86toronado BSN, RN

neurology, cardiology, ED

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    Hospitals hiring ADN grads into ICU?

    86toronado replied to freeflowchi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Freeflowchi-I just read your other posts, and now see it's not so much a problem of landing an ICU job as a problem of landing a job in general. So, now I want to suggest that you head over to the...
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    Hospitals hiring ADN grads into ICU?

    86toronado replied to freeflowchi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Right now it's very difficult. I have a friend with a BSN who could not get into ICU. My suggestion would be to start looking for jobs in telemetry, or stepdown, and work on your skills, and then...
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    States hiring New RN Grads?

    86toronado replied to 2CareerRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I really don't think it's fair to generalize... all states are hiring, but maybe not in the areas you are looking in. I've heard that NY is not hiring, yet I am a new grad in NY with a job, so is...
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    What can I do for healthcare employment while I wait for nursing school?

    86toronado replied to arigsbee's topic in General Nursing

    I would try applying to other positions within the hospital setting-transporter, registrar, or even volunteer. Try for ones that would still give you some patient contact, rather than sitting in an...
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    C. Diff.

    86toronado replied to love620's topic in General Students

    Every hospital I've ever worked at has put the patient on contact precautions if we even suspect C-diff. It's one of the few microorganisms that isn't killed by anti-bacterial hand rubs, so it's very...
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    There Are A Few GN Jobs Out There

    86toronado replied to PMFB-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Awesome website!
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    On a positive note.......

    86toronado replied to groovy jeff's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I love my job too! Not all new grads are miserable in their jobs. Every day that I go to work, I think to myself I can't believe how lucky I am to get paid well for a job that I love
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    What do you nurses think of these allied health professionals?

    86toronado replied to Inspired By Silence's topic in General Nursing

    I know I couldn't do my job without the respiratory therapists... a lot of the patients on my floor are vented, and even more have regular breathing treatments that I wouldn't have time to keep up...
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    Trying to find a jo in NEW YORK!!!!

    86toronado replied to focuszx5's topic in New York Nursing

    Where in NY? NYC, or the state in general? It makes a difference. Jobs in the NYC area are hard to come by right now, but I know lots of hospitals in my area (Albany/Upstate) that would love to...
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    Nurses who wish you "hadn't" - other healthcare careers you wish you'd pursued?

    86toronado replied to arigsbee's topic in General Nursing

    Well, if you're a nurse, and you chart "patient sleeping, did not want to disturb for meds (or treatment, or assessment)" you'd get in serious trouble. But for case management (and OT, ST, PT...)...
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    Who loves their job?

    86toronado replied to solneeshka's topic in General Nursing

    I love my job. I work on a neuro floor and my patients are endlessly fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking, and always
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    Pay Raises

    86toronado replied to Riley3's topic in General Nursing

    they didn't take away all of it... just a third. still pretty bad, though. fortunately he's the type that never uses sick time, so it didn't hurt as bad as those who like to call in once a month
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    Do you ever get frustrated....

    86toronado replied to feisty's topic in General Nursing

    Uh, yeah... I know exactly what you are talking about. I can't even mention the word healthcare in front of my mom without her launching into a tirade about how Obama is going to make people choose...
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    How Many Patients Each Shift?

    86toronado replied to NurseStephen's topic in First Year After Licensure

    five questions to answer: 1) what type of setting do you perform nursing? med-surg, with neuro focus 2) what type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? primary 2)...
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    Pay Raises

    86toronado replied to Riley3's topic in General Nursing

    I got a pay raise, and a sign-on bonus this year. RN's where I work are union, so the pay raises are written into the contract, but my facility also gave all non-union employees 3%. Now, next town...
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    CLEP Human Growth and Development

    86toronado replied to RN-4Ever's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't CLEP that, but I did Sociology, and it's way easier than the practice tests included in the
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    Where do you put your STUFF

    86toronado replied to DAMomma's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow! You guys carry alot of stuff! I usually just have a multi-colored pen in my right hip pocket, along with a stack of alchohol wipes and a tourniquet. I try to wear cargo pants every days so I...
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    Stress level on a neuro floor

    86toronado replied to ruralgirl08's topic in Neurological

    I've only worked on neuro, and cardiac, but I find that neuro can be more stressful physically, since most of your patients are full care patients that require the majority of their ADL's done for...
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    So we have a Code coming in....

    86toronado replied to kellyp374's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you! I've been in on several codes, but have never gotten to do compressions. Sadly, many codes do not have desirable outcomes, but it's usually a rush
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    Neuro Checks - What do I do?

    86toronado replied to gambitlizard's topic in Neurological

    I was just going to say to the OP... where I work, the GCS score is included in our neuro checks-you may want to be prepared to include one in your assessment of your neuro
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    Professions before nursing

    86toronado replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    Ages 16-18: Server at a casual restaurant chain 18-19: Math tutor (and I'm not even good at math) 19 still: Line cook at an upscale resort Still 19: Office assistant (learned from this one that I...
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    holiday

    86toronado replied to mume2mykidz's topic in General Nursing

    At any facility I've worked at, if you work overnights the night before the holiday (ie: christmas eve into christmas) counts as your holiday. Which sucks because you could end up working both...
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    Low Census??

    86toronado replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! It's not that way for us in NY! We had a lot of low census days over the summer... to the point where I purposely saved several of my personal days just in case I got called off (I was orienting...
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    Management vs. primary care nursing

    86toronado replied to RNsharkinaj's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work on a floor that had, I kid you not 5 nurse managers, plus a CNS... and then the facility announced a hiring
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    CNA during nursing school, good idea?

    86toronado replied to Ivanam's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know about So Cal, but for me, here in NY it definitely made a difference. I worked as a tech (hospital equivalent of CNA) for the entire time I was in nursing school, and as a unit secretary...