jillhall

has anyone worked in st. croix, virgin islands? i just accepted a position there. i am a nicu nurse.

bad deals come in many ways. first of all the pay rate is important. for specialty areas, i thinking the lowest pay rate i have seen is about $26. however, i would not accept that low of pay unless i decide that i want to go to a particular place ...

jax, sounds like a good fit for you. i sometimes used to complain about "having to go to work". my son looked at me and said, "why mom, how many people get to go to work and chill with the babies". "you should feel lucky". ever since then, when i...

:heartbeat has anyone heard of needs for a nicu nurse when it comes to medical missions?

I am just saying, that legally they cannot strike. If patients aren't being attended to, they cannot strike.

i used to feel the same way fergus. but then i thought of it as supporting nurses to get what they want, it caused a "paradigm" shift in my thinking. i have never worked for fast staff, but if i did cross a picket line, i feel that i would be helpi...

:angryfire some nurses get so upset about travelers going in to cover while other nurses strike. i don't understand it. by us going in to work a strike, it is giving the nurses who strike the opportunity to stand up for themselvesand get something ...

i know suzanne. i just don't know what constitutes a good plan. thanks for the response. you are so great to respond!

i begin a new travel assignment the middle of next month. this will be the first time that i am taking insurance. i don't know much about what is in a good policy. i have had the same health insurance for the past 18 years, so i have taken it for ...

i haven't seen any hospital policies for this issue. i can only share with you what i have done. i have been in this circumstace three or four times. the first time it happened i was a fairly new nurse, and so i remember this incident the most. i ...

lol... i am responding to a post that was sort of midway in this discussion. an engineer posted about how people assume her to be male. she said, "sorry for butting in". i responded to her post cause i live in utah too, and her comment reminded me...

lol... i am responding to a post that was sort of midway in this discussion. an engineer posted about how people assume her to be male. she said, "sorry for butting in". i responded to her post cause i live in utah too, and her comment reminded me...

i am a nicu nurse of over 20 years. i went straight from nursing school to nicu. lol, my duaghter did the same thing. she has been doing nicu for two years and cannot imagine doing any other type of hospital type nursing. it has been good to both...

lol.....its fine to butt in. i live in salt lake city. my duaghter in law is a computer engineer. what she hates is getting together with her "peers' (male, white, caucasain, middle age) and when she talks, they don't look at her face......their g...

jennie, you are sooooo welcome. please make a post and let us all know what you are doing and how you are going about it. it may just help someone else in your situation. good luck. hugs

wow, $55,000 dollars in nyc doesn't sound like much. it is so expensive to live there. i live in utah and pay rates aren't very high, but not as low as $25,000 to begin as a new grad. my daughter is 2 years post new grad and makes over $50,000. s...

jennie....i think it is great that you want to be a hospice nurse as well.

i am happy to help. i think it is interesting to get isnights from others. salary versus what one love's can be tough. my husband, as i told you, taught 4th grade. he loved it! he was lucky. most males don't last in elementry education due to t...

suzanne, you are so right. :wink2: the huge red flag on this issue is no signed contract. i was attempting to address the orginal post with a little feeling in it for what she went through. however, i was clear that we need to act professionally...

you may want to refer to the post that jennifer posted about wanting to be a nurse. i made quite a long reply about nursing. everyone in my family are educators. my father was a professor at a university for 45 years. my husband is a retired teach...

dont let the curriculum in nursing intimidate you. some people i have known want to be a nurse, but they are so afraid of chemistry, physics, math and other science classes. let me ease your worries if this is a concern. once you get into your car...

so you want to be a nurse. congratulations. don't think about it too much. begin applying for nursing schools. some are more difficult than others to get into. as you apply and wait, then you can get more and more information on what it is lik...

i don't believe it is all such common knowledge to have it written in the agreement that you are responsible for apartment rent if you get fired. i have only seen two contracts that make reference to that. first of all, the circumstances of a nurse...

i am beginning to feel somewhat like a seasoned traveler, however maybe it is cause of my age. lol. :chair: as i have worked with different travel companies, i am beginning to find that i don't want to sign some of the things that are in the travel...

thanks. always nice to get a pack on the pack. i was going to add one thing more. go to the site on allnurses where you can rate your agency and the facility. the more people who rate both will give all of us better statistics as to what compa...