MsBruiser

It is a complicated and really good question. In my experience, you are not burning bridges with your current health system. I ditched a job only 6 months after an orientation (Critical Care at that - long, and expensive) and have received job interv...

Your thinking is very good - but here is where I plead ignorance. I don't know if the VA hires part-time...but yes, once you are in the door, you can basically move anywhere there is a job. Their pay and benefits are also superb. Take one stop at a t...

Must be Michigan - and that is without research! Yeah, c'mon out to AZ!!!

Veterans Home (LTC) is run by the State of Arizona. VA Hospital is run by the Federal Government. It is much better to work for the federal VA hospital...our state is very broke, too!

I love my Littmann electronic stethoscope - at $300 expensive but worth it (overkill for what you need). The $50.00 lightweight Littmann is perfect for nursing school...apical heart rate, bowel sounds, air moving in lungs. For professional practice, ...

Ouch, my bad! :) Ok - yes there is a pay range but the State of Arizona for many jobs (including RN) does not have "steps" that increases you automatically each year. So think of $30.85 as being the cap. There is nothing automatic. I believe the stat...

Welcome to healthcare. The only way to escape that nonsense is to leave patient care. Innovation in nursing is usually the creation of more needless work or another useless form.

You are awesome. What a silly, sanctimonious OP....

You are awesome!

Actually not passive aggressive in the least. Nor flaming. Just stating fact. AZ Forum is often the blind leading the blind.

Some people used to work "local agency" for years. They would permanently live in Phoenix and then get "travel" jobs to hospitals in the Phoenix metro area. To my knowledge, I have not run across anyone doing that since the Great Recession of 2008 ha...

Then write questions here...all good. No great secrets anyway! Just be careful with the advice you get. It is worth what you pay for it. A lot of information is just flat wrong, though people offer their advice with the best intentions...

A reason to be careful on this board, my friend. It is not the "VA" but the State Veterans Home. State - not federal. Be careful...take everything (including what I write) with a few grains of salt.

No problem! BTW, I did clinical time at the AZ Vets home (and had several friends who actually worked there) and loved it. The patients are just awesome, and the facilities were impressive. Granted, that was 6.5 years ago! But don't write them off fo...

If given the choice (again), I probably would not have moved back to AZ. But you must have a draw to the state (that is neither here nor there!)...You have nothing to lose by asking nicely, right? But understand that people typically take state jobs ...

AZ Vets home is a state job. AZ state jobs generally pay very little. With 6+ years experience you would be making in the neighborhood of $35.00 at my hospital. But that is a "private sector" job. I would tread very lightly. Sure, ask for me - but I ...

I have always made a good living as an RN. Very good living. But not $79,000 or even for that matter $46,000 worth of a good living (i.e.: I have earned more than $79k but that does not make the tutition worthwhile). Yes, you can earn $65,000+ to sta...

It is a matter of debt to income. As a new RN you can expect to RN between $48,000-$60,000. Brookline charges $46,150 if you have a degree (BA/BS) and over $79,000 if you do not. THAT IS OBSCENE and very, very difficult to pay-off given a realistic a...

save your money and run...

A lot of CRNA(s) where I work are not the sharpest tools in the shed. OP doesn't surprise me. Takes money and time more than brains - like many part of medicine.

I work 8 to 1700 - no nights or weekends. I got the job with 3 years experience.

With no complications, I was able to do three sets of vitals and either initiate discharge (outpatient) or request a room assignment (in-patient). There were always outliers. You should NEVER have to send someone home puking. Ever. Some nurses did. A...

No. They are not.

1) Multicollinearity said it best - unreasonable expectations about electronic charting. The technology isn't bad - just that it is usually designed and implemented at the facility level by nurses, who tend to be anal, nit-picking, and create excess ...

Look - opinions are like...bellybuttons. Everyone has one. Hospital nursing is tough work. As I like to say, there is no perfect hospital. Just hospitals that su*k less than others. That said there are some things to consider. It is a very small comm...