JayHanig

JayHanig

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  1. Nursing Student does not like PCT job

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I agree with Beth; a RN position is infinitely easier to get if you're already working in the facility. You don't have to love your work as a tech. It's not a career dead end for you but rather just...

  2. New Grad - Should I take this public health job??

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I can't imagine leaving a public health job for a hospital job unless the public health job left me in poverty. I can see leaving a hospital job even if it means flipping burgers at McDonald's. I...

  3. 58 years old - Am I too old to start nursing school??

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Here's what I learned in microbiology and A&P: Micro: Wash your hands. Go back and wash them better. Anatomy: If you can't see it, you don't need to know it. Physiology: You don't need to know...

  4. What do I say when the interviewer asks why I left my previous job?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    You can always tell them the commute became too much. They'll have record of your current address: you can always say you just moved into the area from the older, more distant location. Nobody is...

  5. 58 years old - Am I too old to start nursing school??

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I would not do it. I'm 60 and retired five years ago. Nursing school is much tougher than I think it needs to be but it took a toll on my immune system when I was in my mid 30s. It will probably...

  6. I was bullied out of my job

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I feel your pain. You didn't work for Tenet, by any chance? In any case, your story is a familiar one to their

  7. Need help deciding between 2 job offers

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I lived at Otis AFB when I was a kid and have family to this day in Beverly. That being said, I can't think of anything I would enjoy less than spending 3-4 hours a day in a commute. My last job...

  8. Doubting myself because I want to be a nurse so I can "give back"

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Frankly, I would run screaming in the other direction. I was severely injured in a plane crash back in the late 80's and felt the same urge to give back. My experience with broken bones naturally...

  9. Night Shift Woes...When Do You Sleep On Your Days Off????

    JayHanig replied to BibleBarb56's topic in General Nursing

    There is a reason they pay nurses more to work nights than any other shift: the sacrifice of a normal family life is a significant part of that. Back in my night shift days, pardon the pun, I stuck...

  10. Are too many certifications a bad thing?

    JayHanig replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Not to be critical but let's be sensible. I managed 18 years without a single one of those certifications and you're a three month RN? You remind me of one of those North Korean generals who's never...

  11. I was bullied out of my job

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Something else that may help is if you've got any letters from former patients or even better, physicians you've worked with, thanking you for your efforts above and beyond the call of duty. If it's...

  12. Reality Shock: Nursing school vs the real world

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I never used a filtered needle in my entire 18 years at the hospital bedside (at two different hospitals... one a huge teaching hospital). I don't recall ever seeing anybody else do it either. I...

  13. Recent hiree - Do I need manager's permission to apply for Dream Job?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I remember a nurse manager who tried to blow a transfer by me to another unit by bad mouthing me. I put up with it for a while but finally had enough. I went to the hiring manager and said I know my...

  14. Help, I hate Vomit - Can I still be a nurse?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Barfing is like yawning: one person does it and then everyone wants to do it. I used to be that way too but I've learned you can get used to anything. Back in my dive boat days, people used to get...

  15. Veteran night shift RN - Being forced to rotate shifts

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I told my bosses when I started that I would work whatever shift they wanted me on but they had to choose. I acclimated my body to staying awake during those hours and refused to do a rotating shift....

  16. Can I Refuse an Assignment?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I have been involved in two lawsuits. One was my fault and the other I was merely one of a cast of dozens who may or may not have been involved. (Truthfully, I didn't remember the patient or the...

  17. Can I Refuse an Assignment?

    JayHanig replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    When I was in the (nights) permanent float pool, the hospital would occasionally send me to either Peds, PICU, and once, even NICU. This is from an orthopedic joint background. I had no choice; I...

  18. Why is it inappropriate to stand up for yourself?

    JayHanig replied to remotefuse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My favorite revenge was on a thoracic resident who was a complete horse's ass. After a run in with him, I decided to have some fun at his expense. I was a night nurse so paging somebody at 0400...

  19. Why is it inappropriate to stand up for yourself?

    JayHanig replied to remotefuse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Don't get mad; get even. Open warfare with a physician is always a losing proposition for a nurse so be sneaky: Buy some bird seed and spread it liberally all over his car in the physician's parking...

  20. How do you leave it at work?

    JayHanig replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sure they do. How many really made rounds on all 7 patients q1h? They lie every

  21. How do you leave it at work?

    JayHanig replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Why? I suspect his competence is much greater than yours. The fact that you keep dodging around the question of your experience tells us you have little. If you did, you'd know his attitude is...

  22. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    JayHanig replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    The guiltier one feels the more defensive they become. A little too close to home for

  23. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    JayHanig replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I refused to play the clinical ladder game. It reminded me too much of school projects. If they didn't want to recognize my experience and abilities by promoting me for what I had learned, who...

  24. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    JayHanig replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Truer words were never written. Every thing that the author described, I have seen up close and personal. They didn't get me because I was able to escape at the age of 54 due to an inheritance....