86toronado BSN, RN

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    7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

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

    That's crazy... flying your out, and putting you up in a hotel etc. just to have the director be "out". But it sounds like the job you have is the best one for you anyway, doesn't involve moving,...
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    New Grads: How was your day today???

    86toronado replied to Misslady113's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just finished my fourth day on the floor with my preceptor after a week and a half of classroom orientation. Maybe I'm a little too excited about it, but I can't wait to be a nurse on my own! I just...
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    If healthcare reform resulted in salary caps of $40k for nurses would you stay?

    86toronado replied to keithjones's topic in General Nursing

    I just have to say that I left food service, with a 4 year degree, living in one of the most expensive cities on the east coast to go into nursing, and I was making $38,000/year at the time, in 2006....
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    Does speaking Spanish get you higher pay ?

    86toronado posted a topic in General Nursing

    I don't speak Spanish as my primary language, but I'm fairly fluent. I was helping to translate basic needs for a patient at work one night and one of the other nurses on the floor pulled me aside...
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    New Nurse who hates her job...nursing is not what I thought

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

    Tele is typically a very busy floor with high patient turnover. You don't get a lot of time to know your patients. You may want to try a different floor... does your hospital have a hospice unit? I...
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    ICU Jobs

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

    Usually within a year of hire you're expected to be ACLS, ECG
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    Does speaking Spanish get you higher pay ?

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

    That's good to hear, since South Florida is where I would like to end up in a few years, when the economy is out of this recession, and my husband finishes school... I think I'm more looking for...
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    ATTN: Becoming a Medical Assistant=Waste of Time

    86toronado replied to msnjie4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry you went through that! When I was a tech at a local hospital, the mgr told me I'd be having a prospective new employee shadowing me for my shift. Well, as I talked to the woman, it turns...
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    First Week on the Floor as an RN

    86toronado replied to Student2Registered's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It gets better. Look at all the posts on this forum, and you'll see that there's a common thread... at some point during your first year, things just start to slide into place. It's like driving a...
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    Best clothes for interviews

    86toronado replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like it went very well! Hope you hear back
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    Nurses providing good "service"?

    86toronado replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    This is a 100% true story: I once walked into a patient's room to find her struggling to breath, blue lips, O2 sat in the low 70's. I helped her back into bed, got her nurse (I was a tech at the...
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    working nights as opposed to working days

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

    I think you'll find a much better environment on nights. I'm a new nurse, and could not imagine working day shift full time... I have to orient there, because everyone does, but I just can't see...
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    Any words of advice?

    86toronado replied to prudence09's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would ask for a different preceptor, or at least get your nurse manager to spell out exactly what the expectations are for you and your preceptor... I don't think reading a book while you do her...
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    CALLING---Those who have Jobs- WE need you!

    86toronado replied to k.morris's topic in First Year After Licensure

    1. working on a mixed floor-half neuro icu, half med/surg with a focus on neuro 2. upstate ny 3. i had worked at the hospital previously, left to try something new, but heard they were having a...
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    Good day at work today

    86toronado replied to kmarie724's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Good for you! May this be the first of
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    Why does everyone groan when I say I'm going to take a neurosciences position?

    86toronado replied to GoECU's topic in General Nursing

    I :redbeathe neuro!! Honestly, it was the first hospital job that I ever had, but after being on a neuro unit for 2 years, I tried cardio, just to see what else was out there, and I was back on my...
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    to take the job or not take the job that is the question

    86toronado replied to hollyberrys720's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Take what you can get at this point. You can always stay for a year, and then try applying to the "one year experience required" positions. Since it is still acute care, a lot of what you are doing...
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    Are nurses really that important?

    86toronado replied to silentRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's exactly what I was going to
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    hawthorne--opinion?

    86toronado replied to 1lollipop's topic in New York Nursing

    I think HawthoRNe could become a good show, once the characters are all better developed... I do hope they either fire Candy for giving her "special" care, or the character at least has a change of...
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    Resume ahhhhhhhhhhh

    86toronado replied to creekster_16's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I disagree with the above poster. Stating your nursing skills and clinical experience is redundant... nurse managers and recruiters know that if you've graduated from nursing school, you've had X...
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    Teaching hospital? Or not.

    86toronado replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I attended an educational lecture that I was interested in at the teaching hospital I worked at and got such incredulous looks from the med students who were there that it cured me from ever...
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    Juggling Nursing School at Night and a Full-Time Job

    86toronado replied to OKS10's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I know several people who worked a 40 hour week while in nursing school. It is doable, but I think they found it so because they were working in hospitals, and therefore able to be flexible with...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    86toronado replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    My ghost stories are nowhere near as spooky as any of these-I started at the beginning, and have been reading for about an hour, but now have to go to bed. I called my dog from upstairs so he can...
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    Teaching hospital? Or not.

    86toronado replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked at one teaching hospital, and currently work at a smaller community hospital... and I have to disagree with some of the others. Yes, the teaching hospital had more interesting cases, more...
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    "If you sit down and chart for more than 15 minutes, that's considered a break"

    86toronado replied to JomoNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad I work at a unionized hospital. I don't know if I'll ever leave, because hearing things like this really makes me realize how good we have