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

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

    Sure. The basic idea of the job is this: your patient is really the whole community....your goal is to prevent or contain the spread of disease. Three of the main job functions are: 1)...

  2. How does your ED address the Observation Unit?

    guest464345 replied to RAWells61's topic in Emergency

    The ED where I worked had an Obs unit, and it was considered part of the ED. Used the same charting system, somewhat different Pyxis setup, and sometimes phlebotomy would draw labs....we all had to...

  3. What is your ER policy for lunch breaks?

    guest464345 replied to emergency_love's topic in Emergency

    I worked in an ED (busy, urban, level I) where we almost always took lunches - the hospital automatically deducted 30 minutes from your punch times, and I'd be damned if I was going to donate 90...

  4. Emotionally tired

    guest464345 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Health, Stress Management

    You know what you need to do, KalipsoRed....at a minimum, get out of the hospital. For me it was like seeing the sun after two years of clouds every day. You might find that you want to stay in the...

  5. Returning to the bedside..not such a good idea afterall

    guest464345 replied to Marshall1's topic in Health, Stress Management

    You're welcome, flying_ace. I also went to nursing school after another career, and i think that's part of the reason I bailed out of bedside nursing so quickly: I'm not 22, I know that most jobs...

  6. disease surveillance nurse in public health...CIC eligible?

    guest464345 posted a topic in Infectious Disease

    This may be a dumb question, but after reading the CBIC's website I'm still not sure....would work as a public health disease surveillance nurse be considered adequate experience to qualify for the...

  7. Is it just me or.....? Warning! This is long.

    guest464345 replied to FrogluvRn's topic in Nursing Career

    "I feel like I'm in a race " - yep, that's how I felt too. Why would you feel bad about leaving bedside nursing? You've put in plenty of time, done plenty of work. I switched to public health and...

  8. Returning to the bedside..not such a good idea afterall

    guest464345 replied to Marshall1's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I made it exactly one year in hospital nursing. I thought I knew what I was getting into, but I had no idea. When I found another job and quit, I figured that sooner or later I'd start worrying about...

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

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

    Hi again - I got this job with only one year of nursing/hospital experience. I didn't have public health experience as an RN, but I came from a related previous career (social work) and am bilingual...

  10. MCH Interview but no experience

    guest464345 replied to kathym1971's topic in Public, Community Health

    Look carefully at the job description - usually they are very detailed for government jobs - and think in advance about how your experience gave you the knowledge, skills and abilities they're looking...

  11. Hospitals in AZ

    guest464345 replied to OUxPhys's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Only can speak from personal, anecdotal experience. I have heard nothing but negative things from nurses who worked in their hospitals. And, I routinely read medical records from a bunch of Valley...

  12. Hospitals in AZ

    guest464345 replied to OUxPhys's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Major operations here are: Mayo, Banner, Dignity Health, Abrazo, Honor Health (recent merger, comprised of the former Scottsdale Health hospitals and the John C Lincoln facilities) Mayo pays the most...

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

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

    I'm a former ER nurse working in public health....I have a 9-5 desk job, patient contact only by phone, all evenings/weekends/holidays off, humane pace, a regular-type job, wonderful nerdy coworkers....

  14. Why bother with MPH?

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

    In my area, RN seems like a better choice in public health....we make more money than MPH's with the same job duties (e.g. disease investigations), and we have more flexibility because we can choose...

  15. Did I make the right choice?

    guest464345 replied to peachnurse22's topic in Public, Community Health

    I switched from the ED (level one trauma center) to public health and I LOOOVE it

  16. NO continuing ed requirement??

    guest464345 posted a topic in Arizona Nursing

    I was licensed in another compact state originally, and moved here at the end of 2014. I just attended a conference that offered CE credit for RN's, and I was organizing my paperwork afterward. One...

  17. Question re: Health Dept. hours

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

    In our department we do punch in and out (we are hourly, not salaried....I'm a county employee, the county hospital nurses are hourly, and we're all in the same job category). We have some...

  18. Working at health dept with no ped experience?

    guest464345 replied to Weary1's topic in Public, Community Health

    In our department, there are quite a few PHN jobs that are family/peds focused (Nurse Family Partnership, for instance) - but also quite a few that are focused on adults (TB clinic, healthcare for...

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

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

    In my department we are strictly FORBIDDEN from working OT except in the rare case of some special project, and then it's strictly voluntary. I suspect this is true in most county and state jobs...

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

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

    In my area a newish hospital RN (not a new grad, but maybe a year or two of experience) would make $29ish base plus differentials, and a public health nurse with the same experience would make about...

  21. Relocating during 1st year

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

    I had nearly your exact situation...left my first job eight months in, relocating to another state for a spouse's opportunity. It was fine, I got another job, the world didn't end. My advice is, keep...

  22. Duke Nursing, how do I pay for it !!!

    guest464345 replied to cje1015's topic in General Nursing

    I went to Duke's ABSN. It's a nice school and all; I mostly had a good experience and met some great people. I'm not sorry I went, but I would not enslave myself to a huge loan payment for the...

  23. Desperately needing some guidance...

    guest464345 replied to sjh4120's topic in Public, Community Health

    Side note - holy cow OP! What are the odds that you would get responses from not only two public health nurses, but specifically two epidemiology nurses (me and

  24. Desperately needing some guidance...

    guest464345 replied to sjh4120's topic in Public, Community Health

    I think the RNJedi makes some good points, although I am likely more cynical about hospitals (after working in hospitals for many years, as a nurse and in other roles). The hospital will take care of...

  25. Time Management Woes!

    guest464345 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in First Year After Licensure

    For what it's worth (I just finished one year of hospital experience myself, not an expert), this is what I did: I started coming in 30-40 minutes early to look up my patients. This was the only way...