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Any updates? This Avenue of app development sounds interesting!!

I have always loved art and creative outlets growing up and wondered if it has a place in nursing? I won't be a bedside nurse forever. I was thinking of maybe nurse educator creating sims/lessons etc and nurse researcher writing papers and creating ...

I've been a bedside nurse for over 5 years. 1 year endoscopy, 1 year med/surg/tele, 3.5 years acute rehab and just 3 months into iicu AND I HATE BEDSIDE NURSING! I feel like 3 months is too early to gain any meaningful nursing experience but I feel l...

Congrats on the plunge! I took the exam. ALOT of percentages and statistics.... the exam was written for any scope of practice so it will not be NCLEX questions or even remotely medically intensive. I studied for a month, very casually. Hope you have...

I work in an inpatient acute rehab unit in a hospital. Ive been told many times from many hospitals we are more sub-acute and do not really have the acute care experience needed for other floors. I beg to differ. We get alot of the same patients! I ...

When i was a new grad i shadowed and volunteered as an RN in a bunch of places that i HATED. I would drag myself at work everyday and try REALLY HARD to find something that interested me. It got to the point where i became really technical and became...

i feel the exact same way. its worse somedays and then some days i dont think about it at all and just have fun! I am a may '10 grad and about a year later i stumbled upon a new grad program... now i havent gotten any hours for MONTHS... i am a new g...

I worked as new grad registry and i did get less pay then regular registries, no benefits, weird hours, and less orientation. you do get the "harder" patients but think of them as an experience. being a new grad everything is overwhelming but thats ...

I never saw tattoos on nurses till i went to an SF hospital. WOW! sleeves, necks and arms? oh my! coolest thing i saw in nursing school.

i went to a job fair at a hospital for "employees only" even though I was not affiliated with them. Turns out i was late and most of the places were packed up and gone with about only 4 or so left cleaning up. I asked the receptionist if there were a...

5 months after my boards. 11 months after graduating. im from CA

South Bay isn't good either... or should i just say the whole bay area has too many new grad nurses bc there are just so many nursing schools here?! I have been looking persistently to stay in the bay but looking for jobs is really hard here

i had the same situation. try to email/call/walk in to sister clinics or branches. you might have to drive a little further but maybe someone at those facilities can direct you to a personal email/contact. otherwise i say find other places to volun...

I currently have a total hour requirement with my job and I am just about halfway through. The contract says that my employer has the power to fire me but no where does it say I have the power to leave at any time or that there are penalties for leav...

Thanks for the insight. This is my first contract and since there was no mention of penalizing me for leaving i was just running it by other nurses for their insight. I do not intend to quit just wondering if there was a loophole if i acquired a 2nd ...

I came across a RN job on craigslist one day and sent my tweeked generic coverletter + resume as usual. The ad didn't say anything about new grads, experience or the company. didn't think much of it just another job ad. Few weeks later I get an email...

i am a new grad and i got my first job with a registry. They had a program set up so that i could get orientation and a short preceptorship. I guess I was lucky to find a registry that would do that for a new grad... however, without a proper orienta...

UPDATE!! IM ALIVE! turns out the company is under scrutiny by the law. im talking company name changes, malpractice, and pt. deaths.... multiple times. NO WONDER they would not openly share this information during the interviews. Question. I know i...

met a girl at an interview the other day and she said suburban NY has alot of new grad possibilities.. as for the bay... ive been out a year and a half with the luck of landing in a new grad program (sorry no new openings). but i still apply to hospi...

my first job was a new grad in a registry and let me tell you.... its hard business when ur new and even HARDER when ur a registry. my most important advice to you is to 1)make sure they give you good training. your company knows you are still a new...

ive been offered $32-35 in both clinic and hospital settings here in the Bay area. (for clinical nurse I and in a new grad program)