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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 a jacket of any kind. I wore a black pencil skirt...

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 the housekeepers took pity on me and, along with ...

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 in, fix 'em up, get 'em out" type of floor. I work...

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 hospitalization and subsequent outpatient chemo, how much wo...

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"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 grandma, and my grandfather. that's it. all of ...

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. There are always rough nights, just like there are r...

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, forget it. There are days that go by in which I have ...

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, because our floor was pretty empty, but so were all th...

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 everyone in my class (20 of us) got jobs within a month...

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 all that fun stuff. After college, I lived with t...

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 have never had a job that is so completely physic...

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 feel like arguing with him, but I really wanted to sa...

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 largest healthcare provider in the region, so I'm su...

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 mostly negative stories about preceptors on this site, ...

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 work, but I love it...and I'm managing to work two...

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 have any...although baldness certainly cut back o...

So I am one month into my accelerated BSN program. My patient in clinical today was an end stage cancer patient with a rectovaginal fistula. I haven't ever dealt with a patient like this before, my first two patients were hysterectomy patients who ...

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 it!!! There are 6 guys and 19 girls in my class....

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

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

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 I want to tell it. Yesterday I was going to get w...

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 depends on where you're taking them and how stron...

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 elevator with us for a few more seconds, I would have. ...

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 program, but I don't know if that's always true. It w...