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I just saw an ad today in the jobs section on http://www.orlandosentinel.com for this agency Avant Healthcare Professionals( http://www.avanthealthcare.com ) who is currently looking for nurses to work in the middle east.

Sooo sad but it happens all the time. 20/20 had a big story about that sometime last month about walgreens and a another pharmacy med errors. One mother picked what she believed was dilatin but was given metformin for her 2year old daughter, sadly the baby went into a coma and has had retardation ever since. She sued them for millions and won but that neve replaces her child having a normal life.

Thank you Tazzi and critterlover for your inputs :)

Hello everyone. Help. I have a few questions. I have an interview this week with a internal medicine doctor who is in need of a rounding nurse. What exactly do they do??? I currently work in med-surg(1 1/2 experience) and I have seen a nurse who rounds with a GI doctor and another with an infectious disease doc. I see them pull the charts for the docs and print the labs. What are the other task? When I asked the doc about the pay rate he said we can discuss that during the interview and that it was up to me if I wanted to get paid by the paient or hourly. which is better? What is the pay rate for rounding nurses in central florida? Thanx:)

You know what Ruby Vee with the scenario you described with that new nurse wanting to give you bp meds when BP was 82/50, and HCTZ when u were dehydrated from vomiting, NPO, and my IV rate was only 50cc/hour is a matter of being sooo task oriented, being sooo focused on getting things done rather than thinking things through or using critcal thinking. Then also what the heck is up ith not being able to take constructive critism(sp?).What the heck is crying gonna solve?! Suck it up and keep it moving. I know nursing is very stressful but still. I am a new nurse (1yr), but a thing such holding bp meds when sbp

http://www.watchtower.org is the official website for more info.

Maxim healthcare services (http://www.maxhealth.com) agency also hiring nurses for flu shots now.

On craigslist, I found an ad for flu shot nurses needed last week. I clicked on the link and sent the recruiter an email with my resume attached. The company is called testmed (http://www.testmed.com) They are in Cali,FL,Illinois,missouri,ohio and washington and other states ithink. I have an interview setup for friday.LPN and RN pay range from $22-35 per hour. They are hiring for Sept.25-Dec25th I believe. You can go and do flu shots in coperate offices 8am-4pm or 9-5pm on whatever days u want, the mall or other clinics sites.There are also 4hour days available. To search online at craigslist.com. click on your state, city then medical/health and put in Rn, or flu shot in the search box. You can also google testmed and an ad will come up from craigslist. Nursing agencies are also hiring for flu shots now.Hope this info helps.

Congrats JoeB, Welcome to the RN club! I'm glad u didnt give up. I know you well be a wonderful nurse!

I have a friend who was in a similar position. She didnt let it get her down. She challenged the LPN boards got her license and worked as a LPN until she was able to get back into a RN program. Keep your head up.

I saw the keiser ad on tv for their new nursing program and deceided to call to get more info for a friend that wanted to leave FL. hosp nursing school. I asked all the usual questions:cost, # of people accepted, etc. The operated wouldn't tell me, she just kept saying come to the information session. From that I should have known something was up. So I called my friend and we went down there the next day. First, the info session started an hour late. Then the power point that was shown was just basic info about nursing, for example there will be over trillion nurses needed by the year 2020, nurses will always have a job kinda stuff we already know. no info about prereqs required, cost,clinicals and things like that. I would think they would have prepared a packet with all this inforamtion in it. When I realized the power point wasnt giving us the information we needed, raised my hand to ask questions. The man simply said to please wait until the end. so here comes the end of the info session. For each question we had he refered us to a different person for example you would need to speak with Diane 2 doors down the hall and Milly in room 24. My friend and I just looked at each other in disbelief. Shouldnt all these people be in the "information session"?!? After all the run around we finally found out that it cost 500 freaking dollars per credit hour:eek:! I know it is a private college but that is ridculous! I told the lady that they were price gauging(sp?) and was taking advantange of people who really want to become nurses who didnt want to be on a 3yr waiting list. Do you know that woman looked at me and said, " If you really want to be a nurse you would do it no matter the cost. I was then :angryfire. I couldnt believe that snaggle tooth itch formed her lips to tell me that. Keeping my:cool: I told her I am RN and if this very unorganized "information session" is any indication of how the nursing program is ran I feel sorry for the people who spend $40,000 and cant past the NCLEX and for those who do I feel sorry for those patients they will be taking care of. I grabbed my friend's arm and we walked away.

All dillards have crocs and Journeys in the mall. You can also buy them on ebay like me. I won the bid for aspens(no holes) brand new for 19.99. They tend to run small in my experience depending on the style. The ones with holes I can wear my normal shoe size but with the aspens I had to go one size up. I love them, feels like im walking on marshmellows. Happy shopping

I just got a positon in med-surg in January and I just completed orientation. I love, love, love the people that I work with. The nurses are very nice, helpful, the techs are awesome and for the most part many of the doctors are very pleasant.None of them have cursed me out yet. lol. I love working 12 hour shifts but hate first shift. It is just too busy and hectic for me. In the middle of giving meds dressing changes doctors are calling to talk to me. Radiology, cat scan calling, family memebers thinking I am their loved ones personal private nurse, pharmacy calling, the lab, and tons of new orders and of coorifice infiltrating IVs and who knows what else will pop up I feel so overwhelmed at times. I know I have to learn how to prioritize better and I will improve as time go on I just not liking days right now in med-surg. When I first accepted the position it was for nights but the nurse manager begged me to go on days because 2 travel nurses were leaving soon so I went. Right now the nurse patient ratio is 6to 1 but that will soon change to 4 to 1 because the nurse manager has hired 14 more new grads. I am learning a lot but damn this is to much. Does anyone else feel this way?

At first, I too was on the fence on whether I wanted to be a RN or a RDH. I choose nursing even though I love dentistry because I realized that I would be pretty limited as a dental hygienist. Then as someone else mentioned, what will you do when you burn out? How about becoming a nurse and then working in a oral surgery office?

I loved our nursing t-shirts. On the front it said student nurse. On the back it said " Not tonight, I have clinicals in the morning." Then there was another one that said "are you man enough to be a nurse".