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Retrogression and the present state of the US economy is affecting everyone. For those that plan to work here...the wait could be longer than you think. As of the present, no one knows when the economy will get better but on the other hand, most US h...

Are you in NY now or in the continental US?

Its heavy on a med-surg/tele floor. but where I work, I am usually charge and I take patients. You know what you guys are right! You cant do justice to both roles.

I dont like taking report from the ED but I have to. BUT I don't get upset at my Charge Nurse...For the ED, the patient in the ED needs a bed and the ED needs to be decongested. For my Charge Nurse, she has a job to do and this is part of the job de...

there will be times that you might feel like that this specialty may not be right for you, but hang in there! remember!! you only need do this for 12 hours and then you get to go home. sometimes i've had three transfusions started and running at t...

Didn't renewals use the Drop-box method? Just curious.

Go with the grind. Be quiet and learn. hospital policies, unit policies and do not be afraid to ask questions. Acuity LTC may have so many patients but med-surg has an increasing acuity that ebbs and flows on a drop of a hat. Do not be alarmed becaus...

6 years ago During nights we would have 1: 10 3-4 years ago During nights we used to have 1:7 or 1:8. now we are down to 1:6 Colleagues, a low patient-nurse ratio is not the entire picture 1. Our Patient Acuity level has gone up 200% from 6 years ...

If you are going to Long Island anyway, how about hospitals in Suffolk county like Brookhaven, Mather, SUNY Stony Brook, Southside, Southampton Hospital? Suffolk is laid back and not hustle and bustle unlike NYC Yes. Nurse recruiter to Human Reso...

Time Management is the key. I work nights and usually we are understaffed in terms of support staff availability. After getting report, I check all my patients (initial nursing rounds) and environment of each patient (IV access and lines, feeding tu...

Question #1 How about Long Island? Question #2 Have you like applied for all positions or are you concentrating on applying into a nursing specialty, like say, Peds or Cardiac Cath? I think most Med Surg floors are always open. Always the best way ...

AND WHERE DID YOU SAY THIS FACILITY IS LOCATED?

Depends on your facility/hospital. 24 hour chart checks and medicine reconciliation. Sometimes, put in a new IV on a patient if IV access is expired (good for 4 days), AM labs if patient has a central line. If a patient has a trach, trach care an...

Bravissimo Zuzi!! Grazie!!:yelclap::yelclap::yeah: This is what this board should be all about!!

Buona Fortuna Babyj9396!!

rednick lets do the math. if you remove the 000 in suzanne's facts and data, that leaves 632 and 10. so 632 nursing students in nursing school will be applying for 10 visas in the eb-3 category. thats competitive. its now a matter of competition. ...

the important thing is if you really want to work and stay in ny, you will still apply for reciprocity even if it will take a while. the important thing is if you took and passed the exam for ca you do not need to take the exam again if ever you wa...

being a cardiac nurse at heart and by profession, big macs are not my ideal point of comparison. this is due to the fact that i will need to take into account the money i will have to spent for stents placed when i have my mi!! i know i like buy...

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Dhel and Rep You are soooo right. Money does not grow on streets here. Its funny that our friends and relatives think that for us, nurses working and living in the US, it does. One earns in dollars and one spends in dollars. One should never co...

here its q4 x 3 yes but we try not to equate dollar to pesos. you earn in dollars you spend in dollars........ generally living in the city, one spends more dollars for an item than if living in a suburb or township, right? just like in manila and...

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not really lenjoy. you must remember that some mds have taken nursing as their premed course. for these people - its quite easy to shift from role to role.

Pinoy_guy I just spoke to some of the nurses involved in the Sentosa Affair. They are also in Long Island. Pls. Try not to believe what the papers say. The case was withdrawn from there and filed somewhere else. I cannot elaborate further since I am...