WayneRN

mickylynn969, I must confess that, while I am still here, I am not currently working in occupational health nursing. My position was phased out in favor of (cheaper?) EMT coverage in the on-site clinic and consolidation of operations and management t...

Hello, I'm brand new to Occupational Health Nursing. I've been browsing for On-line resources and other OHN's to network with. It doesn't seem like there are very many OHN's that visit these boards. If you're out there, let me know.

Gongratz to OP!

This is to everyone! Just to let you know, I posted the original post in 2001. I was in OH Nursing for five years, but I had resign my previous position due to personal reasons. Now, I am a Dialysis Nurse in a Peritoneal Dialysis outpatient clinic an...

And I am SICK OF LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHINE ABOUT LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHINE!!!! /sarcasm:trout:

This reply is also to scrubsinthewasher, Scrubs, This is just to let you know how our system was set up so that you might be able to take something from it to use. If not, I apologize in advance for wasting your time. At the coal-fired power plant t...

scrubsinthewasher, This is Wayne. I'm not currently employed in Occupational Health at this time, but I'll be glad to share with you anything that I might have learned from my 4 years in on-site OH nursing. Although, I had more questions when I quit ...

rafael, If you will remember that chemistry is not really a science course so much as it is an exercise in applied algebra, you should do okay. WayneRN

Thanks for the information, Deb. WayneRN

Nice to have you join us. I enjoyed AAOHN, too. However, my employer wouldn't ante up for the membership fee for the last two years, so I let it go. They have a wealth of information though. WayneRN

When I was going to school for my ADN, we had one instructor that was a gass! She taught our A&P classes. She told everyone in the class that we could use one double sided 8 & 1/2" X 11" cheat sheet for each test. We could write anything that...

Thanks for posting these tips.

Hi All, I am the sole OHN at a coal-fired electric generating plant. I am contracted through an Occupational Medicine Provider to supply nursing services in the plant's first-aid station. I have been told by the Senior Loss Control Consultant at the ...

Thanks for your input. I finally did get training. :)

PS: NO insecurities here! Just never desired to subject myself to the punishment of hospital nursing. WayneRN

I haven't worked in a hospital. I've done LTC, oncology, rehab, and now occupational health. WayneRN

I just get a blank gray area with nothing. However, I'm logging in from the network at work so they may have done something on the network to disable chat. Is that possible? WayneRN

jessjoy, Do, or at least try, whatever it is that you really want to do. If you don't try, you'll go through the rest of your life wondering, "What if.....?" Everyone told me that there was no way that I could work effectively in outpatient oncology ...

Our local hospital (which I do not work at) had a full page ad declaring how special nurses are, and they tagged on this line, "...after all, it's not just a career, it's a calling." I almost regurgitated my breakfast.

Annette, You can get information on cerification at http://www.abohn.org/, or you can also find great resources regarding certification at http://aaohn.org. Hope that helps.

Hello to All, It's good to see some new input on the board. MassLPN, you are so right about the areas that we touch in Occ Health Nursing. Congratz to J.Freeman on passing the COHN! How many others are certified? I am not, yet. I haven't been in OHN ...

MassLPN, I work as an on-site OHN at a coal-fired generating station. WayneV

wrightgd, welcome to the boards. I am not a really active poster, but a frequent lurker. When you were listing major OH programs, you mentioned BBP. What is that? Yes, AAOHN is a great resource for me. I love their new web-site! Thanks, Wayne

TS,The ADN program that I graduated from used an even tighter grading scale that yours: 94-100=A, 87-93=B, 80-86=C, 73-79=D, below 73=F. It was scary, at first, having such a strict scale. But after the first semester it wasn't nearly as intimidating...

fiestynurse, They are not even sure of the number of uninsured people. Those are estimates (that change regularly depending upon which special interest group is quoting them). So, how could they possibly be broken down into the detail that you are tr...