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1. Narcotic drugs drips/PCA 2. Heparin drip 3. Blood products 4. Chemotherapy 5. Insulin drip

Yes, you need to be employed with a minimum of 6+ months oncology experience to take Chemotherapy & Biotherapy basic 2 day course. For a 3 day course with Practicum you'll need 1 yr experience, IV cert, knowledge how to access ports (vascular access devices). Here is sample: http://www.fccc.edu/docs/healthProfessionals/continuingNursingEducation/fa08-chemo.pdf Good luck!

There are plenty of jobs! Abington Memorial Hospital has a hiring freeze right now. In November of this year they bought Warminster Hospital and had offered the available jobs to Warminster hospital nurses and staff. Warminster hospital will now only have ambulatory services, all other units are shut down. It never hurts to apply there ( Abington) anyway even if the job you want is not listed! And there are tons of jobs available at other hospitals! Good luck!

Jefferson online http://www.jefferson.edu/jchp/nursing/rnbsnonl.cfm Penn State online http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/BachelorinNursing.shtml Drexel online http://www.drexel.com/online-degrees/nursing-degrees/rn-bsn/index.aspx

I don't believe it matters which school you graduate from, but the hiring facility may look at your GPA if you don't have any nursing work experience. If the smaller, closer to home school has decent nursing program and good % passing boards I would definetely pick that one. Keep in mind that nursing school is damn hard work and if you have to commute each single day 90 minutes each way, you'll be too tired to study! Having smaller classes/groups for classes and clinicals also means it'll be more personalized and easier to seek help if you need it. Good luck!

Well said! same here and maybe pleasantly confused (just not the ones who are pleasantly ringing call bell every minute) :roll

No bonuses, ever. Actually, I do recall getting something at my first job out of school : $1 gift certificate to McDonald's..I kept it for show and tell, otherwise no one believes me :rotfl:

Eastern Europe

In Europe most schools allow graduation finishing only 8 grades so at age 15-16 they can enter either workworkce or start technical school. Age 16 is considered young adult in Europe. By 20 most girls are married already.

If you use laptop when traveling you'll need a wireless notebook card ( the one we use is from Linksys). You can use it for wireless connections in pretty much all internet cafe and now a lot of hotels are catching up and starting to use routers to allow wireless connections. Few weeks ago my husband and I went away on vacation and took our laptop with us...not really hoping to use it for internet, but my husband ended up receiving signal from a nearby hotel that provided free wireless connection so we had free internet all our vacation :) Here is a link for some info how to find the spots with wireless connection: http://www.intel.com/personal/howto/dhg_hotspots.htm

Agree. Learning new experiences and meeting new challanges what makes my job rewarding for me. I can't imagine how rewarding it can be working on those special VIP floors.

:balloons: congrats tweety !!!!! :smiley_aa

I can imagine your concern! Few years ago I found myself in my 1st trimester pregnacy taking care of prostate cancer pt who had radiation seeds (I found that out by reading his chart and not from a nurse giving me report) I was terrified! So here are some info for you: For prostate cancer pt. w/ radiation seeds they use Iodine-125 and Palladium-103 , low energy radioactive materials that lose their radioactivity quickly. The radiation levels around patient are very low and fairly safe for most people. The only major precautions are that you should avoid prolonged physical contact with pregnant women and young children (such as holding them or having them sit on your lap) for six months following the I-125 implant or for three months after the Pd-103 implant. Here is a link for more details on this. http://www.kcc.tju.edu/RadOnc/brachy/saf.htm I hope this helps!

Per diem is great, but only is you are planning on it temporary. While the pay is great and you make your own schedule, there are no benefits. So do consider if you want : to buy medical coverage somewhere else, no vacation (or vacation without pay),no sick time, no 401/403 retirement plan contribution from your work. If you do per diem for your specific floor, you still will be in charge only because you have more experience. Probably doing agency or local travel assignments are better option for you as you'll get good hours, high pay and all the benefits.

While I have not worked there for 2+ yrs, I can say their rates are always the highest in the region. Benefits are really good too. But parking pretty expensive...UPenn's 2 closest garages used to cost $15 and $11 per day...maybe it's different now. Their rates are great if you live in a walking distance :) gas + parking should be taken in consideration. Good luck!