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  1. What specialties or jobs are easier than a med-surg nurse?

    brainsarecool replied to medapop's topic in General Nursing

    I'm late to this post but for anyone else who comes here looking for specialties besides the craziness of med-surg, this thread had some good

  2. Weekend/Holiday pay for travel RNs?

    brainsarecool posted a topic in Travel

    Hey ya'll - do you get any incentive pay for weekends or holidays as a traveler? I talked with one agency that said they don't do extra pay for weekends and thought that was strange, but I have no...

  3. Traveling without EMR experience?

    brainsarecool posted a topic in Travel

    Hi friends, I am so eager to travel. I have enough RN experience. *However*, I only have experience with the EMR at the Veterans Affairs hospitals. Has anyone traveled to a hospital that uses a...

  4. Do nurses on Med-Surg/Tele have to work in the tele room?

    brainsarecool posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    I currently work on a Med-Surg / Tele floor at a VA and here we're lightly trained in the tele room but there are nurses who *only* work in the tele room reading the monitors/remote tele boxes, so...

  5. Do nurses on Med-Surg/Tele have to work in the tele room?

    brainsarecool replied to brainsarecool's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Mrs. D, thank you so much! I had no idea how this worked since my current role is my first job out of nursing school. Yes on our floor there are two nurses that sit in a room all day ?and watch the...

  6. Suggestions for ways an unemployed new grad nurse can volunteer medical services to help out during the Covid-19?

    brainsarecool replied to short cake's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Try checking with your county health department. Ours is setting up drive through testing and looking for volunteers with or without medical experience to handle patient flow. So sorry you haven't...

  7. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

    brainsarecool replied to IRN2011's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was also exposed to a patient who wound up testing positive. Came in with SOB and cough, a couple hours later developed a fever of 102. I'm not on the covid unit, and they won't give us masks. No...

  8. Emory ABSN Fall 2016

    brainsarecool replied to bizcocho's topic in School, College Programs

    Yes - it's very expensive! On par with private schools with big names though, I think. I talked to the financial aid person there and she said on average, each student receives about 40,000 in aid. I...

  9. Emory ABSN Fall 2016

    brainsarecool replied to bizcocho's topic in School, College Programs

    @sav768 it was about 10

  10. Emory ABSN Fall 2016

    brainsarecool replied to bizcocho's topic in School, College Programs

    Hey guys! I got an acceptance letter today to the ABSN program. I applied Oct 15. They also asked me for test scores and I sent my SAT scores from 10 years ago because that's all I had! Does anyone...

  11. NYC accelerated programs - confused about admissions tests!

    brainsarecool posted a topic in School, College Programs

    Hi allnurses friends! Longtime forum reader, first-time poster. I'm planning on applying to accelerated nursing programs in the NYC area for the summer or fall of 2016 class. I'm looking at the public...