James75

I got hired straight into L&D our of nursing school, as did the majority of labor nurses I know.

Hello, I’m currently an L&D nurse planning to attend midwifery school in the next few years. Luckily I will have plenty of L&D experience by the time I graduate (Hopefully also some postpartum and ideally an IBCLC). I should be able to work f...

When I was applying as a new grad in Southern Oregon, there were a lot of applicants from California.

At my school you only had to have the first shot, but if you were even a day behind on any of the boosters you were barred from clinical until you had them. So sometimes people needed to make sure they got their shot on a very specific day.

My facility will not hire former med surg nurses on L&D because they usually quit during or immediately after orientation. They’ve found the transition from so many patients with tasks to one (sometimes two) patients with a lot of autonomy, and l...

I thought I would love OB... and I did. Of my 16 other classmates who thought they’d love OB... 1 did, 1 was meh, and the rest hated it. I love birth in general, and in L&D I love working with fewer patients at a time, that everything can change ...

This isn’t the case everywhere, but our L&D unit will not hire former med surg nurses. Management says they have too hard of a time switching from the mindset of “what the doctors ordered” to more independent decision making, and that many are un...

I work on labor and delivery and a) we have a lot of young female nurses so at any given time at least three-four are pregnant (often six or more) and b) we all tend to get VERY excited about the whole thing. I haven’t witnessed or heard about one io...

How does the OP handle references without advertising to managers and coworkers the upcoming move?

We have one and only once have I seen anyone try to use it. Like others have said, it can give you an idea where to palpate, otherwise not very helpful.

Oregon has income tax, Washington has sales tax. Some people live in Vancouver Wa and shop in Portland OR to circumvent this.

I’ve heard great things about Legacy. People seem to like Kaiser as well. Providence is doing interesting things in Women’s Health (hospital supplied doulas, and they seem to have a huge focus on lactation). There’re so many options that you might as...

A lot of my nursing classmates were hired there for their first jobs. They got good orientations. The one hired onto Ortho is still there and loving it. There was one particular floor desperate for nurses that hired 5 of my classmates. 2 ended up qui...

I agree with boywithacoin. I work at Salem Hospital and am very impressed with it as an organization. It’s a lot better run and safer than places I was a student in Portland. A lot of the nurses I work with did student rotations or worked in the Euge...

I finished my ABSN in December, and started as an L&D nurse in February, came off orientation in the last few weeks. Like you, I was planning on specializing in women's Health. I had been a doula and a childbirth educator and had almost gone to g...

You could try travel contracts for a while around the area. Catch up on scuttlebutt and get to scout hospitals before committing.

OHSU doesn't require TEAS for entry. In fact, I'm not aware of any Oregon schools that do.

Congratulations!

For what it's worth, I have also heard nothing back, though I don't really expect to get a second interview.

I used to live with a single mom who worked nights in the ER and was on call very occasionally as well. She would rent out a room in her house at below market rate to reliable college students (that was me, back when I lived with her) in exchange for...

Still a nursing student, but when I look up CNM jobs in my area, a great majority say "one year experience required. Will consider two years experience in L & D as meeting this requirement." So it seems to me like getting those magic two years w...

Congratulations, everyone! Can't wait to meet you. :) Wow, I so wasn't expecting to get in - I had this whole alternative plan to become a CNA for a while... This is a bit of an adjustment. A happy one, but whew. It's happening!

That's why I asked for Fall placement as well. Hope you can make the switch!

I was accepted for Fall Cohort in Portland!

Yes! Though I would also like to believe we'll all get the good news in the next hour or so. This waiting is killing me!