gayb77

gayb77 has 1 years experience.

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1. Anyone work at UK Medical Center/Good Samaritan Hospital

   gayb77 replied to WildcatFanRN's topic in Kentucky

   Call / email the nurse recruiters, let them know you are applying and see if they would be able to answer a few questions about the hospital. Get your name in their radar. Once they know you exsist, and are dedicated to the proccess, things will spee...

2. Where would your least favorite area to work be?

   gayb77 replied to CEN35's topic in General Nursing

   I picked LTC .... not really my scene i prefer to be responsible for pts i can actually care for. However if Ortho had been an option i would have chosen that. I have a distinct aversion to Ortho, in my experience they are some of the crankiest most ...

3. States Hiring New Grads

   gayb77 replied to restless09's topic in New Nurse

   new york state is really good about hiring new grads! pretty much my entire class has been hired in hospital! i live in the Ithaca area, however Elmira, Cortland, Syracuse, Rochester area hospitals all hired new grads as well. good luck!

4. Time Management

   gayb77 replied to TinaK's topic in International

   Ok, so I was reading this post as a soon to be new grad who is struggling with time management and I just have to say, why oh why would you want to move to the states! Canada's fine, however the US is not fully a place I would come to willingly, at l...

5. Curious...any of you guys considering Peds/PICU/NICU?

   gayb77 replied to SteveNNP's topic in Male Students

   peds is my dream! either picu or oncology/hematology. its hard to get info on how to get into it though. If anyone has any advice please send it my way. i am a second year adn-grad 2009

6. Best Drug guide?

   gayb77 replied to mysterious_one's topic in General Students

   personally i dislike lippincott. it has all the drugs organized by use rather than generic name it makes it harder to look something up especially if you don't know much about what you are looking up as is the case often with first year students. whi...

7. OR nursing as prep for CRNA

   gayb77 posted a topic in SRNA

   I am a second year nursing student and I am really drawn to the OR. I am also very interested in completing a CRNA program. My question is would OR experience count as critical care experience?