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Just wondering what Johnson and Johnson gets out of promoting the idea of a nursing shortage, promoting nursing as a wonderful career, and carrying on with their cutesy little music videos. Are they just generous people? Is it for PR? What do you...

Many threads on this forum have dealt with the idea that hospitals lose a lot of money when a new graduate RN takes a position, goes through orientation, and then quits after six months to a year. There have even been reports of hospitals who requir...

In and around Syracuse NY, hospitals are eager to scoop up new grad RNs whether you are associate or bachelor degree prepared. Just throwing this out there for people who are interested in relocating. They are hiring like crazy, especially the hos...

People keep talking about how 1 year of experience will open up the job market to you in a huge way. I often do see job postings that ask for 1 year RN experience or 1 year acute care experience. But my question is, how strict is that requirement t...

That seems odd, robinson. I have never seen an employer use hours of work to determine your experience. They usually just ask how long you were employed. To nurseeducate, sometimes people are forced to take jobs that are less desirable or jobs t...

I agree, to be sure. Would never trash a prior place of employment publically or to a future employer.

The only other hospital in the city itself is Community General. That and the ones I listed are pretty much most of the hospitals in Syracuse, if not all of them!

TB is not as scary as it seems, truly. To get an active infection, it requires chronic exposure to somebody or to multiple infected people in very crowded areas, like in a refugee camp. Multiple exposures are required. Even if you didn't wear a mas...

I just graduated from an ADN program in May and passed boards and I am enrolled in an RN BSN program. I want to go full time and just get it over with. But on the other hand, I am 24 years old and have no real work history. So my dilemma is if I s...

Yeah, decided to take the full time job. Will do BSN part time on the side.

Getting an MSN without experience is odd.

Already passed boards. I would try to look for a job in the area I want to live in, closer to my family. I would be happy with LTC, if I can find it.

I can't even count how many times I've witnessed RNs, LPNs, and CNAs all writing in vital signs that they didn't take. Often they just use the previous set of vital signs and maybe change a few numbers.

The thing is I really hate the areas where the jobs are. One is very rural, about an hour from a small city and about 5 hours from anywhere substantial. I won't know anybody there. :/

A combination of reasons. I decided late in the year to go to nursing school and an ADN program was the only location still admitting people in my area. Otherwise I would have gone into a BSN program. I also had a lot of pre-reqs to take that the ...

Okay, but I do already have a couple of job offers from hospitals. I am thinking of forgoing them in order to continue my BSN full time. Part of that is because I don't like the areas of the facilities.

Most RN to BSN programs don't have a clinical component. How would places be able to offer an online RN to BSN program if there were clinicals? The exception are those that have like a 45 hour volunteer component.

All interesting views. I know orientation times differ from facility to facility, and especially are prolonged in specialty areas for new grads, but what would you estimate is the minimum time required to see a return on the investment in general me...

Sure! Crouse, Saint Josephs, Upstate Medical Center are within the city of Syracuse. Surrounding ones are Oneida, Oswego, Rome hospitals, all easily commutable from the city!

I don't think it's totally bad. But J&J tries to steer people into diving into nursing. A lot of people don't believe that the nursing shortage exists, or at least that it isn't so dire that the profession would benefit from the way J&J seem...

If I'm not mistaken, J&J is a pharmaceutical developer, isn't it?

I was thinking the same thing. Wondered if anybody had evidence of this?

Sounds like your boss really needs to get a life.

Is anyone sure that she is actively bleeding? I know her H&H is low, but how is her apetite? If she is getting chemo and radiation, my guess might be "not good." Her bone marrow is suppressed from her cancer treatments too, I would imagine. Al...