mattfro60

Been looking but cant find anything to fullfill my dream experience of working in Antarctica as a nurse. Any ideas on where to apply for a position?

Dont take a year, start out with a 13 week assignment if you can find a good agency. Check out Professional Nursing Staffing. They do a ton of contracts in the VI. Also the hospital (there is only one). The hospital is ****** but then again your not there for the amazing hospital your there for the beaches and adventure. The company I mentioned as 20-30 nurses down there at one time and they all stay (or most stay) in the same condo on the beach. Sounds good to me. My friend did it and loved it, said the hospital was crap but she still loved it. She extended 3 times.

So I am a traveling nurse and have always dreamed about working at mcmurdo station in antarctica. I have tried to find out where to apply online but I always get redirected to a hundred different sites and never get a real answer. Any ideas? Thanks MATT

So this is my experience. I am currently on a cruise ship right now. They did do a SKYPE interview and it is the head doctor from the company that gives you TNCC and ACLS megacode senarios and they want to see how you react to them. At one point I motioned a "sweeping movent" to suggest clearing the airway and the doctor said to his scribe "note he used a sweeping motion to clear the airway." Its a good tool that I think most companies will eventually go to....we convey 90 percent of communication through body language. As for cruise nursing what can I say. If you love paperwork, clinic work and more paperwork than this is for you. I come from a ER background and it is too boring and I feel more like a secretary than anything else. The rooms are smaller than prison cells, the food is well **** and most the crew hate their jobs. The company I am with make the nurses on call 24 hours so there is a ZERO tolerance for any alcohol and you are not allowed to go to the crew bar even to just hang out. Also you are an officer so you always are in uniform and are really restricted in your movements. In the last 3 weeks I have only been able to get off the ship once so Im a little bitter right now and wont be returning to this job. It would be better to work a fastaff job and just pay for a cruise so you can actually have fun on it becuase let me tell you cruise ship nursing is NOT FUN, very serious and the nurses always get the brunt of the crap from the staff captain, lead doctor and even the captain sometimes. My coworker got called to the bridge 3 times her first week and quit week 2. Another american just quit after 3 weeks. I am putting in 70-85 hours a week and there is no overtime just salary rate. In my opinion it was set up for 3rd world workers that are willing to do that kind of hours for very little pay if you do the math. I put a lot out there but thats that. M