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    Sigma Theta Tau

    hiddencatRN replied to jlan79's topic in General Nursing

    I joined in my accelerated program- my school automatically invited a certain percentage of the top of the class so it was more about ranking than GPA. I had never had a GPA to be proud of or academic...
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    My daughter wants to be a nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to Kica93's topic in Nursing Career

    What's your local job market like? I would consider that in what you advise. Is she looking at local schools? Which ones have the better clinical hours and
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    accelerated bsn or entry level msn

    hiddencatRN replied to prince27's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Or you go to an accelerated BSN program like the OP is thinking about and spent a year to 18 months getting your
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    Can they demand a 4 week notice and pay me minimum wage? Abandonment?

    hiddencatRN replied to Marie.rn's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. I'm generally in favor of always giving notice but in this situation, their policy pretty much encourages no notice. No way in H- E- double hockey sticks would I do the work we do for minimum...
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    does it really matter where you got your degree from?

    hiddencatRN replied to Nolander's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, it's more of a "yes and no depending all things being equal which they never are" kind of question. Consider the local market, then find a school that will give you a good education because...
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    Need to find an accelerated BSN program that I can get into!

    hiddencatRN replied to SuperNova153's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    That might be what you have to do. Also, keep in mind that one year programs sometimes become 18 month+ programs if you have to repeat a class. I went to Drexel's ACE program, which is a year, and 33%...
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    How do you get thicker skin?

    hiddencatRN replied to Loves2Lurk's topic in Emergency

    Know that it's not about you, it's about them. Some people are just miserable, nasty people, and sometimes they get sick (or not so sick but wind up in the ER anyway). At first I'd get upset and...
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    does it really matter where you got your degree from?

    hiddencatRN replied to Nolander's topic in General Nursing

    Can we try to keep the thread on topic? Anyone wanting to debate the overlap between CNAs and RNs can surely start their own thread, can they not? To the OP: if you plan to stay in the area where you...
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    Floor nurse, please forgive me....

    hiddencatRN replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    Might want to read selectively on this website then, or AN could inspire you to change majors. There's a lot of venting on this site that sounds much more bitter than a few of the posts in this...
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    Time frame for job hopping???

    hiddencatRN replied to Pooh Bear RN's topic in General Nursing

    A resume is a marketing document not a disclosure. You can include what you want on it to highlight your strengths. If you have to fill out a job history that's where you'd need to include a...
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    ADN=RN

    hiddencatRN replied to Birdbr's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I haven't seen anyone on this site suggest that ADN programs are easier to get in to- if anything they're often harder to get in to because they are often much cheaper than BSN programs so there's...
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    What order do you put things on your resume?

    hiddencatRN posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I have just over 1 year of nursing experience and my current layout is: Name and contact info Licenses and Certifications Experience Education Organizations and Volunteer Experience When I first...
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    New Grad ER residency/orientation?

    hiddencatRN replied to LiveHigh2012's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My orientation was good but completely unadvertized. I would suggest looking at job postings that don't require experience and then find out what the orientation is
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    Floor nurse, please forgive me....

    hiddencatRN replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

    I liked the original thread too. I really appreciated especially after a particularly annoying incident with a floor I was sending a patient to last night.I try to be pleasant in report, and be...
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    How'd You Get Your ER Job?

    hiddencatRN replied to commonsense's topic in Emergency

    So, basically, new grads in the ER without tech experience all suck and all med surg and ICU nurses are awesome? Ok. Except the issues you bring up seem more to me like failures of orientation...
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    SCU (special care unit)???

    hiddencatRN replied to froggy8's topic in MICU, SICU

    At my hospital the SCU is a step-down ICU essentially. Nurse-patient ratio is between the floor and the ICU. I imagine it varies though, so I would check with the particular
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    HELP! First RN job> two offers on the table: ER and ICU

    hiddencatRN replied to amandammarie's topic in Emergency

    What does the orientation look like? Have you had a chance to shadow in each unit? All things being equal, I think it really depends on you- your plans, your personality, what you think you'll like...
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    Any advice for a new ED nurse?

    hiddencatRN replied to al7139's topic in Emergency

    Lol, it's not as cushy as it sounds, I promise. We still have to schelp out patients to radiology and the floor all the time. My worst nightmare is a patient who needs a CT with contrast while I have...
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    Time frame for job hopping???

    hiddencatRN replied to Pooh Bear RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would hold on to the clinic job for another year, and maybe try to find something per diem to do in addition in the meantime. My understanding of job hopping is that it's not the amount of time at...
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    6 months in the ER, too early to move on? Long.

    hiddencatRN replied to SeekingAdviceRN's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like the issue is the particular ER, not ERs in general. I work in an ER and have wonderfully supportive coworkers, charge nurses who have my back and who I feel comfortable going to for...
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    Questions from a Microbiology instructor.

    hiddencatRN replied to Soporific's topic in General Nursing

    I loved microbiology. I liked the labs, liked what we were learning. Things I use constantly as a nurse is understanding how bacteria and viruses and fungi and antibiotics/antivirals/antifungals...
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    Why can't you write people's names in your note: Rationale?

    hiddencatRN replied to Sehille4774's topic in General Nursing

    I was taught in nursing school that it was important TO use names. No "MD aware" but "MD Doe aware, discussed xyz changes in plan of care". At work we chart the name of the nurse we hand off the...
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    Best thing you saw come in on New Year's Eve

    hiddencatRN replied to mybrowneyedgirl's topic in Emergency

    I had a parent complain once about how the FREE cab we were offering her would take too long to come and how we "didn't even do nothing" for her kid. Well lady, you're the one who called 911 for...
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    Any advice for a new ED nurse?

    hiddencatRN replied to al7139's topic in Emergency

    Weird....there are posts missing. I remember replying to this. Anyway, I get what shoegalRN was saying- you empty a room, you grab a new patient if the transport tech is busy or away or you call the...
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    First shift off orientation.

    hiddencatRN replied to Crux1024's topic in Emergency

    Hope it went well. I was nervous and excited for my first shift off orientation but with amazing coworkers my transition off orientation was smooth. I counted weeks for a while, and now whenever I...