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Sure, the coursework is different/more pharm, but in terms of intensity, how do they compare?

I understand why you'd need to demonstrate competency for placing a line, but I don't understand the risk / why some places don't like nurses to use a butterfly for a quick and easy radial blood draw.

I find that it's a lot easier to draw blood with an arterial stick on some patients with invisible/rolling veins. I know it's pretty common for nurses to do it in ICUs, but what about in other fields?

I am wondering how it looks to employers or if it even matters on an application whether you are currently employed or not (assuming it hasn't been years since you last worked)

Any other tips from the field? Is this a specialty not many people regret getting into?

Thanks!! What is the role of the "team lead?" How is that role different than just a research nurse? Is it a field most people stick with for many, many years vs the fast turnover you see in acute care?

How many nurses do you work with? Is it kind of like an office environment?

Would this be a big, shocking jump in fields? I can do without the adrenaline side of nursing, this would be a phase I research hospital. Is it generally older RNs that work in research?

I see a lot of people going right into NP programs after just a year working bedside. Why do you think this is?

seems some people might find that a little invasive when you think about how many people you interact w/ on a personal and impersonal level day in and day out.

I'm a new nurse (clearly) and I'm still figuring out why normal saline is hung alongside a primary line? Is it just to do the initial priming of the tube so you don't waste what's in the primary bag?

Assuming you can still get full time hours as PRN... At my facility the pay is about $5 more per hour for PRN. I figure health insurance is roughly $200 a month.. Is full time still a better bet?

So there's nothing wrong with taking it and just resigning after a few weeks? Will future employers look down on not staying at a job for 6 mos - year?

I have been applying nearly everywhere in my state in every field the last three months and callbacks have been few and far between. I finally landed an interview at a psych/ substance abuse center and they decided to offer me a PRN position. Now, I also have an interview scheduled at a hospital on a stepdown unit, the problem is that it's not for another week... So now I'm wondering what I should tell the psych hiring manager...I would certainly much rather have that PRN job than nothing at all, but feel the hospital setting would be better for a new grad. Any advice?

In clinical at a geriatric center, I had one man whose wife was terminally ill in another city 3 hours away. He was clearly distressed and in my three days I spent with him he just seemed to be getting more depressed about it. Finally I asked him, would you be up for going to see her if I could work out transportation with the unit manager? His eyes lit up and I felt so good inside :)