mikesinger

Yeah baby. That's because you're cool as ice.

Our ER is high turnover and hires no experience ASN new grads. Depends on if they like you. Helps if you did your clinicals there. ASN: best in clinical. BSN: shuffles paper really, really well. MSN: knows how to attend meetings.

I've been offered the job after my interview, went home and waited for the call from HR... and waited... finally days later I called back and got the preemptive middleman, who said they decided to go with someone else. Thanks, I guess, for wasting my time. Long story short, and to be unfortunately blunt: it's an employer's market right now. They have a lot of applicants and use the same words on most of them. They forget you, or they're thinking of you then after 4 more interviews they may hire someone and forget to send out rejection letters or call you. Actually they'll never call unless they want you. Letters are better for rejections. And references? Seriously? I never check those, and I rarely read your letters of recommendation. Why should I call someone you know who will tell me what a nice person you are? I doubt they're "checking references," they're more likely keeping you on the hook while they interview more people. As soon as they start interviewing, all of a sudden coworkers come out of the woodwork- "You need a nurse? Hey my husband's sister/cousin/twin is looking for a job and he's experienced/a new grad/a friend of Doctor Palooka. Sometimes too, I like you, but I have other interviews set up. Then someone else just like you comes in and I have to basically flip a coin. Then I get busy and forget to tell you that I liked you and I'm not going to hire you. Don't wait for the call. If they want you, they'll let you know before you grow a long white beard. Keep looking, you're wasting time. And they're wasting your time too.

I really, really hope you have the guts to leave nursing and are not just venting. I work with too many nurses like you, who hate their work, who are always complaining about the patient, the family, the mean doctor, the aide who isn't helping enough or not right there so you have to get off your own behind, of the other nurses/shifts who leave you stuff to do. Your whiny type makes for a long and frustrating day. I'm betting many of your coworkers look at who is on that day and are depressed from seeing your name, especially if you're down the same hall. Please- find another job, or go work an office for some doctor. Acute care needs better people, people who don't reminisce about their GPA. Wow actual work is more than reading Beowulf, who knew.

This is eerily similar to a post yesterday that didn't go over so well. I'm not sure I'll be taking this one seriously.

I work on an oncology floor. The nurses I work with are kind of banding together to insist that the chemotherapy be rotated to different nurses. They feel it's a health hazard to be hanging chemo all the time ( some think they get all the chemo patients); management says it's a medication and we should assume we'll be hanging chemo when we come to work- after all, it's an oncology floor. So they don't feel the need to rotate it (although they do), and they don't see why they have to have another list of who did what when. So who is right? I'm particularly interested in hearing from other oncology nurses. You wear protective gear right, and in the old days nobody did. Is that enough? Are the nurses I work with being unreasonable? Thank you.