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  1. Made a child with cancer cry.

    I work in paeds onc. We tell all our parents, including parents going to transplant/BMT that their parenting style should not be altered by their child's diagnosis or treatment and that they should continue to enforce their usual limits and boundarie...
  2. Sydney Childrens

    I have also worked at Sydney Kids (in areas you expressed interest in). Would be happy to answer questions via PM.
  3. Nursing Agency accepting new grad

    Have you thought about volunteering as an RN with St. Johns Ambulance? This will give you the opportunity to learn and practice skills in first response and emergency care as an RN and network with health professionals from a variety of backgrounds. ...
  4. There are a lot of Kiwi nurses who do grad programs in Australia (there were two in mine and at least one in the year before me). However I have a feeling it is more complex in the reverse. Good luck!
  5. New graduate program

    You should be able to find this information on each hospital's website. The process in Victoria might have changed since I was a grad and it isn't impossible that you have to go through the Matching process for some private providers (particularly so...
  6. Nursing Agency

    I recently contacted Nursing Network Agency to enquire about a position advertised on the MyCareer website and was not impressed by their recruitment staff at all. The woman I spoke with was rude, not clear about specifications and requirements for t...
  7. New Graduate Program Interviews Sydney

    My interview was several years ago now and is blurred in my memory with a very similar interview I did in third year for an AIN position in the same facility. There were six questions (I believe this was standard then, I don't know how the process ha...
  8. New graduate program

    You need to do your research. Find out the names of hospitals, get on their websites and research their graduate programs. You need to be proactive in the competitive employment environment that is graduate nursing in Australia. Victoria is a hard ma...
  9. New Graduate Program Interviews Sydney

    Your university should be able to provide you with practice questions (there is a common scheme and format of the questions asked across NSW Health) and a general guide to answering them. Practice practice practice your answers and have responses pre...
  10. new grad blues

    First off, it sounds like your orientation was lacking. As a new grad I had two weeks supernumerary on my first rotation and six weeks on my second rotation (though this was in a critical care area, new grads rotating to other wards had another week ...
  11. Sydney public hospitals

    You need to consider what you want from a graduate program and do your research. Is a big hospital with a lot of complex cases, rare diseases or trauma important for you? Find out what hospitals tend to deal with those patients. Do you want to work i...
  12. Graduate programs

    This situation is particularly bad in Queensland given the current political environment and the major public service cuts. If you haven't seen what is happening between the Newman government and the medical fraternity in QLD and are wanting to work ...
  13. Staying in critical care after new grad

    I would stay in ICU, hands down. Especially if the acuity and/or census if often low and there is competition to actually get a sick patient. 6 months is nowhere near enough to have have ICU down to a tee. If you like it, then stay!
  14. PICU to NICU - Suggestions & Thoughts?

    Hi All, I completed my new graduate year as an RN at a tertiary children's hospital (five months on a speciality ward and seven months in the ICU - where we cared for newborns through to teens). At the termination of the graduate program I was offere...
  15. Changing from ICU nurse to a doctor?

    No, it's not. I know plenty of RNs who've gone to medical school. Point is, they didn't expect - or get - credit or recognition of prior learning for being an RN. Everyone comes in from scratch. The reality is - being a doctor is nothing like being a...