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http://www.ncsbn.org or do a search here on allnurses. I am surprised you haven't heard of it. The act was passed in 2000.

With the compact act, the first question is do you want to live in TX? If Vermont is a compact state and you only want to work in TX, not become a resident, you can work off of your Vermont license. You have to be a resident of Vermont and not Texas...very important. You have to carry the license of your "home state", which is the state you actually reside in. If both your home state and the state you want to work in (not reside) is also a compact state, you can use your home state license. Once you become a resident of a state, you must get endorsement in that state. Hopefully, this makes sense... Check out the compact act on the web. Very helpful info there.

Thanks for letting me know what you decided bjm. I have a feeling you made the right choice for yourself. Part of the reason I took my position was also to learn something new in the nursing field. The worst that can happen is that you do not like it. There are so many opportunities for us nurses that you can move on to something else if need be. I have been at my new job for six weeks now, and I am very happy with my decision to take this position. I actually look forward to going to work for the first time in a long while! It is interesting work and I enjoy the smaller group I work with now. It has been very nice talking with you, and I hope you are very happy at your new nursing job. I think your gut is telling you that you made the right choice!! When do you start? Let me know how it goes after you have been there a little while. Congratulations. :)

I work at a privately owned outpatient ambulatory surgery center. We have five operating rooms, pacu and pre-op. It sounds a lot like the one you are considering. They do any type of surgery that the patient can go home the same day. It would take me too long to list all the different types of surgery they do. It is amazing the things they do now a days and send the patient home after one hour of recovery. I don't go into the chat rooms. Let me know what you decide. :)

I have been a nurse for seven years. My experience is 2 years med/surg, 3 years telemetry, 2 years oncology. I had no pre op or pacu experience when I interviewed for this position. I knew I didn't want to go back to the floor, and when I saw this position advertised, I was very interested. I work part time, usually three days a week. No evenings, weekends, or holidays. So far I am loving it! Once again, these private surgery centers are becoming very popular. The pay will vary just as a doctor's office pay will vary. They can adjust their pay scale as they wish, if they are private and not affiliated with a hospital. What they quoted you may be their pay scale. But, there is nothing written in stone that you can not ask for a dollar or two more. If you do, be prepared to explain why you think you deserve that pay rate. Why they will benefit from having you join their staff. I think you should weigh all the pros and cons that are important for you. Ask if your pay will increase after you are trained in the OR. How often do they have evals and raises? Is the insurance plan and 401K an important factor for you? Does not working holidays and weekends excite you?! I take it you have been to the facility. Did you like what you saw? Take all these things into consideration when you make your decision on the position and the pay they are offering you.

I just moved to San Antonio and accepted a position at an out patient surgery center 6 weeks ago. I have oncology and telemetry experience, no surgery experience. I am now in pre op and will soon train for pacu. I will not be trained to be in the OR, which is fine with me. I am receiving $28.00 an hour. There are so many private surgery centers popping up now. The pay will vary from company to company. Good luck.

I am happy you and your family could all be there with her. Thank you for sharing your moving story with us here at allnurses. I am sorry for your loss Kevin.

It is amazing how negativity can spread like wild fire. I found myself getting very negative about a year ago at work. I then made a conscious effort to become positive again. Believe it or not, it took about a month and then we all became positive again. We all seemed to have gotten into that rut and didn't realize it. Once I made the effort, it was surprising how many people followed. I am not blowing my own horn, I am just saying all it really takes is a person or two to become positive and happy and a lot will follow.

You listed many more cons than pros in your post. If you do not have to work, take advantage of it while you can. You will have a lot of time to get your needed experience once you graduate. When in doubt....don't!

If you want to use a professional objective, I think the use of facility and institution is redundant. They both more or less mean the same thing. I would use facility alone. As mentioned, I would elaborate on your experience as a student nurse. I do not think References upon request is used any longer at the end of a resume. Potential employers know references are available if they ask for them. Use those few lines for more useful information about yourself. Maybe use a few positive adjectives (about yourself) when describing your experience. Overall, it looks good. A few tweaks here and there and you will be good to go. I am constantly changing small things on my resume. It is an on going process.

cheerfuldoer, this is VERY exciting news for me. If I don't have to go through yet another endorsement, I will be a happy camper. I am in talks with someone at Wilford Hall right now. She knows I am a military wife, but she did not mention this. I have an email out to her and hope to hear from her tomorrow. I have never worked at a military facility as a nurse, so it never came up. I will proabably get a TX license just to know I can go anywhere to work. But, if I do accept a position there, it is great to know I don't have to go through the endorsement process until I am ready. Thanks so much for the information!!!!

We were shown that when we do scoop, we then turn the syringe with the partially capped needle towards the hard surface we are working on and push the cap on the rest of the way by pushing it on the surface...not with our other hand.

I am getting ready to move to TX. Even though Virginia is a compact state (where I live now) as is TX, I still have to go through the endorsement process to get a TX license. The reason is that you MUST carry a license for your "home state" with the compact act, which is defined as your legal address and where you reside. Since I will reside in TX and not in VA any longer, I can't work under my Virginia license any longer than thirty days once I am living in TX. I have to apply for endorsement in TX, which will be my new "home state". If I still lived in Virginia and did a travel assignment in TX, I could work under my Virginia license (since they are both compact states) because I still actually lived in Virginia. But once I change my legal address, I have to have that state's license, which becomes my new home state. I have been dealing with this for the last three months :smackingf to get ready to work in TX when we move. The compact act really doesn't apply if you are actually moving to the state you want to work in. http://www.ncsbn.org Under RN and LP/VN Compact Rules Article 2c "A nurse changing primary state of residence, from one party state to another party state, may continue to practice under the former home state license and multi-state licensure priviledge during the processing of the nurse's licensure application in the new home state for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days". (Statutory basis: Articles 4B,4C, and 4D[1]) PAIN IN THE NECK!!! :)

That makes sense. If you are overseas, there is not a license to get, so you can use a stateside license. If I am in TX at Wilford Hall, I am practicing in that state, so I would imagine I would have to have a TX license. I thought it sounded too good to be true!

I am currently in Virginia. I work at an outpatient chemotherapy clinic two days a week prn. We are not open on weekends or holidays. I make $32.50/hr, which is good for a clinic and daytime hours.