andreax4

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1. Acute care rehab vs hospital

   andreax4 replied to andreax4's topic in General Nursing

   I was shocked at how much I was going to loose. The hospitals here do not pay well unless your a float.

2. Acute care rehab vs hospital

   andreax4 replied to andreax4's topic in General Nursing

   I want to get my NP eventually. Everyone always says you "need" acute care experience, but I feel like my LPN experience coupled with my now RN experience is really sufficient. I guess I just want to know that I'm not ruining my career by turning d...

3. Acute care rehab vs hospital

   andreax4 replied to andreax4's topic in General Nursing

   I want to get my NP eventually. Everyone always says you "need" acute care experience, but I feel like my LPN experience coupled with my now RN experience is really sufficient. I guess I just want to know that I'm not ruining my career by turning d...

4. Acute care rehab vs hospital

   andreax4 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been working in an acute care rehab for the last year and I just got offered a job in a PCU in a local hospital. I'm really torn on what to do. My current position is a charge nurse at the rehab and I am about to do wound and ostomy training...

5. Need job advice

   andreax4 replied to andreax4's topic in General Nursing

   That's why I'm so conflicted. I love hands on, but at the same time I want to just do the education side which the alz job would be. But I don't want to pigeon home myself.

6. Need job advice

   andreax4 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was an LPN for 12 years before becoming an RN, I worked in a hospital for 6 months before leaving. The hospital just wasn't my thing. I have been doing acute home health care since. And when I say acute I mean my patients are discharged from the...

7. Switching from Hospital to Home Health

   andreax4 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a somewhat new nurse (1st year), and I've been working in a hospital on a med surg floor. I have learned a lot but med surg is not my thing. The hospital has an opening in the NICU but they will not let me transfer until I've been there for on...

8. TEAS Testing

   andreax4 posted a topic in TEAS

   How hard is the TEAS testing? I am entering the UofP LPN to BSN program soon, but I have to pass the TEAS test first. The advisor said that it is a difficult test that a lot of new students are failing the first time around. What science is on there...