I'm a clinic nurse in GI. The vast majority of my time is spent fighting insurance companies to obtain coverage of biologic medications for our Crohn's and UC patients. Patient care seems to often...
I am not directly in public health nursing, but I do work as a community health nurse (staff nurse at a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC). We serve uninsured, underinsured, and...
thelittleRNwhocould replied to thelittleRNwhocould's topic in General Nursing
I am actually the second new grad hired this year at our location - the other one was hired this spring right after graduation, and she is already in school pursuing her doctorate to become an NP! I...
thelittleRNwhocould replied to thelittleRNwhocould's topic in General Nursing
Al Kalosis, it's always worth giving them a call and seeing if they're interested in hiring an RN - the place that I'm now employed at didn't have any job openings listed; I just emailed them and...
thelittleRNwhocould replied to thelittleRNwhocould's topic in General Nursing
Surprisingly, my school cut the Community Health course/clinical for the RNs (they kept it for the LPNs, though). I never had the ability to see community health nurses work, so this is all new to me!...
thelittleRNwhocould replied to thelittleRNwhocould's topic in General Nursing
Lil Nel - thank you! I'm already learning so much in the short time that I've been working here. :) Everline - I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person out of my graduating class (approximately 30...
thelittleRNwhocould replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in General Nursing
If I were going purely on my heart's desire, no concerns for finance/sustainability, I would have gone with photographer, as I have a natural eye for photography and tend to compose/capture lovely...
I have many friends who are currently attending USI to get their BSN (they graduated from Ivy Tech with their ASN). USI is a respectable school for nursing, and from what I've seen the education...
I can empathize with what you're going through. While in nursing school, I struggled with severe anxiety, panic attacks (complete with wheezing/stridor, curled up in the fetal position crying), and...
Throughout the entirety of nursing school, I found myself feeling frustration at the heavy focus on hospital/bedside nursing. From the first day of clinicals to the last and during my time as a...
thelittleRNwhocould replied to Barmherzigkeit's topic in General Students
Depends on the day. If it's a clinical day where I'm doing more observation, I generally don't shower. If I've been elbow deep in an incontinent patient's stool and urine all day.... Different story....
thelittleRNwhocould replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing
I'm currently a tech at a decent sized hospital (until I graduate in May... Yay!). Just last week, I was busy doing morning care, everything was a little chaotic, requests flying like bullets... You...
Hello! I will be graduating with my ASN this summer and plan on moving to Urbana/Champaign, IL. I have been looking into Carle hospital as a place of employment, and I have a couple of questions......
thelittleRNwhocould replied to Alto22's topic in General Students
Break? What's that? Joking aside.... I'm working on my ASN/ADN right now (last semester.... whew!) and last summer I had to take microbiology and I worked. This summer I plan on doing some NCLEX...