johwiklundRN

focus more on what you SAY to the person hiring and less about how you will look.... Spend some time doing research, read an article or two about the specialty to have an interesting anecdote ready should the opportunity present itself . Do a little research about the hospitals agenda, goals, current events, and seem engaged by them. At the end of the day, if how you LOOK is sooooo important to the manager, I would be wondering if that is really a person I want to work for anyway. Right? Wear clean clothes, feel sharp, and dont stress about it too much focus your energy else where ... Droping off a resume tommorow to apply to another floor of my hospital... Best of Luck to you.

hillarious and great work if its a joke, But its just not true... or that is to say that is no different than any other field of educations.... I know so many people with BAs in this or that that are still waiting tables My point is 2 fold... I- I found my 1st nursing job in spring of 2010. It was competitive and challenging, I probably sent at least 50 apps, and followed up on every one. After about a month and a half I accepted a position hundreds of miles away from home at a less desirable LTC in a rural area of CA, that continues to hire new grads... I worked hard for about 8 months then transferred to a large regional hospital where I am very happy and continue to advance my career Now when I started nursing school in 2007, Before this whole god damn recession. I watched the jobs and new grad programs evaporate as I advanced through school, I watched people graduate only to volunteer on campus or go back to their old jobs .... My point being that I KNOW it IS possible to get a job as a new grad.... TODAY, TOMMOROW AND THE NEXT DAY. It takes flexibility, hard work, and hustle.... unfortunately not all of those qualities are taught in nursing school no matter what degree one gets. THERE IS HOPE. IT CAN BE DONE. NEW GRADS ARE HIRED EVERY DAY. I hear a lot of venting, complaining, and excuse making on this website about how "impossible" it is to get a job, now I understand a certain amount can be therapeutic... but some of it just sounds whiny :/ point II If you have recently graduated, like within the last year, and you feel tricked / betrayed because you cant find a job now, HOW ABOUT A LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY! This recession didn't happen over night. One can easily observe the job market while in school, and accommodate life according. It is everyone's own responsibility be realistic about the state of the world today. If anyone got tricked or mislead at the prospect of finding work easily at this point, How could it possibly be anyone fault of other than their own? Now I am not posting just to be a dick... I want to motivate people who are having trouble finding work. New nurses who feel hopeless, and are surrounded by others who only validate their hopelessness. Please PM me if you want to talk about this any more. I have helped other strangers from this website who were struggling to find work, and at least one of them landed a position because of it:D But some people just a place to complain.... which is also fine PS this was a fantastic joke.... There should be more posts one here like this

Provided the mother does not have an epidural, and the OB or Midwife does't object to women changing position while giving birth, I have personally seen great results with the Gaskin Maneuver. Mothers deliver their babies on the hands and knees arching their back with pushes. Gravity is working with you

The McRoberts maneuver is employed in case of shoulder dystocia during childbirth and involves hyperflexing the mother's legs tightly to her abdomen. This widens the pelvis, and flattens the spine in the lower back (lumbar spine). If this maneuver does not succeed, an assistant applies pressure on the lower abdomen (suprapubic pressure), and the delivered head is also gently pulled. The technique is effective in about 42% of cases Rubin II or posterior pressure on the anterior shoulder, which would bring the fetus in an oblique position with head somewhat towards the lady parts Woods' screw maneuver which leads to turning the anterior shoulder to the posterior and vice versa (somewhat the opposite of Rubin II maneuver) Jacquemier's maneuver (also called Barnum's maneuver), or delivery of the posterior shoulder first, in which the forearm and hand are identified in the birth canal, and gently pulled. Gaskin maneuver, named after Certified Professional Midwife, Ina May Gaskin, involves moving the mother to an all fours position with the back arched, widening the pelvic outlet. Zavanelli's maneuver, which involves pushing the fetal head back in with performing a cesarean section, or internal cephalic replacement followed by Cesarean section maternal symphysiotomy, which makes the opening of the birth canal laxer by breaking the connective tissue between the two pubes bones facilitating the passage of the shoulders. I have also heard of skilled Midwife intentionally manually fracturing the baby's clavicle to facilitate shoulder dystocia. I would presume that the conservative methodology would involve surgical intervention, but to skilled hands belong many alternatives.

