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You said this is your first interview, but that you did not get into the only peds hospital in town? Confused a little. I am a new graduate too. I just got what I think to be my first job, but I refuse to say I got the job even though it was stated that they wanted me to join their team. I am a new grad of may as well. I had many interviews so far, so I am surprised this to be your first one. I had many bad ones where I was made to feel less than garbage. So, happened my last interview the nurse manager (who is never absent) was out sick. So instead of rescheduling the interview, I was interviewed by the Nurse who was head of every nurse in the whole hospital. Nervous is not even relative to what I was feeling. I did the best I could and stayed true to my honest self, which seemed to not get me anywhere before this. I sent my thank you letter via email about 4 days later, and two days after that I got the call from HR telling me that the position I applied for was no longer open but the Head of all the nurses said I interviewed professionally and very well so they are going to have me meet with another nurse manager for another position if that was okay with me so I could join their team. She just called to tell me this information. Tomorrow, I should find out about the meeting with the nurse manager. Now, after feeling down in the dumps, going into a severe depression, and all kinds of negative emotions. I get a compliment from the nurse who holds the highest position in the whole hospital who wants me on her staff????? It just so happens it is the hospital I wanted to work at the most, and I am so happy. SO, things occur for a reason. You are going to have bad interviews, I do not know a fellow nurse who has not. The right one will come along. One pointer. Your a new graduate I would not state that I had a specialty because you had the most clinical experience in it. Not saying anything mean to you, but that might come across to a NM as a bad thing. Specialty nurses are nurses with years and years of experience in a part of the field. Never ever (really think) or act like you know all there is to know to a NM, ever. The reason, you dont, I dont at all know much because that will turn them right off. Be honest about what you do know and what you have done.

I do not get into the gossip and talking at all. All that turns into is something for people to talk about you later, no matter what it is. I stay away from gossip zones like the break room. If someone starts to say negative things about a co-worker, I do not say anything and if I can I will state what that co-worker does well or a good thing I have found about them. I look at the good, and not what I can use to judge someone else. If I have time I research stuff I do not know. One night, I read about lots and lots of medications. I never speak poorly about patients either.

WIth abuse comes complete negative thinking, take it from someone who has been there and knows. All a person that has been through what we have been through can see is the negative things people are doing to us. However, sometimes we are taking things way to seriously, analyzing much too deeply, and thinking about stuff that should not even be considered. For every negative thought you get, stop it once you realize that you are thinking negatively, go back create a positive thought. This takes time and patience and more time. The stuff your upset about only hurts you, you are the only one upset all of the time. The stuff your upset about is probably simply stuff to let go and think about the positive things you want to do with your life. Treat people kindly no matter what, and you end up making them be at least civil to you always.

Umm, second that on the athiest thing. Try interviewing at a bunch of religious based hospitals. Agree, agree, yep, and whatever you say.

I hope you get to read this. I am a new nurse and I have asperger's. A lot of the things that I struggled with as a kid, I found ways to make work in my favor as an adult. As with asperger's, I have the high intelligence. I scored crazy scores in nursing school, not too many people liked me because of that and because I am eccentric. However, just know that things will get better with time. Help your son adapt the environment within the environment he has. Meaning, do not create circumstances that he cannot create to cope as an adult. To really enter the real world, there are no accomodations for people like us yet. Until, we are considered normal in that we are normal among one another. That was nice that staff knew about the disorder and helped you find ways to help him cope. My nursing class was not so nice and I just blatently tell people this is who I am up front. They disliked me for being smart, so they used my eccentrics of my disorder against me. It was sad. Sorry to say, your son will have to face the same unless I can change the world as I am trying so hard to do. I have two son's, and one is lesser and one is greater like me. I have one son that turns the TV volume probably to normal levels, my other son and I cant think. You can most often hear a pin drop in my house. My daughter too. I have to keep buying her different clothes because they are all itchy. All of my kids have different aspects, and I have like everyone of them. I am SOOO glad the staff did what they did to help. I guess in the kid world its much more understood than it is in the adult world today.

I had very similar experience upon enterence. I do not remember anything procedurally. I remember cold, being unclothed with many many people around and left like that. I did not like that and I just remember everyone going bonkers around me. The nakid thing really really made me not comfortable.

I suggest finding another job. No an MA should not be doing anything while you are inserting the IV, you have to be IV certified to have anything to do with IV insertion. However, states might be different. Really, my opinion. No big deal, but apperently everyone is out to get everyone else. So, let them deal with being short staffed when your gone. You don't need that, and proper orientation should be mandated not an option.

I am not sure what a RT has as an educational background, so your degree would help to find something that would work for you. If you have a BSN in another field, there is somekind of transistion program for 18-24 months where you can get a BSN in nursing I think. Something to that degree, but you have to have ur BSN in something else. You probably will have to go into a RN program from start to finish, unless you have the BSN. I do not know of any RT to RN programs.

I am asking not sure one way or the other. Is he going into details about the sexual abuse or merely stating he was abused? That does change things a bit. I personally have been through a great amount of abuse in my life. I never came out and said oh I had this, this, and this happen to me but I just cleared up the stuff that people would find out. Like no I have no parents or family.

If they have more than 3 allergies they have a mental disorder. Man, what is wrong with all these elemetary and pre-school age kids with all their allergies? An allergy is an immune response to what is considered a foreign agent, which the body forms antibodies against causing the reactions. If there is one allergy, it is more likely than not that another allergy or several allergies will be found. The reason is that many agents are similar in composition but one chemical molecular structure alternates the indication for the medication and biochemical constraints, but will cause an allergic reaction because of the one chemical molecule that is consistent in many drugs. They simply need a drug that does not contain the chemical molecule that causes the allergy. Most types of medication made in one time frame will be made similarly with similar by products, and thus the newer med does not contain the allergen. Umm, I scared that there are people who think allergies are mental disorders and don't know why allergies are allergies by way of scientific fact.

Yes, well put. Especially for those who are harmlessly eccentric. Merely an octagon in a room full of square pegs and square holes. Abuse creates people that are different because they experienced things that were not the normal things the normal people experienced. I just feel bad for the guy. Plus, I mean you can tell if the guy has 4 kids. Those 4 kids depend on him to provide, and he depends on that job to care for them.

I have suffered a great amount of all kinds of abuse through out life and I can discuss it with anyone if need be but offering up sexual abuse tends to make me see my psych rotation. Please try to get him some psych help. I am not a doctor but from my psych experience I see schizophrenia type or like a borderline acting out. Psych. get him psych help.

Lots of comments here, but I am a little thrown by the fact that his wife and his girlfriend died from medical issues within the last year or so. I do not know if this to be true. I would just live your life, and not worry about what he says or what he tells others. Maybe he has been dealt a bad hand, and has no outlet and this is his only way. I kinda know because I have been there in life, not to go into it because I am beyond that but who knows what going on. I think my first attempt would be to help him and see what help he needs and direct him to some places where he can get some psychological help for the issues he has faced. Sad no one is trying to help this guy. Thats what we do as nurses right, help people suffering and in need? I dont know, thats me.