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Just got a job offer and needed some advice. I have been a nurse off and on for 10+ years with experience in the hospital(old experience) school nursing, ambulatory care, pediatrics, dermatology, jail and occupational nursing. This new job wants to ...

Hi Rizz, Thanks so much for your reply. I really appreciated your input. It was helpful. I talked them into a 4 day a week job as I truly just wanted part time. This should be interesting. It's good to know people want to stay. I wonder if I will ...

Okay I wrote a bunch of stuff then lost it...errrr Questions: Your nursing philosophy, what is your strengths, weaknesses? Did you have a conflict with another employee and how did you resolve it?" What would fellow employees say about you/your work....

Hi Kinder, Funny you should ask. I went for the 2nd interview yesterday. She spent an hour asking me similar interview questions. This PF just opened so its all very fresh and new. Then she took me through the open area(I i had dressed in scrubs a...

Hi, I just started Friday with Orientation to Light Security Corrections Nurse for a holding Jail- up to 18 months. Some of these are work-release inmates and other are more max security. I was wondering what sort of medical pathophysiology I shoul...

okay I will let you know what happens.

Hey KinderRN, They haven't gotten back to me yet. I know they called my old bosses for references the day of the interview. I didn't expect I would hear back from them until this coming week anyhow. Next step is for them to call me, set up either a 2...

Hi, I know there is a PF thread already but it's old and I thought I'd start a new one here. I just interviewed yesterday and all looks promising. I just wondered what others' experience have been like. The good the bad and the ugly? Thanks

Interviewer said they would ACLS certify me. Have never been certified as that. What is that training like as well? Anything I can do to prep for that?

Mollymae- How very odd that you posted this today as I literally just walked in from my interview with Patient First. I knew they would provide a test because of the posts here which were helpful. BTW, I tried to write down some of the ques in case ...

Thanks so much to all the research nurses who posted on this thread. It was incredibly helpful! I just applied to a research position and wondered what to expect. I am not sure I will be called since I do not have research experience. C

Hi, I see this post is old but I typed in Patient First and this came up. I would LOVE to know more specific questions on the test so that I can review. I have been a school nurse so I may be weak on meds. I have applied to a Patient First position a...

Thanks so much to all the replies. Today is day #4 for training for me. Since I am PT and work 2 days a week(3days while training), my training may take longer than normal. My supervisor spent alot of time going over "the orientation books". Anyway...

Hi there, I just started corrections last week! Have been orienting and omg...I hope I remember what to fill out and where it goes and what to sign lol. I have some anxiety myself about dealing with withdrawls and what a patient looks like that is ...

I love the story a nurse educator likes to share. She put on a blood pressure cuff backwards and pumped and pumped and it exploded off the patient. She said something like "oops, that one's not working" then prayed..."Lord please don't let me kill an...

Hi, I interviewed with a correctional place...light sentencing...not hard core inmates. I was told that a quirk needed to be ironed out so I wasnt offered the job. Another company called me and offered me the job after a phone interview. The company ...

Hi, I interviewed with a correctional place...light sentencing...not hard core inmates. I was told that a quirk needed to be ironed out so I wasnt offered the job. Another company called me and offered me the job after a phone interview. The compa...

Hey Telemetry nurse...Did you get this job? How was the interview? I have an interview tomorrow therefore I stumbled on all of this..Great interview ideas...I feel ready. I was to interview last Tues but the head nurse had either taken time off or ...

I just talked to a nurse recruiter who is Fwding my resume to a would care position. I have not been in a hospital in a very long time. School nurse here...no IV's, bloodwork, nothing...Is this too much to start with?? Trying to get back into more ac...

Thankyou sugarcoma(love that name), Nccity,rosa, ashley, Xauphcamia,cary, commuter...great responses and actually has me Wanting this wound care job. It has encouraged my interest and is a great goal. The nurse recruiter from the corrections positi...

Wow...these are all great answers and i do appreciate my fellow nurses taking the time to write about this so quickly. I am more and more excited about the prospect. I worked in dermatology and enjoyed working with skin. I truly hope this works out. ...

Okay that sounds like a night mare! Honestly, 30 patients??? I was thinking about LTC but this talked my right out of it. I can't believe no one came to help and you hit your head and could have hurt yourself catching the dizzy lady. 16 hour shift...

Wow Carol- It looks like you have had alot of experience! I did not have alot of confidence in my 20s and my 30s were for raising babies. Now I have alot more confidence and hungry for some challenges. I am willing to learn..just need someone willi...

Hi all, I just discovered this discussion site when looking up what it's like to be a prison nurse? Interview Tues. I stopped work as a school nurse for various reasons and want to get more clinical. The kids are older and I'd like to get back into...

Hey CanCan, Interesting info you gave me. It's a jail actually(Im learning differences between jail and prison) and I think about 700 inmates altogether. I worked as a school nurse and that had autonomy as well but I realize the jail will be tougher....