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@NurseMel2020keep up with the hopes the recruiter said they should be in touch with us in the next few weeks!!

@NurseMel2020did you receive an email from the recruiter asking for unit preference order for peds?

Hi all, has anybody heard back from Mclane Children's? I got an email from the recruiter 1.5 weeks after submitting the digital interview, and the recruiter asked about my units preference and said will be in touch with next steps in the following weeks? No phone interview yet tho... wonder what this email entails??

really thank you for saying all these, it really helps me to just think logically and chase my anxiety away. I too always wear gloves whenever I am in the patient's room, it's just when I am outside patient's room, I still get paranoid because I feel like not everybody clean their COW/WOW and those shared BP machines properly, and I feel like they might become reservoir of virus and bacterias. But I guess I am over thinking about it, cause obviously if blood or other bodily fluid, a considerable amount, got on those machines, whoever was using should have cleaned it cause they themselves too does not want those fluid or blood on their own machines.

Big thanks to all of you who responded, and I really appreciate that you all suggested me seeing a good therapist, which I will for sure consider doing. I did have cuts on my hand a few times when I was at my clinical site hospital, which was not a very good hospital and that's when I started to get really anxious. Before this semester, I was fine, tho still kinda in a OCD mode. I think I just have to think logically and try to persuade myself every time, that if there is no visible blood on the surface, the chances of getting sth is really really low and plus I should trust hospital's infection control.

Hi everybody, a graduating nursing student here, every excited and scared too about coming closer to graduation and working as a real RN! I might sound really stupid and nonsense since I am nursing student and I've learned so much about how pathogens are usually spread, but recently as my contamination OCD flares up, I just kept thinking that I might contract Hep c or b virus through open cuts on my hand by touching shared surfaces (such as key boards on COW) that might have invisible blood on them. I am pretty sure I did not come into contact directly with any blood or patient fluid, but I did touch a lot of shared surfaces on the unit I was on (though I did not see visible blood on those surfaces). I am just really having these intrusive thoughts that I am getting virus because of the open wound on my finger. ANY reassurance, or simply just say I am stupid would help!!

Hi all, new to this forum and this is my first time posting so really appreciated if anyone could help with my question. I have a friend who is graduating from Columbia this spring with a BSN degree. She is from China and has been in the US since high school. As she is graduating, she is considering either getting a job or going for master's degree, so she was wondering how is the job market for BSN international students who do not have citizenship or permanent residency in the US? All I know is that she has to go through the H-1B process, which is long. But is it very hard to find a sponsor, an employer who would like to wait and apply that for you if you are like a pretty good candidate for a position? I myself is not in the field but I am also kinda interested in this since a lot of the times we see a shortage of nurses here but when it comes to hiring international nurses, there seem to be no exceptions? Does graduating from a prestigious school make any, even the slightest, difference at all? Again, really appreciated if anyone in the field knows the process and details. Thanks!!