SandraDeeRN

I am interviewing at both Shadyside Neuro ICU and AGH's trauma ICU. I have been working at UPMC for the past three years on a cardiac unit and I am very excited to go to the ICU, I am just not sure which one. I shadowed at shadyside as a GN, but di...

I currently work for a UPMC community hospital and want to do CC but they're not letting me, its a long story, see my post in the PA nurses forum for the whole story but I wanted to post something brief in here asking about any openings in the downto...

I have been wanting to do CC since I graduated two years ago and seem to have a hard time getting in somewhere. I had the chance to work at Shadyside in their Neuro ICU but I turned it down as a GN and regret it. I have worked medsurg with telemetry...

jamst...you shouldn't have any trouble getting into an ICU out of school. Whatever you're offered take it. You'll get the experience and will be able to go anywhere else if you decide to. I turned down a job at shadyside in their neuro ICU as a GN tw...

Thanks. I work for UPMC though and my contract is up this summer so I can't go to AGH yet if I wanted to. I've heard bad things about that place though....

I got accepted into Pitts RN to MSN program but I have a problem. I didn't have to take chemistry in nursing school b/c my high school credit counted as it. SO....when I got into Pitt they were like you need to take a college chemistry which is a p...

The North Hills campus.

Well I started in the OR last week and their shifts are 7-3, 9-5 or 2-10 and I was going to just tough it out and work 2-10 during the week so I could have the days open for class and when I suggested that to her she was like I would just find anothe...

BCCC only offers chem 1 three days a week plus lab during the day which I cannot do since I work full time daylight mostly. CCAC offers it in the summer in the evenings which would be PERFECT BUT...I called the lady at Pitt today and she told me it'...

Yeah I know. It seems everyone else around the pittsburgh area makes much more....

When I first started at a pittsburgh hospital it was 18.95 two years ago. It's now up to 19 something for new grads.

So I just finished my first week of OR orientation. I came from a med surge floor looking for a change and I found it. It is totally different and I guess I like it so far. I have mostly been following my preceptor around and doing little things l...

Yeah I figured it was too early to make any calls yet. I haven't really done much yet like I said and I was just hoping that what I have seen already isn't how it is everyday. Right now I'm bored b/c I don't have many things to do or know what to d...

You're not alone. I work med surge heart failure stroke and feel the same way. I've been there for two years and I'm transferring to the OR next month to try something different and see what else is out there. I get frustrated with the family meme...

I like to have either the confused ones who don't ask you a million questions about what you're doing because they don't know any better (they also can say the funniest things some times...) or the alert, but nice, older patients who aren't demanding...

Where I work you do not get extra orientation to be in charge. If you're in charge you still have a full patient assignment which is about 6 patients and if one of the LPN's are working, you need to cover them so it's almost like having 12. We do n...

I work for a hospital in pittsburgh. There are a lot of them and we're called univeristy of pittsburgh medical center (UPMC) for those who aren't familiar. One of the hospitals recently made it mandatory to have your BSN to work there and if you ha...

Yes Shadyside is in the UPMC system so I agree, it makes no sense. Only one hospital, UPMC Presby is going to do this so far. UPMC will give you only 2000 in tuition assistance if you go to school part time, and 4000 if you go full time which is im...

Where I work, the unit director decides on who can be in charge on the off shifts. I have been a nurse for two years and was in charge six months after I started there. There are nurses I work with who have over 20 years of experience and refuse to...

I don't think you did anything wrong either. Always go with your gut instinct and next time you need to call a doctor and you really feel strongly the patient needs to be seen, express that to them over and over if you need to and most of the time t...

I work on a med surg floor that specializes in heart failure and stroke patients. Some are on telemetry. I have worked there for two years, it is where i started as a Graduate nurse. I am transferring to the OR though in february. I like med surg...

It will get better!!! You won't feel comfortable on the floor for about a year so don't get discouraged. Organization is the key to getting done on time. There will always be days where you stay over, it just happens don't let it get to you. At le...

I will be going to the OR next month and I am nervous about all of the above. My hospital doesn't hire new RN's into the OR you have to have a min of two years on med surg to work there which I have. I don't know how much of a difference that will ...

Well I do know most of the surgeons from working on the floor for two years so at least I wont have to learn names and etc. but i will have to learn what they prefer for each case and that really is the only thing I'm nervous about screwing up. Some...

Hi Everyone! My name is Sandra and I just joined the site! I have been a nurse for two years in the Pittsburgh area on a med surg floor that specializes in heart failure and stroke patients. I am transferring to the OR in February and I am really exc...