ERVolunteer

Are you open to working in home health or a long term care? Many of those places offer what they call Baylor Plans or Weekend Only Shifts. You work 16 hours Saturday and Sunday, but you are considered full time with benefits. It would enable you to spend the weekdays with your kids. As for where to search for jobs, I use CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com. The State Of Florida's employment website, PeopleFirst.MyFlorida.com is also a good resource. Another thing to consider is looking at the various State Universities websites. Student Health Centers and other college-related clinics often have openings that aren't posted elsewhere. I've also applied at a few places that still take paper applications only (nursing homes, doctor's offices, and a small psych hospital), so I'd also suggest getting a bunch of resumes and knocking on doors. Good Luck!

TGH is an excellenent hospital. It's one of my dreams to train there. If you get a job there, you'll see the best in medicine. As for info about the city, if you're planning to go to Ybor city or the tropicana Field area at night, don't go alone. Otherwise, it's a very nice, enjoyable city.

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No, but I'm from the Tampa bay area, and have been past HCC Ybor many times. it looks like a nice school.

Thanks. I talked with someone in my L&D last Fri, and they said it was a lot like the CNA work on the other floors. Vitals, ect. I'm willing to take any type of experience I can get. I just graduated high school in May, and I'm currently working on my nursing pre reqs, and planning to go straight to my BSN and then MSN. I've looked into Doula classes in my area, but so far I haven't been able to take any of them. Becoming a doula is one of my goals, because I kniow I'd get to work with the midwives and get experience with births in all settings. That way I could also see if I want to do out of hospital births (unless the malpractice insurance decides for me). The major universities with the nursing programs around here are inner city and I hope to work on an Indian reservation, so experience with disadvantaged people would be good. I've looked into volunteering at local pregnancy centers, and the one I'm most interested in serves a lot of disadvantaged people. As for why I want to become a midwife,being a volunteer in the ER, I've seen plenty of women come in with OB/GYN problems (including one who had a miscarriage), and I want to be able to do whatever I can for women and babies. I'd like to do what I can to prevent problems that I've seen due to maternal smoking, drinking and drug use. I definately know the importance of Spanish. I live in Florida, and we have a fair amount of Spanish speaking patients come in.I took two semesters of it when i was dual enrolled. Unfortuately, my community college only offered Spanish one and two. I really realized how important it is when I one of the nurses from another unit came in asking if anyone spoke Spanish, and I was the only one who spoke even a little. again, thanks so much for your advice, and I'll definately look up those DONA doula classes again.

Hi, I'm a CNA in training, and I hope to become a nurse midwife. I was wondering, do some birth centers hire CNAs? I know that my hospitals L&D dpartment does, but I'd like to get some experience with a midwifery practice if I could. Thanks!

Hi, I'm also a CNA in training, and volunteer in the ER. Congrats on the ER position. Our hospital doesn't have CNAs in ER (I wish they did). At my hospital, I've never heard anyone request a bed bath in ER. Of course, I don't see everything,so I could be wrong. There probabally have been some that have gotten one in ER. Turning is a maybe, and toileting/bed pans is a yes.

As you can see from my name, I'm an ER volunteer. I've been there for two years and I LOVE it. What I do is clean rooms,transport patients in wheelchairs (an occasionally on gurneys with a EMT/nurse), take samples to the lab, and sit with patients. Duties will vary from hospital to hospital. One thing about ER though, you have to have a strong stomach, and you have to realize that you're going to see some pretty bad injuries, and maybe even deaths. I've seen maybe two violent patients in the four years I've been at the hospital, and niether of them were in the ER. I've personally never been threated, and I've even sat with some psych patients. So unless your hospital is in an area with a really high crime rate, I wouldn't worry about violence too much. If you ever feel uncomfortable with an assignment, tell the nurse. A least at my hospital, if they ask you to do something you know you can't do, you can refuse. I really love the ER, and yes, volunteering looks VERY good on resumes and college applications. Anyway, good luck with the ER. I think you'll enjoy it.