kathy48

I'm having similar issue with going for my nurse 3. I have developed an SOP for our nurses to carry Narcan to home visits. I have developed an entire dept Roles and responsibility/ Masters in nursing education and 30 years experience in nursing. my friend who is ON THE Board! even said she's not going for her nurse 3 because now they mandate continuous improvement in the nurses role taking additional job duties incentive and continuous quality improvement policy and expectations and 8f you don't they can not allow you to stay at nurse 3.

I think degrees and knowing someone in leadership gets you promoted but the initial pay scale is according to nursing experience and meeting criteria so like an RN in Califoria may start at 90,000 which is good for a Nurse 1

most I've seen ban automatically nurse 2. but I have a man and I'm a nurse 2. every wo years you go up a step about 7-10 steps per level BSN/MSN

I didn't need reference letters but maybe because I worked there three years ago and had to leave for medical reasons.

No I'm sorry I don't

Yes the do the background checks. But I can't remember if they were before or after they made the offer. They def call reference before offer. It was horrible I white knuckled it to work and back every time it snowed or weather was bad.

It depends on the need like I was hired fairly quickly because the need was great. I interviewed in may and started in august. No body wanted my job because of the commute to two different outpatient clinics several miles apart.

I think it's a good sign they usually inform after the first phone interview if you did not get selected

I'm sorry I just realized I didn't answer your question. I did spend a few hours a day at it say two or three each night between reading/research/discussion/writing. I printed exerpts from Electronic resources and used lots of highlighters and recycled old paper used the back of old literature because it was just resource material. It was all available online but I still need something in my hand with my red/blue pens and yellow highlighter to drive points home in my memory and I'm a big margin note taker.i recall these notes visually when needed mentally. You are correct in that each week started the following Monday. Usually no class on Friday for me. My modules ran every 6 weeks with two weeks off at Christmas. We were allowed one month off at formal request for life /work balance during the program. I chose to print off only certain chapters or excerpts of reading materials not entire books. Because they were always available to us and still are, as are all of our discussion boards and assignments on UOP portal. I plan on going back for my DNP online.

Yes it was pretty much like a regular schedule. I usually took three days a week off. Depends on the work load. Once I learned to Pace my work. I still used my local University to have a quiet library to study and use the copier and just get a coffee and change of scenery ( where I did my undergrad work). I absolutely felt my education was well rounded and afforded me the tools to function and Excel in any advanced role in my career. I proved to myself I have what it takes. Because it is not easy. It requires discipline. Nobody to hold your hand, nobody sitting next to you to coach you , no buddy system to lean on to meet up with before class for brainstorming sessions before big exams....it was the hardest I've ever worked in my life.

I finished the program. It was very well worth it . I worked very hard

I was hired at at Nurse II level II with a Masters Degree and teaching experience. Also 10 years as an RN experience. I know that a new grad RN started in the same organization at 5,000 more and doesn't have a Masters degree nor has the RN ever taught nursing. This difference Ive come to learn is something called "Locality Pay" and for the outpatient clinic at manage its supposed to be 10,000 because we follow NY state pay grade. I should be making 69,000. Not 59,000. But I. Keep getting the runaround. Other nurses said I accepted the offer too fast. They indeed, lowballed me.

Thanks

Hi just finishing this up my MSN Ed.was a very enlightening and rigorous program with positive feedback from community organizations for the school is highly accredited and major health care players reimburse with tuition credit. Where are you now? Would love to hear from you.

May I ask where you did your CNS? Was it possible to do it online? I am half way through my MSN Ed. at UOP. Thanks.

Hi I felt the same way but the class was just a very rudamentary accounting overview in relation to health care. If you take it as a basic way to balance a budget or design your departments financial reports, it will seem more relevant and not so daunting. I was afraid it would mess my GPA, as well, but I got an A- which was cool with me. Good luck!

Can somebody please inform if there are any RN jobs available in Southern CA, I also have to find housing. My daughter is going to school (college) there and so is her bf of 7 years, so they want to :coollook:get married and stay in that area. I am aslo looking to get out of the cold!! My choices were Ariz., FL or CA, but since they are both going to school there, I want to move there. I have my app in with the VA of Orange County and Riverside County. Thanks in advance!!! ( My work exp. is LTC/Rehab and Drug & Alcohol, I am a fairly new graduate, since 2007.

