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If you can stand the cold Western NY hospitals (Buffalo/Niagara Falls) are hiring new grads. Try Kaleida Health System, Catholic Health System, N.F. Memorial Medical Center and Erie County Medical Center. Most nursing homes will take new grads in th...

Burn unit, Peds and Psych are too much for me.

my textbook says a pre-dialysis patient with a gfr between 15 and 60 should be restrict daily protein intake to 0.6-0.8 g/kg of body weight. however, it does not say what the protein intake of a patient on dialysis should be. i know it should increa...

i'm not sure how i should go about resigning from my current job. i have been working for the last year or so at the local trauma center in a specially created student nurse position aimed at getting students to sign on after graduation. however, i...

no, not cheesy at all. as a matter of fact i may borrow from your post when i write my resignation.

you hit the nail right on the head crocuta. even though i do not care for the current hospital's administration or my manager's style of management, i know this woman has a favorable opinion of me and i never know when i may need to use that to my ad...

at the hospital i am currently working at the charting is computerized and you cannot look at anyone's chart unless you are caring for them directly. i have heard of people being fired for unauthorized access. nurses can only view charts of the pati...

I think once you take the refresher course you should be able to find a job pretty easily. I am from WNY too and as a new grad (as of this Friday) the recruiters have been chomping at the bit to hire us. Millard Fillmore Suburban is opening some new ...

in western ny (buffalo, niagara falls area) new grads are getting about $21-$23/hr. nursing jobs here are fairly easy to come by as many young western new yorkers have decided to relocate after college. cost of living is pretty low so it's not too b...

we have eri at our school and we will be taking the exit exam. however, the test has no bearing on our course grade. we are being offered the eri nclex review course the week after we graduate, but it is optional.

fantastic news!!! congratulations!!! :dncgbby::ancong!::dncgbby:

does anyone know what nephrovite is exactly? i cannot find any information about it in my drug book. i am assuming it is an antianemic vitamin for renal patients but, i am not sure. if anyone could tell me the classification, action, and considera...

i am referring to nurses with active licenses. there are at least 10 nurses i can think of off the top of my head who are either too old or too sick to hold a job who have active licenses in my state. all they have to do is pay their renewal fee and ...

i have seen some of the statistics on the number of nurses in the u.s. however, i wonder how many of those nurses are actually able to work as nurses. i know several nurses who have retired or are disabled and still maintain their licensure. i know t...

i don't wear a ring during my clinicals but it makes me uncomfortable. when i graduate in two months (and have a real job), i plan on buying a plain gold band to wear to work. that way i will have no diamonds to lose and no germs to bring home.

i am entering my final semester of nursing school (rn) and i have decided to start looking for a job. since i have never been one to back down from a challenge i decided to apply to the local trauma center. when i interviewed for the position i was...

that's a good idea about the passwords. i'll have to try that.

You're absolutely right. The only real reason I'm even considering this hospital is because I know this is the place where you get to see everything. However, I do not want to set myself up for a fall. I may try a per diem student position they hav...

This hospital does have something similar to an "externship". It is a per diem position available to students where they allow you to pick the unit you want to work on whenever you want. You get to do more than the aides, but not quite as much as th...

Yes, they do infact pay 40hrs for 36. The salary at this particular hospital is $1 to $2 less per hour than most other facilities in the area so they pay you for 40hrs as a "perk". However, this is the only place where they do not have CNA's on all ...

i think the idea of nurses wearing a standard color at a facility is a good idea. i think it helps patients know who their caregivers are. when the nurses, aides, phlebotomists, physical therapists and everyone else look the same it confuses the pati...

This little poem was sent to us by one of our nursing instructors. I hope you get a laugh out of it. Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the floor Lasix was given, filling foleys galore. Stockings were worn to prevent embo...

it all depends on the schools admission requirements. some schools with a lot of applicants may be more selective than others. in my part of the country lpn programs tend to be much more lenient concerning grades than rn programs are.

you have to get a 70 on in all your nursing and science courses and maintain at least a 2.0 gpa at my school. i know 70 seems a bit low but i've heard our tests are much harder than the other schools nearby. since the nclex-rn pass rate is about 90%...

i know this has probably been posted on this site before, but i think it has been a while. this was posted by one of my classmates on our school website. it's really cute. the student nurse's prayer lord: i know we go through this every day but ...