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Good morning, my fellow nurses! So last week I verbally accepted a job offer with Northwell (formerly North Shore LIJ) over the phone but they haven't emailed me my offer letter yet. I need to give 4 weeks notice to my current job in order to have my vacation hours paid out and the 4 weeks notice needs to be given TOMORROW. I was told by the lady that the offer letter that would be emailed to me has a link that I click to confirm that I am officially accepting the job which means I would be safe to hand in my resignation letter. By the way, is this something new? I always thought you have to physically sign the offer letter? Upon accepting the job verbally, I told the lady that I need to give 4 weeks notice so if she could send my offer letter sooner that would be great and she said she would. I called her this past Tuesday just to remind her again and that I needed to hand in my resignation on Friday (tomorrow) in order for me to give my 4 weeks. She said she'll put my offer letter at the top of her list to work on. She was very nice about it and I apologized for making her feel like she had to hurry my offer letter. What should I do? I feel so anxious right now! 1. Not call the lady since I called her on Tuesday already, HOPE she sends the offer letter by end of this week, hand in my resignation tomorrow and hope for the best? 2. Call lady again today in the late afternoon to remind her again? I feel bad bothering her especially after she's aware I need it soon but I feel uncomfortable handing in resignation with just accepting a job offer verbally. 3. Not call the lady, wait until she sends me the offer letter, then hand in my resignation letter and lose vacation hours (I don't know how many I would lose)? 4. Any other suggestions? TIA!

I know everyone's feet are different but I purchased the Timberland Pro Renova's (I attached a link) and have had no issues with them. I think my first week wearing them, I had to break them in a little because my big toe hurt from pressing on the inside but no issues now. I feel like they've gotten looser with wear (I've been wearing them for 4 months now and my shifts are about 13 hours straight on my feet) and are super comfortable. Easy to wipe off anything that spills on them so I really have no complaints other than that I think they're kind of ugly but I'd rather comfortableness (is that a word?) haha. Oh and very affordable! I also wear the compression stockings which I think super duper help (I attached a link). Just my two cents! :) Amazon.com: Timberland PRO 87554 Women's Renova Professional Slip-On Shoe White 9 M US: Shoes Amazon.com: Fytto Style 1

I'm sure this has been asked plenty of times on this forum and I did find some older posts so I wanted to ask it as a "newer" post in case there's new brands out. I will be starting on a med surg unit in 2 weeks and we have to wear white uniforms. I read a lot of people seem to like the brands Koi and Grey's Anatomy/Barco along with a handful of other brands. I'm 5'1" and about 113 lbs. I don't mind paying a little extra for quality material but I feel like it's very hard to find scrubs that fit someone my height. When I was in nursing school, I ordered XXS in both pants and tops and I would SWIM in them. The pants had to be folded at least 3x and looked ridiculous. I don't know if anyone would be able to steer me in the right direction regarding uniforms for my size since I feel like there's so many options out there? I know some brands carry XXS but are they a true to size XXS or like a baggy XXS a.k.a. true to size XS? Any sites that ship quickly since I'm starting in 2 weeks? Also, which brand doesn't wrinkle as much (I'm probably going to look into getting a steamer), doesn't get linty and has a ton of pockets? I'll be working 5 days a week so how many sets should I look into purchasing? What do you guys wear for shoes? I had a pair of Nursemates during nursing school that were hideous and not too comfortable. Also, since I have to wear white, I feel like it would get dirty very easily or be see through (not sure which brands might be more see through also). I'm going to assume bleach if anything but I'd still like to see if there's any other suggestions. Sorry for asking so much and if some questions are stupid! Thank you in advance! Just to summarize my questions: 1. I'm 5'1", 113 lbs. Good quality scrubs brand/style, doesn't wrinkle easily, doesn't get linty, not see through (because I need white) and has lots of pockets, ships within 2 weeks? 2. I'll be working 5 days a week, how many sets should I get? 3. Good comfortable nursing shoes? (Price not too much of an issue) 4. Suggestions to keeping white uniform clean?

I'm really excited/nervous too! Good luck to us haha! I'm worried about patient safety with the 1:6/7 ratio so I hope I learn how to time manage and assess quickly. Are you a new grad since you said you did public health for 5 months?

Oh yeah, forgot YouTube has a lot of great information. Hurst is the online review right? I think I used that to prepare for the NCLEX and loved it! Thank you.

