Daly City RN

I was in my early 50’s when I retired from my acute care hospital job after working for the same hospital for over 27 years. I got bored after 5 months in retirement, I did not expect that! Don’t get me wrong, I was happy to not have the stress of th...

@clrza, Needless to say that one's fluency in the English language, in addition to one's good educational background, verifiable nursing job experience and high competency in the field of Nursing will give a nurse a better chance of landing that soug...

I "retired" from my stressful acute care hospital job at age 52 y.o. a little over eight years ago. I used to work for a very busy county-owned trauma hospital here in Northern California where I worked for almost three decades as an RN. I found my c...

A medical intern from England studying in California wrote an order "Take patient to the theater at 7:00am tomorrow morning." We were perplexed, "to the 'theater'?" therefore we called him clarify his order. He said he meant the "Operating Room." S...

I worked for a large medical center owned by a county in California. The RN's salary when I started in the early 1980's was not great but over the years RNs started earning well over 100K per year in base salary. We had pretty generous retirement pla...

This is my first posting for quite sometime. I have been an RN over here in California pretty close to 35 years now. I graduated nursing in the Philippines when most of the posters here weren't even born yet, yep that's pretty long ago. I have no re...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> New grad nurse: "If you hire me I expect a starting salary of no lower than $100,000 a year." Nurse recruiter: "One hundred thousand? No problem. We also gi...

I am a Filipino American registered nurse who have "retired" from my acute care hospital nursing job a little over five years ago after working for over 27 years in a large trauma center in Northern California. I am now working part time outside of h...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Many posters here are saying your plan sounds like "fun" and "go do it!" Taking more ...

"Is it hopeless?" Pretty much. This is the sad truth. I have been working in California as an RN for over 30 years now but I was educated in the Philippines in the 1970's. I have had a few contacts with my former classmates in nursing school who did...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I will try to be diplomatic but you can read between the lines. I am very saddened that Mrs. Villar is "...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Were you born in the Philippines or in the U.S.? If you have been in the U.S. since birth or if you have been residing here in the U.S. for a lon...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm saying this in all seriousness... I started my nursing career in 1981. Most of those years were spen...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I stayed with one employer, a large trauma center in San Francisco. It wasn't easy. It was a hard and stressful...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The nursing agency I work for as a nursing supervisor only hire RNs with at least one year of U.S. hospital exper...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "I was saying to the person sitting next to me, "is that limp bizkit?", the music in the video w...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Year 2000 there was a "severe" shortage of experienced RNs here in California and the rest of America. Year 2012, with the gl...

Enroll in the best nursing school you can find, not just any nursing school. I am a Fil-Am clinical supervisor and a nursing preceptor here in the SF Bay Area and I have observed that many, although not all, of the recent graduates of nursing school...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Update: I am now working as a nursing preceptor/supervisor/telehealth nurse at a nursing agency here in the San F...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Stan, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and I've visited Hawaii 5-6 times on vacation. In one of my visits...

Actually, I don't have idea about this telehealth nursing until you've mentioned it maybe because I am no longer interested in US due to recession. I am being pessimistic with US matter but for me US now is impossible although nothing is impossible. ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello to my fellow Filipino RNs, I am a nursing supervisor/preceptor in a private nursing agency here in the San Francisco Bay Ar...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When I was a Med-Surg nurse in a large county-run trauma center in the SF Bay Area I worked night shift for most of my 27...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I understand how you feel. I also live here in the SF Bay Area, for over 33 years as a matter of fact. Just like many places ...

Here in the State of California there is a law (at least it is followed most of the time anyway) that nurses in acute care hospitals cannot have more than 5 patients in the Medical-Surgical unit, and no more than 2 patients in the intensive care unit...