RuthieRN

Found it! Do a search for groups with the criteria "Frontier 121" :)

I have to fly, coming from the West coast...flight times are not great, looks like I will have to stay over in Lexington...

Accepted! See you all in December! Good luck!

No news yet...I think I suffer a mild panic attack each time my email notification goes off! Lol

A response to a query of the Frontier Facebook page said "very very soon!" So maybe tomorrow?:) Here's hoping!

Week seven, hopefully this week?

One week of waiting down...no news yet...

Looks like 120 has heard....We are next!

It seems like it has been forever since I mailed the application! I predict it will be closer to six weeks away from Frontier bound for the FNP class and 7 Weeks for the midwives. I agree with you all about the crazy waiting game! At least we should know by Halloween!

I have applied for 121 FNP. The wait has been very long and I can't believe that it is October! Here's hoping and praying!

I would be leery of any job that made you pay for them to train you. A few years back I was hired into a level 1 trauma training program that paid you for your classroom and clinical time, (which meant you had the job, who's gonna train someone and then not hire them????) and the hospital had a hiring bonus. I would find a place that wants you to work for them, not have you pay for the privilage to work there.....:stone

ER folks are always up for a practical joke....The fallopian tube one was new to me though... We had a trauma surgeon once that would always leave his keys laying around the ER and then run in looking for them after he had done his rounds. One night the tech decided to "cast" his keys, he put them into a ball of wrapped plaster and let it harden. We drew a little happy face on it and set it on the counter and waited. he showed up about 2 hours later wanting to know if anyone had seen his keys. We all stopped what we were doing and looked at the rock hard blob on the counter....The look on his face was priceless... he had to get the saw out to get to his keys.... At my new hospital the doc loves to play jokes, I am just waiting for him to leave his car keys somewhere.....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! 2nd time was the charm you big RN you.....I am very happy to hear that you passed on your second time, give yourself a pat on the back for going through that awful experience twice..... (taking the test I mean) :balloons: :rotfl: Yay!!

It is scary to think that there are nurses out there that feel that new grads are idiots and do not belong in specialties (see eating our young thread:o ).... I agree that the new grad is usually more willing to ask a question rather than the seasoned nurse. That question could save a life, especially in the NICU where even the smallest intervention, like the trendelenberg no no, can be deadly. I certainly would not want any nurse with that opinion as a preceptor...Ruthie

What is it with confused little old men and the O2 sat probe? I had one ask the respiratory therapist (we were both at the bedside) "What would happen if you stuck that on my D***?" The repiratory therapist calmly replied "Well, I would have to wash it a whole bunch of times!" We got a good laugh out of that at the nurses station.

OMG!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I'll bet you guys were rolling on the floor, I know I was....thanks for the laugh!

Hello! 12 hour shifts are not bad, once you get used to them an 8 hour shift is nothing! haha. In my hospital we work either 6am-6pm or the reverse. I work three days in a row and then have four off. Some of my co-workers work six days in a row and then have eight off. When I worked in the ER we had twelve hour shifts in all kinds of hours 7-7, 9-9, 11-11, 1-1, 3-3, and 7-7. I think that they are becoming more popular, especially in rural hospitals. Ruthie:)

I guess that most of you plan on working PM or night shift when you are done with school??? Stick with it, getting up early is the least of your challenges that you will face as a nurse... Good Luck, Ruthie

My vote is for 11-11 or 3-3 at my old job in a level 1 trauma center...you RAN for 12 hours straight......

Don't feel stupid...It is always scary to pack up everything, move to a strange town where you don't know anyone, and take on a strange job as a spanky new RN. Any one of these tasks would be hard on their own and you are the brave person to take them all on at once. Yay you!!! I think that you should follow your dream to become an L&D nurse, sometimes our dreams take us to new and scary places, but you can never go wrong if you are doing what you truly love. Your stress is doing the talking for you now. I recently left the city I had lived in all my life to relocate to a rural town in northern California. I was scared silly too. But once you get over the stress of moving and give it a shot, I'll bet you wont be sorry. Think of all the cool things you are going to learn and get to see. You will also be gaining something that is more valuable than gold in the nursing profession, experience. With experience you get to call the shots. Once you have that you can work anywhere you want. I hope that this helps...your family and friends will still love you no matter where you live...and California isn't so bad, I promise (LOL) :) Good luck to you! Ruthie

Pregnancy is not an illness, tell that lazy nurse on your floor to get off her duff or go home! As for the holiday/weekend thing, thats part of being a nurses so she needs to get over it and stop being such a prima donna.....sheesh!:angryfire

Hi! I agree with the other posters that your Mum needs to consult another doctor right away and have her counts checked if she is feeling so lousy. Does she have fibroids??? My mother had a similar problem about 6 years ago and had a terrible time getting it diagnosed. She eventually had a hysterectomy and has been totally pleased with the results... Hope your Mum feels better, I am sure you will take good care of her.... Ruthie:)

I just love ER and clinic nursing....it keeps me on my toes and I am always learning something new....Ruthie

In my ADN class the oldest nursing student was 58, so you should definetely follow your bliss, your paramedic experience will be so needed in the nursing field! Especially if you want to work ER! Maybe you and your wife could be travelling nurses before you retire, I have a friend who does that with her husband and they have been all over and looove it....Good luck to you! Ruthie

The hospital I work in is actually in northern California (haha), I have been told that we are the smallest rural hospital in California, I guess I can believe it.... We do have a doctor in town, so I guess its not quite as isolated as the nursing stations, we can run labs and take X-rays, but if it is more serious than that, they get flown (too far for copters) to bigger hospitals, about a three hour drive in any direction....The other night (0300) we had a huge anterior wall MI come in the door ("I have chest pain because I sleep with the window open at night..."). It was exciting to run your own labs and take a chest X-ray, stabilize him, etc while we waited for the plane to land at our tiny airport a mile down the road...you definetely wear many hats as a rural nurse. I am excited for you to get the oppoutunity to work at one of the stations, that sounds like a lot of fun!!! Do you have to fly in if there are no roads?-Ruthie