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  1. Interview Attire

    raianne replied to green34's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I wore a suit to the interviews for my first two jobs in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but the most recent job I interviewed for was in Texas. It was 100 degrees and there was no way I was wearing...

  2. Well.. I guess I am going to be canned

    raianne replied to Phoenix2541's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm sorry that happened to you. It makes me wonder if that could have happened to me...the very first job I had was on an understaffed med/surg floor, and one day I was so incredibly busy that one of...

  3. I'm nervous!

    raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

    I absolutely hated my first job as a new grad. Looking back, I can see that it was actually probably a good unit for me to learn on...floor with tele, lots of post-op patients, a very busy "get 'em...

  4. Be the Nurse You Would Want As a Patient

    raianne replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nurses Rock

    Very good post. I am a nurse because I was a patient. I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma when I was 27. I had never been in the hospital before. I realized, over the course of my...

  5. What is the point of becoming a nurse?!

    raianne replied to newRN121's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    They're/their/there

  6. Death

    raianne replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    "i have no experience with death. none. i am 31 years old, and in my life, no one close to me has died." those words could have come straight from me. i am 31, and i have lost a great aunt, a great...

  7. How is your life working nights?

    raianne replied to AlexisNicole's topic in General Nursing

    I love nights. Less stress (usually), less people running around in the halls, and I'm (again, usually) able to do my job without feeling like I'm being pulled in 20 different directions at once....

  8. Do the doctors and nurses really sit apart in cafeterias?

    raianne replied to Maui79's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    On the off chance that I do get to eat something, it's in our break room...and doctors do sit in there and eat sometimes. As far as actually having time to go to the cafeteria and eat something,...

  9. Seriously? A hospital is NOT a hotel.

    raianne posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So I work on a surgical oncology floor. We generally don't get medicine patients unless all the medicine floors are full. Last night we get a call that we're getting a patient...we're confused,...

  10. Do new graduates really get a job that easily in nursing?

    raianne replied to Bchung5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have read many of the same posts about new grads not being able to find a job and I think that it depends on where you live. I'm in Pittsburgh, got my accelerated BSN at Pitt, and pretty much...

  11. Whyyyyy? Rant from a Lab Tech

    raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi! I am not a nurse yet. I start an accelerated BSN program in August. I have been a lab tech for five years. I read urines and run the machines that do coags and blood gases and chemistry panels and...

  12. If you had to do it over again would you?

    raianne replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    yes, but i'm still relatively new. i graduated in august and started on my floor (med/surg oncology) in october. i'm 31...i was a lab tech for six years and then i went through an absn program. i...

  13. "That's where they keep big needles to stick bad little boys."

    raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

    A man tells his little boy as they walk by my med cart, "Know what that is? That's where they keep big needles to stick bad little boys." I didn't say anything because I was super busy and didn't...

  14. Job market reality for new nurses

    raianne replied to DNS on the go's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I just graduated from an ABSN program in August and I would say that 90% of my class has jobs. Some had jobs before we graduated. It helps that we went to a university that is affiliated with the...

  15. Thanks to an awesome nurse recruiter!!! (and preceptor)

    raianne posted a topic in General Nursing

    Here's my story. I graduated in August from an ABSN program, and began trying to find a job. I absolutely LOVED the floor that I did my transitions on, and my preceptor was amazing. I've read...

  16. opinions about 1 year "2nd degree" BSN nursing programs

    raianne replied to pghfoxfan's topic in General Nursing

    I'm currently 1/3 of the way through a one year ABSN program (fall, spring, summer), and so far we have not lost any of the people in our group. It's incredibly demanding and challenging and tons of...

  17. Days you are glad you are a Nurse

    raianne replied to Getreal2011's topic in General Nursing

    I think it depends on the patient and the kind of chemo. Mine came back exactly the way it used to be, thick, curly, amazingly wonderful (seriously...you never know how awesome hair is till you don't...

  18. How do you not take this stuff home with you?

    raianne posted a topic in General Students

    So I am one month into my accelerated BSN program. My patient in clinical today was an end stage cancer patient with a rectolady partsl fistula. I haven't ever dealt with a patient like this before,...

  19. I think they're trying to get us used to touching people...it worked!

    raianne posted a topic in General Students

    I'd read some posts earlier about people freaking out because they had to bathe their classmates...and now I have a story to share! I just finished the first week of my accelerated program. I loved...

  20. I think they're trying to get us used to touching people...it worked!

    raianne replied to raianne's topic in General Students

    You'll be fine...I was nervous finding the femoral pulse on a guy for the first time...but you get used to

  21. I'm allergic to.....(laundry list)!

    raianne replied to AOx1's topic in General Nursing

    There was a lady in the ER a few years ago who was listed as being allergic to "hot

  22. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    raianne replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I have a story...it's not a nursing ghost story, because I'm just a student and haven't seen anything scary yet...and I don't know that it's as much of a ghost story as it is a supernatural story, but...

  23. Is it too hard to take Microbiology, AP II, and Chemistry together?

    raianne replied to Christine22's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I took A&P II and Microbiology together while also working full-time. However, I already have my bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, and I thought that they were easy classes. I think it...

  24. Question about perfume/cologne

    raianne replied to Despareux's topic in General Nursing

    When I was being taken back to my room after my biopsy surgery, a woman wearing perfume got on the elevator with us, and it took everything I had not to throw up...if she would have been on the...

  25. what the heck do you wear to a Nursing School interview?

    raianne replied to NurseBanana's topic in General Students

    Dress like you're going to a job interview. I wore black pants, a pink blouse, and a suit jacket, and I got in! (I heard that if you get an interview, chances are you're already accepted to the...