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I've had a couple doozies for interviews, on one the first question the nurse manager asked me was "how would you handle advances from young cute nurses aides seeing that you are a very attractive young single heterosexual male?" My answer?, "whoa lady, what kind of question is that?", she replies "well, it's a legitimate concern I have if I hire you", the interview went downhill from there. Another interview I went to had the nurse manager and 2 dayshift charge nurses present, one of the charge nurses looks at his interview sheet, looks up at me and says "I hope you brought your helemt, because this is going to be a wild ride!" Of course this was after I did their online personality assesment to determine what my interview questions were going to be.....

:yeahthat: Exactly!!!!, and the reason why I never use my bluelight anymore, if you want one, let me know, I'll give you a heck of a deal......

Quick bit of advice I've found out is to contact the nurse recruiter at the facilities you're interested in applying at. They'll give you inside scoop on what's open and what the facility would like to see you apply for based on your background. It saves filling out endless online applications only to get a form email that says "thanks but we aren't looking for someone like you right now". Best of luck with the job search, I know how hard and frustrating it can be!

Is UCH a teaching hospital? I know it's right across the street from USF?

All I have to say is WOW!!!!! To the OP: Thanks for letting me know there are people like you out there, I guess it opened my eyes a little to the prejudice some people have against male nurses, but I would have never expected it from a fellow "nurse". Again, WOW!!!!!!

I think I set a record, I did the online app on the 8th of September, mailed my fingerprint cards and med error certificate to Florida and sent my license verification to NYS office of Professions the same day. I checked the Florida Healthcare Practioners website this morning (Sept 21st) in the link that they send you to check the status of your app and low and behold I now have a Florida RN license. Total of 14 days

My simple advice, get out now while the getting is good. Do all that you can right now to improve your situation/status on the unit you're working so you have a good reference for the next job and move on. Once you get a new position at a different facility look back on what you had problems with at your current job, learn from them and don't let them happen again, strive to be the best and always do your best. My point of view is this: if they have it out for you there is nothing you can do, if you stay you will always be on the outside looking in, this will create alot of stress not only for you, but your co-workers and the unit overall, and it isn't worth it. Move on before it gets worse and you end up getting fired or quit leaving you with a poor work history........

I would never let my EMT cert lapse, of course I've had it for quite awhile. Where are you? I know some places let you do a CME based recert program like here in NY, I got to use quite a few hours from my nursing cirriculum towards my EMT recert. Like a couple previous posters said, it looks good on a resume and some jurisdictions let you challenge the Paramedic with your RN license and EMT certification, so I would say yes, it's deffinately worth hanging on to

You're welcome grace, so far I've put in four applications and have been contacted back by all four, I'm just waiting for the Florida licsence now to schedule interviews. As far as other people having a hard time I don't think they are looking in the right places, many of the hospitals I've applied to have numerous open positions and all have some kind of either new grad or extended orientations. Don't let a few posters scare you from your dreams, I've found that the posts here represent a very small cross section of the larger nursing population, and some just come here to vent, I'm not sure what the cause is, but like I said, don't listen to the naysayers....

Hi there, I'm in the process of endorsing my Licsence to Florida also, from a quick look at http://www.nursys.com/ it doesn't appear that PA is a nursys affiliated state, so you'll need to send the license verification request sheet & fee to your state board to have your licsence verified to Florida. As far as the med error course, the Florida BON site http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/nursing/nur_lic_reqEnd.html , recomends http://www.cebroker.com there are several options for the course there, I took the one from nurse.com: www.nurse.com/ce/60033/Preventing-Medical-Errors-Florida-Requirement/ for $15 online. Also take a look in the Florida forum here, I think there is a sticky about licensing in Florida & CE stuff. Hope this helps, do you have any leads on jobs in Florida?, I've found alot more than there are here in NY. Best of luck to you....

Just as long as she didn't call 911 at 0300 for it, been there done that a few times at varrying hours of the early morning. I'm not the most congenial person when someone breaks their toe at 1500 and calls 911 at some god forsaken hour, especially when they say that they called the ER and the staff told them to come in, and when they say they don't have a ride the ER staff tells them to call EMS.....

Try "ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy!", it's a good book that I learned alot out of, and used it to teach our EMT's. Widely available, got mine in Barnes & Noble but it's also available on sites like amazon.com

I just found this on another message board, the OP asked about LPN jobs in a certain area and this is the reply by another member:

Hey thrash, no I'm not planning on taking a refresher course unless I'm told that I need it. At this point I can't really afford to do one, plus a couple nurse recruiters I've talked to said my EMT experience is a plus, at least it shows that I have some ongoing experience to keep some skills sharp. How is your search going?, has the gap in between graduating and practicing been any problem to you at all?, I'm not too awful concerned about it, I think most people/places understand that due to the current economy it's not really an issue, although it certainly does not give us an edge when interviewing against more recent grads....

Thanks Mez, congrats on the job, I replied to your other thread. Yeah i hear yah there about the LTC, like I said I'm looking at a couple places right now with open positions so I have my fingers crossed, sent out the apps today....