vickymarie

vickymarie specializes in Public Health.

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1. Alternative Job Options for New RN?

   vickymarie replied to drbeckrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Try public health! I precepted in public health and went directly into it after graduating with my BSN. It's a vastly different experience, for certain, and won't meet the experience requirements for...

2. Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

   vickymarie replied to jack1971's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Come to public health! A lot of people think public health and home health are the same, but they're most definitely not. I started as a new grad right away in public health and have never regretted...

3. Public Health RN job outlook?

   vickymarie replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Public, Community Health

   For me personally, I don't feel like I'm "missing out" on anything, having skipped floor nursing experience. I came in as a new grad and love public health - though I'm considering maybe in the future...

4. Public Health RN job outlook?

   vickymarie replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Public, Community Health

   I went directly into public health from nursing school and never looked back. I'm from Northern California too and I know that my agency is hiring at least two entry level PHN's. I think other nearby...

5. Low nurse wages in Health Department - worth it?

   vickymarie replied to Marshall1's topic in Public, Community Health

   The work hours normally are M-F, 8 to 5 with an hour lunch at my work, but there are multiple options for "alternative" work schedules where you can work your 4 hours in different permutations. The...

6. New Grad in Public Health

   vickymarie replied to MeganStar's topic in Public, Community Health

   Whenever possible, allow mom (or dad) to hold them while it's happening. If they're old enough to communicate with, feel if they're tensing up around the site where you're going to administer and coax...

7. ER nurse here, so what do you do as PH nurse?

   vickymarie replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Public, Community Health

   This was something hat always genuinely bothered me when I heard it. A lot of people say that public health nurses "lose their skills". No. Public health nurses have a different skillset that they use...

8. CA PHN certificate

   vickymarie replied to NicoletheRN's topic in Public, Community Health

   It took me months, they didn't really hurry it up until I started going into the office on a weekly basis (I live in the Sacramento area). Phone calls and emails didn't help at all at that

9. Low nurse wages in Health Department - worth it?

   vickymarie replied to Marshall1's topic in Public, Community Health

   Is it a huge pay-cut compared to hospital nursing? Yes. I turned down a job at a VA hospital for my current public health position - I took the lower-paying position because honestly, it was well...

10. Do I NEED to get my BSN?

    vickymarie replied to SingDanceRunLife's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    $142 per credit? That's like robbery! The community college I attended for my prerequisites is currently $46 per credit, and when I went to school there about 5 years ago, it was even cheaper. I never...

11. UC Davis - Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing

    vickymarie posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    I was wondering if anyone here was a graduate, current, or prospective student of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing through UC Davis. I will be in the MS Leadership (Nursing Science &...

12. Becoming a nurse is no longer an option for me?

    vickymarie replied to KAThftf's topic in General Students

    I'm still struggling with how your tuition costs so much - were there not any cheaper options? When I was in school and before I got married, it was not that my parents held out on me, but that they...

13. I don't want to do bedside nursing

    vickymarie replied to noki1024's topic in Nursing Career

    First of all, don't let anyone tell you that you "need to" be miserable for a while just to be a nurse, or that in order to be a real nurse, you need to pay your dues and work at the bedside. It's...

14. Applying to Sacramento State for spring 2015 question

    vickymarie replied to sj94's topic in California Nursing

    Hi there! I'm a graduate of the Sac State nursing program (Fall 2013) and I thought I would just share a snippet of the text from my admissions decision way back when, to see if it helps clarify some...

15. How Can the California BRN Improve the Licensure Process?

    vickymarie replied to vickymarie's topic in California Nursing

    I agree... that's why I said that I didn't think the petition itself was going to be the agent of change, but that it would be helpful as a sort of community-building and awareness-raising gesture. I...