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looking for work has 15 years experience and specializes in med/surg/tele/LTC/homecare/correctional/.

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1. recently let go of a job

   looking for work replied to Starseed6389's topic in General Nursing

   Roser13, I am not trying to squash anyone, or destroy their optimism. I am just hoping to save one person from the holy hell that has become nursing. I was a second career nurse, coming from the...

2. Nightmare on Night Shift

   looking for work replied to Happynurse2222's topic in General Nursing

   JulesA, The nursing profession has one of the highest turnover/ burn out rates when compared to other career choices. In my area alone, there are faciltiies that have a 100% turnover every 6 months,...

3. Feeling VERY Incompetent

   looking for work replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

   ummm sorry roser13, but I am a realist, not a cheerleader at a pep rally. I had no access to these internet comment forums when I made the decision to go to nursing school. Wish I had. My decision was...

4. recently let go of a job

   looking for work replied to Starseed6389's topic in General Nursing

   Obviously you have not been in this field long enough to see that it truly is all about money, any way you choose to fry it. I have seen and heard thousands of stories and examples of great nurses...

5. Feeling VERY Incompetent

   looking for work replied to kyfitch's topic in General Nursing

   Hi kyfitch...years ago I was in nursing school and the clinical rotations were basically a huge waste of time. The nurses on the units refused to allow us to do anything meaningful, and we were...

6. recently let go of a job

   looking for work replied to Starseed6389's topic in General Nursing

   Hello Johnathan. I have been an RN for many years and have experienced many negatives, such as you have. First, since being a nurse, I worked in hospitals, nursing homes, a jail, rehabs, surgical...

7. Nightmare on Night Shift

   looking for work replied to Happynurse2222's topic in General Nursing

   Honestly JulesA? The practice of floating should be completely voluntary for the nurse and never , ever, ever for a brand new nurse, even if she wanted to float. Floating is just another term for a...

8. Nightmare on Night Shift

   looking for work replied to Happynurse2222's topic in General Nursing

   Oh my, I see nothing has changed from the days I used to work in a hospital. I hate to be negative for you, but I see the hospital has no respect for you as a nurse, and likely has a revolving door of...

9. Quitting job, attempted to call to meet face to face, sent email. Is this acceptable?

   looking for work replied to bear94's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   I happen to think that giving two weeks notice (while professional and admirable) is a practice that went out the window, and is about as existent now as the curly cord wall phone. In most of my...

10. Getting Discouraged

    looking for work replied to Jen51685's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Jen. Just some advice to you from a friendly observer who also had a career in accounting and switched over to nursing. All I can tell you, is from my own perspective, I made a huge mistake. I too...

11. Will there ever be a surplus of nursing jobs again?!

    looking for work replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in General Nursing

    I happen to think that the "shortage" was nothing but contrived media propaganda in the late 1990s, which was hyped up by our government, depts of labor and industry, hospitals and nursing homes,...

12. STARTING SALARY FOR NURSING HOME RNs?

    looking for work replied to andreaf.rn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

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13. Nurses Eating Their Young

    looking for work replied to Doc Lori, R.N.'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One of the things that I never understood was why these "precepting nurses" are allowed to continue down a path of emarassing, humiliating, and chastising new hires. In most of my experience, the...

14. Nurses Eating Their Young

    looking for work replied to Doc Lori, R.N.'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Every precepting experience I had was horrible. Hospitals are really the only places that do this, which is why I dont work in them anymore. In fact, I made it clear in an interview once that I refuse...

15. Do nurses get fired often?

    looking for work replied to queenjulie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have also noticed that the false "nursing shortage " propaganda helped to foster this environment of frequent firing. The more nurses there are, the quicker all nurses become a dime a dozen....