RadRNMSN

Hello! I am lookings into the FNP program at Saint Joseph's Online. I see a lot of your attend there. Please let me know how you are liking it either via email [email protected] or post a reply. Thank you!

I know you said you love your hospital and don't want to leave but I'm with the others who have said you should persue a position in another institution. There are hospitals out there that offer internships in specialties like ER, OB, ICU, etc. I went straight to the ER after graduation into an ER internship. It was the best thing I ever did. I recognized the fact that I was not interested in lengthly patient encounters. I love the excitement in the ER and in procedural areas. After graduating I worked in an ER for two years and thought I would like to go to the cardiac cath lab. My hospital just about laughed at me with my two years of ER experience when I said I wanted to try the cath lab, so I left. I went to another hospital system that trained me to work in the cath lab and interventional radiology. This experience opened many doors for me professionally. I have become a BLS instructor and have taken the class to become an ACLS instructor, I have networked with vascular surgeons, cardiologists, radiologists and many other professionals. I have since finished my MSN in education and have left to teach nursing school full time. I still stay in touch with everyone and often my students are able to observe in the cath lab and radiology and get tons of great experiences because of some of the people I have met a long the way. I still have ties at that hospital where I work PRN as a house supervisor. Long story short, you career as a nurse is what you make it. That's what I love about nursing, the possiblities are endless. Keep friendly ties with the hospital you love, but if you have to, leave to persue your dreams. Who knows, maybe you'll like the next place even better, or at least you will get the experience you need to return to the facility that you love. Good luck!

It depends on how many hours you are allowed to work. I believe in VA where I work, we cannot work for more than 16 hours straight. If they were keeping you past 16 hours, that is unsafe and I believe unlawful as well.

This may not be the answer that you are wanting to hear, but maybe this place isn't a place where you would want to be hired. If they can't get their act together during the hiring process, what's to say about their company as a whole?

I am a cath lab/interventional radiology nurse that works in a small community hospital where a lot of our resources are combined. I am a jack of all trades along with the other nurses in my dept. I would like to believe that I am respected amoung my peers and amoung the physicians. In my case, the physicians have to respect and trust me in the middle of the night as their only nurse during an emergent cardiac intervention or interventional radiology emergency procedure. My co-workers and I sit on many collaborative boards and have been asked to attend physician meetings on occasions. We also serve as the nurses in the hospital who place PICC lines and do all of the hard IV sticks. For that, I think we have gained a lot of respect from our peers in other departments, as well as the physicians. I believe you get the repsect that you earn and get back the respect that you give to others.

I hope to teach at a higher level someday. I would like to pursue my PhD too. I have been a clinical educator and didn't get a lot of satisfaction out of it. Partly because there is no real education department in the hsopital I work at and partly because staff development doesn't particularly interest me. I have a passion for nursing students. My main love is the research of test taking skills and learning styles. I would like to research this one day on a university level. In the meantime, I'm looking for experience as a lecturer and clinical instructor. Could working at a proprietary school hurt my resume?

I just finished my MSN in nursing education and I want to teach. There are universities around me but they are requiring PHDs. I am thinking about teaching at a popular proprietary school. Can anyone advise?

hi! i'm a cardiovascular lab/interventional radiology nurse. i have been tasked with heading up educational seminars to cath lab/rad nurses, rts, and rciss. i'm going to do jeopardy. my topics are catheters, wires & ballons, medications, and a & p. i have a & p questions, as well as medications, but i need trivia questions for catheters and balloons and wires. please help. an example of what i have done for a & p and what i am looking for is... [color=white]under normal circumstances, a wave of electrical excitation originates in this pacemaker cell[color=white] [color=white]answer: sinoatrial node [color=white] [color=white]thanks in advance for all of your help!

This may seem ridiculious, but I've been a nurse for 4 years and reached burnout after only 2. I was an ER nurse and saw EVERY kind of patient. After a year and a half and almost reaching my breaking point, I started to work in intervential radiology and cardiology. I started on my MSN in education and just recently finished. While studying for my masters, I took a staff development position. Boy I learned the grass is not even a little bit greener on the other side. Soa now I was out of patient care and could take a breather, but now it was just a horse of a different color. Administrative politics, paperwork, TJC compliance readiness, etc., I found myself longing for that interaction with the patients. So In August I gave my notice and I have been out of work since Sept. 1. I got married Oct. 10th and I finished graduate school Nov. 1. Now I'm going back to my job in patient care as a radiology/cath lab nurse. While I'm not going to use my degree right yet, I need to spend some more time with patients. I came to this conclusion only after I took the time off. Time off is well worth it. It allowed me the time to collect my thoughts and reflect on what I really want. I'm going right back to the hospital I used to work at and it will be interesting to see how the nursing administration will react to me with my MSN going back to the cath lab. There are educator positions (one of which I applied for and have scheduled interviews which I have cancelled) and I know they will look down upon my decision, but you know what, I'll be happy. That's the most important thing to me and my family (my husband and my dog, hehe.) So take some time, rediscover yourself, set goals, and do whatever your heart desires because you deserve it!

An NCLEX review book is a must. The other book that will not be on your book list that is extremely helpful is a test taking book. There is one that I like and I have used to teach nursing students called Test Success. It's important to learn the basic skills of test taking like opposites, ABCD, distractors, etc. and testing books specific to nursing do a great job at that. Don't concentrate on the questions so much as the technique for answering the question. Kaplan writes an NCLEX book that I believe is the very best and helped me to pass my nursing tests and NCLEX in 2005. Good luck