P51Mike1980

P51Mike1980

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  1. ER Nurses- How do you feel about ED volunteers?

    In terms of being given more responsibility I can tell you it will come (to the extent a volunteer can get more responsibility), but you need to be patient. Volunteers have a high turnover and nurses don't always want to invest responsibility in som...
  2. ER Nurses- How do you feel about ED volunteers?

    That's pretty rude of them, and I haven't seen that happen in the ED I volunteer in. The only time I'd ever interrupt a nurse who is in the middle of making a report/treating/talking to a doctor, is if there is a medical emergency. If you haven't d...
  3. ER Nurses- How do you feel about ED volunteers?

    Any reason why?
  4. ER Nurses- How do you feel about ED volunteers?

    I'd like to add something else to my previous comment, if you've been trained to, answer the phones! You don't know how much its appreciated if you can give the secretaries a break and be the go between the phone and the nurse/ED physicians. Its no...
  5. Tell them to take a flying leap. MANY employers put this in their handbooks in order to scare employees when it comes time to quit. Unless you are a contract employee that has a contract stating you will work for said employer for a specific amount...
  6. It may or may not count as experience but it does help with networking and getting your face recognized. I currently volunteer in an ED because I want to.eventually work in an ED. I can tell you that doctors and nurses have told me to apply when th...
  7. For Those Considering A Career In Nursing

    This was a great read and the last couple of paragraphs stated exactly why I left office work. Thankfully both my parents are nurses so I talked to them a LOT about it before going back to school. I see too many fellow pre-nursing students that hav...
  8. ER Nurses- How do you feel about ED volunteers?

    I LOVE being an ED volunteer, but what you do will really depend on the protocol at the hospital you volunteer at. Where I volunteer I answer phones, transport patients to x-ray, bring patients to their rooms, wheel discharged patients to their car,...
  9. Difficulty finding job as a new nurse

    This is going to be a huge problem in a few years and nurses start retiring again. There will be a shortage of "experienced" nurses. In a perfect world, hospitals would hire a healthy mix of experienced and inexperienced nurses; however, the people ...
  10. Have you tried just applying for ED positions? The ED I volunteer at takes nurses from different departments without any ED experience. Volunteering is a good way to get an idea of how the ED works, but as others have posted you won't get the skill...
  11. Are shy and quiet people not allowed to be nurses?

    I wouldn't give her a second thought. My dad was a nurse for 25+ years before retiring and he's the quietest person I know. His evaluations were great and he was a good nurse. He took care of the patients he had, talked to them when necessary, but...
  12. Probably gonna get fired my first week...

    Although I'm not a nurse, I've seen plenty of doctors in the ED where I volunteer do pretty much the same thing. I don't see either of those as a big deal at all.
  13. Is becoming a Nurse hard?

    Depends on the program you want to get into. If you want a BSN, a lot of the requirements are "hard." The program I want to get into requires: -Chemistry -Microbiology -Psychology -Sociology -Nutrition -Statistics -Critical Thinking -Writing and Re...
  14. Ditto! I had what most would consider a "good job" before I quit last year. It was in finance, and just like some people aren't cut out for nursing or anything medical related, I am absolutely NOT cut out for finance or anything business related. ...
  15. Its a sad fact of life that not all "book smart" people are "job smart," I encountered this on a daily basis in my former life in finance. That being said, as pointed out here, you have MANY options to choose from, such as LTC, teaching, administrat...