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cna's where i work makes about 20 dollars... ma's they work in clinics and around the same pay as well..

thanks everyone...

hello. is anyone here familiar about paul gann act?? in an emergency situation i know its okay to start blood but if md/s has not signed the consent can we still give the blood.??? thanks in advance...

i'm new also and working on telemetry/stepdown... it's aweful... like you, i am scared to lose my license on this unit.... it suckssssssssssssssssssssssss.........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....................

that;s just sad.. i hope she'll find ways to resolve her odor problems...

i was in it for the money of course and also helping the elderly.. now, i;m not even sure if it's all worth it... i wish i took a different path... i just started and i feel like quitting already... is that even a normal feeling?? did anyone in here feel like this too when they just started??? it is a secure job however, but i would rather do something else than this.. but now, i feel like i have no choice because too many people are depending on me... otherwise, i would have called it quits...

i live in cali... i'm on a telemetry unit... our ratio is 4 to 1...

thank you again everyone.. i appreciate all the response... i have been on the floor for a few days and i'm loving it so far... i love tele... i hope this feeling will last long...

thank you to all of those who responded... JGHmaleRN, i finally have a job on telemetry unit... i'm on my orientation right now.. i got lucky and got the job... i noticed a lot of hospitals are not really hiring as much for new grads right now since they hired a lot of new nurses in may... fortunately, i found one... thank you again...

angnus, exactly what i needed to hear.. thank you!! i start tomorrow i will let you guys know how it goes.. thanks again...

thanks!!! sounds like i made the right decision... i guess i will see how it will go... thank you!!

thank you bluestar and tramalady45 for your comment... i hope to gain lots of experience in tele and not burn myself out.... chinoy, good luck to you... let me know how it goes when you start...

i will be starting orientation on telemetry floor soon.... i havent even started but yet i feel very stressed already... other nurses who i know have asked me where i will be working and when i tell them "telemetry", most of them say " you gotta get out of there as soon as possible." after accepting the job offer that's when i kept hearing horror stories about telemetry... would anyone recommend telemetry for new graduates? for those who worked in telemetry unit fresh out of college, what was your first 6 months like?? thanks everyone..

thank you so much for the respond... reading your responses make me feel better about the job offer.. i guess one of the challenges i will face is reading the strips which i don't really have a problem with... i was just worried because nursing students and other nurses who were non telemetry nurses told me that they will never work on a telemetry unit because cardiac patients are always coding and are in very critical condition... so how busy is telemetry compared to others?? just curious.

i am a new grad and i just recently accepted a job offer on a telemetry medsurg unit... i have no telemetry experience and i keep hearing that telemetry is very hard... what challenge can i anticipate?? is telemetry really that difficult? pls respond... thanks in advance..