sabrina7

Has anyone worked for College Hospital in Cerritos? This is my first interview with a mental health facility and I would appreciate very much if anyone can gibe me some insight as to what to expect on the interview? I have been out of nursing for a number of years and this will be my first job if I get hired. There is anxiety of course but I am also very interested and would love to work in this specialty. My previous experience is med/surg. Please if anyone has any suggestions or has actually worked there could you please let me know. I love this site because everyone seems to look out for each other. Thanks so much!:wink2:

Hi everyone! I cannot sleep because I have a beautiful little boy who has been a loyal friend for 10 years and now is not doing very well. I am talking about my Beagle Bailey and I hope I make sense here because my heart is breaking because I really don't know what else to do. He was diagnosed with glaucoma on Saturday and I thought it was just going to be infection so I was pretty shocked. He is on Timolol and he drinks a little water but that it. H is sleeping most of the time but I am so worried because I know he can't survive the way he is going. I was told to go to a Vet opthamologist and I have an appt. but if any of you who have pets and know ANYTHING i can do to make this better would you please let me know. This is so hard I wish it was m and not him. All of you who love your pets know where I am right now. Thanks for being there.

Tracylvm thanks for your input regarding Maxim. That's the kinda info we need to have so we don't waste our time on employers. I have always been one to interview them while they interview me if you know what I mean. After all we nurses are a valuable commodity right Ha! I wish I could say I believe most employers value us but we all know they really don't or we would get the respect we deserve. All I can do is value myself and I believe anyone who becomes a nurse is a very special person. I am REALLY wanting to go back to work but I WILL NOT return to med/surg. I want to branch into something that challenges me but not to the point to where I am setting myself up for failure. As I said before I really don't know where to start. I've already done refreshers. I wanted to ask you what info you could share about home health and why you suggested that? Thanks again!

Suzanne I do understand what you are saying and also I understood your previous post regarding this. I am not trying to say these agencies want me I am just saying why call me off the hook if I haven't worked in years. I'm not anxious to answer any of them at this point because I want to go back to work but I still am not really sure where to start since it's been awhile and that is my dilemma really. I am a med/surg nurse and I HAVE experience just not recent. I am not really wanting to go back to that area due to knee problems etc. but at the same tiime I don't quite know where to start. I am free to work flexible hours and I have kept up my license and taken refreshers. So if you get me now maybe you can give some constructive advice on where to start to a RN who would like to go back to work. Thanks again!

Thank you Suzanne for the great advice. I am getting a lot of phone calls telling me they love my resume and want to place me in a job but I have a feeling it is med/surg which I don't want. I have taken two refresher courses in the past, but awhile ago so I probably would need to do it again. Anyway thanks again.

Merry Christmas to all! I have posted my resume on Monster and Career Builders. I am receiving MANY responses from registries and would like to know which ones are the best for southern California? Also if you were out for a long time which area of nursing would you need to brush up on the most? Which area of nursing would welcome you back and which would not? I am med/surg and DO NOT want to return to that are of nursing. Any suggestions are appreciated and welcomed very much. Thanks so much for your help.

Thank you so much momabayrn for the great reply and also everyone else. I gotta tell you I have gotten a LOT of positive response fro Agencies but have never worked thast way although I always worked per-diem. I never really wanted to belong to any one hospital because I hate the politics and I wanted to run my own schedule. I agree with everyonne with this notion saying we have a so-called "shortage" My opinion is there really wouldn't be such a shortage if they cut the crap (pardon my words here) and just treated RN's the way they should and made the working conditions feasible. Let's get realistic w/out us the hospital doesn't run! Yet they still don't get it. I wanna go back but I don't really know where still it's beeen so long. What do you think about agency work anyone? Thanks again!

Yes you may ask I have been out of nursing for 14yrs.and yes I have kept up with nursing taking 2 refresher courses w/in the past 5-7 yrs. I also marched the governors steps in LA when we first were trying to get the bill passed for ratios here. I am an avid reader of everything medical I can get my hands on. When I worked I worked at some of the largest hopitals in California in med/surg and I also consider the original training I got to be the best there is. I recently made a visit to my alma mater and met with one of my original instructors whio is now the director of nurisng there and she said things here in Cali are no different just some new technology but basically things are the same as far as conditions go. I gotta say she wasn't giving it up much and wasn't real encouraging about re-entry. That didn't help me emotionally or really to tell you the truth give me a big reason to want to go back. I had to step back and ask myself again and I just feel I do want to go back but am lost as to where to start looking, I like Psych is that a possibility to you all? Please know that all advice and comments are MUCH appreciated so bring them on ok!!!!

Thank you all so very much for the comments and suggestions. I am getting the feeling from you all that it is tough to transition back w/out "recent" experience. I posted my resume on Career Builders and Monster and to tell you the truth did not find that to be true although the response has been mostly agency work. I have to tell you that I have done two refresher course in the past but they are not recent either. I think it was JJOY that said that there were a few places more re-entry friendly? Would you be able to share with me where those places are JJOY? I agree fully about the comments on "recent" This seems to be the key word but c'mon now if I had my choice of a seasoned nurse and a new grad no matter how so-called recent the put of nursing school it is I would choose the re-entry most times just for the "seasoned" factor. We as nurses know the first job as a newbie is shocking to say the least as to what the "real world" is like in nursing and it's not the same as in nursing school when you have an instructor to cushion things. I really believe it is an individual thing and I don't believe they just interview you but thqt you also interview them. I also feel you have to take responsibility when you are out of clinical for awhile and keep as fresh as you can. I really really don't want to act desperate when interviewing as I am not desperate anyway. I know it isn't going to be easy to go back although my experience so far has been very good and really not concerned with the recent thing. I want to return to nursing but I really need more specifics on which area ands which places are more feasable to do this in so please if you can share your wisdom with me ok? You are all so wonderful and so knowledgable and I value your opinions Thanks again!!!

Hi! I am a California born and raised nurse who is about to return to nursing after a long time absence. I do not want to go back tp med/surg that was my primary specialty for 5 years. My question is what kind of nursing would all of you consider the best way to transition back into a nursing career? I would very much love to read your opinions which I value and need on this transition. This is a great forum and a great help in many ways to all of us as nurses. Thanks and all your advice will be much appreciated!

i have been out of nursing for 10 years i was a med/surg nurse when i left and do not wish to return to that type of nursing again i would like to know if i were to go back with med/surg experience and alot of it what type of nursing i could try to go into? thanks for any advice you can suggest nurses!undefined