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  1. Training and Contracts

    orrnlori replied to Lorus's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Confidence is good, over confidence is foolish. You don't know what you don't know. I agree that some new nurses can be scary when then think they know everything. I was green as a gourd right out...

  2. Career changer needs advice.....

    orrnlori replied to Hodge's topic in General Nursing

    I was also mid level management in banking when I went to school to become a nurse. I started by hording money for when I would be quitting my job. :chuckle I took 2 classes per semester for a year...

  3. confused about what kind of program is best for me, please help

    orrnlori replied to volsgirl's topic in Nursing Career

    Doctors don't hire nurses unless they have a BSN? Who told you that one? The majority of doctors don't give a hoot. They want a good nurse! And I got to tell you, being a nurse in a doctor's...

  4. Training and Contracts

    orrnlori replied to Lorus's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm a nurse at the University of Kentucky. The fellowship was instituted after I became staff here so I don't know the particulars of that specific program (I know they are very proud of it) but...

  5. Okay, I'm not a nursing instructor yet but...

    orrnlori replied to orrnlori's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Well. I just had one of the best nursing students I've ever had come through the OR. She's from a different school than the ones I've had at the first part of the semester and a little older. Maybe...

  6. Previous Career Measure of Success as 2nd Career Nurse?

    orrnlori replied to KristinWW's topic in General Nursing

    I may be in the minority but I don't think that being a nurse requires a "calling" to the field. I was simply tired of doing what I was doing and wanted to do something different. I spent a year...

  7. R.N. B.S.N to Physician Assistant

    orrnlori replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    Here our PA program at the University of Kentucky is a master's program of 2 years full full full time. Admission is tough, 40 positions with over 400 applicants per class. Don't know what is like...

  8. Advantages/Disadvantages to working for county hosp

    orrnlori replied to NPJohnson's topic in General Nursing

    If one of your options is a teaching hospital do apply there. They are set up to train new nurses, usually have an excellent preceptor system in place. The added bonus is that you have residents...

  9. Previous 4yr degree helpful?

    orrnlori replied to carlalogan's topic in General Nursing

    That's the tunnel vision of nursing administration. What they don't acknowledge is that the BSN is not the only form of higher education for nurses. A BS in business or healthcare administration for...

  10. OR nursing QUESTIONS

    orrnlori replied to BSN_student2004's topic in Operating Room

    Don't be embarrassed, never know until you ask. There are usually two primary nurses in the OR, the circulator and the scrub. The circulator remains unsterile and runs the room, and has primary...

  11. OR nursing QUESTIONS

    orrnlori replied to BSN_student2004's topic in Operating Room

    Well, some nurses just don't want to learn. You can't make someone do what they don't want to do. Believe me, I've given the speech to some that if you don't learn they'll just bring in another...

  12. Previous 4yr degree helpful?

    orrnlori replied to carlalogan's topic in General Nursing

    My experience with only the hospital I work in is that a BA or BS in anything other than nursing will not help you at all. Out in the more different areas of nursing it may, don't know. I would...

  13. perioperative nurse internship program?

    orrnlori replied to christySN's topic in Operating Room

    Really really watch what goes on in the OR. Do the doctor's treat the nurses well? You have an opportunity here to really see a day in full swing. Take advantage of it. Hopefully they will pair...

  14. Unruly Patients

    orrnlori replied to tmitch's topic in General Nursing

    I took care of a drug dealer who had been kidnapped and tortured by another drug dealer over a period of several days. He'd been shot, stabbed, burned with battery acid and had lost one ear. He was...

  15. perioperative nurse internship program?

    orrnlori replied to christySN's topic in Operating Room

    I must have missed this question. YES, you can be a good OR nurse right out of school. I only worked 6 months in trauma before I came to the OR. I was green as a gourd. My training program was...

  16. OR nursing QUESTIONS

    orrnlori replied to BSN_student2004's topic in Operating Room

    Our scrub techs don't last very long, we usually just get them trained and they are off to somewhere else. I don't know why we keep spending money to train them, seems it would make more sense, since...

  17. nurse hurt in line of duty

    orrnlori replied to tonchitoRN's topic in General Nursing

    We also lost a crew of 4 a couple of years ago, pilot, copilot, EMT and nurse. Bless those brave enough to

  18. Please help which program to choose

    orrnlori replied to rasa26's topic in General Nursing

    Why go LPN then RN when you can do the BSN in the same period of time. I don't even see what the question is. Maybe I don't understand. If the time and cash outlay is the same, get your

  19. RNFA 'S

    orrnlori replied to CATHY RNFA's topic in Operating Room

    I wasn't refering to your post, but some of the others. I agree, they aren't utilized here as I don't think they are reimbursed by insurance in our area of the country. I know my insurance will not...

  20. perioperative nurses, do you like your job? (vent)

    orrnlori replied to kyti's topic in Operating Room

    You do become immune to them. :chuckle Funny thing is that usually after then make a total ass out of the themselves and they scrub out, they usually apologize for being a jerk. Yeah, yeah, yeah,...

  21. 2nd Career RNS >40?

    orrnlori replied to fulwood's topic in General Nursing

    I was 42 when I graduated. Before that I was a mid-level manager in banking. Two different worlds. Some days I would do it again, other days, no. I miss the sharp clothes and perfume and hairstyle...

  22. perioperative nurses, do you like your job? (vent)

    orrnlori replied to kyti's topic in Operating Room

    Yeah, us OR nurses are just a bunch of dummies who pass instruments and just sit around all day.

  23. BSN's vs. Community college

    orrnlori replied to cottoncandyclouds's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Well, you're just going to make friends left and right here on this board. You are afforded your opinion here but don't be offended if you get some replies you don't like. I'll tell you what, I'll...

  24. New job! No more hospital for me!

    orrnlori replied to CherryRN's topic in General Nursing

    I looked at this career very closely and researched the certifications for it. If anyone decides to do it, please consider a certificate for legal nurse consultant, Ohio University has a program they...

  25. Weird Interview!

    orrnlori replied to JuicyJem's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree to circumvent HR very carefully, but by all means do that. Call hospitals you want to consider, get the names of the managers of the units where you want to work and send your resume to them...