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  1. Staff meet and greet

    ramonmalino posted a topic in Nurse Management

    So I had a phone interview early this week for a unit manager position. I think it went really well and they have asked me to come in to the facility. The first hour I will be there will be a meet and...

  2. New Nurse Graduate-ASN

    ramonmalino replied to COboundRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Also look at clinic nursing. They will sometimes take new grads and its a good paced environment to work on your assessment and documenting skills. I see alot of people jump right into SNF without...

  3. New graduate nurse-BSN

    ramonmalino replied to Eminemily's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Have you tried North Colorado Medical Center? My fioncee applied at McKee, their sister-hospital, and got in. They're usually very good about hiring new

  4. anyone in northern colorado hire new grads?

    ramonmalino replied to cardioverter's topic in Colorado Nursing

    North Colorado Medical Center. They're in Greeley. They hire new grads, all units, even ER. Any of the hospitals in the Banner Health Network. Poudre Valley may have some jobs too. PM me if you need...

  5. OR Travel Nursing

    ramonmalino replied to BekahRose's topic in Travel

    Bekah, I start my first OR travel assignment Jan 2nd. there are plenty of jobs out there, the hospital I currently work at in central NY has openings for travelers. Also there are a lot in Denver,...

  6. travel nursing

    ramonmalino replied to dixiedaughter's topic in Travel

    Read the sticky threads. I start my first assignment next month. Before making the decisions on which companies to apply to I read through ALL the posts in those sticky threads. Some are just...

  7. Does anyone live an hour away from there OR job?

    ramonmalino replied to ruralgirl08's topic in Operating Room

    I live an hour away from my job. I'm still new to the OR, I won't be taking call for another 10 months, but my facility has a house that they use for any of the RNs, Scrubs, and Residents on call who...

  8. O.R. orientation 6-9 mos. or 3 mos.?

    ramonmalino replied to LAM2010's topic in Operating Room

    Wow. My hospital has us orient to the OR for 12 months if we've never been a

  9. Hospice

    ramonmalino posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    Let me start off by saying that I'm searching for advice. Hx: I'm in my last semester of school from a 4 year program. I'm taking critical care, nursing management and community health. For my...

  10. San Diego Staff vs. Travel Nursing?

    ramonmalino replied to Kenora1982's topic in General Nursing

    I have a friend who lives in NYC and she does travel nursing, but only in the city. Enough hospitals belong to her agency that she just floats between them. It pays her mortgage and then some. I don't...

  11. A True to Nursing Movie

    ramonmalino replied to skinc1's topic in General Nursing

    Ive spent many days with my friends from class (i'm still a student) talking about how cool it would be to have a tv show about nursing school. They have those shows for doctors why not nurses? I...

  12. New to everything

    ramonmalino replied to zoey67's topic in General Nursing

    The math that you will be doing is relatively simple stuff, if I can do it anyone can hahaha. If you can do simple fractions and very simple algebra (like finding X and cross multiplying) than you...

  13. Male Nurses/female Patients

    ramonmalino replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I can appreciate that. Me personally, if I ever saw an MD coming at me with a foley I'd send them away and ask for a nurse. I don't even remember the last time I saw an MD put in a

  14. Do I have to be an A student to be a nurse? ...there's no hope for me.

    ramonmalino replied to BunnyJ's topic in General Nursing

    There are many roads into the nursing profession. I am sure you will find one of them. Grades are not the all important determinant of whether you will make a good nurse or not. Keep plugging away and...

  15. Male nurse crying!!!

    ramonmalino replied to ClassQ1's topic in Men in Nursing

    your boyfriend is

  16. What do you guys during your off-time?

    ramonmalino replied to mcknis's topic in Men in Nursing

    I spend my time rooting for the red sox, patriots, celtics, or revolution depending on the season. I play golf and spend time with friends. Lately though, after looking at my post-christmas bank...

  17. Male Nurses/female Patients

    ramonmalino replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

  18. Paramedic on Medical Surgical Units outside of just the ER

    ramonmalino replied to ParamedicGuy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not for it at all. It's not that I'm biased against paramedics (my brother and uncle are both very competent paramedics) my problem would be taking away more interventions from nurses. I'll try to...

  19. problem with CNA

    ramonmalino replied to adnstudent2007's topic in General Nursing

    Well said

  20. Large med pass at 6 am!!!!!!

    ramonmalino replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    As a lowly student I can only comment on what we are taught in lecture and clinicals, but it has been drilled into our heads that if the med is ordered for 0900 you have an hour on each end to pass...

  21. Is this a privacy violation?

    ramonmalino replied to linzz's topic in General Nursing

    There's no room for gossip in

  22. Just wondering if anyone else has career related tattoo's

    ramonmalino replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    The Caduceus was actually first seen on Sumerian clay tablets to represent Enki, the God of Creation, The Earth, the Great Abyss (water), crafts, intellect, medicine and magic. His pictograph was two...

  23. Just wondering if anyone else has career related tattoo's

    ramonmalino replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    I just made an appointment for next wed. First tattoo, really excited, lol. It's a play off of the caduceus but instead of snakes i'm having dragons. Here's why: Many people think that the caduceus is...

  24. Personality Disorder Test...how do you stack up?

    ramonmalino replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

    Low on everything, high on Histrionic... sadly, seeing as Im an MHA on 3 psych units, I shoudl have already known

  25. Still No Results!

    ramonmalino replied to ivy120's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    IVY, I'm so sorry to hear that. Don't worry you'll get them next time. wait a couple months to take them again. Use the computer CDs. The Test is on the computer, so get used to using one. Get into a...