freespyryt

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1. University of Washington DNP Fall 2014

   freespyryt replied to Mica RN's topic in Doctoral

   I'm commenting mostly to follow, but I'm hoping to start in the fall 2015 class--Working on my app/stats class now! Looking at the hours it looks that it's not recommended to work full time during the schooling process, but I was hoping to try myself...

2. Difference in pay between Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver

   freespyryt replied to neurogirl77's topic in Washington

   I know this is an old thread but for those reading now: In Portland/Vancouver area I started at $33.49 per hour and was making $35.93. In Seattle, with a nurse of 2.5 years experience. standard rate (whether clinic or hospital) seems to be about $30-...

3. Low pay in Seattle?

   freespyryt posted a topic in Washington

   I moved up here because my partner got a job at Amazon and I expected the pay here to be higher than Portland, OR or even Vancouver but...no! It's abysmal. I started as a new grat at OHSU at $33.49/hour and that was pre shift differential! I left my ...

4. New (great!) job...and yet I still don't want to be a nurse?

   freespyryt replied to freespyryt's topic in Career Support

   I've thought about wound-care clinics or something similar that pay fairly closely to what I make now. Honestly I'd rather stay in this job until I was stable enough to quit all together and become an artist/waitress/anything else. I really am very l...

5. New (great!) job...and yet I still don't want to be a nurse?

   freespyryt posted a topic in Career Support

   I posted a year ago or so about working on a floor I loved for a boss that I hated. Well I fell into a home health job and quit that one (yay) and to be honest, this job is perfect for me. 12pm-8pm for hours, independence, my bosses and co workers ar...

6. Quitting my first job!

   freespyryt replied to freespyryt's topic in Career Support

   Thanks so much to you all! Don't worry, I won't quit until I have a written offer, its just that the verbal.offer has gotten me thinking about the next steps. I have talked to a couple other of my coworkers that quit and it seems like it is pretty st...

7. Quitting my first job!

   freespyryt posted a topic in Career Support

   I have been working on a stressful floor for the last year and a half of nursing, and out of the blue got a call from an office I'd applied to a couple months back and had my interview for a home health position. They had me do a ride along so that I...

8. New Nurse 1 year in...should I change floors?

   freespyryt replied to freespyryt's topic in Oncology

   Sorry, it's been a while since I posted. I wanted to elaborate more on this since some more problems have arisen. Over the last year I've been in a very tumultuous state. I started out loving my floor. It was challenging, but the population was good...

9. New Nurse 1 year in...should I change floors?

   freespyryt posted a topic in Oncology

   I am a 23 year old nurse who has been working on a surgical oncology floor for my first year of nursing. It's a well-known hospital and we have patients from all over the world come for treatment. My floor, from what many others (float pool nurses, n...