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No, no, no. You were not wrong! Please help keep our profession honerable.

Has Dallas moved to the West coast? Just the name of this outfit is a red flag.

Yes! Doing an extra 12 EVERY week for 6 or 12 weeks...No way. But staying for an extra 2 or 4 hours is compatible with life. But this place sounds like it has a loser reputation as a place to work and they can't attract staff. Fix the reputation and the rest will follow. They're just putting fingers in the dike and there's only so much time a person can spend with their finger in the dike, waiting for it to cave in.

Call me cynical, but time-outs didn't improve anything for anybody. An anxious patient can't be sedated before going into the OR and having a time out when they are usually just watching our lips move and agree to the wrong leg, wrong arm, etc. We have thousands of studies of safety in the OR and yet.....arrogant surgeons are operating on the wrong side of the head.

It's just not a conversation to have in a mall. If you don't want extraordinary measures, then download your paperwork and get it submitted to the parties involved.

Troll. Call us back in ten years when you are an experienced CRNA.

CT anesthesia....all those years. What a soul-sucking experience that must have been. I worked with a much adored MDA in our large corporation who became addicted to Fentanyl and everyone got it because the ugliness of working for a large corporation made most people hate their job; especially those of us who had entered in the 80's before anesthesia became a cut throat business. Thanks you for letting every one on this thread know that there is another life to start after recovery.

There are no secrets on a hospital unit. Everyone already knows. Don't spend the emotional energy it requires to keep a non-secret like that. You've done what you have to do to get back to work. End of story.

If you dislike interacting with patients, then you might like OR. It is very task oriented, lots of computer charting, gophering, keeping the hairy eyeball open for disruptions in patient safety. I only know from my own personal experience but we got rid of first assists years ago (hired PA's who can write discharge prescriptions) and RN's not permitted to scrub. They can pay a surgical tech less and they are trained much better since they have their own educational programs. Depending on the size of the OR, you may have to take call which can be a real pain if you live too far away - you'll have to make sleeping arrangements. Long periods of boredom interrupted by brief periods of mad computer clicking.

Donna Summers....She Works Hard for the Money

Hmmmm. Did everyone in the rust belt need OxyContin for back pain and menstrual cramps? Yes, yes and yes. We intervene too much and let the patient become passive. I think NP's who are already experienced nurses will buck this trend because they really understand what iatrogenesis is.

Do they get a little white coat or a long one? I don't know. It has the smack of high heels to me:(

I wouldn't work in a hospital that was going to hire me as a new grad into the ER. Just a really bad idea, and somehow, a bad idea evolves into a worst idea when no orientation is given. Scary stuff.

Did you have to find your own preceptors?