Bobbkat

I'm back and forth about homebirth. On one hand, with a well trained, well prepared midwife an appropriate candidate should be fine at home. On the other hand, I was an 'appropriate candidate' but the you-know-what hit the fan so quick with my first ...

As was previously stated, Yale (it's the only hospital I can speak for) greatly prefers BSNs. Does it mean that ADN's never, ever get hired? Of course not. But if all other things are equal, a BSN will be hired over an ADN or a diploma nurse. I won't...

My unit hires new grads, but I'm sure the positions are really, really competetive. It's too bad we don't hire more, because we are so short staffed right now.

I mix them together all the time, and have never heard of it changing the composition of the breast milk itself. I only mix it for nipple feedings if I know the entire volume will be consumed in one way or another, but that's just so I don't waste i...

It is absolutely discrimination and against the law. Title VII of the civil rights act of 1964 states that pregnancy based employment discrimination is illegal, and that pregnancy must be regarded by employers as any other temporary illness. It is ...

It is absolutely illegal to not hire someone because of their pregnancy. A number of people have admitted that they would break the law and discriminate against you if they were given the option of being in charge of hiring a pregnant nurse. I beli...

There is no reason to mention a pregnancy during an interview, and it is illegal for an employer to ask you about it. If you were qualifed for the position prior to the disclosure of your pregnancy, being pregnant shouldn't change that. If a job is ...

Working in the Neonatal ICU: from outside the hospital people that hear what type of unit I work in : Awww, how sweet! You just go to work to rock and hold sweet babies!! (perhaps they misunderstand what 'ICU' means??) From a parent at work once: I...

May I ask why you say this? I know many people (myself included, as stated above) that have relied on networking to get into a hospital job, and I don't find them to have 'low performance' at all.

I have a BS in Edu and a BSN, currently licensed and working as a nurse. I let my teacher cert lapse. I am exhausted just thinking about doing both jobs! But, theoretically, since you asked, is it possible? I don't see why not. As long as you ha...

It's networking, and it in NO WAY means that the person is unqualified. Example? I graduated with my BSN, great GPA, great clinical recs, passed NCLEX first try with 75 questions, good to go for a job, right? Except there were so few places that wou...

Wait, aren't you the guy that started all the crap a few months ago about how it's immoral for women to seek employment when they know they are pregnant? :icon_roll Know what gets under my skin? People that like to stir up crap just to create drama...

We warm them in a plastic ziploc bag placed in a warm water bath in one of those pink patient water pitchers.

I applied and applied and applied, and called HR and tried every angle I could think of, getting nowhere. Then I contacted every person I knew working in a hospital back home (I had to relocate to a state after school, so I had no experience with th...

I worked until my water broke. It broke while I was walking into work. I called off that day.

We didn't. We were told what, where, when. The only choice we were offered was our very last semester when we got to request a general area (adults, peds, women's health, etc) to do our preceptorship in. Even then there were no promises though. M...

My hospital will pay for $4000 a year towards education. They do have some pretty good scholarships available too for nurses working towards advanced practice degrees, but I'm not sure how competetive they are.

I think it depends on what your interests and goals are. Do you aspire to become a neonatal nurse? If so, take the NICU position. Otherwise, the other position will give you experience with a broader age and diagnosis range. Good luck whichever y...

I used to be a teacher. CPR and first aid was required. That being said, just because someone went through the class doesn't mean they would actually be prepared to use the training if an emergency actually presented itself.

I rarely lift over 10 pounds in the NICU. My heftiest patients have weighed around 12 pounds. Will school work with your lifting restrictions though? We couldn't have any physical restrictions where I went to school.

Diaper cream is probably my number one! Sweet-ease is up there too.

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, you failed by two points. Rounding doesn't help much in that case. On the other hand, you won't know unless you try. I would however, suggest against 'begging' for the grade, or placing the blame on the...

Yes, it's everywhere. For example, where I went to school there were at least 12 schools within a 50 mile radius graduating RN classes. I don't know how many for LPN's. Not nearly enough jobs to absorb all of those nurses.

In my hospital the first set of labs would have been enough to have the baby sent down to me in the NICU and had a 48 hour course of abx started until the initial culture results could come back.

I work 2 12's and 2 8's a week. There are pluses and minuses to each shift. On one hand, I like that I feel like I am either coming in late or leaving early on my 8 hour days. On the other, I do have a tendency to leave late on the days that I wor...