Howard Sanders

I have been a registered nurse for 13 years now. Before that, I worked for 2 years as a CNA and 2 years as an LPN. I started my professional career working for Mission Hospitals in Asheville NC. I was there for 12 years before I moved back to eastern NC and worked for Carteret healthcare in Morehead City NC. I was there for 2 years before I decided to start travel nursing. I have been travel nursing now for over 2 1/2 years now. I have worked for Norvant healthcare, Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg NC, and I went back to my old hospital at Mission as a travel nurse. I worked for 4 years on General Surgery floor which dealt with mostly gastrointestinal surgeries. I did 2 years as a CNA and 2 years as an LPN on this floor. I then graduated RN school and started work on a renal medicine floor where I worked for 8 years. 4 of those years were as one of the charge nurses. I then moved back to eastern NC to work in Morehead City on a PCU/cardiac floor. After 2 years there, I started traveling and though I am PCU trained, I have mostly been assigned to med surg. floors. I have been here at Norvant for a little over a year working on a floor that is a med surg floor that also has 8 PCU beds. So I do both. I spend time on the med surg side and I spend time on the PCU side. I am also one of the designated charge nurses on the floor because it is mostly travelers on the floor and right now, I have been there longer than any of the other travelers, day or night. There are only about2 or 3 staff RN's on the 43 bed floor.