that the only reason I got in, is that I came with cardiac experience. They aren't hiring ADN new grads at all,...
  12. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    1. DC 2. 3.5 3. Cath lab 4. $30.03/hr 5. I honestly can't remember the differential. I think its 20% for night and $5 for weekends. 6. Unionized, mandatory by city law. Dues are 2.5x hourly wage/monthly. Studio apartment in decent building acros...
  13. Please listen!!!

    I am not certain how networking gets you your first nursing job. The only person I graduated with that got a job from networking was a girl who was a waitress and she just so happened to do a great job while waiting on a nurse manager of a CV unit. ...
  14. Another option for a clinical site may be a daycare for special needs children. I spent a day with babies with peg tubes and other issues that required specialized daycare. It was by far the best day I had during nursing school. I rocked a baby with...
  15. Please listen!!!

    Plus its the best way to be hired when you graduate. I tell everyone who tells me they are in nursing school.