Athabascan BSN, MSN

Operating room nurse/educator - Neurosurgery

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About Athabascan

Athabascan has 31 years experience as a BSN, MSN and specializes in Operating room nurse/educator - Neurosurgery.


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  1. Athabascan

    MedSurg SATA Questions Struggling

    I highly suggest using UWorld and practice those SATA questions. There is a strategy for answering these types of questions. UWorld does a great job of
  2. Athabascan

    Advice Please: Seeking Operating Room Job

    Agree with the above. I am an operating room nurse of 20+ years and RNFA in neurosurgery, ortho/spine/ Level I trauma. Go directly to the OR. The OR is a totally different specialty and you will need...
  3. Athabascan

    How Can Admin Help to Retain School Nurses?

    The size of the school district, administrative team at the school, and working conditions make a huge difference for job satisfaction. All this being said, I would not want to start my nursing...
  4. Athabascan

    How Can Admin Help to Retain School Nurses?

    I feel it depends on where you are at in your nursing career. School nursing is more political now with BOE putting their political agendas before best practice. School nursing is not difficult work....
  5. Sounds like there is prejudice. That is worst thing for our nursing profession. We are helpers, not judges. Sounds like you are on the right track! Be
  6. Listen to your nurse attorney before you do anything. I hope you have nursing liability insurance that covers license protection. Good
  7. Look for another job and count yourself lucky not having to work for a company such as
  8. I tried all of your tips above and the minute the future employer's HR department finds out - it is a dear john letter within days. The nurses hire me, but the HR departments look at me like I have...
  9. Athabascan

    Suboxone

    I have not been able to find work after a 10 year drug free recovery. No one wants to take a risk on an at risk nurse. Any tips on getting past the prejudice and finding a nursing job.
  10. You are absolutely correct. Not sure why the AMA and MD's seem to fare better than nurses when having substance abuse
  11. Athabascan

    Wondering about working for Davita Dialysis

    I too went through the same scenario, but did not even make it past the background check. They saw my misdemeanor and all talks halted. I too was given a contract, salary, "met the team" but HR put...