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I've left two voicemails so far to the nurse manager in charge of the floor I am trying to apply a job at. HR already sent my application almost a month and a half ago and that is when I placed my first voicemail before I went on my 3-week vacation. ...

^^topic^^. I have a nursing classmate who is in COT as of now and I am strongly considering the airforce as a possible life experience pathway before I hit the 30 year old mark. I graduated with my Bachelors and already have 2 yrs experience in ortho...

I have one more question:D So, if I do go active duty, do I get to choose the base I want to be assigned to? Reason I ask is that I live in Alaska and there is an airforce base nearby. Thanks.

It is really that bad. Started out on an ortho/surgical floor just b/c i know my patients are going to get better and that there was a little bit of med/surg involved. My first year was hell (constantly running with pain meds, being yelled at by MD's...

The hospital is super busy and I requested to work extra ONLY on my floor tonight if they needed me. I just contacted the charge nurse on my floor (ortho) and with all the discharges and no surgeries, there will only be 5-6 patients and there are 3 R...

I work nights at a hospital and I had a patient who was having issues with his blood pressure. There were orders by his surgeon to give labetolol if systolic is >150 and diastolic >90 and to give HCTZ daily. Throughout my shift, my pt's BP stay...

What does "cya" and "NSTEMI" mean? also, yeah the labetolol parameters were ordered by the surgeon and the labs were ordered by the hospitalist. Apparently there were conflicting issues going on between the docs about the pt's diagnosis. Thanks for t...

By August 3rd, 2010, I will have my one-year experience working as a registered nurse. So, I just wanted to know if its too early to switch from full-time to part-time? I'm thinking about maybe going back to school to get another degree just as a bac...

Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question. I just wanted to know if I will still have a little free time for some activities when I am in nursing school (I do taekwondo, go to the gym mostly everyday for about an hour, and volunteer work on the weeke...

Here is my issue. Back in august 09' I had an abscess on my hand that got infected and needed to be drained. I missed a week of work, because I was not allowed to work with a draining wound. The wound got reinfected back in January '10 and I had to g...

^^topic^^. I just got back from nightshift and I am kinda freaking out that I removed the staples on one of my pt's surgical site (total knee replacement) on postop day #2. Generally it is 10-14 days for staple removal, but the MD specifically wrote ...

I had an abscess that was drained on my hand in august (developed unexpectedly during my first week of classroom orientation) and couldn't work for 3 shifts during my orientation due to infection control policy (if I have an open wound and it is stil...

Sad thing is, I'm only 6 mos into the job and I am not qualified for FMLA until I work at least a year at their union facility. Good thing I always come early to work.

I have about 2 more weeks left of orientation and I'm also in the same position as you are. I'm taking care of a full patient load, but have yet to call the doctor (the opportunity did not come up yet). I already did an admit, but as you've stated, i...

I am a 20 year old male pre-major nursing student waiting to begin taking nursing courses in the Spring of 2007 (Would have started in Spring 2006, but due to the shortage of faculty and the increase of pre-major nursing students, I was put on a wait...

One of my patients that I was taking care of was in for ETOH abuse, ascites, and cirrhosis recently passed away. He was living in a assisted living facility where I was working at and based on what I got from report, he came back to the facility the ...

Excellent points! I was in the same boat as you are right now 6 mos ago. I kept filling out applications but never received a call back. Some of the replies I got back stated they needed a nurse with experience. So my friend told me to dress up, prin...

Tomorrow will be my first day as a nurse in orientation and I thought it would be nice to bring in like a snack platter (maybe bagels, cream cheese, and juice-any other suggestions?) to the unit. Would this be ok? I'll be on day shift for the first c...

UPDATE: My gosh, I brought bagels w/cream cheese, coffee cake, and muffins and all of it was nearly gone by the end of the day-. I was able to develop rapport with the PTs, other nurses, the nurse manager, supervisor, and the CNAs. I guess this was a...

Ohhh.... I start next Monday too and I am terrified. Let's learn and gain confidence together! Good luck to the both of us!

Take a bunch of resumes and go (in person) to each of the nurse managers in the hospitals and just ask if they have any openings and hand them your resume (don't forget to thank them ). That is how I was able to get an interview and a job after not h...

Oh... ok... Then what if she asks what this social commitment is? If everything begins to look bad, I'll just give my tickets to someone else and wait for how many xx years. This job is most important than a concert.

^^topic^^. I just had an interview the other day on an ortho/surgical floor and the orientation time is 4-6 weeks, plus an additional 2 weeks or minus 2 weeks if I need it. The first 2 weeks will be on days, the rest on nights. From what I read onlin...

I dropped by the nurse manager's office today (one with voicemails) to see if they were hiring and unfortunately they're not (d/t budget and new grad overload). But the manager stated that it was good I had my preceptorship on the floor and that my p...

I had a thread going on here about how I left 4 voicemails to the nurse manager to check on the status of my application, but I did not get a return-call back. After reading some of the replies, it was getting to the point of overkill leaving all tho...