lisaannejo

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1. When someone asks you what you do for a living, do you say "nurse" or "RN" or "LVN"?

   lisaannejo replied to HHN2472's topic in General Nursing

   I usually say "nurse". But then I do get the RN question. When I say yes, I do sometimes get the BSN question.

2. Would you commute an hour to a job you wanted?

   lisaannejo replied to nursebythesea's topic in General Nursing

   I currently have a 40 minute commute and I hate it. That's because it is during rush hour in the metro Phoenix area. I am planning on moving closer to my job so I don't have to deal with the traffic :-)

3. Question from a third shift nurse....

   lisaannejo replied to BrandonLPN's topic in Geriatric

   I just resigned from a LTC facility where I was the RN for night shift. We had a constant battle with day shift about how many to get up. They wanted ALL the residents up by the time dayshift got there. So the residents were being woken up and dresse...

4. Chamberlain College of Nursing

   lisaannejo replied to MelitOlmo's topic in School Programs

   I am a CCN grad. While the school does have some issues (and I think that there are probably some issues at all schools), the hospitals in the area (Phoenix) love Chamberlain students and grads. The school does offer a good education despite its "rep...

5. When did you find out you got the job?

   lisaannejo replied to KristenHuerta's topic in General Nursing

   In my SNF job I am in now, I got the job offer that same day. With the hospital job I just got, I had one interview with a tour and a second interview with the shift supervisors set up. I had to wait two weeks for the second interview, but was given ...

6. Applying to 'no experience necessary' jobs and being rejected for lack of experience?

   lisaannejo replied to moodyred01's topic in Job Hunt

   When I graduated with my BSN last October, I couldn't get a hospital job at all, even with 12 years of other healthcare experience. Yet all my classmates were getting them. It was frustrating. I took a job at a SNF, with both ltc and subacute rehab. ...