3rdcareerRN

3rdcareerRN

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  1. Finding jobs for a new grad....

    3rdcareerRN replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

    Although it has been a while since I was a May graduate, things might be the same now: I discovered when I started looking that February that nearly all the many dozen local new-grad jobs had been...

  2. How do I prep for OHN interview??

    3rdcareerRN replied to Sunshine382's topic in Occupational Health

    Occ health is about as different from PICU as I could imagine... so you might think about how you'd care for ambulatory working adults in a typically solo-RN, non-hospital setting. Of course, have a...

  3. Paper on govt. nursing subsidies and shortage

    3rdcareerRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Posted at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/565608 is an interesting article: "An examination of 42 years of nursing supply subsidies and how they have affected the natural wage mechanism for...

  4. some questions about entering nursing

    3rdcareerRN replied to KatieM123's topic in General Nursing

    I was in similar circumstances -- product manager, master's in business, unfulfilled,wanting flexible hours -- when I decided on nursing. I too worked as a CNA to check it out first. An RN is to a...

  5. Spanish help!

    3rdcareerRN replied to gospursgo07's topic in General Nursing

    See http://www.healthinfotranslations.com/index.php Supported by several healthcare chains and the AMA Foundation. Lots of language resources, not just Spanish, including signs, phrases,

  6. For all you 2nd, 3rd or 4th career RN's?

    3rdcareerRN replied to Toots71506's topic in General Nursing

    At age 49, I achieved my R.N. license after two other careers. I still have mixed feelings. "did you find it difficult being a little older?" -- As an older male in nursing school, I felt like a...

  7. Ultrascope

    3rdcareerRN replied to dolphin223's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, they are awesome. I have one, and a top-of-the-line ACD Adscope. The Ultrascope is lighter and cheaper than the ACD and has nearly equal sound. In a noisy environment, they really help you hear...

  8. Physical Therapy Vs RN

    3rdcareerRN replied to 2bNurseguru's topic in Nursing Career

    Nursing offers so many choices -- if you survive your first year. Just go read some of the first-year threads... Physical therapists make more sooner than most nurses. However, it is very physically...

  9. Help! I'm not a quitter, but...

    3rdcareerRN replied to nskoog's topic in General Nursing

    As someone with a prior, non-nursing bachelor degree, let me say this: A non-nursing BA is called "an irrelevancy" by hiring managers. I have never, ever seen it called a second BSN. Of course, that...

  10. What age were you when you went to nursing school?

    3rdcareerRN replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

    Started prereqs at age 46; BSN at age 49. It is my third degree (one per career, every 18 years - LOL). Starting at the bottom as a newbie AGAIN is harder than I thought it would be. I am making the...

  11. "I work harder than a nurse in a hospital."

    3rdcareerRN replied to control's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, in the past 6 months I moved from hospital nursing to urgent-health nursing. Hospital nursing was the hardest thing I have ever done -- including three real careers and many mini-careers before...