shivone

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1. Travel Nursing

   shivone replied to SuccessInProgress's topic in Travel

   Maybe you're in the Lehigh Valley area? I work at Lehigh Valley-Pocono (regular staff). We are currently utilizing agency nurses for some positions. Geisinger is another large health system that seems to use a lot of ageny nurses too. Also look direc...

2. Mindfulness: A Cure for Auto-Pilot

   shivone replied to cwentworth's topic in Stress 101

   I took the 8-week MBSR course last year and it was a game changer in helping me deal with long-standing issues related to anxiety and depression. By the time I took the class my work-related/nurse role-related anxiety (coupled with some significant p...

3. jobs in allentown/easton area

   shivone replied to grateful77rn's topic in Pennsylvania

   Best of luck getting into the great ivory tower that is LVH. I graduated last winter and have worked a year in geri-psych at a small community hospital. LVH would not look at a new grad at that time - and now they won't look at anyone without a year ...

4. Behavioral Med/Surg Unit for new grad?

   shivone replied to mochamocha's topic in Psychiatric

   I say go for it. Getting both psych and med surg experience as anew grad sounds like a great opportunity. I am a few months into my very first nursing job, which happens to be in geri-psych. I think the main concern with going right into psych nursin...

5. I'm really angry!!! And i just need to vent!!!!

   shivone replied to GM RN 2010's topic in Florida

   Yes it's been really difficult for our graduating class too (December 09). It is so discouraging after spending all that time and money on school and then having the student loans lurking over your shoulder. I think the worst was when I lost out on a...