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Hi everyone, I was invited to interview for the Progressive Care Cardiac Unit (PCCU) at Johns Hopkins. I am looking for information about the interview process, the PCCU team, the type of shifts offered to new graduates (e.g. 3-12hrs, 10hrs or 5-8hrs...

Thank you Nurse Beth!

Hi all, I have been thinking about how to answer the What is your biggest weakness question in case I am asked. My thought is as a new graduate nurse, I have a ton of clinical weaknesses with time management being the biggest. If frame the answer as ...

I was invited to interview a week ago, sent references as requested and I am waiting to hear back for an interview date. Anyone else starting in October?

Hello, I have to work for a facility in an underserved area because I'm a Nurse Corps recipient. I am looking for input from anyone with knowledge about working for the NYC Health + Hospitals system, particularly the Manhattan locations Bellevue Hosp...

Hello, I graduate with a BSN this week. I am starting to apply for jobs, I have to work for an underserved facility because I am Nurse Corps scholar. Bellevue Hospital in NYC qualifies and I wanted to find out more about it. I'm researching their web...

I am graduating in May, I am struggling to figure out what is the best place for me to learn and develop skills. I am not the most confident and I feel that I will probably need at least a year before I get to where I need to be. I have a lot of anxi...

Hello, I'm excited (and kinda terrified) to start a special one-on-one nursing preceptor program in the ER tomorrow as my final clinical! There were limited spots for these clinical oppertunites and I'm lucky to be there. I want to suceed and do well...

Thank you! Everyone is very nice so far! Day one I did more new skills than I have in the last 2 years! That alone blows my mind. I am also facisnated with psych which they say they get a lot of in the ER. I feel like it will be the most well rounded...

They do not teach ABG's that in depth in most nursing schools, they say that if you go into Critical Care you will be trained based off of your facilities policy. ICU nurses and ER nurses may know how to draw ABG's but that doesn't mean they all know...

Hi all, I'm doing a short EBP practice powerpoint presentation on Mandatory Overtime as a patient safety issue. Right now I am looking at: 1." What can we do as Nurses to help stop MOT?" 2. "How do we Implement and assess our plan?" 3. "What outcome ...

In my original post, I wrote that the OP probably considers her situation to be a family emergency. I don't necessarily think it is, nor do I think she should get the extension. Let me make that part clear, what I do think is the clinical instructor'...

"Get the giant chip off you shoulder". Well aren't you very presumptuious? This isn't about me, I have never asked to turn in anything late, but I have witnessed innapropriate behavior plenty of times. If the original poster only had the one encounte...

I also said "condesending and innapropriate language", which I think fits the language the OP's instructor used. I added cursing and yelling because I was explaining that it my experience in witnessing it happening in clinicals to other students. For...

I'm just curious if everyone here is so desensitized to innaproriate language being used in this feild that they dont even deem certain agressive, cursing, yelling or condesending tones as unprofessional and iapropriate. I read the OP as saying the r...

I want to know what school nurses think about this. I want to know if anyone knows how this could impact school nursing. It may not be happening in your state, but what if it does in the future? On November 7, Pennsylvanians will have their (local) ...

Yes exactly! I just don't understand the argument that the elderly, those with breast cancer who are out of work, disabled. etc can't afford property tax..so their idea is "OK, let's just make them pay a higher sales tax instead!" What the heck is go...

You do realize that everyone goes to school at some point in their life right? You do realize that we as society have become so self centered that we continue to fail to see that the greater good for our country and society as a whole rests on the fo...

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Yes, and to be honest, I don't own a home, or have children (yet) so now I am going to pay higher taxes for everything to send everyone else's children to school. That means tourists coming to Philadelphia are paying for everyone's children to go to ...

Please spread the word, it seems like no one is aware that this is happening or they don't understand that it is happening and it will effect the children in this state. They have a huge campaign to get people to vote yes, so we need to explain and s...

I'm not an expert on this stuff but my understanding is because we have R Senate Majority, this is allowed to happen. There are extensive R grassroots efforts that lead to this, I believe they are called PTCA- Pennsylvania Coalition of Taxpayers Asso...

I have to give a group presentation on "Whistle-blowing". We did our research, put together our slides and met our professor to get her approval before presenting next week. She said that we focused too much on corporate or administrative whistle-bl...

Or you could work for Allnurses, haha! That would be a really nice online job. :)

Teaching! We need more nursing faculty, lots of people are retiring ! In the next 5 years