I actually have only done 30 IVs while as an endoscopy medical assistant (although I already had my RN license) prior to being hired as an RN so I don't really have much IV skill experience. Although, the 30 that I did do, I probably only missed 2? Not sure if that's good or bad. And I drew blood twice but that was like 2-3 years ago sigh. The manager also mentioned nothing about me doing IVs and I know some hospitals have a specific IV team? I'm hoping they will train me with IVs though! I remember during nursing school clinicals, having a little sheet of notes on each patient helped a lot. The manager told me the ratio is 1:6-7 lol so I don't know what's going to happen with that. I'm already expecting myself to be crying every night for at least my first month working but I feel like it's good to have med surg under my belt. Thank you for your suggestions!

Happy New Year everyone! I wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions for me, as I just got hired as a Med Surg - Days nurse and will be starting orientation in February. My "experience" is ~2 years of endoscopy nurse experience at an ambulatory center and 1 year of telephonic nursing (Nurse Liaison). As you can see based on my "experience", I really don't have that hands on nursing experience other than what I had from nursing school which was a few years ago. I'm excited but also very nervous at the same time because I feel like a new grad so I would appreciate any sort of advice/suggestions (stuff to review) from others on this forum! Thank you in advance and I hope everyone had happy holidays and a happy new year

I think it really depends on your instructors. I am in my second semester of an Associate's. My first semester, the main instructor was horrible. She would talk down to the students during clinicals (me included) and this led to me not wanting to ask ANY questions during clinicals or even in the lecture for that matter. This is NOT GOOD because how else are you supposed to learn? That was my first semester and everyone's a newbie to Nursing practically. There were questions I would want to ask but didn't want to ask for fear of being felt like I was stupid. Despite this however, this instructor is an excellent nurse. If I were in the hospital, I would be delighted to have her as a nurse; she just is not a great instructor. I had major anxiety attacks going to clinicals when she was my instructor during certain weeks. So in last semester's case, I liked the classes better even though most of it was kind of boring because the powerpoints weren't too great. This semester however, I have an EXCELLENT instructor. She is extremely knowledgeable but definitely is very strict with everything (I'm not saying that's a bad thing). Loved the powerpoints and was actually extremely interested in everything that was being taught...she just had a great way of teaching. Clinicals were great in the fact that they were all hands-on and she would push us to learn new things that we weren't learning in the classroom yet. Very helpful during clinicals but fast paced and did not talk down to any of us. Honestly I'm still a little traumatized from last semester about not wanting to ask questions for fear of being talked down to but I'm working on that. It definitely didn't help that I didn't have great self confidence last semester and having that instructor made it even worse...any suggestions how to boost that up? All in all, in my current semester both class and clinicals have their pros and cons. Clinicals are excellent for hands on and you do learn more because of that. A bit anxious for me still because it is clinicals but I've been lucky to have patients so far that I've gotten along great with!

For these summer nurse externships, is there a specific website or do you go the hospital's actual website to see if they offer them? When are the deadlines to apply for these? TIA!

suzi4: I think you need to have 15 posts up before you can PM anyone. I had the same problem too and looked it up in the Help topics :)

Hopefully this response isn't too late but i took the CNA course at Manhattan Institute Summer 2009. When I did my "externship" at the nursing home in the Bronx, I had several classmates that had a teacher named**** who they claimed was horrendous so I guess watch out for that instructor. I am currently in Nursing School (just started second semester) and my friend that is in his last semester of Nursing School actually was the one that told me to take the CNA course at Manhattan Institute because it would allow me to see what nurses actually do since you are working under a RN. I haven't gotten around to getting the CNA license and since I am in Nursing School, I see that classmates that are already CNAs definitely have more of an advantage over me. So yes, I would recommend being a CNA so you get an idea of what nurses do. Also, Manhattan Institute doesn't help you find a job but I don't think it's hard to find a job as a CNA. Good luck and hope I somewhat helped? :) How was the test? I heard the test was pretty simple...that it was multiple choice and they just test you on skills? Did you study just from the notes in class or did you do additional studying from another source? How is it being a physical therapy CNA? What kind of stuff do you do?

Hi everyone! I'm in the process of starting to apply for nursing programs in New York and I was wondering if anyone has any certain tips for writing their personal statement? Is there a certain length, certain format, font, and do you need a heading? Also, I don't have any prior experience related to nursing and I already have a Bachelor in Economics from a previous University [which doesn't relate to anything medical at all and I am worried that it may affect my acceptance ]. I am starting my first personal statement for St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center and I'm pretty sure the personal statement has a big part in your acceptance for every school because it's supposed to show how dedicated you are if you get accepted in the program? Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks in advance!