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  1. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 3

    guest464345 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    I am very scrawny-armed, and a nursing student bounced off my humerus trying to give me a flu shot....she freaked out and froze with the needle still in my arm, then looked me in the eye and said "OH...

  2. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 2

    guest464345 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not discounting her experience, as I explicitly said. I believe that such a thing could happen. I am, as I also said, wondering about the motivation for writing and disseminating something in this...

  3. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 2

    guest464345 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

    1) That's not how MRI works 2) It's certainly possible for someone to get a shoulder injury from improper vaccine administration. If someone's so poorly trained that they manage to inject vaccine...

  4. Sick of floor nursing, what now?

    guest464345 replied to r0seRN's topic in Nursing Career

    +1 for Public Health/Community Health! My particular job might not be for you (it's an office job, in Epidemiology) but there are so many other options - home visits with new moms, nutrition...

  5. Do you miss bedside nursing?

    guest464345 replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    One measly hospital year, moved to public health, and will never look back! No interest in breaking my back to line the pockets of some CEO...no interest in 13 hours a day without eating or using the...

  6. What do you love about your job?

    guest464345 replied to sergel02's topic in Public, Community Health

    I love public health nursing for these reasons: 1) I have time - usually all the time I want/need, uninterrupted - to actually provide comprehensive education to my patients...a very stark contrast to...

  7. where else do ER nurses go?

    guest464345 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    I think you'd have lots of choices. Employers seem to hold ER nurses in high regard. It seems that ex-ER nurses do split off between the two dramatically different areas already named....procedural...

  8. New Grad switching from ICU to Health Department internal conflicts

    guest464345 replied to LiveHappyLiveHealthy's topic in Public, Community Health

    Glad it was helpful. You know, a year later I think I'm *still* trying to make sense of my experiences in acute care....until I got out of there, I did not realized how much it was messing me up....

  9. Is a Master's in Public Health a good return on investment?

    guest464345 replied to ForeverDreaming's topic in Public, Community Health

    I work in a county public health department, and none of the nurses in our area have MPHs. Some nursing supervisors and a couple of staff nurses have MSNs....the rest of us are BSNs. The...

  10. ER nurse here, so what do you do as PH nurse?

    guest464345 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Public, Community Health

    Sorry to not respond for so long....I work for a county public health department, a large urban/suburban

  11. New Grad switching from ICU to Health Department internal conflicts

    guest464345 replied to LiveHappyLiveHealthy's topic in Public, Community Health

    If you get the job offer, take it - are you kidding me? Negotiate a start date at the new job that allows you to give appropriate notice, cheerfully work your notice period, be professional....and...

  12. New Grad- quit current job to pursue PHN?

    guest464345 replied to sv714's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I gritted my teeth through a year of hospital nursing, with many of the same thoughts and feelings you've experienced. Got a job in public health (epidemiology, very cool) one year ago, and I can't...

  13. Got my first ever RN job, need advice afraid I forgot all my clinical skills.

    guest464345 replied to carebear1980's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I went to a fancy brand-name accelerated in-person BSN program, and I basically had zero hospital skills when I graduated. I had never once placed an IV...some people got a chance in clinicals, some...

  14. BSN Student Needing interview with Public Health nurse

    guest464345 replied to Dhicks11's topic in Public, Community Health

    Hi there - Just FYI, most nurses on here won't answer student interview questions like this....the idea being that these assignments are generally supposed to put you in touch with live humans in...

  15. Leaving at 6 months in?

    guest464345 replied to slippersocks's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I can understand this point of view....somewhat. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but it seems to me that hospitals factor in new-grad turnover (and nurse turnover generally) as part of the cost of doing...

  16. Leaving at 6 months in?

    guest464345 replied to slippersocks's topic in First Year After Licensure

    A lot of nursing school instructors will mention how bad it is to look like a "job-hopper"....and a lot of nursing school instructors have been away from the bedside for 10 or 20 years. In the...

  17. UNC hospitals

    guest464345 replied to Kbandy426's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Well there you go, OP....your mileage may vary. The pay is an objective fact, but other stuff gets fuzzier when you try to compare, even if you ask questions during interviews. In my unit (a...

  18. UNC hospitals

    guest464345 replied to Kbandy426's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I haven't worked in the Raleigh/Durham area for about 1.5 years (and when I did, I was a new grad)....but generally, I think UNC is highly regarded by nurses. UNC and Rex likely have the highest pay;...

  19. Nursing beyond the bedside-for new grads? Help!

    guest464345 replied to LillyFish's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My advice is, gut out eight or ten months of the dreaded 'new grad year,' and start applying for jobs that interest you. Home health, public health, school nursing, research nursing, case management,...

  20. Is it possible to get the holidays off?

    guest464345 replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    Public health....pay is lower, but the coworkers are great and we get 10 paid

  21. Public Health RN job outlook?

    guest464345 replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Public, Community Health

    I've occasionally read posts on this site from folks saying they never worked in a hospital & were hired directly into public health. I feel your pain - I did not love working in a hospital...

  22. Low nurse wages in Health Department - worth it?

    guest464345 replied to Marshall1's topic in Public, Community Health

    I have a desk job (in Epidemiology, mostly disease investigations) but our arrangement is similar to vickymarie's. I thought at first that I would miss the three day workweeks....I do miss the 5- and...

  23. ICU Burnout

    guest464345 replied to Iliauna's topic in Nursing Career

    I just told my husband over dinner this evening (dinner that we were having like normal people, at a normal hour, because I had plenty of energy after work to put on nice clothes and go linger over...

  24. ER nurse here, so what do you do as PH nurse?

    guest464345 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Public, Community Health

    Hope you get the job! Keep us posted

  25. ER nurse here, so what do you do as PH nurse?

    guest464345 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Public, Community Health

    PS - good luck on your interview