chitownbound

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1. New grad. How to land my first job? Please help

   chitownbound replied to peterm2's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   Is your childrens hospital really named "Sick Kids Hospital"??? That's, well, kind of

2. New grad. How to land my first job? Please help

   chitownbound replied to peterm2's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   I believe I already mentioned in my above posts multiple times that I found success in obtaining an RN position by actually going to hospitals, dressed professionally and with multiple copies of my...

3. New grad. How to land my first job? Please help

   chitownbound replied to peterm2's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   In school, you didnt rotate to different areas in the hospital like med/surg, labor and delivery, psych, etc? If you didnt have at least a pediatric rotation, it may be difficult to reason to a nurse...

4. New grad. How to land my first job? Please help

   chitownbound replied to peterm2's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   During your pediatric clinical rotation, did you establish a relationship with the nurse managers on your floor? I am a recent graduate in the US and was able to obtain a position in the field I...

5. Interview advice for a Pediatric Oncology/Hematology position.

   chitownbound posted a topic in Pediatric

   I am a recent graduate, just got my license a month ago today. I have an interview with my top choice hospital in the Pediatric Oncology and Hematology unit. I am very nervous! I adore kids, I'm very...

6. New grad RN job with no connections?

   chitownbound replied to jessRN6896's topic in Nursing Career

   I am currently in nursing school and have not faced the struggle of finding a new grad position yet. I say YET, because I'm sure I will be there with you guys soon. However, I do have experience...

7. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

   chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

   Have you spent any practice time in the lab? All the instructors do is walk around and assist in demonstrating and practicing skills. And that's in addition to the live demos we get the second time...

8. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

   chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

   The older gentleman that works the Central campus bookstore showed me what's in the lab kit. It's just a TON of gauze, bandages, etc. Basically, it looks like an assortment of all the disposable stuff...

9. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

   chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

   I got the 4th

10. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

    chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

    Quest will send the drug test results to BC, all we need to turn in is the original of the white copy that Quest gave back to us. Also, just an FYI, I was able to get all the required textbooks, as...

11. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

    chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

    I have already started reading the Test Success book. It seems like it will be very helpful. It's full of practice tests and analysis of all the questions and answers...why some answers are wrong, why...

12. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

    chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

    I've heard that Professor K is one of the best teachers at Broward, he's supposed to be awesome. I wanted to have Thursdays off from class but took his Thursday class anyway because I heard so many...

13. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

    chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

    Professor K teaches pharmacology at

14. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

    chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

    On the first page of this thread, it says we do not need the book for Pharm if taking Prof. K, he just uses his Powerpoint slides. I heard the same goes for math. I have all my textbooks in hand...

15. Broward College Central Campus January 2011

    chitownbound replied to blondiemix's topic in Florida Nursing

    I was told by someone in the program currently, who has the same teacher for Proc 1 and 2 lecture that we will have, that we need to have all white, leather shoes with no colored markings at all. And,...