Decemberblues

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1. Washington ARNPs your response is requested

   Decemberblues posted a topic in Advanced

   Hello All Nurses ARNPs, I am conducting a 10 question survey/poll to determine the working conditions of ARNPs in the state of WA. For what purpose: personal, potentially doctoral program and eventually help form a union within my organization. Plea...

2. Things I Wish I Knew Before Choosing DNP Program

   Decemberblues posted a topic in Doctoral

   When I entered the BSN-DNP program I wish I would have asked for the DNP Project Guidelines from the school. Perhaps I should have asked for this prior to applying. Because while all DNP programs are accredited and must comply with the accrediting bo...

3. Unpaid Internship

   Decemberblues replied to Decemberblues's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Tricia and Dixie Redhead, in case you didn't read the part where I clearly noted that this would be the individuals' personal choice in order to gain entrance and start their career. What difference does it make if you are unemployed versus if y...

4. Unpaid Internship

   Decemberblues posted a topic in General Nursing

   is it legal for a fairly new graduate nurse with personal professional insurance request to complete an unpaid internship from hospitals/health care facilities? I know this sound ridiculous, but if new graduate nurses are willing to go through a 3-6 ...

5. What do you think?

   Decemberblues posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been thinking about the new nurses coming out of school and how much more difficult it has become to find nursing work let alone go into the area you are interested in working. I graduated in December 2010, and have worked odd jobs and landed ...

6. New grad...I must have gotten super lucky.

   Decemberblues replied to TeleRN311's topic in General Nursing

   for those that are finding jobs right out of school...where do you live? share some of your strategies perhaps on how you landed your position right out school. i guess I refuse to think I am not a blessed child or unlucky because i can't find an ide...

7. Suggestions--malpractice insurance

   Decemberblues replied to ajt575s's topic in General Nursing

   with nso i noticed they cover off duty emergencies, i didn't see that on proliability...is this correct for those that have the latter? also would it be okay to post the annual cost for the ones people have or would that be too personal of a question...

8. A poll for the unemployed Nurse

   Decemberblues posted a topic in New Nurse

   I am sitting on my couch unemployed and exhausted from applying to over 500 jobs since I graduated in December 2010. I then got to thinking there's such a large number of RNs out there especially unemployed ones that we should be able to get some att...

9. How many of you have a BSN

   Decemberblues replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

   @ hiddencatRN: this may be a good question to put on a poll, then you would have a better idea of the amount of BSN vs ADN; even then it'll take come time as not everyone will respond to the poll right away but it'll give you a better idea...

10. LPN Corrections Nurse

    Decemberblues replied to annekclpn's topic in Correctional

    it's really about using your training to your advantage. so if a patient is attacks you do you have the skills to get away quickly or access other staff to intervene...those are the things you want to think about. While taller and heavier might make ...

11. If you got frisked...

    Decemberblues replied to Callisonanne's topic in Psychiatric

    the other replies are interesting and completely different from what I carried as a Psych RN at the State Psych Hosp. I had the pens but that's all really, occasionally i would carry a brain, but other than that...not much else. if I needed to get vi...

12. Not a big fan of phone interviews...

    Decemberblues replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    I had my first interview face to face,got tons of compliments from the interviewing panel, then did my second interview over the phone and bummed it! let's just say I never got the job :) oh well.

13. Class Website/File sharing Options?

    Decemberblues replied to LuckyinKY's topic in General Students

    http://www.box.net/ we used this quite a bit during nursing and it worked well...someone will need to set up an account and share the login and password info with the rest of your class.

14. Reporting issues at School

    Decemberblues replied to jadedgreeneyes's topic in General Students

    i think there's just a lot of power issues...because there's a lot of political garbage in nursing schools. or at least a few of the one in my state. I have enough friends in programs that I hear about different issues. i.e. if you're not dealing wit...

15. Reporting issues at School

    Decemberblues replied to jadedgreeneyes's topic in General Students

    I AGREE completely with previous posters....I graduated from a school that did a lot of horrible.things. some student wrote letters to the president of the college...others spoke with the dean...no results. They can can make your life horrible if.you...