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I am looking for input and your experience on how you report to particularly if you work in a factory/company setting. Are you part of safety, human resources, corporate? Is your superior someone that has medical experience? I am currently told to re...

Thanks for the responses. Who I report to has changed recently. It was more because I could not get any direction from my former boss unless he was randomly trying to micro-manage me. While health and safety co-exist, we have different functions. No...

I applied for a position at a factory and got called for a second interview. The first interview was at a company wide job fair and was very casual. The safety manager that interviewed me mentioned that he would like to have me meet with other person...

I recently started at a company and I am perplexed by the stuff employees get away with. I'm sure there is similar stuff everywhere but it's out of control where I work. There are little to no policies in place. People report injuries whenever they ...

For clarification: It's not necessarily related to work compensation insurance itself not state/federal laws, nor OSHS. I am looking for company policy examples. For example, right now we have a policy in place that says Employees must report injuri...

Don't forget factories in the occupational role. We are currently looking for an LPN at my company and having a hard time finding one!

I wish you could post this is a file.

Ah what stress that was! Got the job. Interviewing and negotiations are sooo stressful!

I am currently in the negotiation process of a job offer. Of note, my experience as a nurse is mostly critical care experience of 5 years and also school nursing. The job I am being offered is for a Occupational Health Nurse position for a large comp...

Thanks everyone for your responses! I truly appreciate them. The interview and negotiation process was something very stressful and unique. I eventually did get the salary I was negotiating for and that was after mentioning a lot of the same things...

I agree! I also was dealing with the idea of "anticipated overtime during busy season" and wasn't comfortable with it at the original salary they proposed. I talked with several people through 4 interviews and eventually it was my soon to be boss th...

I agree. I posted vaguely and tried to summarize what the general situation was. I need to make a point to them that it wasn't going to be less responsibility. I honestly think every nurse, no matter what position, has responsibility.

Sorry, I agree, I posted vaguely. After re-reading my post, I think that I was intending to say that I felt my responsibilities would not be less but of a different area of responsibility. They made the statement that they thought my responsibilitie...

What is happening when you are starting IVs? I was a phlebotomist prior to nursing and good at IV starts. The problem I see a lot is that some nurses can't feel the veins, they expect to see them.

Thanks for your response. The second interview was a long interview. I actually interviewed and then toured the plant. The company seemed receptive and enthusiastic. That interview was followed by a phone interview with an HR Talent Acquisition Mana...

Just registered to go. Going by myself

Do your preceptors ever do "what if scenarios" with you or "what would you do"? Get examples of 2 patients, then how they are doing, their problems. And maybe some critical things you need to see... like dec LOC or hypotension. And talk through how...

After working at my new job for over 6 months, today seemed to be the first day where I said to myself : "What the hell am I doing here, I need to start looking for a new job" First off, my background is that I worked in an ICU across the country for...

I worked at Renown for 3 years and I don't believe they hire new grads into the ER. However, they hire new grads into all other areas really including ICUs. They are known to be a suction device for new grads when other people won't hire them. So th...

I am about to resign effective immediately, however, I am in a completely different state and was considering emailing it to my manager. Normally I would not do that but family situations and circumstances are not allowing me to give it in person, al...

I am not interested in FMLA and have actually be looking for new jobs as well. It's a sign to me that I need to move on and be closer to my family at this time. I have one asst manager/nurse educator that has actually been aware for about a month n...

Thanks all for the input. I actually emailed to a friend and she is going to place a copy of it at work in the managers office. I will email it as well on Monday.

Actually I interviewed with an Aurora Grafton and they apparently love to play games. Kind of screwy, no... pathetic. I turned down their offer. Maybe Milwaukee Aurora's will be better but they all work together

Renown is starting to be uninterested in people that are from California and come to Reno for work... Why? Because they pay a lot of money to train them, invest in them and then, not even 6 months later they go back to California. So they got smart....

It helps to have your foot in the door of the facility first of all, as a CCT, CNA, whatever. Be opening to relocation. Express your desire to learn. Get critical care areas in clinicals.