RN1015

Ok this was many many years ago........but I'm betting things haven't changed much.... I started out at Marshall and ENDED up graduating at St. Marys. I'm not saying Marshall is bad but I found St. Marys to be much more caring and involved in your education ..THEY CARED!! They did not "preach" christianity but practiced it..... graduating students donated their uniforms to the school for ones that could not afford them and there was emergency funds raised by the classes that students could apply for, for example, if they could not pay their electric bill. I remember one time I did not get the funding I needed to pay my tutition and they worked with me to make payments. The teachers would hold study sessions on their own time after classes if we were struggling with a concept. And these are just a few things. St. Marys left a HUGE imprint on my life and my heart and I credit to this day for how I look at my life and practice nursing. I worked a short time at St. Marys before I married and moved to Charleston and the change was tremendous. If I could I would go back there in a minute. Hope this helps you

Charleston here howdy yall

Thank you all for your info!!!

Hello fellow OR RN's!! My department is desperately seeking some more realistic compensation for being on call and we need information on how other institutions compensate their surgery staff for call. We need any information you can give us including the size of your OR and how your shifts run etc. We, for example, are a six room OR open from 7am to 5pm. Our call team, two RN's, start call at 3pm and are paid 3.35 per hour call. We get a "call guarantee" IF we work under four hours. This call guarantee pay is only paid ONCE in an eight hour period and only up to four hours (i.e. work two hours get two hours "call guarantee" at our regular hourly rate) Ok did I totally confuse you? SORRY! Please help us and give us any info we can use I would love you forever.