Ok folks - it is that time again .... there are many new names and faces (well avatars anyway) on our web site ... time to get to know the North Carolina people.
Lets give a location - why you are there, your current nursing status and anything else you might want to share ....
I am Patrick, the moderator for the North Carolina Forum ... live in Asheville - moved here a year ago from Florida and love the mountains and the moderate climate .... can tell you that Hurricane Frances breezed through town last week and gave us a lot of headaches! Anyway, I am a nurse manager for a med-surg unit and a single father of 3. I attend the University of Phoenix and am hoping to graduate with my BSN-MSN in the very near future.
Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
hi I am currently from Georgia but livein Charlotte NC. I am a pre-nursing student entering Nursing school to acheive my BSN in Fall 2007. I have no desire for bedside nursing , but i know I have to go that route for a little while and then go to grad school to become an FNP and opening my own clinic in the future.
Hello all, I am new. I graduated in May from North Carolina A&T state university. So that means I am in Greensboro. I plan to be here for about a year and a half and then move to Charlotte. I recently didn't pass the boards but I am going to retake it sometime in September. I am going to be working for Moses Cone on 5500 which is a med-surg/renal floor. I decided to do that to get my foot in the door.
Specializes in BICU, STICU, SICU, CCU, NSICU, CTICU....
Hello fellow north kakalakians, I live in Chapel Hill just recently graduated Durham Tech and passed my boards on Aug 4th. 1st time with 265 questions! I start working at UNC on Aug 14th at UNC Burn Center! please be gentle with me :)
Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.
hello fellow north kakalakians, i live in chapel hill just recently graduated durham tech and passed my boards on aug 4th. 1st time with 265 questions! i start working at unc on aug 14th at unc burn center! please be gentle with me :)
Hello fellow north kakalakians, I live in Chapel Hill just recently graduated Durham Tech and passed my boards on Aug 4th. 1st time with 265 questions! I start working at UNC on Aug 14th at UNC Burn Center! please be gentle with me :)
I'm so jealous! We spent the day at the UNC Burn Center in clinicals last winter. If I lived closer, that was where I would want to work! The nurses there were awesome, especially the educator. Good luck!
I also attended GTCC in Jamestown and the nursing program is very tough. Our last semester we lost about half the class. Good luck to everyone in their nursing careers
Hello fellow north kakalakians, I live in Chapel Hill just recently graduated Durham Tech and passed my boards on Aug 4th. 1st time with 265 questions! I start working at UNC on Aug 14th at UNC Burn Center! please be gentle with me :)
I also attended GTCC in Jamestown and the nursing program is very tough. Our last semester we lost about half the class. Good luck to everyone in their nursing careers
Just hang in there. I took all of my prereq's at GTCC and really enjoyed it. Their nursing program has the reputation of being one of the toughest in the area. I heard that a new A&P instructor was told to make her class as difficult as possible. That being said, GTCC nursing grads have the reputations of being some of the best around.
Hi , I am a ADN Nursing student currently stationed in Fort Bragg, NC with my soldier husband and 4 year old son. I attend a community college about 30 minutes north of Fort Bragg in Lee County.
Hi , I am a ADN Nursing student currently stationed in Fort Bragg, NC with my soldier husband and 4 year old son. I attend a community college about 30 minutes north of Fort Bragg in Lee County.
Good luck in your classes. I was in Fayetteville this past weekend.
Specializes in CLNC, numerous fields, Supervision.
wonder if anyone might have some advice....
I'm from Florida, moved to the NW mountains of NC in March
Because of being a FL native (although I've lived and worked in may other states) I am very sensitive and understanding of the "that's not how we did it____" syndrome and avoid it like the plague - and am very cognizant of the fact that the pace, approach and culture are rather different here than "where I come from."
Because of a history of resolved paralysis from a nursing back injury I am unable to do intense direct patient care (hosp, nursing home, etc).
I have been trying to get a job up here for the last 6 months - without success. I have been given to know, in subtle ways, that it may be because I'm "different" or "not from here."
I have applied or left resume's at nearly 20 employers - the few interviews I have had tell me to my face that my qualifications are "most impressive" but have all said they have found someone else or that they have decided they no longer need the position filled.
I am willing to do just about anything that I can physically do and took a short-term job as a baby-sitter (one week). I've also signed up with a national "review" company that does insurance reviews of medical offices and facilities for potential insurance provider contracts, and am still waiting on getting that first assignment - they don't do a lot of work in this area. I can do home-health (have my entire career, incl. DON) - but the structure here does not use nurses except as supervisors, and most of the agencies are owned by a nurse who also does the supervision.
I have volunteered at the brand new free clinic locally but, although the information and education materials they give out to volunteers says nothing about it, and while going through the process of paperwork and orientation nothing was said, suddenly now the "board has to vote" on whether or not I'm approved as a volunteer - I have made it very clear that I am willing to work where ever they have a need, including chart reviews and pt data entry, not just as a nurse - the various staff have nearly fallen all over themselves about my willingness to work with the computer and do what ever is needed - but unheralded my volunteering has to be approved by a quorum of the Board.
Please know, I'm NOT whining. I am earnestly asking for advice. Moving is out of the question as I have no $$. I am more than willing to travel some distance to get to work. My young son is working 45 min away everyday but his income does not pay the bills, even on a beans and rice budget, and things are getting quite desperate.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can "get in" to the community?? I have already met with the 2 people known in the local community as "the" people with the "in" and knowledge of the local medical community and have been politely brushed off.
Still plugging along and trusting that this will all work out soon,
VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN
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