RN1982

I have a job interview tomorrow and I am putting my reference list together. How do should I write them? I kind of have a template but I'm not sure if this is right. Thanks in advance Name RN Colleague-ICU Hospital name Phone number email

From what the OP described, that's how my non-union hospital ran. And that's how my union hospital is run. However, I like working at my union hospital more. I am more respected.

Pay is going to depend on the cost of living in the area where you plan on working. I can see new grads in Cali making 40 bucks an hour because the cost of living is high. In Michigan, New grads start at 24-25 bucks an hour.

Seems to me you cared more about yourself than you did your patient. It is really concerning for me to read that you are more concerned about the regular staff coming in at 7a.m. to complete orders that should have remained STAT orders to begin with. I don't think you truly understand how fast a person having an AMI can decompensate. You are lucky that the patient wasn't in any "distress", had they been, it would have been your license on the chopping block. Perhaps you will think better of it next time, I hope you do.

You were both in the wrong. You were both responsible. You both should have stopped bickering and went to see the patient.

You were wrong, the resident was right. You should have just drawn the labs. I think you were putting them off so you wouldn't have to do them because it was 6am. Sorry, I call it how I see it. In the time you spent calling to "override" the intern, you could have performed the ordered tests. The patient could have been having true chest pain but instead you wasted time.

They are only harder to find if you are not looking. Have you looked?

I hate to say this but I work with a lot of former St. John's employees. Conditions are horrid. 3 patients to 1 nurse in SICU. Scary.

One last thing, be careful. People have died working home health care. I know this, because my friend died 6 months ago on the job.

Oh, and wear scrubs.

Well, stop going on about how "attractive" you are. As far as I am concerned, it's irrelevant.

Confident doesn't mean attractive though. Just because one is "pretty" or "attractive" doesn't mean they are exempt from being attacked. The OP should be more modest and just so ya know, the patients could care less about how "attractive" you are...

good grief, not another thread like this. It's less about your "attractiveness" and more about your safety...

Thanks, I actually spoke with the manager already to set up the interview. I got the hours, the weekend hours and the call hours. It's not a bad deal. It's two twelves and two eights, days. I'm excited, I'm just hoping I can get this job. I need a change superbad.

Thanks. What should I say when they ask me why I want to leave my current position? I was planning on saying that I wanted to get experience in a different area of nursing or something to that effect.