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Registered Nurse (RN) Reviews
What is it like working as a Registered Nurse (RN)?
January 2014
Specialize.
Registered Nurse (RN):
Take qualified specialized course eg: Critical Care, Emergency, Cardiac/Telemetry, Hemodialysis, Oncology, Palliative Care, Orotho, surgical, peri-operative, PAR, GI, and hundreds more. Do your homework on the many areas you can specialize in. Know the demand for those positions and know which courses qualify for the positions you are interested. Beware of inferior courses offered by inferior schools. Take your classes from a very reputable college. Once you have succeeded, no one can ever take away your education and/or compete with you unless they are equally qualified with the same education. You will always have a job! Personally I started with Cardiac/Telemetry, then multi-system Intensive Critical Care, and then finally Hemodialysis. I have always had my choice of positions throughout my 29 year career and still going strong. It's lots of hard work but the effort is worth every bit of the hours and hours of studying. Good luck with you career.
January 2014
Registered Nurse (RN):
Keep trying areas until you find your interest. I love community nursing. Skills from pediatric, cardiac to peritoneal dialysis to chemotherapy. I get to see it all. The down side is the really 'slap in your face' pay.
January 2014
Registered Nurse (RN):
Think long and hard before starting your career. It's a demanding job and getting more so. There are many fantastic things out there.
December 2013
Registered Nurse (RN):
You need to have great communication skills, have advanced technical skills.
Work well with the team.
December 2013
The learning never stops.
Registered Nurse (RN):
Learn and do as much as you can.
December 2013
Great, Very Rewarding. Great Social Benefits.
Registered Nurse (RN):
Pros: I make a difference in the world. I have great benefits and I have great team.
Cons: I hate the long hours and the rotation schedule. The working during every other weekend, and choosing to work either Christmas or New Year.
November 2013
I love my role as a nurse.
Registered Nurse (RN):
Pros: I like the team in which I work. I like caring for the patients we have within the ward there is a very good mix of patients which is good for my personal experience. I also like the shift pattern that I work and have good support from fellow colleagues and management
Cons: Sometimes when there are theatre patients things can get a bit stressful. This does not happen all the time.
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