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  1. New Grad with PEDs interview!

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Pediatric

    I got the job!!!! I am so very happy! And of course I feel so lucky to have been chosen. The nurse manager said that they were still going to be interviewing people for the rest of the week... but...

  2. New Grad with PEDs interview!

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Pediatric

    Just an update... I had my interview today and it went great! Now I am just waiting it out as they still have a couple more to do this week. The nurse manager said I should know by the end of the week...

  3. First Year Almost Over, No Magical "Ah ha" Moment Yet

    owlRN01 replied to babysteps25's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think it's different for everyone. I'm a new grad and I just know myself enough to know that a year won't be enough time for me to feel comfortable. I don't know how long it's going to take but you...

  4. If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    owlRN01 replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Author and illustrator of children's books! My imagination is pretty wild :) Instead I’m working in Pediatrics. No complaints :) Someday I hope to be a midwife with my own birth center. A girl can...

  5. Jacksonville Florida nurses, anyone work on OB or Peds unit?

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Florida Nursing

    Amazing! Good luck to you as well!!! It feels good to have an interview and I hate interviews! lol Let me know how they

  6. New Grad with PEDs interview!

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Pediatric

    I agree that something stood out to them; I just wonder what it was? lol My mother in law keeps telling me it was a summer camp I volunteered for with chronic and critically ill children. I thought it...

  7. How does a new grad RN get experience

    owlRN01 replied to Lynn2's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I wish I knew. I am in the same boat. Hoping and praying something comes my way :) Good

  8. New Grad with PEDs interview!

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Pediatric

    Thank

  9. Jacksonville Florida nurses, anyone work on OB or Peds unit?

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Florida Nursing

    Oh my gosh!!!! I finally got a call back from the children's hospital in town :) Interview is set up for Monday the 29th!!! Even if I don't get the position I will be eternally gratefull that someone...

  10. Teaching as a new grad?

    owlRN01 replied to bankssarn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I went to school in Indiana but I know that NONE of my clinical instructors had any less than 15 years of experience most had more. They were wonderful because they HAD seen it all. I would not be...

  11. How much did you work your final year of school???

    owlRN01 replied to lynn5707's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I worked about 15-20 hours a week and everytime I was at work I was thinking about how I should be studying! I thought it was too much for me but I had an older friend in the program who worked 40...

  12. Graduating BSN program in April 2013 and feeling unprepared

    owlRN01 replied to mauraa's topic in General Students

    I feel ya! I think all my school really prepared me to do was pass NCLEX... which I did :) I second guess myself in everything and I figure it's going to be like that for years...

  13. Jacksonville Florida nurses, anyone work on OB or Peds unit?

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hey! Thanks for the reply :) Do you know if the hospitals around here accept paper resumes if you walk them in? I guess it wouldn’t hurt for me to try. Yeah the job market here just seems crazy! I...

  14. Will the job outlook improve?

    owlRN01 replied to tgw225's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Get a head start by finding work in a hospital as a patient care tech. Network like crazy!!!! Be willing to do anything you have to. If I would have stayed in the same state i graduated I would have...

  15. Starting clinicals tomorrow morning...

    owlRN01 replied to MrsCuoco's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I love giving IM injections! I do flu clinics for extra money :) I remember the feeling I had when I gave my first injection though... sheer terror! lol you will do fine especially after you do a few!...

  16. Mother/baby nurses what do you like your volunteer's to do on the unit?

    owlRN01 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a new graduate registered nurse. My ultimate dream is to become a CNM. In the meantime I would love some L&D experience but it's so hard to find! ]I recently started volunteering in...

  17. Can i be a mother/baby nurse if I have never had kids?

    owlRN01 replied to studentnurse9806's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I told my mom the other day that I decided I was going back to school to become a midwife. I wondered aloud to her how others would look at me knowing that I have never given birth myself. My mother...

  18. Training OB nurses for natural birth support

    owlRN01 replied to mommy2boysaz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is a great thread! I'm tagging this for later :) I plan on becoming a

  19. CNM Questions

    owlRN01 replied to NurseB_'s topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    It is the ONLY unit in ANY facility where one of your patients is inside the body of the other. Very true!!!! This made me smile

  20. So you want to be a nurse...

    owlRN01 replied to Sir Enzyme's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Great post

  21. Jacksonville Florida nurses, anyone work on OB or Peds unit?

    owlRN01 replied to owlRN01's topic in Florida Nursing

    Thank you! I'm staying positive and applying like crazy

  22. What was your first year of nursing school like?

    owlRN01 replied to ChelsO's topic in General Students

    Yes! lol Highlighters and index cards :) I color code everything. Just find a way to stay organized and everything will fall into

  23. What was your first year of nursing school like?

    owlRN01 replied to ChelsO's topic in General Students

    So incredibly hard, but worth it. It will change you in ways you never thought possible;) I found this paper I wrote as a relection during my last semester of nursing school, here are some excerpts......

  24. Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing-FNP Program

    owlRN01 replied to ms_sheesh's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Hey! I'm in Florida and will be applying for the CNM program for fall or winter 2013 :) Working on my 1 year of experience right now and studying for the MAT since my gpa doesn't quite make the

  25. The perfect private duty setting

    owlRN01 replied to HisTreasure's topic in Private Duty

    Very good advice