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None here. Plus we got all the extra pay differentials cut or eliminated and no merit raises this year. We were basically told we were lucky to have our jobs and not be furloughed.

I just went through 3 different interviews over the last few weeks and heard close to the same thing at the end of each of them. The difference with the job I was offered and accepted was the manager mentioned sending my information back to HR. Did y...

In my 12 years as a nurse I have done: 1 year Oncology floor. I liked it but was physically attacked by a patient and for reasons to detailed to go into here I left that job. 2 years Telemetry/Intermediate care floor. Stayed as long as my sanity coul...

Going from floor nursing to any outpatient setting is a complete change but going from a floor to an office setting is a massive change. Four days is not even close to having a true feel of what the job should be. I currently work in an Radiation Onc...

I really would love to do hotel/motel management and tourism. I have looked into the program and as much as I'd love to do it I really like getting a paycheck and not adding more debt to our lives. Maybe someday I can do what I love and not what I ha...

Welcome Bashair. I am finding this post very interesting.

I have 2, one in the state I live in and one in the state I work in. I went through hell to get the one from the state I live in so I refuse to just let it lapse. I did put it in inactive status the last renewal since I just couldn't see spending mon...

Started out in Oncology and thought that was my dream job, got assaulted by a patient and left. I went to a telemetry/ICU stepdown unit and hated every single day the 2 years I was there. My next job was Interventional Radiology and I loved it but th...

I'm a pediatric MRI sedation/Radiology nurse and I have an ADN. I have worked in Interventional Radiology, Pediatric Psych, Telemetry, and Oncology all with my ADN.

No. I would never discourage it if someone had their heart set on it but I will never recommend it and will steer my kids far away from it.

I don't think it's a federal law but I know some hospital systems are like that. I am per diem right now but I can work as many or as few hours I want and not worry. One place I worked for made you take a permanent position if you continually worked ...

We use MRI compatible pumps. We have 3 pumps so if a patient is coming from the NICU or the PICU and has multiple drips and requires sedation the intensivist has to decide what drips are the most important and what can be turned off for the span of t...

I got my first IVR job with 2 years telemetry/ICU stepdown experience. I learned how to take care of vented patients very quickly because we took care of a lot of them and the ICU nurses very rarely stayed. I say go for it and apply. I'm glad I did b...

I work in MRI at one of our Children's Hospitals and I can tell you we are nothing like that at all. Everything we have is pediatric specific so we have all sizes of equipment from neonate to adult. We only have 2-3 pumps that are MRI safe so if a ch...

I'm thinking this is the book the OP is talking about. It sounds interesting. BARNES & NOBLE | The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated | Hardcover, Audiobook

I currently work per diem for a hospital system where I work at both a pediatric hospital and all the adult hospitals within the system. I am a radiology nurse by the way. I love that I work with both adults and peds although I do love peds a bit mor...

I thought I wanted to go back to the floor at one point. I went to the interview where I proceeded to hyperventilate and break out in hives while being interviewed. Needless to say they never called me back. I tried psych nursing but even though I lo...

I can work at any of my companies facilities. The closest is a 45 minute drive and the furthest is an hour an a half. Currently I split my week with one that is an hour away and one that is an hour and 15 minutes away. I love my satellite radio and b...

I would love to be PICC certified. Both IR departments I have worked in do PICC line insertions or at least the doctors do. I have assisted in enough that I could do them on my own but don't have the necessary certification to do it. I'm hoping I can...

When my situation happened I was on day shift and there was 2 people that did the charge nurse position. One charge nurse was awesome and would help out with whatever she could this happened to be the day the other charge nurse worked and she was one...

I stayed on a floor exactly like you are working in for 2 years before I just couldn't do it anymore. I cried on my way to work, at work, and on my way home from work. The last straw came when I had 8 patients one day and within the first hour of my ...

1.) what type of nursing licensure do you have? please check or type your title. ____lpn___x__rn______other 2.) how long have you been a nurse? a. less than one year b. 1-3 years c. 4-6 years d. 7-10 years e. 10 years or more 3.) what annual salary ...

The hospital system I work at has you throw them away with the regular trash.

The OP wages are pretty accurate for my area which is MO/IL. I make $28/hr and that is per diem wage with 5 years experience. My base wage when I was full time was $22/hr with the same experience. The job before that I was at $20/hr for 3 years and I...

I took mine on Valentine's Day 5 years ago.