86toronado BSN, RN

neurology, cardiology, ED

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  1. 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???

    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...
  3. 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....
  4. 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...
  5. 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

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

    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

    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

    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

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

    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

    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?

    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...
  14. 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

    Good for you! May this be the first of
  16. 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...
  17. 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?

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

    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

    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.

    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...
  22. 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?

    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.

    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...
  25. 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