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Author: Santa RN |
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Date Posted: Tue, Dec 25 2012, 21:51:19 In reply to: hailey 's message, "Re: Got a job!" on Thu, Dec 13 2012, 16:07:56 Hailey, No, I had NO dialysis experience. What sealed the deal with them is that I had 15 years of ER experience and good references. They were very interested in my ER experience- you have to be pretty comfortable with crashing patients in dialysis- apparently they like to turn them around in the center as opposed to sending them to the ER to recover from whatever crisis they are in. If I didn't have that ER experience, I am not so sure they would have been interested. They had to jump through some hoops also (a few contacts with the BON, etc) because of my monitoring situation. My best advice- while you are on suspension or whatever, stay out there in the nursing community if you are interested in getting back in the game. Don't hide under a rock and be shamed, or you'll never get back in. I stayed friends with my same group from where I used to work, I kept up all my certs (CEN, ACLS, PALS, CPR, etc). I taught ACLS and PALS the whole time I was off for some extra cash and made some new contacts that way also. That paid off for me when I needed some decent references for this new job. Medicine is a small world, and when I was interviewing for this position, the guy who was the regional manager knew a relative of a good friend of mine, knew another guy I used to work with, 2 of my previous students worked at another dialysis center, etc- don't think for a minute he didn't go asking around to those mutual aquaintences about me :-) Something interesting that happened when I was interviewing- my first interview was at a center in the same geographical area of the hospital where I used to work. Chronic renal patients are often ER regulars and the very minute I walked in, there is one of my old ER patients. I have known this lady since I was a teenager.....so she greeted me like an old friend, by name even, while the hiring guy is waiting on me. Talk about a great first impression, right? The next time I was there, I had to shadow a nurse at the same center for a few hours. One of their patients that day was a young Type1 diabetic who I had known for many years- knew her mom, her dad, her stepdad, the whole family because she spent half of her life in the ER for some crisis or another. She can't see very well, but when I got a spare minute, I went over to say hello to her- she lit up like she was seeing a ghost! Called me by name, so excited to see me (geesh she was THE HARDEST IV stick ever- and I am a rocking iv starter :-) and asked the nurse if I was going to start working there- we were both a little tearful since it had been so long since we had seen each other. Can't ask for a better reference than those, I suppose :-) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |