What to do about a low ball job offer

I had to sign up to get feedback from others "in the business." I have nearly a decade of experience as an LPN and I recently passed my NCLEX RN. I've been looking for a job for a little while now, and it's a tough market in my area as in

Frustrated- No call backs

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I passed my boards recently (07/2014) and graduated from a community college in Dallas. Currently I am taking classes towards my BSN. I have been pounding the pavement, making cold calls, and applying online just about everywhere. I get the

Stroke course

While applying for positions, there is a question that asks if I have taken a stroke course or if I have a stroke certification. Can I take a course and get certified as a new grad? Or is it kind of like a specialty certification? The stroke course is

Importance of Continuing Education in the Nursing Profession

No CEU's are required in New York State to renew your license. Comment:No CEUs are required in Georgia, either....yet. I do understand and can relate to the OP's post, however. When I became an LPN back in the day, there were glass IV bottles, stain

Subacute medicine / palliative unit

Hello everyone,
I am a recent graduate and I have my interview in subacute medicine/palliative unit in few days. I am not sure what kind of unit it is. I tried searching online but none of them are very clear. Can someone please tell me more about t

Work or Volunteer for Experience?

Hi everyone. I am in need of advice. I graduated from my BSN program in 2010 worked for 4 months in Telemetry then married an active duty Marine and we moved to Hawaii. While in Hawaii I was not able to find a clinical nursing job and worked briefly

CRNA or ACNP?

Hello everyone, I was accepted into a BSN program (it begins in just a couple of weeks and I am super excited!) and ever since I decided on a career in nursing I have known that I want to pursue a graduate degree. I know that I either want to pursue

Sanity Check Needed for Degree Plan

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I'd like you to comment on this plan.
I have a BS and would like to go BSN -> NP to do nutritional healing.
I feel I just need to get the clinicals and then can gwt the NP inline.

Is this a reasonable idea?

I have been looking at accelera

ER Interview coming up

I have an interview at an ER for a major trauma center coming up in three weeks I'm excited for but my concern is my current ER experience is completely different. I never get to take care of our "trauma patients", they always are given to

How to Learn PICC Line Insertion?

What's the best way to train as a PICC line insertion RN? Are there any programs or courses that offer that? I'd gladly pay for such training, if I knew it was available.

PICC line nurses seem to be very few. I think at my hospital we only have 1.