lil mac

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1. Leaving the nurse profession

   lil mac replied to Cindycin37's topic in New Nurse

   Cindycin, I've been nursing a looong time! There are challenges but nursing has been a good career. While you are working , start looking for a part time position in an area of nursing you want to be in. Geriatric nursing is definitely not for everyo...

2. No Nursing Shortage At The Present Time

   lil mac replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

   Gee...... If there is a nursing shortage, we have a built in excuse for working short handed in almost every area!! Nurses leaving and not being replaced and their positions being eliminated! It is true that a lot of people will become or have become...

3. Finally decided to quit nursing

   lil mac replied to jennjen512's topic in Professionalism

   Hi! If you really felt peace after the phone call you probably did the right thing for you! Myself I have a love hate relationship with nursing, there are so many places your basic degree can take you! I bet if you can figure out what your dream job...

4. Finally decided to quit nursing

   lil mac replied to jennjen512's topic in Professionalism

   Hi! If you really felt peace after the phone call you probably did the right thing for you! Myself I have a love hate relationship with nursing, there are so many places your basic degree can take you! I bet if you can figure out what your dream job...

5. Please Help - I have no where else to turn

   lil mac replied to abbaking's topic in Relations

   The patient needs intervention as well. People with poor coping skills tend to lash out with what ever theve got "my rights". Probably has a long history of abusing staff. Hope your admin has lots of experience with the "difficult client". I truly f...

6. Calling Nurses Back to the Field

   lil mac replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   Unfortunately I did not know the corner I was painting myself into either! Now that every area is a specialty. It's not easy to move from one to the other. After spending 13 years in the OR I decided I wanted to do something different.... 8 yrs later...

7. Am I assertive enough?

   lil mac replied to lil mac's topic in Career Support

   In the last year I have applied for mult. positions but a dialysis company that i have appied with before interviewed twice(differant people, differant clinic) has now opened 25 chairs. .... didn't hire me before ...

8. Am I assertive enough?

   lil mac posted a topic in Career Support

   Dear Friends, I've been out of work for close to a year. I would never have thought that possible with the nursing shortage and all!!! Some of my friends, (not nurses) are growing impatient with me! "you can't just sit on the computer" "you need to ...

9. Changing careers

   lil mac replied to MAMAYBE's topic in CNA/MA

   Hi! know where your coming from! I am an RN and am really interested in the RDA do they go to surgery with the oral surgeon?? If you go to MA take some Managment/administation a lot of the managers of Urgent care centers (in the South anyway), are ...

10. Rotten deal or should I be happy I got it at all. New Grad position with strings.

    lil mac replied to ItsaTwap's topic in Career Support

    when I went from LPN to RN I got a .25 raise! i had to change jobs before I made new grad wages. But I wouldn't have gotten the New job without the experience from the old job!!!! ....did that make sense?????

11. How competitive is UAH's nursing school?

    lil mac replied to ApostolicGirl's topic in Alabama

    Contact the nursing school you will have other classes to take. The university where you plan to get your BSN will only exept so many credits from a transfer. You wouldnt want to pay for classes they wont except.

12. ADN or 2nd degree, what should I do?

    lil mac replied to whattodo4's topic in General Nursing

    It has been my recent experience most places have minimum requirements for BSN, even in rural areas. I'm going back to finish my degree to be more marketable. So you might as well go on and do it from the start.

13. *Some Advice* What do you tell yourself when you didn't get the job?

    lil mac replied to nurseypoo87's topic in General Nursing

    iVe only been ot of work for 3 weeks. I thought i was doing something wrong! Ive work in Managment postions for the last 6 years. So now I dont have recent clinical experience!!!!! I've been a ADN for 16 years! so I decided to go back and get my BSN....