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Thank you so much for your comments. Clarification: The hospital has 300 beds, and the er/urgent care unit has 10 er beds. The hospital works in conjunction with wake med, a very large teaching hospital within 5 minutes away. Icu patient's are sent there, and you're right. The hospital is 4 months old, and at a meeting yesterday, we were told that an icu is in the future plans.

OK. Thank you.

Hello Everyone: After working 2 years as a Homecare Nurse (could not get hired into hospital as a new grad) I finally relocated and acquired an ICU position (although my hearts desire was to be an ER nurse) I was in ICU for 8 months and finally got hired for an ER position at a new State Hospital. The Hospital has over 300 beds. It has an OR (not heavily invasive, but that is to change as more personnel is hired and equipment is brought in), telemetry unit, med-surge units, dialysis, ER, etc. During the first week of orientation we were informed that the State says that we now have to call ourselved an Urgent Care unit, because we do not have an ICU. Up to now the ER has functioned as a limited ICU. My problems is now as such: am I an ER nurse as stated on my letter of acceptance or am I now an urgent care nurse? (my duties have not changed, just the dept. name) and will I still be able to eventually become certified as an ER nurse? I thought I was finally there:cry:

It depends on what type of Correction Institution you are employed by. My previous experience was 8 months in an ICU position. I just started at a Hospital (300 beds) with 120 being mental health. This is in NC. I will be working in the ER department of the hospital. The hospital also has telemetry, med-surge units, an OR. The Correction infirmaries that are in each prison may not be so vast. My hospital in on the prison grounds, but is a seperate 5 floor building. My hospitals offers acute care to prisoners over the entire state of NC. Like you, my interest is in ER. After you finish your 12 month stint, try looking into large Correction State and Federal Hospitals (like the one in Butner NC) that operates as full hospitals with JAHCO accredidation. Hopes this helps

Thank you guys. I did just that and they were both appreciative. I got my first travel assignment. I'm so excited. The 2nd recruiter was so nice. She said well why don't we work on getting your license for California, so by the time you finish this assignment you will be ready to travel with us. She immediately assigned me to a recruiter in the company working in my specialty.

Thank you for your responses

:confused:I just recently found out that I qualified requirement wise to work with travel agency. I had one assignment that I was going to take but it was cancelled. Since then I've signed up with another agency. The recruiters for both agencies are wonderful and they both are trying very hard to help me. When it comes to travel nurse etiquette should I inform both recruiters that I'm working with someone else at the same time. Ideally I would like to work for both companies so I don't want to do anything that would jeopardize the relationship with either one. Especially since I've been told that it's better to work for two. Would this be a case of don't ask and don't tell?

That 's is true. I have several friends who are travel nurses here in NY. I do know that one who worked for one company had $2,000 for her rent. I don't know if this is the standard or not. The assignments can be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year and they can be renewed. There is also a posting on allnurses.com dated March 19, 2008 from Samyaira inviting anyone to pm him/her for specific amounts for housing stipends in NY. Hope this helps.

I am a student in NY taking maternity. This was the first time I saw how challenging it can be for a male nurse student. The male nurse who was my partner and I were assigned patients to to care on, to help with breastfeeding at the like. As mentioned by tabrown1 earlier, NY is filled with man cultures and beliefs. Although the husbans were polite to my partner, they requested of the staff nurses for him not to view, give care or even come into the room on the new mothers. This happened numerous times. In one case, my male partner asked the family were there any problems, they said no. I came in a few minutes later, there were actually terrified over some new developments with the wife and baby. I had to go get expereinced nurses to address their concerns. I think there are very real problems for male nurses and female patients as people from other countries come and no longer feel the pressure to assimilate into American culture. As they hold on to and embrace their own cultures and the media continues to push that most people have some hidden perversions we will see more of this.

If you decide to stay put at the desk job, you will have to monitor it as you go. I started out with a desk job (law firm) that was very busy. As Tabrown1 said, it was ok for my first semester. By med-surge, that same desk job had burned me almost completely out. Yours may not do that, but if it leaves you no time to study as the classes get harder and harder you will probably still need to make adjustments. Regarding working as a CNA, I have to agree with Wsmith16 and Tabrown1, in my class we had at least 2 cna's that failed because of not having enought time to study. I had to finally quit work and take a salliemae loan to focus more on my study. If I take another job, it will be one that allows me to study, even if it dosen't pay well.

:balloons: and me at St. John's Cochran School of Nursing

Thank you. All of those suggestion and personal expressions were very helpful. I guess when I get into it, I will find my niche.

Hi everyone: I just got accepted into nursing school. I do have to work while I'm going part-time. I'm trying to make out a good schedule. How many hours a day of studying is good if I'm in class all day Saturdays and in clinicals two evenings a week?:studyowl:

wsmith16: I also got accepted to Cochran for their Saturday theory program. I got a chance to speak to some of the students who are graduating from Cochran this year. They said that the program is rigourous, but can be done with determination and sacrifices. I started to apply for Dorthea H. but opted for Cochran since they have put in to be accredited by the NLN.

I recently applied to Cochran. Took my test and had an interview last month. I am now waiting to see if I was accepted. My grade point average is 3.75. Will that get me in. Chuck1234 made the comment study, study and keep studying. Is it a challenging program? Actually I hope so. It's important to me to be a good nurse and not just to pass the course