SoaringOwl

I found my happy brand! Wonderwink. They're like yoga pants and a t-shirt! I'm so glad that's over.

Are you planning to work as a regular RN in those roles for a few years first? The neonate NP program I looked at required 2 years experience in neonate before applying. Likewise, a peds NP I looked at wanted at least 1 year acute care of peds or hig...

For the Gulf Coast, you might want to try Naples, Venice, and Sarasota. Avoid Manatee, St. Pete and Tampa. Although you could work in Tampa and live elsewhere, since I hear TGH is a great hospital, and might be the highest paying you'll find. Ocala i...

Your post cracked me up because you would have become me. I went to a 4-year school straight out of HS, picked teaching as a major because it seemed like a cushy job, and found out it's a crap job that pays crap, advancement is non-existent, and you ...

And yet, if you had done the opposite and said patient fell while you were giving PRN meds, you'd get the opposite lecture: how could you possibly leave a fall risk for PRN meds? Sometimes there is no way to win.

Agreed, check policy. As a new grad in a residency, I have a 2 and a 1/3 year wait to change shifts or departments!

I'm always amazed at how rude people can be. I would distance myself as far from her as possible. That is a time bomb waiting to go off (eventually someone in power will wise up to her) and you don't want to be hit with the fall-out.

Agreed! You may have to move, but they are there. I landed 2 out of my 3 interviews! I started looking at this board in 2008 or so. I read about how it's oh-so-impossible to get a job as a new grad. It discouraged me a bit, but I took the jump anywa...

Two words: night shift! One of the best parts is limited contact with management. (Not that I don't appreciate the feedback, it's just nice to know it's only gonna happen at 7 AM. That keeps my anxiety level down knowing I don't have to worry about ...

All jobs have their down sides. I could drone on about my other career, and all the crud I had to deal with there. But when I get down, I think about how nursing is better than my old job: I have different patients all the time, so when I hate someon...

FL is a massive state. It's drastically different all over. You need to narrow it down to get responses. Panhandle? Gulf Coast? Miami-area, Northeast FL, Orlando, etc. Or, tell us what you want. Great beaches, progressive/liberal/conservative neighbo...

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I concur! Hospitals are required to have a certificate of need before they can open up a new wing, or re-designate themselves as a trauma center, or what not. Well, in order to open a nursing school, there should also be a certificate of need. Where...

This is a bit off-topic, but I just have to say it: joe, nurses work less than teachers. 3 12's a week comes to 156 days a year (assuming no vacation days used), versus 180-190 for typical teachers (some work year-round, like in juvenile detention ce...

South FL (a state w/no income tax! Woo-hoo!) BSN pay: $23.50 days, $25.50 evenings, $28.50 nights, $27.50 weekends, $29.50 weekend nights. Overtime above 40 hours/wk. New grad, no experience, Neuro and MS unit

I've ordered some new stuff. Not in tall, it seems that isn't going to happen. I'll check out your suggestions apples and misty. Thanks!

I'm thinking about wearing scrub dresses and skirts. Not for modesty, but because I hate pants. I've always found skirts more comfortable. Anyway, my hospital requires pantyhose with them. I wish I could wear leggings under them, but that's not allow...

It took me forever to break in my Dansko's. I was ready to throw them out, but everyone told me to hang in there with them. Just the other day I noticed they're finally broken it, and comfortable! I wish I had known about the hair dryer trick weeks a...

Oh, I'm jealous! Too late for me.

At my hospital, RNs only draw blood from PICC lines. Multi-skilled techs (fancy word for CNA with tons of training, or what used to be an LPN) do blood draws. It's not a skill I learned in school, and it's not a skill I need. If you're not doing bloo...

I applied to six different states coast-to-coast where I heard there may be a need (not Cali or NYC or some other hopeless place) and ended up staying in my own state. Everyone says how saturated the market is here in FL, and it is, but my first and ...

BSN- $23.50, ADN $22.90. All nurses must be BSN within a few years of hire.

Sure, why not try it? If you think you want to live in FL permanently, come in July and August and see if you can stand the absolute worst of it: 90+ degrees and humidity you can cut with a knife, plus hurricanes, tornadoes, and tropical storms. If y...

Quite the opposite. My family still won't listen to me when I tell them they need to go to the dr to have something checked out. I even explain how simple the tests will be, and offer to go with them. My mother ended up hospitalized from not listeni...

Sim lab was my least favorite part of nursing school, mostly because I hate being on display (I suffer from social anxiety disorder). I was so glad when I completed the last one and graduated, and thought "No more labs! Yea!" Now I'm in a residency,...