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1. Best men's watch for male nurses

   EDRN1 replied to binggrad's topic in Male Students

   Go classy with one chronograph Nixon watches. You can clean it at the end of your shift and you will love all the compliments instead of going with the generic gshock type watch.

2. Nursing Pay

   EDRN1 replied to dontran0120's topic in General Students

   Totally depends on your location. Come to northern California salary will be way over 100k. There are tons of nurses who travel out here from texas or south and end up staying. Check it out

3. ICU thinking about ED

   EDRN1 replied to CGB1's topic in Emergency

   Do it! The couple times I have worked upstairs in the ICU I always find myself falling asleep. You get different patients everyday rather than getting stuck with the same 2 GOMER pts for 3 days in a row.

4. Studying for CEN

   EDRN1 replied to dee789's topic in Emergency

   You will be fine, just watch all Boswell videos on youtube, they are amazing. What a nice guy for posting them all for free for others to use. I can tell you for fact there is no free comprehensive CCRN review material. I think Boswell has the be...

5. Dress code for continuing education

   EDRN1 replied to nursejenjohnson's topic in Uniform/Gear

   Here in cali you can wear whatever you want. Shorts t shirts etc. Not sure how it is in the rest of the country...

6. New Grad New ER Position

   EDRN1 replied to McDowellM's topic in Emergency

   Work hard and help others out and ask a million questions. Look up things you do not understand on uptodate when you have a second at work.

7. I have 60 grand of student loan when I finished BSN

   EDRN1 replied to Sam. W's topic in General Nursing

   What is your interest rate? If it is super low might just be best to pay minimum payment for rest of life and let inflation eat the principal up

8. ER Cliques and better assignments

   EDRN1 replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

   You can bring it up to charge nurse or manager, but as you are already aware it might backfire. My advice bring it up only when you are ready to switch hospitals or departments. Some ER just suck and it is best to just run away from them.

9. Career change to nursing?

   EDRN1 replied to Z0RN's topic in Men

   Move to the bay area or sacramento and you will make way over 100k. In Sacramento you can buy nice house for 400k. Plus schedule is so flexible. Psych nursing is very much in demand. Also have you looked into psych NP seems like a very interestin...

10. TNCC Before Graduation?

    EDRN1 replied to CAN_SN's topic in Emergency

    If you do not mind paying the money for the cert then go for it. Best advice to get job in the ER is to get job as tech, secretary etc, before you graduate almost guarantee yourself a job in ER. If you cannot get a support staff job at very least d...

11. Nursing Position after Graduating

    EDRN1 replied to dontran0120's topic in General Students

    The answer to that question totally depends on where you live and what kind of unit you want to work on. If you are willing to live anywhere and work in any department you will have no problem. The first people to get jobs out of school were the on...

12. BP high or low -when to call the Dr. ?

    EDRN1 replied to cmkayne's topic in General Students

    Call the Dr or do intervention when pt is symptomatic. Think weakness, dizziness, pale, diaphoretic, etc.