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Thanks to everyone that replied. Thank you for the warnings and the knowledge that you have shared. I will do my best to find a job here, in my home town, that will give me as much experience as possible before I begin my traveling. What area (ER, OR, ICU, Med Surg, etc.) should I devote the most attention to in order to get the experience needed for traveling? Is OR a good area? That is my true area of interest and what I hope to spend my career as a nurse working in.

I was not stating that Selke was pessimistic about the fact that traveling nurses need experience......I truly appreciate that person's honesty in that matter..........I just thought it was sort of pessimistic to assume that because someone wants to travel means they are trying to "get out of dodge". I don't think that every traveling nurse is running from their hometown. I just think that most people look at it as a means to experience parts of the country they might otherwise never get to see. I truly do appreciate everyone's replies on here about how significant experience is in this line of work, and I have every intention of making sure I get an adequate amount before I ever try. I guess I am just excited about the opportunity of it and was hoping that perhaps there was a way to do it sooner---but not because I am running from my hometown--I love my hometown--but because I want to see new and exciting things.

SELKE, I appreciate your reply and all of the other replies. NO, I am not trying to "get out of dodge", traveling has always been something I have desired to do and with a perk----a job I have wanted to do since I was about 5 years old. It is unfortunate that some people always look on the pessimistic side of things..........but I assure you, my desire to travel has nothing to do with me trying to skip town...lol. But, once again, thank you for your reply and I will make best use of your advise in my future endeavors.

I have read several items on here and on the net that there are no traveling companies that hire new grads, but me being a person hard to convince, I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has ever heard of a company that will hire a new grad or a fairly new grad? Traveling nursing is what I have wanted to do for a long time and am excited about getting started as soon as possible. I graduate with RN in May of 2008.

This coming semester in introduction to maternity and pediatrics, we are required to write process papers on postpartum care of the mother and neonate assessment. I was wondering if anyone out there has a sample of this or knows where to get a sample so that I can know how to do these papers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not practice plagurism (sp?), so do not worry about that........I just want a format that can help me get started. Thank you in advance.

Maybe the DON is in on it too?

i quit smoking for 4 months at one time. I became extremely hateful and just down-right mean. I decided it was best for me to die from smoking, then to make my children's childhoods miserable. I want to quit really, really bad, but to be honest, I Like smoking..........what is wrong with me? Can someone help me? When I quit before, I prayed hard that the Lord would take my craving away.......He did, well since then, I have had 3 major surgeries, which caused me to lose my house, car, etc and I had to put my cat of 17 years to sleep. I am very bitter towards God for this and feel I cannot rely on Him anymore. I know this is wrong too, but I find it impossible to not blame Him for what I and my family has been through. Can someone help my heart to soften back up? Maybe if I could do that, then I could once again rely on God to help me quit smoking.

does anyone know where i can go on the net to study for the foundations part of the nln? i have searched and searched and everything costs a fortune--i am broke, so i need something cheap, or even free. i would love to know if there are any practice tests out there for it. thanks for any help anyone can give me.

No one give up! I know that is easier said than done, but seriously, if I can do it, anyone on this earth can! And in my mind, anyone who truly has the desire and gift to be a nurse, and pushes forward despite a few draw-backs, are going to be the best nurses there are. So hang in there anyone who feels let down or disheartened.........your future patients will never forget the hard work and sacrifices you have had to make.

I have to disagree. I was a female who worked in a male correctional facility and I was told on several occasions, "females need to work the module, the males need to be in the wings with the inmates". Any statement that differentiates a gender, is a dsciminatory comment. It is no different than saying, "we thought it would be best to have two blacks, or two hispanics, or two whites on different halls". As a correctional guard, and as a female, I was able to stop fights that the males would never have been able to stop just on the grounds that I am female and the inmates (most of them) were taught not to hit women. I could calm a situation down just as well as a man, and "yes" I took punches from the inmates as well as any man could.......so on that note..........I KNOW that a male could be as good a nurse, if not better in some situations, as a female. Even if it is the fact of an "extra strong arm" on the other wing, why not pull a heftier female for that? The DON made it clear that it was based on his gender!

I remember waking up during my colostomy surgery. Like a lot of others have said, I could not make a sound to let them know I was awake, so I tried to shake my legs..........or maybe I was having a seizure............I am not sure.........I just remember being petrified and in excruciating pain. No one has ever mentioned that I woke up during surgery, but I know I did, no doubt in my mind. I don't blame the anesthesiologist for it though. Everyone is different and everyone has a different tolerance level for medications, so there are apt to be those few out there who are more tolerant than others and only experience with that specific person will clue the surgery staff into the patient's tolerance level.

I am beginning my LPN Aug 21, 2006, and then hopefully on to RN in Aug of 2007. Will be attending North Central Missouri College in Trenton, MO. I am sooooo excited and I cannot wait to be a RN! I want to work with peds! :w00t: :w00t: :cheers: :cheers: :thankya: :thankya: :yeah:

I have every intention of paying off my student loans. I have attended college before, and had student loans to pay off, and I paid them within 2 years after quitting school. What I am saying is that, should the credit check be used to see how our credit is and it is used as a means of deciding whether or not a person is hireable, is not a fair practice mainly because there are so many people out there who have had tough luck and they are trying to make the best of what they have been thrown in life. Truthfully, my doctor wanted to put me on permanent disability, but I would not let him because I know I can work. I am not the type of person to try to "defraud" anyone........I just want a chance to have financial stability for my children. I want to get my credit cleaned up, basically start over, and if my credit check is used against me, then my efforts and desire to not be a burden on society would be for nothing.

I agree that this is not a fair policy. Within the past two years, I have had three major surgeries, one leaving me with a permanent colostomy. I have lost everything because I could not work to pay my bills. I lost two businesses that were doing well, my home and a car. This was not my fault, there was nothing I could do to save the stuff even though I tried.......how I tried. So now I have foreclosure, repossession and a lot of unpaid bills on my credit. I am starting nursing school in one week......why?.....because first, I have always wanted to work in the health profession, but second, because I want financial security and the ability to pay my bills and clean my credit up. What if no one hires me after school because my "credit sucks"......then, I not only have foreclosure, repo and unpaid bills on my credit, but I will also have unpaid college loans.! How is this fair?

I don't get it! I guess my 17 years out of high school has made me realize that stuff like "they won't play with me" is done and over with when a person becomes an adult. I have to admit, we had some pretty immature people in our pre-requ classes that pulled the same stuff and it made it miserable for the rest of us. Whether or not the student gave the teacher permission to divulge such information does not make it right that the teacher announced something that really wasn't the rest of the students' business. For sure, now that student will be ostrisized, and all due to the fact that the teacher fell into the trap of the "tattle-tale game".