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The job market for nurses is getting ridiculous. Personality tests, credit checks, wasn't getting through nursing school hard enough? Now they are going to check my Visa card use to see if I can...

You can work as an RN with a felony conviction. It depends on what you were convicted of. I know anything involving violence, and I believe narcotic sales and a few other things. You have to...

Usually juvenile records are sealed. I think I would check that before I brought up information that wasn't absolutely required

See if you can talk to someone in HR, or your DON and do it as a group. You can get significant discounts. We have one starting in Louisiana where I work and they knocked 2000 off to make it 6500. ...

I am always thankful to my instructor from my first semester in nursing school. She was a Lt. Colonel in the reserves and had many years of civilian and military experience as a nurse. She would...

I am not a smoker. I tried it once when I was 11 and didn't like it. I never smoked again. It is legal to smoke, although banned in many places and the number of places is growing. It is a choice...

I have found a very big difference in nurse/doctor relationships depending on the unit you are working. ICU and ER, I had a close relationship with the doctors. Working the floors, CCU, and Psych...

Like all fields of nursing, you don't have to be certified to do the job. You can get the job as a nurse in a hyperbaric unit without the certification. If you want to work hyperbarics, learn wound...

Is there really that much difference between going to class online, being in the back of a classroom that has 200 students? The professor won't remember you either way. At least online you can get...

I have read these comments and heard these comments so many times. I find it humorous. I have an ADN. I woked for 10 years in a level 1 trauma center. I can tell you that if a person didn't tell you...

Union is not a dirty word. There is power in numbers. The hospitals are progressively being gobbled up by megacorporations under various shadow companies. Nurses do not charge for their services,...

Don't let the negativity get to you. Nursing is a great career. The options are virtually unlimited. The negative response to salary is based on comparitive information. The pay for starting...

Now, adding to the problem is the state is planning to close Charity and University Hospitals. We took care of the vast majority of the uninsured patients in the area. It is estimated that there are...

Isn't a PA a bachelor's degree and a nurse practitioner a master's degree. Last time I heard, it takes longer to get a masters. I made no derogatory comment, just a statement of fact. Nurse...

Added note: I have another friend that worked with me as an X-ray tech. She just finished school and is now a radiology therapist. She got hired right out of school in Tampa at 28.50 an hour starting...

I have a good friend that graduated and is now a nurse practitioner. She is working but had a really hard tiime finding a job. PA's make more and go to school less. Go figure.

I appreciate it. I am one of the lucky ones, really.

I live in Metairie a suburb of New Orleans. I did not do activation team this year for the first time in 10 years and I actually felt very guilty when I saw my friends on TV. I felt like I had let...

I find the 70% thing to be cloudy. Check with ABATE. they track motorcycle injuries. If my son were riding a motorcycle, which I have been succussful so far in preventing, I would want him to wear...

don't let my response discourage you. i have had many jobs in my life. i have been an ironworker, commercial diver, sold rare coins. nothing i have done gave me any real satisfaction even though...

I read an article last year that stated the average gross salary nationwide for RNs was 45,000.00. The sad part was the same survey 10 years earlier had the same result. No real change in 10 years....

I have been an ER nurse in a level 1 trauma center for 10 years. I keep track of motorcycle trauma because I have also been a motorcycle rider for 40 years. I have been in a couple accidents myself,...

The problem is nationwide. Nurses are unfortunately viewed as an expense since we do not charge for nursing care. It is part of the hospital bill. So we are in the same category as the maid when you...

"Hi-Iam from the south and a state and city on the east coast-last state on the tip of the US (you guess) -here in home health you would not be able to work unless you have technical command of...

There is only one way to change things. Nurses have to become organized. One nurse's opinion is just that, an opinion. Get 100,000 nurses together and you are a political force to be reckoned...