All posts so far by newbies...Interesting. Exactly. The newbies haven't 'been there' or haven't been nurses long enough to have worked in a large city where you are the only native English speaking person around. Also if someone posts a cartoon of ducking under a couch just after you post your valid vent, it tends to sway posters to think what you said is shameful. You have a valid vent/issue/complaint that many veteran nurses have dealt with. I'm glad you're not afraid to post something that some think isn't "pc" enough for their tastes. I liked Karen's post/suggestion. ... AND THAT MAKES YOU GUYS OLDBIES...? JUST MAYBE... YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MORE USED TO A MORE INTEGRATED AND DIVERSE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY.... AND HAVE LESS OF A PROBLEM UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE... AND USING COMPUTERS ... OLDBIE

I see threads of this naure all the time on these boards... Weather they complain about other cultures, complain about speaking other languages.. Or not being able to understand others accents, and feeling entitled and that other people should change... Lots of ignorance and covert racism. Thank you for your post

http://www.ehow.com/how_8565509_give-heimlich-maneuver-someone-bed.html thats how...

retire?

I do actually have a family to raise. and I suppose that it is very difficult for you to imagine that anybody would ever want to live their life differently than you... and yes if you wont take the bus at night because you're afraid of "random violence" you do live in fear.... and it is that exact fear that would make you a target for violence. I choose to raise my family to appreciate and respect diversity, in all its forms. You Pre-judge an entire urban population. IE just cause you grow up in Oakland or SF doesnt mean you carry a gun to school ... And it is this prejudice that perpetuates the fear that has so obviously influenced you. You and I are just different kinds of people... Luckily in SF there are many different kinds of people, and one learns to coexist.... As hard as this may be for you to understand, this is not a bad thing... nor is it unsafe... it is just obviously different than you are used to...where as in Walnut Creek... one would experience much less diversity of race, socio-economic status, gender, political... ect... Life is about choices and you are letting you fear and prejudice make yours for you. I hope when I am your age, I am not so closed minded, and scared of the world, for my children's sake. This is getting wayyyyyy to personal for a professional nursing website. So if you need to get the last word... its yours for the taking. Sorry for contributing to making this thread so off topic:down:

I guess your age at about 48... and you better get back to Tibourn or Walnut Creek, because its starting to get dark out.... enjoy living in fear!

LOL... you were obviously able to read my post if your able to criticize it, meanie:cool: ... and yes I lived in the Richmond, and worked days in SOMA and nights in the Mission. I took the 38 express bus down Geary, and took BART every day... I also walked my broke 22 year old 130lb butt all over Oakland, and SF.... nothing bad ever happened to me.... If you never lived in a big city before, I suspose certain common sense and precautions should be warented.... Violence happens every where.... its a tragity every time:crying2: .... not specific to SF or Oakland though... everything good in life comes with sacrifice, if you cant take the heat get out of the fire...

And no the wages are not half 75 miles inland.... Most northern california hospitals, are unionized by cna the largest nursing union in the country ( headquartered in oakland)... And in addition to making california the only state with mandated nurse to patient ratios in hospitals... They also negotiate top dollar for their nurses whether in sf or vallejo or sacramento, or chico.... Rural ass northern ca where i live now. Infact, if you work for kaiser (the largest hmo in the country, which also started in the bayarea) you get paid the same whether you work in sf or sacramento, kaiser did it to reduce traffic and commuting.... I dont know where this guy is getting his info but he obviously doesnt know a damn thing about california. I have liveed in ca my entire life... And my parents worked as nurses in the bay area for their entire lives.... Its a fine place to live, and a great place to practice nursing

