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Anybody work in either place? What are they like?

I am, at present, making plans to retire from nursing within two years, assuming other options come forth. My "career" has been an absolute disappointment, and going from an LPN to being an RN with a BSN didn't help me in the end. I have become lar...

oops, I looked at the last reply date before mine, and looked at it wrong...hasn't been a year after all...scuse me!

Wow, nobody has posted in here in over a year...it's been two years since I posted in this particular thread, and probably about that long since I posted on the site at all... I have since moved out of the hospital where I worked in the neuroscience ...

Hamot responded to my resume submission. I'm looking for people who work/have worked there, who can tell me in their own words how things are there, etc. I'm going to return the call from the recruiter tomorrow, so in the meantime, and until I agre...

currently neuroscience intermediate care...meanng neuro, plus some trauma/ortho and dumpover from the surgical intermediate care unit...plus people who start going downhill on the neuro/ortho floor or some other floor, but they're either not ready fo...

I once (way back in 1998) bought some items with the S.C.R.U.B.S. brand name. NEVER again. They all started falling apart and/or developed holes during washing and drying. I usually get my scrubs from Lydia's...Tafford is another good source. If y...

Did you ever take the job at Williamsport Hospital? What's the word there on their planned expansion? What are they planning, what new services? Any new units or beds being added? Just curious. Places that grow/expand always interest me.

Wow... I haven't been here probably since I made that post, over two years ago. I didn't go to Hamot...I didn't even finish the application process. I did leave my old job at Pinnacle Hell er Health, even left PA for a while and returned to privat...

I've got tons to tell, having been in nursing since 1990. As of late, I'd have to say the most recent most gross, yucky, disgusting nursing experience I have had, was being hurled on from head to toe while inserting an NG tube in somebody who had an...

As I think about it, it is difficult to recommend nursing to people unless they really want to do it...think about it, there aren't enough of us, hospitals downsizing, consolidating, eliminating positions, expecting us to do more with less (supplies,...

I went into the hospital setting as a nursing assistant (this was back before certification was a requirement) several months after I finished the program, with no practical work experience as a nursing assistant up to that point. In fact, I worked ...

it sounds like an LTAC (long-term acute care) facility that specializes in pediatric care. I know of critical care nurses who go to work in places like that (and they do appreciate getting nurses with critical care backgrounds) but you don't really ...

I empathize...I've been dealing with migranes since 1997 (the year I took a break from nursing, incidentally). That first migrane was a godawful experience; I basically had a headache for a whole week, that wasn't relieved by anything. I was also s...

I'm looking to take a year or two away from clinical nursing. Back when I was an LPN I found options were far and few, so when I took time off then, I ended up in a convenience store (with a huge pay cut, might I add). After becoming an RN, having ...

It varies for me...I graduated from 100 mg Benadryl to Ambien....that helped some, but after two back injuries, I graduated to Valium. So that, with a little Xanax on board, helps me get some sleep, but it varies, I can get as little as 5 hours, and...

I did my time as an LPN, in North Carolina. From what I remember, though the larger facilities said the state board determined what an LPN could or could not do (and that was true only in a few specific things) it was actually the hospital or facil...

If you're a new grad, go with Hershey. It's a Level I trauma center for the region, growing like cancer, and a good place to see things and learn. I've heard good and bad things about it, but overall most of what I hear seems to be good. If I deci...

Right now, I'm kind of trying to avoid all of the above...I'm burning out in a big way. This current job has really taken it out of me. Maybe in a year or two I can go back, fresher, and I can get a (BETTER) critical care class and orientation than...

Granted, I'm biased; I was an LPN for 12 years. I think they're a valuable part of the health care team, and depending on the institution, can do just about anything. They don't require "babysitting" or the close monitoring that some RN's seem to i...

LPN from 1990-2002 (took year off in 1997) was RN/BSN student from 1999-2002 been working as an RN since. Glad I did it, I'm sure my pay would have been close to maxing out by now had I remained an LPN. I wanted more opportunities, and in some place...

I have found that things differ somewhat from place to place...I worked in places as either an aide or an LPN while moving on up...some places would reimburse you tuition at the end of your semester, provided you sent them a transcript and filled out...

I had problems similar to yours when I was in nursing school. First time around in my LPN training, I was the only male student in the class (it was the first class of students for this school, and there were only 20 of us). I was never included in...

Another thing to consider might be something like Covermark or Coverblend, if you don't mind using cosmetics to cover things up. Harder for men to get away with, especially if their arms are hairy, but worth a try. Forget Dermablend, it's not as wa...

I've probably done tons of stupid things in my career. If I sat and thought long and hard (and tonight, I'm off, but on call...so I just might, I pray, get that chance), I'd have a gold mine of stupid nursing tricks to go dig from. I remember way wa...