Kandake

Hello. I graduate with my BSN in two weeks and I have an offer at a very large and well known hospital where I will be working on a medicine floor. Obviously medsurg is not my "passion" but I really wanted to work on a general floor and gain 1-2 ...

Not to be rude or anything. But based on the way many people here lament about bedside nursing and the current state of hospitals, is it any wonder that some new grads are trying to avoid that environment??? Coupled with negative experiences during ...

Wow guys. Thanks you so much for the input. I was so split on this all week. I spoke to the recruiter and apparently there is a position open (job share) I'd work 35 hours in a two week, in the evening on the same floor. So I could possibly work ther...

Community and Public Health and/or clinic setting. I would like to even work overseas at some point. But I feel that regardless of my goals, the skills and critical thinking in the acute setting are fundamental. am I correct in this thinking?

This semester is my first clinical so I am a bit anxious. School begins on August 27th for us and most people are not aware of their clinical location at this point. Since I was on campus today I decided to ask the Clinical Coordinator about it. Her...

Just curious. Thanks.

Very interesting.

You're right. And thanks. And no I am no high school senior by the way, and nor do I want to really become a CRNA I was just curious because like the second person said almost every nursing student I've met said they wanted to become a CRNA or showed...

Kind of what I was thinking. The same applies for a BSN. Many want it but at the same time many will not make it. People hear the salary and how many years it takes and get excited. And also my state's only CRNA 10 spot program that I mentioned earli...

Interesting. Did the recession not hit VA bad?

I think this whole tangent was because of this misunderstanding. I did not know he meant what "area" of the country I thought he asked me simply what country. lol

You get a lot of experience from that. You should do it.

You answered yes to a very direct question, I assumed you knew the answer but I guess not. And, the "also" in my title is referring to the already know RN oversaturation of course it will be brought up here.

CRNA's. She just said RN's oversaturation was a regional problem not a national one, and if so I wanted to know which regions were not hit then. I was making a point in relation to CRNA oversaturation which she claims is regional also.

What region isn't oversaturated then for RN's ?

the RN oversaturation is a regional thing?

Lets say the US....

Right but for instance my state has only one CRNA program that admits only 10 people a year. And some states don't have one at all...

Are minors a huge deciding factor in the grand scheme of things? Lots of girls are doing psychology or Spanish. To be frank neither of those things interest me. Psychology is very boring to me...I guess it's because it's not very concrete. And I woul...

I understand. But the thing is I doubt I will be anywhere near fluent with simply minoring in Spanish. I would have to double major. And language is very hard to grasp the older you become :)

I know this isn't a simple question to ask but I'm a high school senior who's going to Nursing School in the fall and once I graduate I was wondering what cities would would be the best to work and relocate afterwords. I was thinking Chicago because...

I want to go into nursing school and get my BSN. I want to do everything in state because it's cheaper. But my plan is to be a nurse and either move to New York or the west coast. I have been researching the pay for New York nurses and its substantia...

Oh wow thanks that's helpful. I have a question, do you have a family? I keep thinking of things as me being single without any children, I know life is unexpected but I know I want kids in my late 20's (like 28), and a child alone a lot of money. Ju...

Make sense, but as a single person with no family is that is still pretty good pay?