I worked 1 yr. drug and alcohol, the pay was not good; one is supposed to be there for altruistic reasons....ummmmm The patients can be very needy and manipulative, but that type of nursing is a real eye opener. I am glad I received the experience, because in any walk of life as a nurse on the floor; one is bound to come into contact with a patient who has a history. It also teaches you alot of psych; yes, dual diagnosis; it takes a special person to do this type of nursing and not get resentment toward the patients who are aggressive; needy and manipulative. A stern demeanor with absolute bounderies is absolutely essential.

I have been an RN for 4 years but only worked in LTC. Now, I cannot find a job in a hospital to save my life. I have applied to about 50 positions and spent much money on personal interview travel, ect.. I have been unemployed for a whole year and am getting very frustrated over this. I can go anywhere, does anyone know what section of the U.S. is hiring newer nurses for hospital work, I am willing to relocate , thanks

always document RN informed or reported to nursing supervisor with time and date

Lol This reminds me of the overconfident "super nurse" who gave 2cc's of air with an I.M. of Vanco Has anyone ever heard of that?

Dear "A New Start"; Are you talking to me?? LOL. I know, now I want a hospital job but at my age and in this economy, with no acute care med surg or tele experience, I am finding it very hard to find a job. I actually even told HR managers; I would be willing to do Er tech work, ect, whilst I completed a CCRN course, and stay on after the successful completion, just to get the opportunity to be considered. I am in a quandry, I want to do critical care, I was the highest grade earner and question answerer, LOL, in my clinical rotation, but I seriously have applied to EVERY hospital in 100 miles over the past year, I finally went back to graduate school, because no facility except SNF will hire me:idea:

I received my LVN in 1984. Worked hospital throughout the mid to late eighties when we were not able to do I.V.'s or some other tasks now available to LVN graduates. I went back to nursing school in 2003 (20 years later!!) challenged all of the modules to accelerate past the clinicals until my senior year. I was the only one of 12 LVN's that successfully passed all of the modules (saved alot of $$) until I had to take psych/tele and ICU. I graduated in three years and had a good GPA. What I didn't have however, was the ten plus years the other LVN's had on the floor since I went into the business end of nursing doing healthcare marketing and sales because I was a single parent and needed a 9-5. I was terrified I was just too old, even though in theory I was prob the most adapt at knowledge application and critical thinking skills of my LVN to BSN co-students, as was the insight gleaned from my clinical instructors. I think if I was younger and had more experience in clinical I would not have been so scared. I still 4 years later feel unprepared for acute facilities. I am afraid of the number of patients and some of the procedures I have never done because as an LVN we were not allowed to. I wish I did it sooner, however, because I can honestly say, there was hardly a subject matter I didn't know because of my LVN education and past hospital experience.

I am a smoker. I get to smoke on my break. We can go to a gazeebo behind the LTC where I work. It is cold some nights and very dark. Our safety is def compromised but it is our decision. I have been in nursing for 25 years. I remember the head of the medical society smoking at the podium during an indoor conference when I was a student in 1984!. At the time after graduation, we were able to smoke in the hallways outside of patients rooms in the major hospitals in our city. Yes, we have all non smoking campuses now for the ACF but I still see the docs, nurses, and anesthesiologists smoking at the "corner" intersection in their OR garb. It does look terrible, but how are we supposed to quit smoking when we somehow haven't been able to for this long? I hate that I smoke, but I do feel it is my decision and that we are being chastized, I can understand that it is bad for patients and staff to have to inhale smoke, I don't argue that, but if we want to go out to our car on a break or at linch, we should be able to.

I have also only worked LTC/Rehab since graduating from BSN school in 2006. I was immediately put into a supervisory role due to being the only RN in the building on 3-11. I was a fresh graduate and needed to learn fast how to manage a team of nursing professionals, yes, CNA and LPN, and learn all of the auditing and responsibility of manager on duty as well as the high acuity of some of the patients. It was a 92 bed facility and at different ends of the building I would have concurrent emergent scenarios. My point being, there is no shortage of emergency situations, and the prior poster was correct, there is no equipment other than oxygen and the talent that lay in those walls to care for the patient until transport to the ACF can be made.