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First name, last name: "Susan Smith."

I came to nursing as a second career, and I notice something that many RN(s) don't - nurses have an unerring ability to make their lives difficult. Many times what they perceive as a "mandate" can be...

Cut them every way and in every way. You cannot constantly heap more work on someone's plate without taking something away. "Managers" like yourself are the easiest to deal with. Make the charting...

It is not academically difficult but very time consuming. Make sure you have a supportive partner and rock solid daycare plans. Reread previous sentence. No one will give you much sympathy if either...

It is a complicated and really good question. In my experience, you are not burning bridges with your current health system. I ditched a job only 6 months after an orientation (Critical Care at that...

Your thinking is very good - but here is where I plead ignorance. I don't know if the VA hires part-time...but yes, once you are in the door, you can basically move anywhere there is a job. Their pay...

Must be Michigan - and that is without research! Yeah, c'mon out to AZ!!!

Veterans Home (LTC) is run by the State of Arizona. VA Hospital is run by the Federal Government. It is much better to work for the federal VA hospital...our state is very broke, too!

I love my Littmann electronic stethoscope - at $300 expensive but worth it (overkill for what you need). The $50.00 lightweight Littmann is perfect for nursing school...apical heart rate, bowel...

Ouch, my bad! :) Ok - yes there is a pay range but the State of Arizona for many jobs (including RN) does not have "steps" that increases you automatically each year. So think of $30.85 as being...

Welcome to healthcare. The only way to escape that nonsense is to leave patient care. Innovation in nursing is usually the creation of more needless work or another useless form.

You are awesome. What a silly, sanctimonious OP....

You are awesome!

Actually not passive aggressive in the least. Nor flaming. Just stating fact. AZ Forum is often the blind leading the blind.

Some people used to work "local agency" for years. They would permanently live in Phoenix and then get "travel" jobs to hospitals in the Phoenix metro area. To my knowledge, I have not run across...

Then write questions here...all good. No great secrets anyway! Just be careful with the advice you get. It is worth what you pay for it. A lot of information is just flat wrong, though people offer...

A reason to be careful on this board, my friend. It is not the "VA" but the State Veterans Home. State - not federal. Be careful...take everything (including what I write) with a few grains of salt.

No problem! BTW, I did clinical time at the AZ Vets home (and had several friends who actually worked there) and loved it. The patients are just awesome, and the facilities were impressive. Granted,...

If given the choice (again), I probably would not have moved back to AZ. But you must have a draw to the state (that is neither here nor there!)...You have nothing to lose by asking nicely, right?...

AZ Vets home is a state job. AZ state jobs generally pay very little. With 6+ years experience you would be making in the neighborhood of $35.00 at my hospital. But that is a "private sector" job. I...

I have always made a good living as an RN. Very good living. But not $79,000 or even for that matter $46,000 worth of a good living (i.e.: I have earned more than $79k but that does not make the...

It is a matter of debt to income. As a new RN you can expect to RN between $48,000-$60,000. Brookline charges $46,150 if you have a degree (BA/BS) and over $79,000 if you do not. THAT IS OBSCENE and...

save your money and run...

A lot of CRNA(s) where I work are not the sharpest tools in the shed. OP doesn't surprise me. Takes money and time more than brains - like many part of medicine.

I work 8 to 1700 - no nights or weekends. I got the job with 3 years experience.