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  1. Child life specialist
    I never heard of child life until I moved to MI to work at U of M, our CL all have bachelors in either education, child development or psychology, good luck!
    Oct 23, '12
    Forum: Florida Nursing
  2. Current starting rate in MI hospitals?
    You won't get 27$ an hour at the U until you have around 5 years experience, I can't find the pay scale on our union's website, their night shift diff is lower than most places from what I hear but...
    Oct 17, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  3. Please help!! NCLEX application mistake
    Call the BON
    Aug 20, '12
    Forum: NCLEX Discussion Forum
  4. nursing structure????
    Sounds very similar to the staffing matrix in the ER where I work, many of us prefer 4 pts and a resource nurse rather than 3 patients and no resource, we are pediatric only so sometimes procedures...
    Aug 20, '12
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  5. Suggest "certifications"
    CEN can be taken with no experience, its expensive and hard, CPEN requires experience.
    Aug 19, '12
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  6. Be Careful When Posting
    And now you never know if your post is going to win the "lotto" and end up on Facebook, not super thrilled with that one!
    Aug 19, '12
    Forum: General Nursing Student
  7. RN LPN bridge: Has anyone heard of these schools?
    Best thing is to look up schools on the BON website, tells you the accreditation and NCLEX pass rate, might be best to do it the more traditional route, most schools with an RN program have bridge...
    Aug 19, '12
    Forum: Florida State Nursing Programs
  8. Salary for Florida Nurses
    Yes, depending on where you are, to make more money you can work PRN for another hospital or nursing home
    Aug 18, '12
    Forum: Florida Nursing
  9. typical shift schedules?
    I work 3 12s a week but I back/front load do I work 6 days in a row then have 8 off, I pouch upa few 8 hr shifts at a nursing home for fun money
    Aug 15, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  10. Who's hiring new grads in Michigan???
    A few if our new grads are comming off orientation in Aug, I don't know if they are hiring more just yet, keep checking, not sure about the shadowing, only shadow I have had was a nurse from Trauma...
    Jul 31, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  11. Seeking Peds ER position
    I relocated to MI for a position in the new Peds ER at U of M and couldn't be happier, I also have friends that did the Opposite and moved to FL to work at Arnold Palmer, how far are you willing to...
    Jul 30, '12
    Forum: Pediatric Nursing
  12. Not sure what to do here... any advice??
    On the peds side of U of M which also maintains level 1 status I can say I saw way more fresh traumas at the little rural ER where we stabilized packaged them up, we get a lot of recycled where it's...
    Jul 30, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  13. Who's hiring new grads in Michigan???
    We have new grads in the Mott ER, keep watching the careers page for openings, still not fully staffed on the floors either
    Jul 30, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  14. Salary for Florida Nurses
    I left the state for better pay in MI last Nov, after 4 yrs with the same hospital I was base of 20.80 and clinical ladder there gave me 1$ but only for a year then I had to reapply and jump through...
    Jul 30, '12
    Forum: Florida Nursing
  15. Ruptured Appendix
    In peds the rational we're being given is they want the infection cleared up then wait a few weeks and then take out the offending organ, heals faster, with all the infection running around it makes...
    Jul 10, '12
    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  16. salary..pay range in tampa, fl
    I left FL in November and after 4 yrs with the same facility my base pay went from 20$ to 20.80$ :/
    Jul 7, '12
    Forum: Florida Nursing
  17. SE MI employment for exp. ED RN
    How far from Ann Arbor would you be? U of M has a few openings in the peds ED
    Jul 7, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  18. Looking for online RN to MSN (leadership) any suggestions
    try Aspen College, they have RN-MSN with or without a BSN and it's one of the more affordable options, the admission counselors are calling before you complete the application and are very...
    Feb 28, '12
    Forum: Nursing Online Distance Learning
  19. Nursing layoffs or difficulty getting jobs? 2011 wages?
    I left FL for MI, started the week after Thanksgiving at UofM in the Mott ED (lots of PICU and NICU jobs listed & Quite a few in main units as well) and took a healthy pay raise to boot (almost 4 yrs...
    Jan 24, '12
    Forum: Florida Nursing
  20. Any recent new hires at University of Michigan?
    From what I hear it varies from unit to unit, some managers won't give a new grad ADN a second glance, others will, I'm an ADN with close to 4 yrs, my co worker that started the same day as me is an...
    Jan 10, '12
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  21. hospitals currently hiring CNAs or PCTS?
    Check the U of M webpage frequently, I'm in my 2nd week of nursing orientation there,and during week 1 there were quite a few PCT's and with the new hospital opening yesterday there may still be...
    Dec 5, '11
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  22. Any recent new hires at University of Michigan?
    If you apply to more than one position then don't accept until you have completed all interviews, I was lucky, applied to the only open position available in what I wanted at the time and got it. ...
    Dec 3, '11
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  23. Michigan Board of Nursing to join NURSYS
    it's 30$ per state, I just did it to verify my FL license.
    Oct 24, '11
    Forum: Michigan Nursing
  24. Can you work more days?
    I work 12 hr nights, 2 on then 2 off, then 5 on which earns me 5 off! A mini vacation every 2 weeks lol about to enter the world of real schedules with a new job tho.
    Oct 19, '11
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  25. What do you do on the drive to work?
    My drive right now is only about 10 mins, so not much, soon it will be about an hour so I may start borrowing audio books from the library lol
    Oct 19, '11
    Forum: General Nursing Discussion