ramonmalino

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  1. Staff meet and greet

    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 greet with the staff over pizza, and thenI will h...
  2. New Nurse Graduate-ASN

    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 even considering the option of clinic. Maybe you can ...
  3. New graduate nurse-BSN

    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 grads
  4. anyone in northern colorado hire new grads?

    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 more info.
  5. OR Travel Nursing

    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, where I am moving to. A lot of companies have job sea...
  6. travel nursing

    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 bantering between users, but most are useful. I will tell ...
  7. Does anyone live an hour away from there OR job?

    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 live more than 20 mins away. From what I hear its ...
  8. O.R. orientation 6-9 mos. or 3 mos.?

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

    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 community health clinical I asked for, and got, Hospice...
  10. San Diego Staff vs. Travel 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 know if SD does something like that, but if you w...
  11. A True to Nursing Movie

    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 think it would do a lot to bring people into the profe...
  12. New to everything

    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 will certainly be fine. Most hospitals now have what...
  13. Male Nurses/female Patients

    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 catheter
  14. 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 keep us updated on your progress
  15. Male nurse crying!!!

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

    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 account, all I've done is work. And when I'm not at wor...
  17. Male Nurses/female Patients

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

    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 stay off my soap box on this subject, but I don't...
  19. problem with CNA

    Well said kipling
  20. Large med pass at 6 am!!!!!!

    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 it, so you'd have from 0800-1000 for your meds. I'd ...
  21. Is this a privacy violation?

    There's no room for gossip in healthcare
  22. Just wondering if anyone else has career related tattoo's

    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 snakes entwined up a staff. In ancient civilizatio...
  23. Just wondering if anyone else has career related tattoo's

    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 that Staff of Hermes, which it is, and unrelated ...
  24. I am so scared

    Sounds like you're over thinking it. Just relax, take a deep breath and you'll be fine. Doasge calc isn't as bad as you think, the formulas are actually pretty easy once you practice them a couple of times, if you want, PM me and I can give you a cou...
  25. Personality Disorder Test...how do you stack up?

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