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I currently work PRN at a stand alone and trauma 2 center. Prior to this I was a ICU nurse and they loved that I had this experience mainly because we had less critical patient and I was already had the knowledge of being able to take care of a critical patient when the time was needed compared to someone that did not have critical care experience. The one thing that I had to learn was everything was a focus assessment, such as I am not going to do a complete neuro on someone with a injuries hand. Also I don't known if they will hire PRN due to no ED experience but if you start out full time or part time you may be able to switch later on as I was able to do.

I would have to agree with Luckyyou, this is funny and I am as well an actual nurse... In the ED you don't know how many people come in for an overdose, start on with CPR given Narcan and then back to normal and want to go AMA right after they find out they are not going to jail...

Hello I just wanted to see if anyone could answer a question. I recently graduated with my BSN and passed my NCLEX. I have 6 yrs prior military experience and would like to go back in the Navy but in the reserves. My question is, is there a minimum time that I have to be a nurse and have experience prior to being able to do the reserves? I read somewhere that you needed a minimum 2 years I believe (I can't remember and haven't been able to find the website again and I can never seem to get through to the recruiter..) At the moment I don't want to go active because I have just started working as a new grad nurse in the ICU and trying to continue my path towards my dream goal of becoming a CRNA.