Concerto_in_C BSN, RN

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    New Grad RN Jobs

    Concerto_in_C replied to DysrhythmiaRN11's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Well, if you just got a bachelor's degree, here's my 2 cents. Provincial town/rural hospitals have an aging nursing labor force, including people who got hired in the 1970s (I'm not kidding you-I'm...
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    new grad rn- can't find a job

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

    My hospital hires new grads all the time but we are in northern Illinois, almost on Wisconsin border, so it's more rural. It's not a high desirability area for young people who just got their first...
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    new grad rn- can't find a job

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

    If you're a brand new grad RN who can't find a job then you are the norm. If you get an offer, then you are an exception. "Marketable" nurses right now should have 2 years of hospital experience. It's...
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    How do you stay encouraged?

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

    Swedish American has everything you need in a hospital, including the Internet, very user-friendly (easy to use) electronic charting and medication barcode scanning. I haven't been to St. Anthony or...
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    How do you stay encouraged?

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

    I don't know, unless there's Chicago II somewhere and we are not talking about the same city, I had a different experience in Chicago. I had lots of clinicals there in 2006-2008. Yes, there are great...
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    The 1st hell year the same for men?

    Concerto_in_C replied to PapaBearRN's topic in Men in Nursing

    Nursing is and has allways been a female frat society and you will always be treated as an outsider and have unique challenges fitting in. I've heard various hypotheses about how being a man allegedly...
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    How do you stay encouraged?

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

    A majority of the small towns I mentioned have very attractive prices. Byron is more expensive, maybe because the nuclear plant is there, so you have some nice salaries in the area and the prices go...
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    How do you stay encouraged?

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

    Rockford is like Chicago on a smaller scale. If you read the Forbes Magazine "worst cities" ratings Rockford and Chicago have almost the same score. In terms of nastiness, Chicago and Rockford are...
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    How do you stay encouraged?

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

    There are RN job openings out there and there are hospitals don't mind hiring new grads. Nursing homes never stopped hiring grads, even during the worst years of the recession, but you want to think...
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    Never waste an opportunity...

    Concerto_in_C replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I moved from Chicago suburbs to Northern Illinois, almost Wisconsin border. Big change in lifestyle because my new area is more rural. There is a farm right behind my house with a grain silo, goats...
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    Everyone Won't Succeed. And That's Okay!

    Concerto_in_C replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    Just FYI, if you are a registered nurse making $20-30/hr, more or less, depending on part of USA and level of experience, you are making more money than 90% of the entire population of planet earth....
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    The Cons of Working in Long Term Care

    Concerto_in_C replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Another problem, already mentioned by others. The acuity in long term care, already higher than ever, is bound to increase in the future. For example, a long term facility that never accepted...
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    The Cons of Working in Long Term Care

    Concerto_in_C replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    If you can help it, don't work in long term care because they will work you to death, as evidenced by incredibly high turnover of staff (at the place where I used to work, something like 8 nurses...
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    Worst Medication Error of my life

    Concerto_in_C replied to xaf7232's topic in Cardiac

    If the employer had a bedside medication scanning system (barcode)-I don't know if they do-the chances of giving a medication that's not on the med profile are very low to none, even if you pull the...
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    Do you need all those degrees?

    Concerto_in_C replied to dnsonthego's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If I have to sign the white board ever time I round on the patient and the physicians can **** on the board as well as the other rules in the unit then I find it hard to believe the employer sees me...
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    Do you need all those degrees?

    Concerto_in_C replied to dnsonthego's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    A degree earned for the love of the subject is never a waste, but I've been a college student forever, (I graduated from an art school in 1999) and I never met a humanities or arts student who was...
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    Do you need all those degrees?

    Concerto_in_C replied to dnsonthego's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think many people are going for graduate degrees out of a sense of insecurity and because they worry about the future. Healthcare is no longer a career of perpetual job security like 10 years ago....
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    I feel truly sorry for new grads

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

    Part of the problem is the PCT/tech system. A majority of supporting staff are enrolled in nursing programs and every year some of those individuals graduate and pass the boards. They get priority...
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    Does Anyone Actually LIKE Being a Nurse? (Slight Venting)

    Concerto_in_C replied to j_tay1981's topic in General Nursing

    I like being a night shift RN in a med-surg unit but I didn't like working in long-term care. I work in a hospital that is relatively high tech, modern, wired (electronic order entry, electronic...
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    Stupid, I know, but more bad representations of NURSES on tv!

    Concerto_in_C replied to uRNmyway's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The negative image of nurses in media is becoming a problem and nursing organizations are campaigning against it and have even called TV networks to protest the offensive material, sometimes with a...
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    What I learned in clincals

    Concerto_in_C replied to snowwhite2002's topic in General Students

    In a med-surg unit you don't automatically freak out because somebody's blood pressure is elevated. Almost nobody out there has a perfect blood pressure. First of all, you determine if the patient is...
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    Family claims hospital's staff shortage responsible for fatal crash

    Concerto_in_C replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    CNN has a story. Husband is accusing the hospital of chronic understaffing and working the remaining employees to death. After her shift exhausted wife crashed her car trying to drive home and was...
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    Nursing specialty that requires minimum patient contact and best hours?

    Concerto_in_C replied to tsipareht's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My friend succeeded in case management with just 1 year of nursing home experience. I think it's about personal qualities and also the company. If the company is a typical organization, there will be...
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    Nursing specialty that requires minimum patient contact and best hours?

    Concerto_in_C replied to tsipareht's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Another recommendation: consider case management. My buddy has an associate degree in nursing and she got a job for a case management company. At the time they hired her, she had like 1 year of...
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    Military Nursing

    Concerto_in_C replied to Lunah's topic in Government, Military

    Be sure to ask about the length of service specifically. If the military trains you as an officer, they expect a commitment for x-number of years. I don't know if it's 5 or 8 or 10, the last time I...