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I was looking at this program, mainly for the cost. $250 a credit hour and includes books. My friend is earning a degree in Intelligence and Terrorism from there and seems to really enjoy the school, via that program. It is a new program, maybe ...

Does anyone have any thoughts on working for a contractor as nurse on the American base in Afghanistan? My friend who is an electrical contractor recently went to tbe clinic for sutures, and I have been looking into nursing there. Has anyone done t...

I am at my 3 year mark and I am done with the floor. What resources do I use to find a non-hospital job? I have looked on Monster.com and Craigslist, but those can't be the only jobs out there. I live in one of the largest metro area of the countrie...

I would also like to add that pregnant nurses are the worst to work with, "Oh I cant take that patient. Oh i cant turn my patient." If you can't physically do the job, its time to go on short term disability.

Employers are sneaky and sometimes unethical. The only reason to ever release any information is if the patient personally requests it. My mom called out sick due to chest pain and ended up having a heart cath. Never telling her employer where she w...

Plain and simple, you hire someone based on their ability to do a job. As a fat cardiac nurse, I sometimes feel hypocritical, but I also know that as a fat patient, I am way more likely to tune out the fit and trim nurse's weight loss lectures becau...

Haha you can totally tell I just got off of night shift with that post. What was going on in my head was... I had considered contracting previously, but never got anywhere with it. My friend, who is currently another type of contractor, recently got...

I don't understand why nurses as a whole cannot work together and educate the public about the ills of hospital life. If there is public outrage over how thin nurses are spread and how dangerous it actually is, we can see change in the work place. I...

I have 15k from an adn, but I only worked 20hrs a week at $7/hr so most of that was living expenses. My program was around 6k. Its not hard to live with.

Being a CNA was the first job I ever loved, that's why I went into nursing. I love what I do, but hate the politics of nursing/ hospital life. I can promise you if you don't like nursing now, you will never like it. It won't be worth the paycheck ...

I am going to be honest and say that I kind of glazed over and stopped reading your resume. I second the opinion that it needs to be quick and easy to read, consider how many resumes HR people look at and most of them probably just get a quick scan....

In the Washington DC area, the only place you will be hired with an ADN is at Washington Hospital Center. Period. And I am pretty certain that the only reason I got in, is that I came with cardiac experience. They aren't hiring ADN new grads at all,...

1. DC 2. 3.5 3. Cath lab 4. $30.03/hr 5. I honestly can't remember the differential. I think its 20% for night and $5 for weekends. 6. Unionized, mandatory by city law. Dues are 2.5x hourly wage/monthly. Studio apartment in decent building acros...

I am just curious, how many cath labs out there staff with one nurse and two techs? Do you feel safe?

I am not certain how networking gets you your first nursing job. The only person I graduated with that got a job from networking was a girl who was a waitress and she just so happened to do a great job while waiting on a nurse manager of a CV unit. ...

Another option for a clinical site may be a daycare for special needs children. I spent a day with babies with peg tubes and other issues that required specialized daycare. It was by far the best day I had during nursing school. I rocked a baby with...

Plus its the best way to be hired when you graduate. I tell everyone who tells me they are in nursing school.

The last time I was able to fluff and buff my patients was a night when I miraculously had 3 patients. For one particular patient, I was able to rub lotion on his itchy back not once but twice. The lost art is 100% to be blamed on the financial bot...

You know what's funny about the prefilled saline syringes? I have now worked in two facilities where you cannot find a 10mL vial of saline anywhere. So basically the hospital encourages this use of the prefilled syringes. Cutting corners at its fines...

I think in theory, nursing unions are great. I feel that they are key in pushing important things like patient ratios into public spotlight. However, I feel that in my hospital's case, there are a lot of trouble makers. I have no problem with our me...

As a new grad in North Florida, 2 years ago, I was making 21.84/hr in a CCU. I was working for the 2nd best payer in the city, my friend who worked in PICU had been a nurse for 6 years before she broke 22/hr. Its a true story, the pay stinks. But, a...

I have always thought that if it is not your patient's chart, you cannot legally be in it, unless you are rendering some type of care ie. passing a med to help another nurse catch up, starting an IV, etc. At previous institutions, particularly a ver...

That chart is not really accurate given your years of experience. With a year more than you I make around 65k a year, give or take a couple thousand. That's not including overtime. I live in a suburb, which is Metro accessible, I haven't driven in th...

Google the Union contract between the nurses and whc, on the last pages it gives you the salary range for whc according to experience level, which probably translates to all medstar facilities. DC does not pay as well as you think for full time RNs....