RNmichaelJ

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1. New Nursing Career: 90 days - UM suggests I voluntarily resign

   RNmichaelJ posted a topic in New Nurse

   Warning this rant is long and likely something you hear too much about but here it goes... I am a displaced automotive engineer, passed my state boards 03/2013 and started last April on a step down cardiac unit. I was let go after being told rep...

2. Can I pull this off??????

   RNmichaelJ replied to RNmichaelJ's topic in New Nurse

   HouTx: Thank you for the kind words. Tonight I am on my 3rd of 4 nights in a row. When my job satisfaction varies like a roller coaster as it has been your posting really picks me up. I am certain I can do this I just dred the process of being a new ...

3. Can I pull this off??????

   RNmichaelJ replied to RNmichaelJ's topic in New Nurse

   Thank you all for the insight. I thought I would see if my rant produced any feedback at the end of a long difficult night. Our computers were on a planned outage. I got a new patient and was logged off during my admission process. The ED of course h...

4. Can I pull this off??????

   RNmichaelJ posted a topic in New Nurse

   I worked as an orderly while attending mechanical design school in the 80's and returned to nursing as an RN after 25 years as a manufacturing engineer after my plant closed in 2009. I have completed 6 weeks under a preceptor on a cardiac floor. I am...

5. New Nurse....the dreaded interviews

   RNmichaelJ replied to RNmichaelJ's topic in New Nurse

   Ok so telling the truth is helpful.....I guess I was trying to sell how smart I am to a couple of seasoned nurses, my bad. Providing assurance of my interest, ability to learn, confidence and desire to collaborate in a team environment are things I o...

6. New Nurse....the dreaded interviews

   RNmichaelJ posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hello: Happy to be part of this cohort. I am a recent ADN gradute licensed RN looking to get hired in a local mangnet hospital. I have an interview next tuesday on a "cardiac" floor. The floor is the least critical of the cardiac floors in this hospi...