LOL THIS DUDE EITHER JUST DOESNT READ OR HE HAD SOME MAJOR ANTICALIFORNIA AGENDA... SO LETS SLOW THIS DOWN.... Y E S S O M E C O S T O F L I V I N G I S V A R I A B L E! ( LOL this is getting hard) and major lol @ at the "random acts of violence" which is just ignorant and propaganda. I mean dont get me worng, people get shot in the city, and people end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.... but it is usually very avoidable... most of the victims of these "random acts of violence" arnt really all that innocent if you know what I mean.... Lived in deep West Oakland for 2 years without a car, walked everywhere, even at night and nobody ever bothered me.... my girlfriend lived the same way. People that just dont live there dont understand, they hear the news and get scared.... what they dont tell you when you hear that 300 people were murdered in Oakland is that 295 of them were probably not innocent people making an honest living Y E S E V E R Y O N E P A Y S T A X E S!!!!! some people pay a little... some people a lot, has a lot to do with your personal situation and not too much with what city you live in... Y E S S O M E P E O P L E O W N C A R S !!!!! and then there are certain costs that come with that..... .... and yes some people commute and there are costs involved with that..... But some people dont need to drive at all, and that can be cool..... This doesnt have to be a cost that is specific to living in SF or any city.... AND FYI, the MISSION was dangerous like 30 years AGO, It has been gentrified after the tech boom, and now a bunch of yuppies and hipsters live there:rolleyes: Y E S S O M E P E O P L E L I V E I N P O V E R T Y...... this is sad, and creates certain socio economic isssues, but guess how many people living in or near the projects of "the point" or the tenderloin are Registered Nurses...... 0... or if they do... its entirely by choice...... despite what this dude is proclaiming... a RN could afford to rent a suitable place in almost whatever neighbor hood they choose.... the place will probably be smaller than what the same amount of money could get you in the burbs... or texas... or lots of places for that matter... but compare it to other major modern cities.... NYC, BOSTON, SEATTLE, TORONTO.... ect AND FYI, the MISSION was dangerous like 30 years AGO, It has been gentrified after the tech boom, and now a bunch of yuppies and hipsters live there:rolleyes: BOTTOM LINE ... THE POINT OF THIS THREAD IS WHERE CAN YOU MAKE THE MOST MONEY AS A NURSE?.... THE BAY FREAKIN AREA. FOR REAL. NOT THERES NOT EXCEPTIONS, NOT THAT ONE DUDE IN ARIZONAZ ISNT MAKING A ZILLION DOLLARS.... NOT THAT YOU CAN BUY A HOUSE IN MISSISSIPPI FOR A SANDWICH... MOST PEOPLE NURSES IN GENERAL. PSS IF YOU TALKING ABSOLUTE TOP DOLLAR, LOOK INTO WORKIN AT SAN QUINTIN WHICH IS ALSO IN NORTH BAY AREA:eek:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk=1500&bedrooms= SF is really not as expensive as this website always makes it out to be....LOL... its just like any other modern city. Plus factor in that you probably won't need a car / car insurance living in the city. Nurse pay is so high here because CNA (California Nurses Association, - the biggest union in nursing - is in Oakland - right across the bay) The Bay Area values nurses and pays them well, but the cost of living really isn't so limiting at least it doesn't have to be. I was refuting a previous post that was suggesting that you couldn't rent a decent place in SF for less than 1500/MO. .. And even if this were true... When your grossing 8000 a month does it matter? Bottom line SF is probably one of the best places in the country to live work and play, when you factor in a COL, more money is just more money... :heartbeat

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk=1500&bedrooms= SF is really not as expensive as this website always makes it out to be....LOL... its just like any other modern city. Plus factor in that you probably won't need a car / car insurance living in the city. Nurse pay is so high here because CNA (California Nurses Association, - the biggest union in nursing - is in Oakland - right across the bay) The Bay Area values nurses and pays them well, but the cost of living really isn't so limiting at least it doesn't have to be.