NewYorkGirl

NewYorkGirl

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  1. Help finding a job?

    NewYorkGirl replied to alliemb222's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Goodness, where do you live? I'm in NY, and almost every single hospital within a one hour drive of me is hiring - and hiring new grads! Forget emailing resumes... just show up at the hospital in a...

  2. Combative Pt. Spat in my Face, Eyes, Mouth-Dealing with Policy/Procedure now :(

    NewYorkGirl replied to Gr8Dane's topic in General Nursing

    Oh honey I totally feel for you. That sucks! I had a similar horrible experience just two days ago, on Saturday. I'm graduating with my BSN in May and I want (wanted?) to be a psych nurse, so I was...

  3. Padded Rooms??!

    NewYorkGirl replied to New2ER's topic in Psychiatric

    The psych hospital I work at in Katonah NY has "quiet rooms" that have padded walls! The patients bang their heads or punch the walls until their PRN kicks

  4. Name the hospital and its Starting Salary!!!

    NewYorkGirl replied to amadime1's topic in New York Nursing

    NY Presbyterian in White Plains, NY has 8 hr shifts and offers new grad BSN's $67K for the day shift and $73K for evenings or

  5. Attacked by patient

    NewYorkGirl replied to franmermaid's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm so sorry that happened to you! I work as a Mental Health Worker at an inpatient psych hospital, and I'm a senior year nursing student (I graduate with my BSN in May) and I want to be a psych...

  6. security guards?

    NewYorkGirl replied to fidelio's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm a senior year nursing student (I graduate with my BSN May 08) and I just started working as a Mental Health Worker at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. I'm working with preteens and adolescents....

  7. Funny Names for Nurses

    NewYorkGirl replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    My brother's father-in-law is a gastroenterologist by the name of Dr. Barfi... for

  8. 1 yr out of school, no floor experience - Mental Health nursing info

    NewYorkGirl replied to jayrelic's topic in Psychiatric

    I used to be an EMT in Los Angeles... 5150 is the police code used when the EMTs pick up a patient who seems mentally unable to make a good decision regarding his health - so if the pt is drunk and...

  9. Name the hospital and its Starting Salary!!!

    NewYorkGirl replied to amadime1's topic in New York Nursing

    I just got a job offer from Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, NY for when I graduate (yay!) :balloons: and they said it would be 55K for 3 12hr shifts a week, or 60K on the night shift. Until I graduate...

  10. a little knowledge is dangerous

    NewYorkGirl replied to Agnus's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, Agnus... my MIL wrote me the meanest email a few weeks ago too!! She does it b/c she doesn't understand that it's inappropriate to share every single thing she thinks! She has driven off all her...

  11. a little knowledge is dangerous

    NewYorkGirl replied to Agnus's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds a lot like my mother-in-law, who happens to have Borderline Personality Disorder!! What do you

  12. Name the hospital and its Starting Salary!!!

    NewYorkGirl replied to amadime1's topic in New York Nursing

    About a month ago I called a bunch of hospitals and asked their starting salaries without giving my name (no one asked). I noticed that most of the hospital salaries posted so far are for NYC which...