RD_Congo

I felt a moral need to say something about working as an RN for UHS. Specifically, I have been working in the intake department of a freestanding psychiatric hospital in the Southeast region. I have had several jobs working in the psychiatric depart...

Couple of more points I never mentioned in my initial posting: I quit after starting this thread, by the way, and never went back to that most-stressful, most-dangerous of situations. (1) After I quit, I got word from a social worker that he was now ...

How do I edit the title on this thread? I just realized I wrote the wrong name for the company. The correct name is "Universal Health Services". Maybe a moderator could fix this for me? Thanks!

i know this post is two years old, but why did you have to tell "your side of the story"? why didn't you just shut the door and go about your business?

And we all know that laws never change, right? That's why we still have alcohol prohibition and the gangsters that go along with that black market, right? The largest state in the U.S. is probably going to legalize by referendum in 2012? The myth of...

Let's just remember that alcohol is much more dangerous than cannabis. To take only one point, it is quite easy to drink too much and die. It is impossible to smoke too much and die. So I hope anyone that says, "Shame on you, potsmoker," never drin...

Could anyone give me a ball park figure - What would be the hourly pay for an RN with one year of psych and med-surg experience? THANK YOU!!!!!!!

There seems to be some disagreement about whether or not there is still a nursing shortage in NM. Another poster recently mentioned that recruiters are getting hundreds of applications a day. Looking at the hospitals' Web sites, it looks like there...

I'm not quite sure where some of the previous posters are getting their information. Lynchburg is an easy place for an RN to get a job. Centra Health has a long list of RN job openings. New Grads can even get hired to specialty units like ICU or ps...

I'm assuming that the dollars you are citing are Australia dollars, not US dollars? So $60,000 AUD is actually US 39,000 ?

While applying for licensure in Virginia, I was surprised to see that Canadian nurses (outside of Quebec) automatically can become RNs in Virginia. Here's my question: where can U.S. nurses go and immediately start working (assuming they have a visa)...

Thanks for the info. The Virginia BON site is pretty weak and some of the links are broken. Does anyone know what a U.S. nurse has to do to work in New Zealand? I know they pay very little, but I'm toying with the idea of going there just for the e...

Looking for some advice... Yesterday I interviewed at a hospital in a smaller city in the southwest U.S. that is fairly desperate for nurses. Before I left, the nursing manager said that I got the job, and that H.R. would be contacting me, and that I...

I just saw this other video of tiny worms supposedly coming out of a man's face. I don't have any good reason to think the video is a fake, except that I have no idea what condition would cause this. The human botfly lays its maggot egg in one spot,...

I saw this video of a patient with maggots in his head wound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QJNxwvvS8Y What could have caused this? Have you ever seen such a thing? Could the human botfly do this? Is this maggot therapy?

Had you already signed the employment contract at the second-choice place? If so, did the contract have some stipulations which made it hard to escape?

As a December 2008 New Grad RN, I am interviewing at three different hospitals. Of course, I have my first, second, and third choice. But what if my third choice says, "We liked your interview and you've got the job!" before I hear back from the oth...

I would feel bad about telling a hospital that I would accept the job, only to back out a few weeks later. However, for the purposes of discussion, what would be the possible negative consequences for me if I did this? At the very least, wouldn't I h...

You're talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRiMFvVL08&feature=related That's the human botfly. Its life cycle involves depositing maggots under human skin, or on the eye (goes down to conjunctiva area, under skin flap). It's real...

What kind of tool did you use to scoop them out?

So the ordinary housefly can lay eggs as soon as the skin is broken? After the fly deposits the eggs, I wonder how long until the maggots appear. Also, couldn't they have bandaged or covered the tumor somehow to protect it from flies?

Did the nursing home tell you how long you have to decide on whether or not to take the job? Do you need to give an immediate answer, or what? Are you open to re-locating? There is a Web site called "Indeed dot com". Type in "New Grad Nurse" and "US...

Someone sent me a private message claiming that hair testing is now commonly used for drug testing. (Of course, hair testing is controversial due to the differences between white and black hair, which works out strongly to the disadvantage of people ...

Massachusetts is supposed to have the highest number of nurses per capita in the country, but we still have a shortage of trained nurses. New grads will not find a job that easily, especially associate degree new grads.

I am a final semester student nurse. I'm about to visit a hospital in another state for the face-to-face interview. If hired, I would return in January to start work. Will they test me now, at the interview, or later, when I start? I just got back ...