experience needed?

Hi - in my experience, the more experience you have the better - and of a wide variety - medicine, surgery, home health, elderly medicine, paediatrics etc.

Where I worked the software guided me, but was an aide memoire rather than a decision making tool. It was my RN license on the line, and therefore all the decisions were mine, not a computer's.....

I agree, the wider the experience, the better. I started doing tele-triage nursing 4 months ago and, wow, what a learning curve. I had 2 years of med-surg, then 3 years in the O.R. before taking this job and I was totally overwhelmed. I had never worked in pediatrics, the last time I saw chicken pox is when I had it 20 years ago and I have no OB background to help me when I'm asked 'is this real labour or just braxton hicks?'. The computer program is there to guide you. However, if decisions were only up to the computer, they could have and trained monkey doing this job. Nursing judgement is vital. As far as the work from home aspect, my company offers this but prefer 1 year experience with them first. This may seem unnecessary, but they do expect you to be fairly independent and after 4 months working full time, I am still at the charge nurse's desk 2-3 times/shift asking for guidance.

Hope this helps

L

Yes, you both are right...