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It is totally up to your comfortable level. If it is me, I would like to move to ER. First, you like to be in ER. Second, it does not sounds right being pregnant and working in oncology to me. I am not fully comfortable to work in oncology if I am pregnant. I have seen so many oncology nurses who deliver their babies just fine, but also seen some oncology nurses who are struggling after miscarriages. We try not to give active IV chemo patients to a pregnant nurse, and you also can say "no" to take care of chemo patients. However, who knows. Some patients have 5FU ointment, and some has po chemo pills. You empty the urinal, and you may find out that the patient takes chemo pills everyday, but nobody put a chemo precaution sticker on the urinal. You may touch your new admitted patient's forearm with your bare hands to feel the veins without knowing that the patient apply 5FU before admission.

OP, I had worked with a mean nurse. She put comments all of my nursing judgement, and was not even interested in why I did it. She was rude, and not competent from my point of view. She is the second most strangest person I have ever met. I tried to please her as much as possible. Even though she was rude, I treated her politely, and nicely........ She has never changed until I did stand for myself.

OP, there will be option for anonymous report in your nursing board website: ASAP. If you do not know your manager well enough, and not comfortable to report it to her, you have a choice not to report it to your manager. I will report it to the nursing board.

Same here. We do not have neuro/stroke unit. The 2nd floor nurses (ICU, PCU, Onc-tele) are NIHSS and tele trained, so all stroke patients are admitted on the 2nd floor. Our med/surge nurses (3rd floor) are not trained for NIHSS nor tele, so stroke patients stay in our unit even though the tele order is discontinued. It is waste of the tele bed, but should keep it this way unless the hospital decides to train 3rd floor nurses for NIHSS.

Take a part time or casual position(On call) in the hospital, and try the government job, too. New grad orientation in med surge floor is not long (Probably 6 weeks or something like that). I will take a government job. The government job always works better in a long run-benefits are great. However, you do not have any experience, so better try both of them if it is possible.

Hi, I am a BSN nurse with 2 years of tele/ med-surge/oncology/critical care experiences. I am currently in the job market looking for a position in Portland area. Right after I submit my resume to OHSU, the manager called/set up the interview( Very fast!). It was six month temp position, but I was O.K. with it. It means that I have at least six months of period to search for jobs in Portland area with stable income. However, I heard that it did not have any benefits (no insurance/no pto). The manager states that she will offer me a regular position if there is a opening. I re-read ONA, and I do not think that she can give me a regular position. ONA does not even mention temp nurse when filling up the opening position. Even though I am trained in the unit, the manager should offer the job to other nurse if that nurse meets the minimum requirements. Conclusion: No PTO: I can accept it for temporarily because I like the unit/ the hospital. Six month temporary: No Problem. I can find other jobs easily within six months. No health insurance for six months: feeling a little bit uncomfortable. In addition, there will be bunch of new grads who already work in OHSU as CNA within a couple of months. Do I still take the job?

Look for other school that offers chem in summer, or school that offers ANP without chem. I took my pre req via three different schools.

Hey, don't be too hard to Swirlies. Not every day as a nursing student was a perfect day. It can be horrible, and everyone can look like a jerk sometimes. I met bad nurses/bad classmates/bad instructors too. You cannot even imagine how badly they treated me. I have also met good coworkers/ good classmates/ good teachers. I remember my first clinical day as a nursing student, and my nurse who I shadowed yelled at me-everyone heard it because it was very loud. I gave a glass of water to the patient because the MD canceled/changed fluid restriction. She did not see the new order, and yelled at me banging the door like a crazy people. Nobody stood for me even though they all knew that it was a very abusive/threatening behavior. The bystanders are equally guilty. Unfortunately to the nurse, I followed the order so there was nothing for her to do to put me in the bad position. The nurse is a jerk without doubt. It is unfortunate that you have met a lot of jerks, Swirlies. Hope that you meet better people, and I am so sure that there are people who is not a jerk in nursing field. Be strong.

Hi, Bottlemed. Would you like to give me the list of hospitals in Dallas that offer direct contracts? I am planning to move to Dallas in this September. I will pray for your well-being/happieness for three month every night......:)

I completed RN to BSN program in Jan. of 2016. Whenever I asked something or had a questions, WGU responded promptly. I did not have any issue with them. Hope that someone helps you quickly.

It is doable. I took A&P 1, 2, and 3 all together in summer term (1 for 4 weeks, 2 for 4 weeks, and 3 for 3 weeks) in class, and took 6 more online credits. A&P 1 was the hardest for me because I do not have any science background. A&P 2 and 3 are not that difficult comparing 1. I did not work, but I was a single mother with two young boys. As long as you give up your summer(No TV, no online surfing, no movie, no drinking, no dating, no shopping except grocery, no SNS, no facebook), it will be fine.

I have started day shift as a new grad with other two more day shift new grad, and one night shift new grad because the night shift nurses did not want to move to day shifts in the unit. Strange.... right? However, I realized the reason later. Day shift was crazy in the unit, and politics involved (Manager all the times). Five staff nurses, one charge nurse, three CNAs, and a unit aid share the same schedule, and every single one was changed except one CNA. The unit aid moved to Endo, one staff nurse moved to ED, one RN moved to outpatient infusion, one staff nurse moved to ICU, one RN moved to outpatient, and I am quitting. Be careful to get a job as day shift if you are a new grad. It means that night shift nurse do not want to take it, and probably the environment is hostile.

I also have a job offer from Loyal Source. Have you already started working with them? How is it? This is my first travel job, and I am excited/nervous at the same time.