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thanks for your comment. i feel like an idiot almost everyday. very discouraging:crying2:

thanks for your comment. i feel like an idiot almost everyday. very discouraging:crying2:

i did home health my first 6 mo out of nursing school (hated it), i then did med/surg with telemetry for the last 18 months. just transferred to L&D on 11/7/11 and I feel like a complete idiot nurse with no experience most of my days. Everything is so different and some of the nurses are just plain evil!!! In our L&D we do our own triage, and we also rotate to operating room and post-op for our c-section patients. have have our own 2 operating rooms and post op rooms on our locked unit. it is very overwhelming and i am starting to wonder if i made the right choice. This is what i wanted to do since i was a child, but boy is it hard and the other nurses with their sarcasm and pure evilness sure doesnt help.

How do you access it on a Mac? I can't view my hours unless I'm on a windows based system

could just be nerves making you sick. i had a recent needlstick as well and i promise i started feeling sick like 2 days later, but it turned out that the patient was negative for everything (HIV, Hep B, Hep C), and he is low risk anyway (middle aged, married, real estate investor & etc). easier said then done, but try to think happy thoughts and your symptoms may just go away

i think mci did teach us alot. i work at norfolk general and i am not as impressed with sentara students as i am with the mci students. however sentara is much cheaper and you will get a bsn rather than a aas for less than half of the price

im in 5k and it's alright. i did days for my first few months and now im in nights. we have a pretty good unit

you need to do at least 1 year in like a med/surg environment or something similar. med/surg is considered acute care

it's slower in winter so they dont hire as much then. they start hiring alot around jan or feb. i applied to sentara last winter and didnt ever hear back. reapplied the end of january and had 3 interviews and was hired all within like 10 days. my unit, med/surg, at norfolk general, has like 1 or 2 openings, but if you try in the early spring or late winter, they will probably have like 5 or 6

Very nice post sister!!!

I am a jehovah's Witness and the person who aided me to becoming a witness has been one for 34 years and a Registered Nurse for 43 years prior to retiring last December. i work on a very busy med-surg floor and I am very happy that i have not come under the scrutany that the original poster has encountered by asking a simple question. it often amazes me how people who are looked at as being "saving graces" for many can be so cold to their own. Nurses treat their fellow nurses so badly sometimes, which is evident by many of the rude and offensive responses posted. niether the less, to answer your question, many of us witness nurses do end up hanging blood, however this was an issue that i pondered myself prior to becoming a nurse. i have had to hang blood approximately 3 times in my year and a half as a nurse. my collegues and management are exceptional in that we also have a mormon and others of many faiths there. i work on a very busy med-surg floor at a level 1 facility that gets patients flown in from other states. The other nurse and witness i spoke about has also had to hang blood in her career, but told me that often you can do trade offs. That is what i usually will try to do. i may do someones wound care for them of they do hang my blood for me. i am fortunate that at my hospital, tranfusions are usually a last resort for many of our doctors anyway. i have been on night shift for a few months and have not had to hang any. hanging the blood is a personal choice, as we are directed not to partake of spilled blood. we cannot give it and cannot receive it, but we cannot control what others decide to do. we still have to treat each patient regardless of their choices in life and whether or not we agree with them. upon talking this issue over with elders, we are able to administer it so long as it is not our blood being given. send me a private message if you would like to talk more

i am very fortunate because thus far, they have scheduled me for an extra 12 shift each week for like the next two months. i've been a nurse a year now on a very busy med/surg unit in the only level 1 and magnet hospital in the region. because of that, we actually get people flown in from northern VA and North Carolina. we also have a medical school on our campus and our hospital has 569 beds currently with 4 med/surg floor, all with different focuses and a few with step-down beds. i was told by one of the more tenured nurses that from around thanksgiving to the beginning of the year, the doctors may not admit as many people due to it being vacation time and patient's tend to not want to come in because they are usualy with families at this time of the year, thus i may get floated another floor or that i should hope that i actually get called off, which she said might happen. she did warn me that two days after thansgiving and christmas, we get a ton of diabetics and renal patients who may have overindulged so i will likely not get called off at those times. this summer was extrmely busy and frustrating. i am happy so far for the break been only getting like 4 patients lately rather than my full load of 6 but after reading some of the previous posts, i am getting a little nervous

it's hell!! run!!!!

not sure of the current tuition. it is expensive because it is considered a private school. i graduated from there 4/30/09 and currently am a RN at norfolk general. i liked it. they have a wonderful Director and Ass. Director and i have heard so many complements about the abilities of MCI graduates, even from some of the instructors from at other nursing schools. The clinical instructors are very hard on you, but it makes you well prepared for the real world. I am very grateful i went there, because i have students from other schools follow me sometimes while at work and some of them are so laxed and not eager to learn anything. the cons, however, is the fast pace. it can be a pro or a con because as soon as you tired of a class, its over. the con is that you have to learn very fast and the school is extremely expensive. I was able to graduate without repeating any classes and i also worked full time.

Well Norfolk General doesnt. And an ICU and emergency room are two completely different areas. Norfolk General has hired new grads recently into the ICU as well, but not the emergency room. Patient's in the LEVEL 1 Trauma area of the ER are not yet stable enough to be in an ICU!! There is a huge difference. I work for Norfolk General in one of their Med/Surg Unit and we are considered acute care as well.