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  1. Help with interview questions

    Please help me choose the best answer for this questions. Thanks. 1 When a patient complains, what should you do? [TABLE=width: 90%] [TR] [TD] Find out what is going wrong and what you can do about it. [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] Ask a supervisor to get i...
  2. Fired from my first nursing job, before one year

    This will be for sure a setback on your nursing career. It is not over, but, absent powerful family/friend connections in the desired hospital, expect future employment to be at much less prestigious facilities, locations, units, and shifts. Prove yo...
  3. So I Just Have To Get Creative?

    Just be careful for your creativity not to fall outside the nursing scope of practice. Some nurses get carried away. Remember that for some things THERE IS a strict protocol that needs to be followed to a T. Always remember that you need a physician ...
  4. I feel truly sorry for new grads

    Nursing employment has been cyclical, you are right. But what is different this time is the number of nursing school graduates. Look it up, twice as many people graduate from nursing schools today than 10 years ago. 5,178 people graduated from nursin...
  5. Being a shy nurse

    I am not going to sugarcoat this issue. Shyness will be a major handicap in your nursing career. Once you start your nursing courses, you will learn that being a patient advocate is at the core of nursing. This means speaking up for your patient, rep...
  6. Need Advice... Nurse stealing non-narcotic medication

    It is theft, plain and simple. Narcotic or nonnarcotic, prescription or OTC, patient or hospital supply; does not make an iota of difference. You are stealing. Can't believe some nurses think it is OK! Say you had contractors working at your home and...
  7. Unrealistic expectations of nurses.

    I hear your call to unite and fight for nursing. In this respect, I find a pity that only about 5% of nurses are ANA members. After I passed the NCLEX, it was the first thing I did. And I consider my ANA membership my most important contribution to n...
  8. New Male Nurse = No Problem Landing A Job ???

    The OP is (was) definitely mistaken in believing that being a male RN guarantees a job. But so are those who believe that gender has no effect in nursing employment whatsoever. The truth, I believe, lies in between the above extreme propositions. I, ...
  9. New Male Nurse = No Problem Landing A Job ???

    You are forgetting workforce diversity. Employers value it. Since males are underrepresented in nursing, as are African Americans, Asians and Hispanics, it may give men an advantage in the hiring process. Not that it guarantees employment, but if the...
  10. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    The fair thing to do would be to apply this policy across the board with all hospital execs and managers cleaning their offices and restrooms and all physicians responsible for cleaning their areas too. Selectively applying this cost cutting measures...
  11. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    They are not thinking this trough. Was HR ever consulted on this? This is going to affect their RN recruitment and retention big time. Vandy is not going to attract the best and the brightest nurses with a job description that includes heavy lifting ...
  12. Tuition Reimbursement Programs in St. Louis?

    If you are researching hospital benefits, it is crucial you get the terminology right, lest you get turned down when you apply for your perceived benefits. "Tuition reimbursement" is the term used by hospitals to describe reimbursement for eligible e...
  13. Tuition Reimbursement Programs in St. Louis?

    SSM offers tuition reimbursement but as with BJC has discontinued its loan repayment benefit to RNs. In the STL region I think that only Mercy and St. Lukes still help you with educational loans prior to employment.
  14. SSM will reimburse tuition up to $4,200 per year for full time employees. This is NOT a loan repayment program (SSM dropped that benefit a few years ago). People get confused about this. Tuition reimbursement is for school fees you incur and paid WHI...
  15. Student having doubts about future salary in STL...please help

    Your sources are right. At SSM, for instance, new grads start @ $21.00/hr for days; $24.00 if you work nights (15% differential for taking on the graveyard shift!). And that is one of the best paying hospital systems in the state. Disappointing, I kn...