lilcampy310

Hey everyone! I have started trying to think about topics for my capstone (I will be taking it next spring) and I am at a total loss. I am currently in an MSN/MSM program for nursing leadership/administration and I have been a MICU nurse for 5 year...

I'm thinking either alarm fatigue or nursing retention but are these topics beat to death too?

I started in central jersey in critical care/days at $28/hr

It is a separate application.

I started in the ICU as a new graduate, but I had other experience (PCA, EMT, extern). I would only apply to hospitals that have new graduate critical care programs (internships, etc.) or the smaller community hospitals. I started in a small communit...

I would just list them under clinical or even a preceptorship section - You can provide a little information about them, but you don't need a lot of space for them. I had a nurse recruiter tell me that they don't need to see all of your clinical info...

Hello all - I have been an RN in the ICU at my community hospital for 2 years now. I like it, but I want to move on to a bigger, city, teaching hospital. Mostly all of the places I'm looking in (Philly, Baltimore) have rotating shifts (I just don't g...

That's all I can seem to find in Baltimore & Philly (and NY too!) - I think it's terrible. Where is your neck of the woods? Maybe I should go there lol

I am looking into travel nursing- I get the feeling it's necessary to already have your state licenses in order to apply to a particular job? It's so tedious and expensive to apply to all the different state licenses. I currently have NJ and applied...

Hello all, I am soon going to be looking for a new job and would LOVE to be in a big teaching hospital. But so many of them (UMMC, Hopkins, UPenn) mostly have rotating shifts posted. I think they are so ridiculous and unsafe! Why do they do that?! W...

Hmm good to know! I'll have to find out more information. I think I could handle it if it was just a couple of shifts a month. My best friend works at a well-known hospital in Philly doing rotating shifts. Everyone on her unit rotates, regardless of ...

Hello all! I have some (dumb) questions to ask, but I'm confused! I currently hold a NJ RN license and want to get my RN license for MD. The first step is a packet they sent me for the fingerprinting/background check. I assume I still have to do t...

Will do, thank you! And I was able to clarify - I can get my prints here (phew) Just for the record, this is so ridiculous to me- we get the same education and same license anywhere you are in the US! They just want our money.

If I don't decide to do travel nursing right now, then that is exactly my plan! :)

Hello all! I know there have been posts about this, but I need your opinion! I have always been interested in travel nursing- I LOVE to travel and would be willing to work lots to do so :) So it just seems like a perfect opportunity. By the time I w...

Many hospitals won't take you until you complete your first clinical (which I know at TCNJ isn't unil spring soph. year). Another option is to take an EMT course and gain experience that way- I know it's outside of the hospital, but it's still great ...

Hello fellow nurses! I have been a working nurse for a year and am looking to move to a larger hospital. Though I work in the medical ICU now and take every class offered to me, I'm still looking to beef up my resume because I know the competition i...

Did either of you end up accepting this program? Or another MSN/MBA program? I would love information too!

My boyfriend is also in nursing school, and he has maternity next semester. I think he's worried about it since he will be a male in a very private, female section of the hospital. Anyone have any good advice or words of encouragement I can give him?

Very true- thank you!

I'm not sure whether to put my clinical rotations on my resume or not. My career adviser at school to definitely put it on there so they can see all the different hospitals I've been in. However, a nurse recruiter told me once that they obviously kno...

That's great :)

Well that's what I like about nursing - That there are SO many different options and so many different places we can go, but I think we all have drilled in our heads that we have to start off in a hospital setting. I think that's what makes it even m...

Wow! Thanks for all the info! That's what I've been told as well. I HATE bugging people and feeling like I have to beg for a job or 'know someone,' but that's really what you have to do!

I would say just do it! What do you have to lose? That's how it always used to be! I had a nursing career fair at my school this year, and about half the hospitals wouldn't accept resumes and said don't even bother applying until you take your NCLEX ...