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1. Help! What am i? Er nurse or urgent care nurse?

   shailee replied to shailee's topic in Emergency

   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...

2. Help! What am i? Er nurse or urgent care nurse?

   shailee replied to shailee's topic in Emergency

   OK. Thank you.

3. Help! What am i? Er nurse or urgent care nurse?

   shailee posted a topic in Emergency

   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 ...

4. Pidgeon-holeing myself with Corrections?

   shailee replied to 240zRN's topic in Correctional

   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 depar...

5. Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Should you alert agency that you're working with another

   shailee replied to shailee's topic in Travel

   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 t...

6. Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Should you alert agency that you're working with another

   shailee replied to shailee's topic in Travel

   Thank you for your responses

7. Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Should you alert agency that you're working with another

   shailee posted a topic in Travel

   :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 a...

8. Travel Nurse question NYC?

   shailee replied to tab65's topic in New York

   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 ...

9. Male Nurses attending to female patients (morals vrs ethics)

   shailee replied to nkmorale's topic in Male Students

   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 menti...

10. First year nursing student needs some advice.

    shailee replied to NCC21's topic in New York

    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 almos...

11. Need TEAS help please.

    shailee replied to sockmonkey70's topic in General Students

    Hopefully you school has told you what areas on the TEAS you will be tested on. My school chose not to include science. We did just math, reading comprehension and writing/grammar. I focused so hard on my math that the time got away from me and I...

12. We did it! Who from the NY forum will be moving to the "student nurse forum"?

    shailee replied to Wsmith16's topic in New York

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

13. How many hours to study in a day?

    shailee replied to shailee's topic in Student Assist

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

14. How many hours to study in a day?

    shailee posted a topic in Student Assist

    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 ...

15. Accepted Cochran Nursing School

    shailee replied to tabrown1's topic in New York

    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 s...