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    RN - MSN with NP track?

    heartsgal posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm working on my BSN prerequisites currently and have been looking into possibly going straight into a RN- MSN with the option for NP program. There are only 2 schools that offer this track in my...
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    How should I approach my coworker?

    heartsgal replied to usetimewisely's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't get you panties in a knot Ruby, it was strictly a possible hypothesis and she stated that and the OP never mentioned it. The simple truth is that nursing is a female dominated career force and...
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    How should I approach my coworker?

    heartsgal replied to usetimewisely's topic in First Year After Licensure

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    How should I approach my coworker?

    heartsgal replied to usetimewisely's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My best advice to you is to let some of it roll of of you and react with perhaps humor for the comments about you being so young. It's not professional that the older nurse is treating you that way,...
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    Agency nursing after SNF

    heartsgal posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi again AN pals. I've been working at my SNF for almost 3 mos and just dropped to prn as I'm beginning school full time next week and need a flexible work schedule. A former classmate told me about...
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    Is it bad for a new RN grad to start in an assisted living facility?

    heartsgal replied to Cynnie24's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have been working for a LTC as my first job out of school and it took me 5 months to get that, so I was thrilled to get hired. It is a SNF(skilled nursing facility)/Rehab but has many long term care...
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    First RN job & it's pay

    heartsgal replied to Stephen.Stevens's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In the Houston,TX suburbs at LTC I have been making $25 and just got offered $36 for prn agency nursing in LTAC and I have my
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    VENT!

    heartsgal replied to Enthused RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel your pain and know what you're going through, believe me. The very few classmates that have landed hospital jobs are shocked when I relay to them some of the things we deal with in LTC, because...
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    How to write email convincing them they need me more than I need them.

    heartsgal posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    After 3 interviews at a rehab hospital a few months ago and not getting an offer, I want to email the CNO and HR manager again to let them know I'm still interested in working there. They said...
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    How to write email convincing them they need me more than I need them.

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I appreciate your advice even if it's not what I want to hear, but I realize I am pushing too hard so I'll wait and look elsewhere. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee that I would go to nursing...
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    How to write email convincing them they need me more than I need them.

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

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    How to write email convincing them they need me more than I need them.

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

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    I can't practice this kind of nursing at my SNF

    heartsgal posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Part of me feels like a failure but I honestly don't feel I can go back to the conditions of patient care at this SNF. I don't mind the physical work and I adore the patients, but the unsafe nursing...
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    Interesting convo with a former coworker...

    heartsgal replied to herculean's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If she is used to she and didn't have accu- checks also, then she probably can. I'm new at my SNF, so 10-12 accu-cheks and 5-7 scheduled insulin and often sliding scale on top of that along with med...
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    New LPN in LTC...trying to do the right things

    heartsgal replied to pinkiepinkPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You are right, they do a lot of things that aren't by the book so to speak. All you can do is say okay when they tell you how to perform a certain task and then when you get on your own you do what...
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    I can't practice this kind of nursing at my SNF

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in First Year After Licensure

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    I can't practice this kind of nursing at my SNF

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Start applying at other SNF's now and perhaps you'll get an interview and can express why you are wanting to leave where you are now and then ask them if they have these problems. I believe there are...
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    I can't practice this kind of nursing at my SNF

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in First Year After Licensure

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    1st job at SNF/Rehab and must buy my own BP monitor??

    heartsgal posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    After 5 months of applying to every and all jobs and facilities since passing my NCLEX, I was hired yesterday at a small Rehab and skilled nursing facility. While I wasn't psyched for the interview...
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    As a new grad RN, would you take an Assisted Living position

    heartsgal replied to Nola009's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just began working at a SNF and it sounds very similar. I had 6 days of orienting before being alone with 24 pts and yes it's scary and damn hard work and not everyone is cut out for it....
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    2 weeks at SNF and wondering why some say it's not experience

    heartsgal posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I recently began my first job since graduation in May at a SNF/ rehab and had 6 days on the floor of orienting before going it alone when someone called in sick and the DON asked me if I thought I...
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    How to Discreetly Apply for a New Job?

    heartsgal replied to Rosewood1225's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have also wondered about this. If they cannot contact your present employer then I suppose they have to take you at your word about the experience you have then right? I am concerned that when...
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    ADN programs

    heartsgal replied to catherine douglas's topic in Texas Nursing

    I can only speak from my own experience so here goes. I'm 48 (49 in 4 weeks and graduated from an ADN program this past May and there was 130 in my class. If I did it again I would probably still do...
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    1st job at SNF/Rehab and must buy my own BP monitor??

    heartsgal replied to heartsgal's topic in First Year After Licensure

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    I feel truly sorry for new grads

    heartsgal replied to Concerto_in_C's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    While I can appreciate you want those uninformed students who may be considering nursing, to know the truth about the current climate and the lack of job opportunities, this post is discouraging for...