ORTech2RN

My apologies if this has been posted to the incorrect forum. Mods, please move if so. I was recently interviewed for a position in primary care. I currently work for the VA, so this would have been a lateral move, but a good chance to develop...

Really don't know where to start, other than to say that the post title is probably misleading, since I don't even know if I *was hired.* Here's my story-I was looking for a PRN job to stay busy a couple nights a week and make extra income. I curr...

It's honestly the worst experience I've had with a hiring process. If your not interested in hiring someone, don't waste time with physicals and the like. It's really mystifying why a company would do this.

Anyone ever make a job change within the field and feel like they have made a mistake? I think I have! I went from being a night shift RN in an ICU stepdown to a very useless feeling outpatient clinic RN. Let me explain. I was on night shift for th...

Update.....I'm thinking I will call my previous Nurse Manager today and try to come back, even if it's nights. I just can't deal with this level of boredom. I have done, maybe, 30 minutes of work in the past two days. This is a new position with ver...

It's mental health, and kind of a new concept here.

I'm a 40 something year old guy with deep acne scarring and putting on a middle aged gut. If I ever had years I looked good, they are probably long gone. Here's the thing: I don't care. I'm married, have kids, a damn good job with benefits and enoug...

More pros than cons, that's for sure. Best pay I've ever had. Benefits are hard to match. 5 weeks of Annual leave per year. Separate bank for Sick leave in which one accumulates 4 hours of SL per pay period. FERS is Federal retirement system an...

Did not want to piggy back on the earlier thread, but my experience with this process is very frustrating. My Nurse manager submitted mine back in August 2017. I still had not heard from the board by October, so I emailed the point of contact for th...

Boy, do I have experiences in this area. I recently have been shot down for promotion to Nurse II. I wrote a very similar proficiency to another coworker (whom had less time in the VA), and was shot down. I also found out that my former unit manager...

Hey guys, strangest situation I've probably found myself in. Been an RN since 2011, and worked health care since 2003, never had a problem working with women. Not one. I have an RN on our unit, well, now she's moved on to another clinical area. Fo...

I think this is the only recourse. However, I don't expect a clean resolution. I would expect retaliation and I wonder how management will treat this. I work for the federal government, where they allegedly take EO complaints serious. I've had a rece...

I am heterosexual, I'm pretty sure she is aware of this. Unless s he perceives something else, I don't know. I'm honestly stumped. I'm 43, and have worked various job since I was 16, never had an incident with a coworker trying to harass me. I'm g...

That's where, inevitably, I think this will lead to. I have no idea why she suddenly decided to target me. It's growing old and I'm pissed that she feels she can walk in to our unit and insult me for a laugh from others. I hold my tongue, because I...

I didn't know anyone either. I was on active duty (US Army) from 99-03. I know it's stated that prior service gets points in the hiring process, but I doubt how much weight that really carries. I was hired in to stepdown unit, with 3:1 patient/RN ra...

You pretty much need to sell yourself to the board. They look for things like: education, leadership, teamwork. etc. Were you ever a charge nurse? Make sure you list that on the dimensions of nursing packet that has to be filled out. Make it clear a...

One thing though, its harder to walk into a job at HBPC or CBOC (community clinic). I'm working third shift at the med center in Lexington, biding my time until I get a job at a nearby CBOC. Could be a long wait.

The VA still has a pension. FERS is social security plus pension plus TSP. I even logged into mypay to check this

I started working at the VA last June. Won't even consider leaving a federal job for a private position. I can write an essay why, but I'll hammer it down to some key points 1. The pay in most areas exceeds other health care facilities. Since June I...

Benefits are unmatched, IMO. You will have a choice of healthcare plans. We chose Blue Cross Basic Federal employees and have found it to be the best health care plan we've ever had. Dental and eyecare (FEDVIP) is solid as well. Some will say that...

Hello all, I posted a thread about 3 weeks ago. Basically I was sick as a dog with Pneumonia, on Levaquin and off work nearly 2 weeks. I'm doing better in regards to that I'm not running fevers, cough is at a minimum. Vital signs are great, my 02 s...

Yuck is the best way to describe how I feel at this point. I'm going on day 6 of pneumonia,on my third day of PO Levaquin. I started feeling ill last weekend with shortness of air, fever, tachycardia etc. Been off work the entire previous week, ...

Followed up with a Pulmonologist today. No pleural effusions, and pneumonia is improving, but still have congestion in small area of lower right lung. Ordered me off for an additional 3 days. Informed my MGR, and apparently I will have exhausted my ...

Certainly bad news for me. I've hardly called in sick over a 20 year period, and now I'm having a long and slow recovery to a bad infection. And sounds as if I have no recourse, other than hoping that management will allow me to recover. But, legall...

After sifting through pages of threads and on the VA.Gov site, I am amazed at the benefits that the VA seems to offer, especially in education. As I understand it, the VA will pay towards prior student loans (EDRP), provided they are in nursing? Wil...