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When I looked into going to NZ was told I was too old at 39.

In the US nursing is good enough paying compared other available jobs to keep you in it support your family. At same time it's also become a powerless profession. Most states don't have unions or political power to protect nursing so hospital staff ...

For me nursing was a second career. I initially hated the business world working IT/accounting. I either needed to get my CPA or go into investment banking. I felt investment banking was scummy. I had a internal yearning to do something I felt worthw...

My old hospital use to require mandatory overtime. I am not sure how it was enforceable. Although if you refused you found yourself working a terrible schedule like 1 on 1 off, 1 on an such (coincidence?). That hospital was in Georgia and there is no...

As a ICU nurse I feel your pain and have done this all too often. I watched family keep essentially a body alive in a bed to the point that it begins to breakdown. No matter how we turn them, feed them nutrition and provide hydration its a lifeless v...

Hang in there..though nursing is dog eat dog most of the time, it is still one of the better paying jobs you can get right out of school. The job market has changed drastically since the late 90s when they were predicting nursing to be huge shorta...

Two for me. One was laying concrete and the other was maintenance guy at local YMCA. The concrete work was actually better than the disgusting things people do and leave behind at the hot tube, saunas, pools and gyms. Kids vomit every where and smear...

Well everyone's experience varies greatly with agencies. It boils down to the recruiter in most situations. I like Travel Nurse Across America (but I like my recruiter there). She has been with them for a while and she is the large reason I came back...

I would be cautious with online search reviews and such. Many companies pay people or have their own staff leave fictitious reviews. No bad talking FastStaff (they do strike nursing also) but I have heard equally contradictory things about them from ...

I was 36 when I started traveling. I had been a staff nurse many years. I just got bored, feed up with hospital politics and our working condition. I did it for the money but mostly for mental change. In your situation what have you got to lose? You...

No problems sorry for all the typos. I had just gotten home from work and did it from my phone. If I can help answer questions let me know. I am currently in Oregon on assignment. If you want to go to California start the application process NOW! It ...

Watch out for promises that sound too good to be true. All travel companies get the same amount from the hospital issued contract need. Then they take their cut before paying you. Most will either provide insurance or pay you money plus a certain amo...

Does your hospital not have a policy about two married people working on the same unit? Some say you cannot be married to someone who works on the same unit, some allow as long as it is not same shift, is it large unit? That is interesting.

Yup, seen the same every where I have been as travel nurse. I have seen cardiologist, hospitalists, specialists and I would say 75% of the surgeons I have worked with use the attractive nurses as side play things. Buy them car on side or even put the...

I like the can't just you get him new body organ ones! Reminded me of a lady who I took care of once. She was near death with liver failure from ETOH abuse. She had already received a liver as she killed her first from ETOH but cleaned up her act and...

A thick skin, keeping your mouth shut and avoiding nursing school drama are big ones I tell nurse students. Nursing schools are hives for stress and drama. Not saying hospitals or nursing as whole ate not but at least limit your interaction with that...

I have seen my fare share of nurses date and be traded in for other nurses by doctors. I think that is normally a difficult dynamic to maintain as you are professionally beneath doctors or as most doctors see it. I generally caution new grades from d...

Don't let that leave you negative. I like nursing but honestly there a lot attitudes and personalities in nursing. Nursing attracts all kinds and nursing is changing to mostly RN dominated where LPNs use to be. LPNs are being marginalized a lot so I ...

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Yea, I think nursing stress contributes but generally the divorce rate is inching for aociety as a whole. I think their is a lot more going on. Societal views on marriage, changes financial and family dynamics and economics.

I agree, a lot people going in NP thinking it will be cake 9-5hrs 4-5 days a week with a bump in pay and no poop. While it can be so it is rare. Most NPs I know who work for hospitals work all the time doing H&P and taking care the bulk of floor ...

In ICUs I feel bedside is good but not if there are a lot family members present at bedside. The other issue is some nurses like tell way too much information and some of which is not important. I will get detail information about things that are not...

I demand to have (insert steak or fantasy food items) at 3am after being admitted for GI bleed. Also being told " you're my nurse and a waiter so you have to do whatever I say". That last was by a illegal Mexican male in for OD. Just calmly explained...

I agree. Personally I have experienced work place romance. While it is a seemingly good idea if it does not work out its makes for uncomfortable and awkward work environment at the very least. Also it can affect your coworker interactions. Just not w...

Yes, no mortgage, no overhead and 80k in bank. I am even considering doing the airforce CRNA program if I am applicable to it. I am waiting to hear from a medical recruiter now.