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Wife graduating from nursing school on THURSDAY

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Lifer
Man, even nurses are having trouble finding work. This is in Chicago's Western suburbs. She wants to do labor and delivery and it seems like it's impossible to find open positions there, but even floor and ER positions don't seem to be hiring.

Anyway, what should i get her as a graduation present. I was going to try and find the best nursing shoes, but from what I've read everybody wears Crocs. They're cushiony and easy to wash.

Any thoughts?

I'm SOOO looking forward to a two-income family, it's been a decade...


:::UPDATE:::

I just paid $165 for a personalized stethoscope. Dear Lord....
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:::UPDATE:::

Her first interview was for a Mother\Baby (past-partum) position. They called her and let her know they were going with an internal candidate but she made such a good impression that they wanted her for a labor\delivery position. This is something they usually don't give to new grads. You have to work your way into it. Additionally this is the position my wife really wants. She wants to enter a midwife graduate program and you need 12 months of labor and delivery to get in. Pretty nice. She interviewed for that position and was hired! Hooray!!!

Thanks for the kind words and she LOVES her stethoscope.
 
Male genitals protruding from a hole in a large italian dish. I recommend a sausage pizza.

Edit: :camera: of wife
 
I have no idea what the job prospects are in Chicago but, nursing is in huge demand across the U.S. Congrats to her and I'm amazed she made it out of school without getting a job offer her senior year.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
I have no idea what the job prospects are in Chicago but, nursing is in huge demand across the U.S. Congrats to her and I'm amazed she made it out of school without getting a job offer her senior year.
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Yeah the school had a 95+ hire rate last year, and this year no one in her class has found work.... it's retarded.
 
My wife prefers Birkenstocks for work. I think they make some of those hippie shoes just for nurses. What about a nice stethoscope or anal thermometer?
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: Wheezer
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Naughty nurse costume. Duh.
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Role-playing weirds me out. Can't people just have sex without making it so complicated...
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She doesn't have to role-play... No laying you in bed like a patient and having her do an exam or nothing. She just has it on when you come home, you know what you're getting when you see her in something skimpy and you go from there.

It's like a female version of giving you a dick-in-a-box.
 
<---Coming up on 30 years anniversary as an RN.

Yeah, the urban myth that nurses can always find a job...

It doesn't help with the media saying the profession is recession proof, and telling everyone to enroll in nursing school. She'll find something, but I notice most openings are asking for someone with experience.

The latest trend is hospitals want nurses to work Per Diem-no benefits, they keep you on speed dial and make your life a living hell, calling you 24-7 and if you don't take a shift they offer you, you go on a black list.

As far as a gift, does she have a good stethoscope? A good stethoscope with her initials engraved on it is always nice.
 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

As far as a gift, does she have a good stethoscope? A good stethoscope with her initials engraved on it is always nice.
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ooo.. that sounds cool. reccomendations? I know nothing about them.

 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
<---Coming up on 30 years anniversary as an RN.

Yeah, the urban myth that nurses can always find a job...
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I think getting specific jobs in Nursing in a particular place are as competitive as in any other field. However, I see dozens, if not more, Nursing jobs posted in every large city in America as well as the ceaseless demand for nurses in rural areas. Our economy isn't going to change anytime soon and Nurses are going to have to go where the jobs are just like everyone else.
 
Originally posted by: djheater
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

As far as a gift, does she have a good stethoscope? A good stethoscope with her initials engraved on it is always nice.
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ooo.. that sounds cool. reccomendations? I know nothing about them.
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Since you're looking at a deadline, search for a local store, and pick up something with individual tubes for each year, so they have a good stereo effect, $40+ should do it...

Find a local engraving shop, the stethoscope store should have a suggestion or two 🙂

And congrats :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
<---Coming up on 30 years anniversary as an RN.

Yeah, the urban myth that nurses can always find a job...
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I think getting specific jobs in Nursing in a particular place are as competitive as in any other field. However, I see dozens, if not more, Nursing jobs posted in every large city in America as well as the ceaseless demand for nurses in rural areas. Our economy isn't going to change anytime soon and Nurses are going to have to go where the jobs are just like everyone else.
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Yeah, those night shift jobs in ER's in downtown Chicago/LA/etc are a real treat.
 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
<---Coming up on 30 years anniversary as an RN.

Yeah, the urban myth that nurses can always find a job...
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I think getting specific jobs in Nursing in a particular place are as competitive as in any other field. However, I see dozens, if not more, Nursing jobs posted in every large city in America as well as the ceaseless demand for nurses in rural areas. Our economy isn't going to change anytime soon and Nurses are going to have to go where the jobs are just like everyone else.
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Yeah, those night shift jobs in ER's in downtown Chicago/LA/etc are a real treat.
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I have as much respect for the nursing profession as anyone but, you sound a bit whiny. Do you expect brand new Nurses to have their pick of jobs? EVERY profession has it's hell holes. The point is that there are indeed nursing jobs available paying quite well as compared to other professions across the country.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

I have as much respect for the nursing profession as anyone but, you sound a bit whiny. Do you expect brand new Nurses to have their pick of jobs? EVERY profession has it's hell holes. The point is that there are indeed nursing jobs available paying quite well as compared to other professions across the country.
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Who gave you a wedgie today?

All I'm saying is that the media is bleating on about how there's a nursing shortage, and that if you become a nurse you'll always have a job.

It's cyclical like anything else, we're gearing up for an oversupply of nurses (again), it saturates the market, depresses wages, advancement, and predisposes employers to employment practices that are IMHO unethical.

Another issue is that the typical nursing instructor is incompetent, they're paid literally 1/2 of what I make as a practicing RN, they should make as much or more than I do, they have everything to do with the quality of nurses they turn out. If a school pays crap wages, they typically get crap teachers, the nurses I now that teach are lazy, incompetent, and get all tied up in school politics.

I have to hand off my patients every day to passive inexperienced nurses, we (older, experienced nurses) have serious misgivings about what's happening, patient care is compromised because the learning curve is so steep when you first begin practicing.

But hey, if the general public doesn't understand that the English as a second language imported nurse has given granny a dose of heparin 100X stronger than she should have gotten, and that's why she bled to death, I guess that's not my problem, is it?
 
Pliablemoose, your suggestion about a stethoscope was a very good one. I'm grumpy cuz I got to go in for an outpatient procedure today to open a valve in my vein.

I have experienced poor nurses first hand. I still stick by my claim that there are many nursing jobs available across the nation. Speaking just for the SW where I live, there has NEVER been an oversupply of nurses.
 
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