nightfly

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1. CCRN / Laura Gasparis

   nightfly replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in Critical

   You can possibly also find more, but they may be in east asian websites that don't recognize western copyright laws. Just do a google search and look down the pages, when you find stuff that looks like chinese, have google translate it for you. It ma...

2. CCRN vs. CCRN-CSC

   nightfly replied to PacoUSA's topic in Critical

   CSC is focused on fresh (first 24 hr) post op cardiac surgery patients with critical problems, CMC focuses on non op medical cardiac patients that really need crit care. Both focus on patients with problems which make them unstable compared to the av...

3. What do you wish you had known?

   nightfly replied to MallysMama's topic in General Nursing

   Learn what the job is before you start training for it. If you want a job in healthcare, in any form, go be a volunteer at a hospital and see what the job is like. In this field now for 45 years, I've seen way too many new graduate nurses burn out fa...

4. Cost of your RN degree??

   nightfly replied to SML456's topic in General Nursing

   It depends on your other options. If you can't get into any other RN program, it may be your only choice. If you work full time days, and only have evenings and weekends to go to school, that extremely limits your school choices. I had to find a sch...

5. does every rn out there hate their job? sonography/x-ray tech instead?

   nightfly replied to Bailando's topic in General Nursing

   I think that a lot of people who tell you that they hate their job, are simply fed up with all the little annoyances we have to put up with, and there are a lot. Computer problems, docs who blame us for their own situations, equipment that doesn't wo...

6. rant.. "4 weeks notice"

   nightfly replied to misyan's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, but pretty much every hospital manager I've worked for has behaved this way. Burned out nurse managers who came up through the ranks feel their workers are still their friends; then take everything personally when problems come up. My last one a...

7. Question About Stockings

   nightfly replied to Adele_Michal7's topic in Uniform/Gear

   They do get hot. If you're already hot wearing scrubs, then wearing thigh high stockings will make you even hotter. I wear Jobst stockings because of varicose veins, and get plenty hot whenever the temp goes above 72 degrees F.

8. rant.. "4 weeks notice"

   nightfly replied to misyan's topic in General Nursing

   You gave them notice, and you have a better job to go to. Don't short change yourself just because your old manager can't do her job staffing her department correctly. Most nurse managers are there simply because they've been there a long time, not n...