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1. Which should I choose - Preferred OB position in small town or Rehab job in dream town?

   lookingrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   I was in a similar position, wanting to move back to Colorado, and also to be in oncology. I found it was really easy to move and find a job in my particular area once I had experience in that area....

2. They didn't teach me that in school

   lookingrn replied to sax82677's topic in Oncology

   I've been a year and a half in oncology. I had a couple years experience when I started, and I think that helps. That first year of nursing is just so hard, and so scary, and you need to be very, very...

3. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

   lookingrn replied to lookingrn's topic in General Nursing

   Really? I was SO nervous. I'm in oncology, so I don't use this stuff much, but it does still come up. I would not have passed without practice, that's for sure. I put Vfib on the weirdest one (it was...

4. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

   lookingrn replied to lookingrn's topic in General Nursing

   Just a final update on this. I used a couple sites to study, including skillstat.com, and practicalclinicalskills.com, both of which have great EKG strips and quizzing software that makes it easy to...

5. Taking down IV Chemo

   lookingrn replied to StillsmilingRN's topic in Oncology

   I'm wondering about this, because everyone on my floor will just take down the secondary and leave the line, esp if it has continuous fluid going. I do the same thing, because that's how I learned it,...

6. LP with chemo in peds

   lookingrn replied to brownbook's topic in Oncology

   I had always thought that too, about LPs, and just yesterday I had a patient go straight from an LP to a bone marrow biopsy. I questioned it because they are supposed to lie flat, and the guy down...

7. bio/chemotherapy course from ONS

   lookingrn replied to qjin74's topic in Oncology

   I'm surprised you were able to receive certification without paid experience. I thought you had to be working 6 months in some area of nursing first -- not necessarily oncology, though. I precepted in...

8. bio/chemotherapy course from ONS

   lookingrn replied to qjin74's topic in Oncology

   We hired a nurse who had gotten her chemo certification, even though she didn't have oncology experience. Oncology experience is hard to find, and her certification showed a lot of commitment to the...

9. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

   lookingrn replied to lookingrn's topic in General Nursing

   Well, duh. Any suggestions about the best ways to study? I suppose it's too much to hope that someone who has taken the test knows what's so tricky about it. Is it just that nurses don't know EKG...

10. EKG Interpretation Test for Employment

    lookingrn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all -- I have a contingent offer for a job at University of Colorado Hospital, and have to pass an EKG test and a pharmacology test before it's completely official. Has anyone done the EKG test and...

11. Where have you applied? Gotten your acceptance/rejection letter yet?

    lookingrn replied to LittleMissVixen410's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I got my acceptance to CU-Denver last Wednesday.

12. Where have you applied? Gotten your acceptance/rejection letter yet?

    lookingrn replied to LittleMissVixen410's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Where all did you apply for NP school? Just to University of Colorado - Denver Which school is your first choice and why? CU-Denver, but if I don't get in, I can apply to University of Northern...

13. pump vs gravity

    lookingrn replied to nurmac's topic in Oncology

    We always do vesicants to gravity, rather then the pump. The idea is that it's safer than having something that will continue to push something into the

14. Denver Job Outlook

    lookingrn replied to sbwhalen1's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I have not tested the waters myself, but two nurses from my floor just got jobs in Denver fairly quickly and moved there last week. I work on a med/surg/tele floor and both of the nurses were...

15. Legacy Health Residency, Portland, OR

    lookingrn replied to islandteam2003's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm not keen on the idea of moving, but here I go. I'm in Colorado, and I love it here, but I'm moving to Boise, ID. I'm excited about my new job, in a magnet facility, so I think it will be good. I...