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Fantastic info!

I am peri-op. We have pre-op holding, PACU and then phase 2. Someone else on here described them well. Make sure you have ACLS, PALS and a critical care course under your belt before you apply. I like working in pre-op holding the best because the patients are "with it". You get to help patients and their families deal with their pre-procedure worries. I find it the most fufilling because you are most likely the only nurse they will remember in the end. They are too out of it to remember any other peri-op nurse. You also have TONS of interaction with the doctors and CRNA's this way. They don't show up to PACU much and never to phase 2.

Hey, I work at St. Joe's as well as a PCT. When you say you are a graduate nurse do you mean you graduated from an RN program and just have not taken the NCLEX yet? Fill me in. Hazey

Well Buddy there is no such thing as a free lunch. However if you go through Learey Technical Center in Tampa it is like $450. The sweet part is, if you work in a nursing home afterwards, the first one you work at is required to reimburse you for the cost of your training if you request it. So you pay for it in the front and then get it back in the end. Nobody legitimate is going to do it for free. Sorry. www.learey.edu

I am starting in August 2008 for the day program. I am doing my CNA right now at Carrolwood Care as well. Any input would be great!!! Teacher info, classes to look out for, etc. Let me know. Buffy