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Anybody working at San Mateo Medical Center? I have an interview with the nurse recruiter there tomorrow for a tele position. Wouldn't be my first choice since I am an ICU nurse but I don't mind tele and it doesn't seem like jobs in the Bay Area ar...

I have been doing local contracts in the SF Bay area where my husband and I relocated for his job 6 months ago. My current contract is up Jan 22 and they don't need me to extend. I am due June 1. I plan to work up until the end but I am wondering ...

It was 7 weeks. if they won;t help you resolve it then just leave it off your resume. You have 25 years of experience, no one will miss that 7 weeks!

Meg didn't even bother voting in elections for most of her own adult life, and I think she's actually a drag queen (she looks like a man, doesn't she?) I think RuPaul ought to establish residency out here and run for governor. The celebrity precede...

I have 6 years of critical care experience and I have been working travel contracts for 4 months because I haven't been able to find a staff position. I am in the SF Bay area. Jobs are not falling from the sky for experienced nurses out here much l...

they require fingerprint results before issuing a temp license http://www.rn.ca.gov/pdfs/applicants/tlcounter.pdf So you can only walk through if you have done your fingerprints and the results have been reported to them. I sent in my stuff as I had ...

I am on my first travel assignment. I had one week of general hospital orientation/computer training and I have 2 twelve hour shift with a preceptor before being on my own with a patient assignment. There is no way you can do this with Zero experie...

I am single and have a 3yo child. I will be graduating in May and assumed I would HAVE to work nights as a new grad although I have been told by some nurses that ain't necessarily so. So I am trying to figure out what would be my best schedule, sho...

We turn it off to the drain to get a pressure reading. If you had it open to drain and patient wouldn't the transducer be getting the pressures from both sides? Doesn't seem like that would be accurate. We document drainage and pressure q1h.

...you've ever told anyone who's behavior was annoying you to "Stop being so frontal" ...you wake your kids up in the morning with a sternal rub

Pick up the phone and call HR at the hospitals you want to work at. They don't always put that info out on their websites.

Grady is the county hospital, that's all I'm going to say about that. They are a level one trauma center and are known for their burn center as well. I think you can learn a lot there, do a search for threads that are about Grady though and use tha...

I live 12 miles from work currently. I work an 0800 to 1630 schedule. It takes me 40 minutes to go that 12 miles in the morning, and between 30-45 minutes to do it in the evening, though it has taken me up to 1.5 hours on days when multiple acciden...

I would figure out where you're going to work and then decide on your living situation becuase traffic is a real pain in the arse here. The traffic here is supposedly comparable to driving in LA, and I believe it. Housing is very reasonable, but you...

If you aren't in a class right now, go ahead and get your fundamentals and your med surg book and start reading. Try to cover the basics before you start class. Cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, would be good things to cover ahead of time. Also, g...

I was able to drop from fulltime to part time hours at work because I sold my house, in which I had a pretty large amount of equity. I wound up working 20-25 hours per week. I'm glad it's over, but hey- I got through it. It can be done. I'm a sin...

"Right to work" simply means that no person can be required to join a labor organization or pay dues to such as a condition of employment. I am an "At will" employee because I do not have an employment contract, and either myself, or my employer can...

Taking classes as an adult is very different. I think you may find you are an "A" student now. Having to pay for it yourself and make all the other sacrifices you have to make makes it a lot easier to get those good grades:)

I would interpret that as a float position. You would be sent to one of several different units for your shift, based on where they needed the staff that day.

Amen. I have worked in other industries and only in healthcare have I seen this unbelievably rabid attention to recruitment, with absolutely no service paid to retention.

I'm a single parent, child care issues abound. I've worked at a M-F 8 hours shifts job for the past year but the call schedule has gotten out of control enough that the convenience of the M-F schedule has been negated. Since the only other fields I...

The starting salary for a new teacher in Dekalb Co., Georgia is $38,900. The starting salary (based on an hourly wage of $20) for a new graduate nurse in a hospital setting in the same area is $41,600. Not much of a difference. You also need to loo...

Monday he will be in school, and Sunday during the day someone can watch him. The catch being I'll only see my son for a couple of hours total on Sunday. I think the additional time I am gaining suring the week and the ability to participate in sch...

Dixie, Did the night schedule throw you off too much? I imagine Monday would be enough to recover and then be able to function normally for the rest of the week but then I've never done nights, so I don't know.

I can't imagine a 10 year old DUI shutting you out of a job. You need to find out what is in the background check, and what your previous employers are saying. I don't know how you do this, but I guess I would start with a very frank phone call to H...