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I am a SANE and that is completely unacceptable for your manager or even your department to think that your job duties as an ER RN include SAFE. You did the right thing. Your experience in the past is no one's business at work. I wish you well and...

I really appreciate this topic because I am dealing with crying at my job as a nurse. Thank you all for putting out great tips and ideas-extremely helpful. I cried two times during nursing clinicals-two very sad cases. The first time I was able to ...

Hey everyone, I am asking for what your thoughts are on this conversation I had with a psychiatrist on staff the other day. Background-I work in a community clinic that sees people from Behavioral Health to General Medicine to HIV Primary Care. I am...

You all are cracking me UP! Oh I sooo remember finding my first nursing job! I feel for you and suggest plasma centers, blood banks, dialysis centers (sometimes), community health clinics in your area or a more rural area where you could commute? I...

I have recently been put on an eligibility list for a potential interview for a RN position in DCF through Sacramento County. This is a continuous filing position. My rank is 2nd and my score was 90. Does anyone know the hiring process of this cou...

I love public health and public health loves me. The PH arena is a great place for you to learn. I'm still a pretty green nurse, but I do not regret avoiding the hospital arena. Would I ever work in a hospital? Maybe. ED sounds rad, but I'm not ...

I think your psych background will be really helpful in public health. I currently work at a non profit clinic which provides general medicine, HIV, Hep C care. We also have behavioral health with psychiatry and even dentistry. The environment can...

I had my first day of work today, which was kind of overwhelming....These posts are making me crack up-thanks so much! It's also really nice to know there are some nurses out there who believe in ACA (I'm currently living in the Midwest and hear ton...

SO TRUE! Good luck-I'm moving back to Missouri to get my one year, whatever it takes to get that experience. DCF/CDCR are great options, but they take forever to hire you on. Hospitals are not really hiring new grads even internal applicants, so s...

My test shut off at 75 questions and I just sat there. I started to hyperventilate and the person monitoring the test takers came over and said, "Okay, it's over, you're done." I started to cry and said, "I just want to answer more questions!" I p...

So I need to ask for advice in regards to a major life decision.... I went to nursing school in Kansas City, MO. I lived in Sacramento, CA before school and it had horrendous waiting lists and lotteries and a high tuition, so off to KCMO I went. I ...

Thank you all for your responses. I have talked with SO and kids...went surprisingly well. My SO and his children were so supportive during nursing school and still so now. Thinking about not seeing them that often hurts though . Even my close fr...

We have been together since 2005, I'm 32. He is moving up in his job and is not willing to relocate to MO, plus all of his family is in CA and all my family is in MO. Sigh...

I agree with this completely. I also remember during nursing school we had an OB patient test false positive for meth and the staffs attitude toward patient TOTALLY shifted (which is sooo wrong) and then they retested the SAME sample and it was nega...

Hella weird....on both ends-hospital having a Facebook page and her responding.

I hear what you are saying Orca in your post. The sad thing is as a New Grad the only people that have responded with a possibility for a position are the correctional jobs for me. I would love to work med/surg for a year. I loved it in school-you ...

I did the PV trick and it worked. If you had hard questions-that is good. I received the good pop up. I worked with a nurse during clinical that received the bad pop up and passed, so yeah it is not 100% so try not to freak yourself out (easier sa...

I have been searching for my first RN job since March 28, 2013. I thought it would not be this hard due to me being bilingual in Spanish and having healthcare experience. WOW, what a reality check it has been. Sacramento is considered one of the m...

I have worked with the homeless throughout the years, not as a nurse (yet), but it makes me feel good that there are nurses out there like you all that care for their well being. Anyone can be homeless at anytime in our lives and I hope to be in a n...

Good luck is all I can say. I live in California and received my license at the end of March. I have applied to almost 100 jobs. They all just blurr together. I have applied to volunteer as a New Grad at a hospital in town to see if that helps to ...

I am wanting some feedback on some questions for a homework assignment. Here it goes... 2. You are caring for a client on a ventilator who is exhibiting respiratory distress. The ventilator alarms are going off. Which intervention should you do...

What about these questions? Bold are what I think 1. You are on a critical care unit caring for clients with a spinal cord injury. Which client should you assess first after receiving the following information in the change of shift report? a....

From my experience so far, I think the question is, "Is your job flexible around nursing school?" My school does not give people a pass if they do not come to clinical, if there is an emergency, then you can do a ton of make up work, which is extrem...

I am passing OB right now, and our professor is notorious for being difficult. I just took my second exam as well. I really like the Review and Rationales by Saunders for Maternal and Newborn Nursing. Also, the ATI book or online resources are hel...

"Different strokes for different folks," is the saying that comes to mind. It depends on the person's studying habits and their financial situation primarily. I work part-time and have received an A and B in my first two nursing classes. I like ha...