ctnurse420 replied to Storm-warning's topic in Oncology
I have to agree with the other responses that heme/onc/BMT is NOT easy.... I was a nurse for 18 months on a surgical oncology floor and this year took a travel job on a heme/onc/BMT floor.... figuring I'd be able to swing it with ports, central lines...
I have been talking with several companies about starting my first travel assignment... I have been a nurse for 18 months, working in a level I trauma facility 900+ bed teaching hospital, in oncology. I've wanted to travel since I started nursing sc...
ctnurse420 replied to MisterSimba's topic in Oncology
I had three months of orientation with a preceptor... but it's competency based, so they take you off when they feel you are ready. There's also a one year nurse residency program which is kind of a ***** fest/support group for new nurses. They're ve...
ctnurse420 replied to MisterSimba's topic in Oncology
Yale-New Haven Hospital is amazing for new grads. I work at the Smilow Cancer Hospital, it opened only a year and a half ago... of course we have the usual nursing issues, such as short staffing and supplies not always being stocked... but I feel rea...
ctnurse420 replied to madwife2002's topic in New Nurse
I was LOVING my job as a new grad during orientation and even the first month off orientation... but lately it has been so depressing (I'm on an oncology floor), and also there is a big issue with nursing assistants disrespecting new RNs. I worked fu...
I have accepted a full-time RN position at Yale-New Haven Hospital. I am graduating nursing school in May so this is very exciting to have gotten a job before graduation. I am hearing a lot of bad things about New Haven, though, and I'm not sure wher...