SurrenderDorothy

In my opinion - Awesome!

Yes! I, too, thought I was crazy, but I've smelled it on people in the days leading up to their death.

I was hired and the hospital said I just needed to be licensed within about 60 days or so.

I am just over the border from you in KS. It took me about 5 months to get a job. I revamped my resume and used more of a skills-based one (I am a second-career nurse) and bam! The first position I applied to, got an interview and a subsequent job of...

The way you stated how you were walking around with notes about PE, aortic dissection, etc...and it irked you a "vet tech" would call herself a nurse is what made me reply the way I did. To address many of your further comments from above, you state...

Just to prove my point a little further - Veterinarians are doctors. They address themselves as "doctor" and so does everyone else. By your logic, does this "Irk" you too? Yep, didn't think so.

Oh, here we go again. Your ignorance of the veterinary profession is outstanding, and unfortunately all too common. The vet techs I have known have an amazing amount of knowledge. I was in large animal research, so basically a vet tech before this a...

I was told by the nurse manager and doc that they loved me and everything was a go and to expect a call anytime from HR. It was about 5 days until HR called to officially offer me the job. In the past I've had offers the very next day or up to a week...

I don't know about the actual scrubs made by Wonderwink, but I purchased one of their silky long sleeve tees and the thing pilled after just wearing it once and looks awful now.

I was in a similar situation than you recently. '09 graduate, never worked as a nurse. Started applying in January to positions. A few weeks ago I revamped my resume in more of a skills based, professional format rather than the typical nursing templ...

No, and that is why I am switching to surgical technology. If I didn't do that, I would have probably went for ultrasound.

The embedded books can be a pain. I like having a hard copy of a book in order to study while I am not in front of the computer. I have no idea why more and more EduKan classes are doing this. You pay an additional $115 for Micro for use of the embed...

I am not sure about A&P because when I took it 4-5 years ago there was a book that you needed to purchase that came with a CD-ROM. Microbiology has a book that is embedded within the course and a lab program you download and use from your compute...

I was a large animal research tech and coordinator before nursing, so not really a vet tech even though I used a ton of clinical skills. The biggest challenge for me during the switch was that, with animals, I could do virtually anything. I have perf...

I just had one of these last week. She asked basic interview type questions. The ones I can remember are: Tell Me About Yourself Describe your perfect job What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? What would former supervisors say about you?...

I was an EMT, but wanted to transition into nursing because I felt it was a natural progression and would offer more career opportunities down the road. I felt I should get some hospital experience and got hired as a "CNA" (I wasn't certified, but th...

Yes to virtually all of the above mentioned diseases and disorders. I still diagnose myself with everything. When my neck is a little stiff, I have meningitis. When I get dizzy, I'm convinced I need a pacemaker. When I eat too much and my belly looks...

You won't be able to get into a master's nursing program without becoming an RN. You could attend an accelerated BSN program since you already have a bachelor's and there are pros and cons to this route. Or, you can get into an ASN program and compl...

Easy. The kids get the surgeries and the hospital accepts a payment plan for them after it's done. Sure, $5000 may take a lot of people years to pay off, but it's doable.

All it takes is to look at our government's track record on programs to help people to see where this could go. Now, there are some pretty strict restrictions on who would be eligible for this particular loan forgiveness program, thank goodness. Back...

Yep, prn gets a 10% differential but no benefits, so if you switch, you get 10% less an hour but get full benefits.

I can't believe there are 3+ pages of people here who think this is a good thing. Where do you think that money that is "forgiven" is absorbed to? Taxes and inflation. But I guess if you are getting your free chunk, it doesn't matter that these progr...

I'm not even going to do into this one, but I will say that today's Republicans are anything but conservative as compared to times past. So, to group conservatives as being automatically a Republican is not the case anymore. I am very conservative, b...

You could volunteer for a while in order to do some networking. There's no harm in a morning or afternoon or two a week to pass the time while still looking for a job.

I would think genetics.