Mexarican

keep trying!! Don't give up. I just graduated (May 5th), took ANCC 5/10...had a job back in March (so imagine the pressure...lol). Actually had a handful of interviews/job offers. In fact in the past five days I've had two practices send me an email via Indeed telling me they'd like to interview me. Have you posted your resume on Indeed.com??? If not, do so...75% of the contacts I had (interviews & job offers) came from potential employers who contacted me thru Indeed.com, although the position I accepted did not come from there but I had actual offers that started thru Indeed.com...so keep looking...or perhaps start looking differently. hope it helps! Mex Somewhere in Georgia

I can't remember what the requirements state, but if they ask for two from a nursing professors then you should get it from them. Otherwise i think you should be fine. Good Luck!! MExarican :-)

i think you husband is right...as adults we dont have the option of not working while we find our dream job. If we dont like a job its ok to look somewhere else...but its not ok to not bring money home while we look for that dream job... MEx

Why do you keep re-gurgitating the same thing your politicians are telling you when there are people on here saying they don't have health insurance AND they dont QUALIFY for Medicaid...are you calling them liars??! Being unisured is real in this country...STOP downplaying it! Mex

I turn off all my phones...i will hear about it when i wake up...nice and rested. Mex

You options are extremely limited. Mostly you will die, especially with cancer. If your extremely lucky and find someone or someplace that will treat you then you may have a fighting chance. But, then there's the question of the super expensive meds/chemo/radiation. The reality is for every one person who does find a way to get treatment..there's about 100 who can't find care or treatment for these conditions and eventually die. It's not uncommon for specialist to request incredible amounts of money up front before treating anyone who is uninsured...it happens every day in the "land of the free"...That is the reality in this country... Mex "Don't Tase Me Bro!"

Often times as well, "The Floor" is refering to Medical/Surgical inpatient areas of which are often divided into different specialties (ex: ortho, neuro, GI/GU, etc). This term is often used in contrast to "The Unit" which is often used to refer to the Intensive Care Units (ex: ICU, CICU, PICU, NICU, etc...). Mex

No offense, but i always laugh when i read something like this...why do you think those residencies are in place today???? It's because they realized that the new grads of yesteryear were NOT as prepared as they needed to be and that hospitals couldn't continue to put new grads into that position. It's not that you were better prepared...it's that nobody cared that you weren't... Mex

As i understand it...usually you're not required to report (to the legal authorities) something like this because it happened to an adult. Like mentioned before, unless they are a minor or elderly you must keep the confidentiality. And i believe your mistaken...domestic violence or physical abuse towards an adult (not including an elderly person or a minor or a disabled person) is not reportable. Adults have a free will to report on their own anything done to them...if you do so then you would be violating HIPPA if we are talking about healthcare workers. Mex

research the hospital...any awards?, any good news lately? usually all this is on their website...if you know it then say it. its never to much if you took the time. mex

I echo JB17...are u bitter because you can't go or were told your skills are not needed?? It seems like your upset that people with "less" experience are getting to go and you are not? I have read a few threads on Haiti here and you always seem to pop up with this same tune...lol. what is it? Mex

The BSN program is only offered in Gainesville, both fulltime and part-time. The Graduate Nursing Programs are based on their Atlanta campus. Mex

Yes, that's correct...as healthcare workers we are often put in difficult situations where decisions are not black n white but rather a sea of gray...such is the profession. If you wanted black n white choices then you definately shouldn't have chosen nursing... Mex

Having a background in HIV education, testing and counseling i notice many of you are confusing what "reportable disease" means and how it relates to the health department and the criminality of this person's actions. When a person tests positive for HIV, the provider who tested them and provided them with those results is required to "report" to the health dept that "a positive" test has occurred. this is done to maintain an accurate count of HIV cases in the nation and it's what "reportable disease" means. "reportable disease" only refers to the responsibility of the provider who tested this person and only means that the provider MUST report that "a positive" has occured to their local health department. That is the extent of what "reportable disease" is and means. Now, if the person cooperates (yes they actually have the choice) it can facilitate notifying sex partners that may have been exposed. This depends on whether the person consents to have their name attached to those results in the first place which determines whether the health department is able to get in contact with the person and work with them in notifying sex partners that they may have exposed to HIV. At no time is the persons name divulged to any potential partners although im sure the persons partner can find out through process of elimination especially if that person only had the infected person as a sex partner. That's the extent of "reportable" and it ONLY happens when the person initially test positive. Now, if this infected person later meets someone and becomes intimate with that person without divulging their HIV status then in many states that is considered a crime which means there are laws that require them to divulge their status prior to becoming intimate with someone, but those laws DO NOT protect you as a healthcare provider in "facilitating" the divulging of this persons status. Which means you can't think, "well since this person is "committing" a crime, i can tell on him/her." Unfortunately these laws are only in place to prosecute after the fact. You can and you will lose your license for violating a persons HIV status confidentiality and it is considered one of the severest violations of HIPPA! In fact their is no more severe violation of HIPPA than divulging a person's HIV status! Their may be some HIPPA violations that are comparable but no other violation surpasses it! So much so that many medical information release forms have a special box where the person has to specifically consent to an HIV status/HIV medical record so that those too can be included in the passing on of medical information. In other words, when you sign a medical release form it does not automatically include any and all HIV medical information including status, you have to sign an additional release specifically for HIV medical information or check the appropriate box. So even making the private MD aware of the persons status without the consent of the patient is a violation of HIPPA. Although one would think that a persons private MD would already know this but don't be surprised as many people will go get tested at the health department in order to purposely avoid involving their MD. As for if this girl was my sister...I would hope that my sister had enough sense to have herself and her partner tested for HIV before becoming intimate with this person and to use protection until then. We all make choices here and even with paying due diligence to our matters (ex:getting tested, using condoms) we can never be 100 percent sure the other person is being true to us...life's a gamble. Mex

This is a classic scenario used in medical ethics discussions. As it stands, as a healthcare you are bound by HIPPA first and foremost! I would definately get the charge involved but thats as far you are allowed to take it. Mex