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I neglected to say some hospitals take months to hire. I applied to several hospitals after RN nursing school. I got hired by a travel agency, which I wouldn't recommend if you have no experience, I had been an LVN for over 20 years. As soon as I started working they started calling me to come and work at hospitals some months after I applied. I had already committed to the place where I was working so I turned them down.

I teach nursing students, and most of the time, they walk right into their new position. Usually, if they have difficulty, they have a bad work history and or perform poorly in the interview, or they keep applying for jobs that ask for experience. Let a seasoned nurse interview and hear your response, and review your resume. Also, interview at nursing homes and clinics. In some areas, hospital jobs are full, and they are looking for some experience. When you search on Indeed and other job sites, search for new grads. Some places want to hire only new grads so they can train them.

Some nursing schools have as low as a 20 percent graduation rate. I think that is insane.

So true, most convalescent hospitals give 3 days of orientation. Two in the classroom, one on the floor, and off to work you go.

Repetitive study, question after question. Reschedule if your not doing well in your practice questions. I did Nurse Academy Plus, I studied for 3wks, I did every question in there test bank until I passed every section 100 percent. I passed in 75 questions. My test was mostly Select all that apply. My study course had SATA questions, I don't think I would have passed without that course.

I used nurse plus academy, it was excellent. My test stopped at 75 questions. I freaked out because almost every question was select all that apply. Trust your muscle memory, don't second guess yourself. I was going to change a lot of questions in which case I would have failed but I passed. One of my instructor's told me your first instinct is probably right and she was right. Study those SATA questions for sure. Apparently if your doing good on those you get more of them. To me those questions are the hardest.

In my LVN to RN program we did our first clinical without going over insulin. One of the LVNs in my class did not know how to do a blood sugar. They assumed because she was an LVN for 10 years she knew how to give insulin and do a blood sugar. She did not, she had worked in an office doing paperwork, no patient care, I had to show her how to do an Accu Check and give insulin. All the basics should be reviewed in every program.

Being a male nurse can be a blessing and a curse. Your usually left out of the infighting, that's a blessing. You do get a disproportionate amount of the difficult and over weight patients dumped on you. I love it though. Patients tend to treat you like a doctor. I have to repeatedly tell them Im a nurse.

Every one makes errors of some sort if your a nurse for any amount of time. Don't quit, when you make an error it causes you too become hyper vigilant. Quite often the best teacher are people who have made mistakes. I worked at a place were a new nurse was being oriented and she made the same kind of insulin mistake, she was a new nurse and she should not have been allowed to do anything alone for at least a few weeks. In that incident the preceptor was fired, a new grad should be observed and checked off on every skill. If someone is asking me how to do something I go and show, even a traveler should be observed for at least a few days checked off. If you have never done it ask for help no matter how long you have been a nurse. Some supervisor's will not want to teach you, if they don't want to teach you or show you how to do something you have not done let them do it. If that little voice in your head says I don't know about this, something's wrong, listen.... Its like when your taking the NCLEX the first thing that pops in your head is usually right. If you brain says ask for help or Im not sure ask for help. I have been a traveler, if you don't know how to do something push the issue don't wing it. Get help.

Go deliver some babies. Your kids are old, live the dream. Every nursing job I have had I hated and learned to love it. If you have already loved it your ahead of the game. The only thing that's changed is charting on a computer instead of paper.

I was having difficult breathing do too sickness, they were so short they called the staff doctor who gave me a breathing treatment so I could stay and work. When you are a nurse and your sick its a bummer. I did not want to leave so it worked out, if the breathing treatments would not have worked I would have been gone, gone gone. I thought I was dying.

The package insert contains both the negatives and the positives. Not either or but both. A medical professional does not push there agenda. They give the facts both good and bad and allow others to make informed decisions. Trying to hide facts causes suspicion and suspicion causes people to be hesitant. I'm a community activist, I have done a lot of work with homeless people and being honest and giving them all the information removes the hesitancy, not belittling or minimizing their concerns. Honesty is best, that honesty may cause some to hesitate and others, most from my experience will take the shot. Years ago a guy was trying to get people to invest, all he talked about was how much money people would make, the risks were minimal, but there were some risks, a lot of people made money, some lost everything. The stock broker was sued and lost the case because he had an agenda and did not educate his investors of the risks no matter how minimal. What he did was illegal. That same principle applies in nursing. Your are responsible for sharing all risks and benefits. The vaccine companies cannot be sued because of emergency use but a medical professional who does not share the risks can be sued if they do not share the risks and there is an adverse outcome. I'm done with this post because Im tired of the conversation. We both want people vaccinated. I just want to do it honestly.

I'm not elevating anything, sharing a package insert is simply sharing information. You are the one trying to push an agenda. You want to force people to agree with you and punish them if they share information that disagrees with your agenda or with you even if that information is factual and from the manufacturers. You want everyone to submit to what you think they should do. It's each persons right to decide based on the facts what they want to do with their body, Autonomy. You may not agree and that's okay, I honor your decision, but you really need to stop trying to intimidate people into agreeing with you.

My point is I shared information from the package insert and nurses started saying it was misinformation. When in fact they were spreading misinformation by calling it misinformation. While at the same time saying people who spread misinformation should be reported to the board, my question is will they report themselves for voicing a misinformed opinion. I simply stated there are no long-term studies on Covid vaccine outcomes, and I took the vaccine after weighing the risks of getting it with the risks of not getting it. Under warnings the insert repeats everything I said verbatim. I shared quotes from the insert without sharing the insert because I knew this would happen in a conversation about false information. People report people for spreading false info even though it is true info, my point is you should study before you attack. In fact you should not attack you should open a dialogue and speak to the concerns.

Here is everything you need to know about COVID-19 from the FDA. Covids package insert. Please study before making accusations of Misinformation. The default setting in our day is accusation instead of conversation and I believe its the root of 90% of our nations divisiveness and problems. EUA 20734_Full PI-HCP FS_Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine_FINAL_22Sep2021 (2).pdf