BSN Student pre career advise.

I am currently in my first clinical semester of nursing school working towards my BSN. My goal with nursing is to work within acute care as soon as possible after graduating. With that in mind I am trying to accumulate as much acute care experience a

Advise Please! What to do after getting fired?

Hi everyone, although this is my first post...I need advise! I was just fired from my first job : ( I know there are various other posts about getting fired from your first job, but I feel that my situation is different. So, here's what happened. An

Scripps Fall/Winter New Grad Residency 2014/2015

Hey everyone, just wanted to start this thread to see who all would be applying to this coming cohort... looks like apps open up today for internals and Aug. 11th for external candidates. Hope people find this a good place to share their experience w

It's out of my hands now

1 This is it! I put in the work. Graduated. Passed boards. I have my license number. I'm all ready to go. I'm applying for every job that I can, but after I submit my resumes and applications, it's all out of my hands!

Will I find a job? How long

Subacute care. cant challenge lvn boards

I am just curious as to why a CNA with five years full time experience in a subacute care hospital is not allowed to challenge the LVN boards in California. I called the board institute and she said I'm only credited for 8 hours , but because i do n

linkedin views

Does linkedin views help in job search ?

Is it ok for your previous employer to keep tracking you on linkedin profiles.

New to linkedin culture Sometimes, yes, but probably not so much for the new grad. However you can link to it from your resume, s

Different areas you can work in nursing and qualifications required?

What are qualifications required for each and any other areas you can work that you heard of in nursing?

NP (Nurse Practitioner) -

CRNA (Nurse Anesthetist) -

Midwife -

Home Health/Hospice RN -

Hospital RN -

Community Health/Clinic RN

Case Manage

BSc Nursing but no License

Hello everybody,

I graduated from a BSc nursing program in 2013 and have been working at a private hospital for 14 months... The first 6 months was a probation period and i was promised a license to come with my next contract... I am 14 months in and

Help with blood draws

Ok so I'm not a nurse or nursing student. I'm a medical assistant student and I'm finished this Friday and moving to nursing soon. But I'm really scared about my blood draws. I honestly use to be pretty good at them, I would mess up here and ther

Need Advice- OR to ED or ICU?

Hi Everyone!
After a year and a half in the OR, I want to move up the ladder and go back to school. I love the OR, but theres not much room for growth except management which I do not want to do.

I like both the CRNA profession and NP professions, so