That's right, roxiroxmysox. A working interview, at least in my case, was that you go in dressed in scrubs, stay for 3-4 hours during the intensive nursing part of the day. For example, when I did adult medical day care, I started out when 10 am me...
I want to leave a little update. I found several local jobs at Adult Medical Daycares, LTC facilities, and doctor's offices that are advertising on online classifieds. I applied, interviewed, received second interviews and working interviews. Afte...
erinadance replied to caramela's topic in Job Hunt
You are welcome caramela! I'm sure you will make a good decision about everything. Good luck on finishing school and finding work; it is really good that you are keeping the end goal in mind. Sometimes school gets so hectic, it's easy to forget all...
erinadance replied to caramela's topic in Job Hunt
Dear Caramela, I was an SI leader for two years at my school. I would agree a little bit with estrellaCR, in that it is more important to have hands on care with patients for marketing yourself for a first job. That being said, you do have a leg up...
erinadance replied to peds_oncoRN's topic in Pediatric
Thank you jrtaylor4 for the comment regarding talking openly about mistakes. If we, as medical professionals, can share our mistakes it can lead to collaboration and solutions to fixing the problems. Brian Goldman did a TED talk about this issue am...
I have to tell you that it is very competitive out there, and the hiring officers at the hospitals are holding their breath right now. I have an ASN in Maryland from a good Community College. I graduated with high honors, had great references and NO ...
erinadance replied to chariot's topic in Psychiatric
When we did our "group" project for Psyc, I was with two other students working with a diverse patient group, set in the milieu. We did a project on sports/exercise, but any topic having to do with your patients works. We started with an ice breaker ...