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They said it was against corporate policy to release records to former employees. Maybe the laws are different here in Florida I guess.

I've been applying to a few travel agencies and they all require at least one reference. One of them stated they would take an annual clinical evaluation as a reference, but I cannot find mine anywhere and when I asked HR for a copy, it is apparently against corporate policy to give ex employees records without a lawyer request with other legal stuff. What is registry? What kind of nursing position is that?

I would like some advice regarding something that happened to me recently. I have a little over 1 year experience as a new grad nurse on a med/surg unit in a medium sized hospital. I was terminated last week, and I haven't received a response back from any of my supervisors or clinical coordinators after I emailed them regarding if they would give a reference for a new job. There's a long story here, and without going into extreme details, I believe that the nursing superiors did not like me personally for some reason and were looking to get me fired, possibly as early as 6 months ago. I know this because there were a few situations where I was treated unfairly (e.g. I was written up by the night shift supervisor and given the 10th degree for putting my chin on my hand and resting my eyes for literally one or two minutes one night, where another nurse was caught legitimately sleeping at the desk for over 30 minutes and she received kind words and a back rub from the same supervisor who wrote me up); not only that, one of my good friends and coworkers told me that our unit director actually asked her to spy on me and report anything, even though there is no real cause for anything like that as I'm an excellent nurse clinically for my experience level and I provide very good patient care and customer satisfaction. I've never received a complaint from a patient and I did not ever have to write an incident report for anything. So now I'm unemployed and looking for jobs and I might not be able to get a reference from any of my previous superiors due to the circumstances behind my termination and the fact that I believe they had it out for me in the first place. Where do I go from here? I basically can't get a job without references, and while I could use one co-worker as a reference, I know hiring managers want references from your supervisors or superiors. I feel confident enough explaining the reason behind my termination in an interview, but I need references for a potential employer to consider me in the first place. I really don't know what to do here. Please give me some advise.

I'm a student currently doing my RN prereqs and I have mixed feelings about Chemistry. On one hand I'm kind of glad that it isn't a prerequisite for the RN program at my college, as it isn't exactly my best subject. I still have to complete Microbiology and A&P 1+2, but I don't think I'll have as much of a problem with those classes as I would Chemistry. On the other hand I know that Chemistry will come up again and again later on in my quest to become a nurse, so perhaps it will be detrimental in the long run. I looked through some of the NLN study books at the bookstore and there were quite a few questions in the science section that I don't think come up in Bio/Microbio/A&P. I'm thinking of either taking Chemistry anyway and gutting it out, even though there's always the risk of lowering my GPA (3.86) or failure, or I might just buy the Chem textbook for the class and work my way through it in my spare time.

lol, this too. I like hearing about juicy details from women. Not for any kind of blackmail or spreading/reputation harming purposes, but simply because I find the subject so damn interesting.

Uncomfortable? LOL, is he gay? I probably would have popped a stiffy and rushed out trying to hide it...or if they were cool enough (ie they wouldn't run straight to the manager) I would made some kind of tit joke. Either way, that's a really bad spot to put a guy in. There are so many things that could go wrong with having a guy in a room full of breastfeeding women.

I had no idea what I wanted to do once I entered my community college. I picked the EMT course because it seemed interesting and I soon found out that I really liked, and am good at, health care related stuff. The EMT course was absurdly easy. I don't believe I got under a 92 on any of my tests, and the clinicals were similarly without any serious difficulty. I passed the NREMT in 70 questions and that was that. I decided against becoming a paramedic because in Florida you must also be a Firefighter to get hired by the state, and I'm not into firefighting; too dangerous and physical for me. So nursing seemed the logical choice. From what I read, I didn't really think radiology was for me, and neither was being a surg tech. I'm now doing my prerequisites for the ADN program, of which there are a ton! I took the easy ones first -psychology and sociology - and am now knocking out the more difficult science ones as well as the two English composition classes I have to take. Can't wait to get to the good stuff and get accepted into the program.

Support from this community through tips and advise from experience would help a lot more than prayers. In fact, a double blind study showed that the pts in the study who received prayers actually fared worse than those who don't. While prayers may give you a short term positive placebo effect, it's better off in the long run to sit down and evaluate what you are doing wrong and things you might do to correct or improve upon them. In your example, if you aren't doing good with IV's, ask how you can improve your skill with them. Don't be afraid to ask questions and advise from the many wonderful nurses on this site. Just asking for prayers is probably not good enough.

Not even a nursing student yet, but just based on what I've read on these forums, don't leave a bottle of medicine in a pt's room when you suddenly have to leave for something else (ie a code). Also check your pockets before you leave so you don't accidentally take a bottle of narcotics home with you...I remember reading a thread a month or so ago where a nurse did that and brought back the bottle (of morphine I believe) the next day and they fired her, even though she wasn't an addict or filled it with saline or something.

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God I hope I don't get questions like this when I go to interview...assuming of course I make it through nursing school and pass the NCLEX. I do agree with others though in that you should try to turn it into a positive, and don't say things like "poor critical thinking" or time management skills. To me that would probably throw up a red flag and prompt them to not offer you the job. My answer would be that sometimes I ask too many questions and that I'm often too critical of myself. Interviewing just scares me in general...especially panel interviews.

True. My mother doesn't work open hearts or trauma, as the hospital isn't trauma and the other anesthesia team does the open hearts. I think she mostly does ortho and GI cases, which seem to be pretty safe.

My mother is a CRNA and I talk to her all the time about her work. Anyways, she has over 20 years experience as a CRNA and I remember her telling me that she's only ever had a pt go into cardiac arrest once in her whole career. From the way she describes it it is almost always routine, with problems arising only on very rare occasions. She does like it a lot more than RN nursing though. She used to be an ortho nurse before she got her ICU exp. and went into CRNA school, and she says she likes it a lot more than what she used to do.