Maevish

Maevish ASN, RN

ICU, Postpartum, Onc, PACU

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About Maevish

Maevish has 9 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in ICU, Postpartum, Onc, PACU.


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  1. If I can do it, anyone can. It seemed like I had to work harder to retain things in nursing school and had to practice the skills multiple times before I felt comfortable doing them correctly. To this day, if I don't do something over and over agai...
  2. OOOOH comments like that make me so mad!! I sometimes hear the same things in ICU. Sure, a new grad isn't ideal for ANY nursing position in reality, but everyone has to start somewhere and even the best nurses knew nothing at one point! You can't r...
  3. Trouble finding work

    It's the most obnoxious/stressful thing ever. There are jobs "everywhere" including cities I'd love to work in near me, but they either don't seem to look at my file or they have enough nurses (even though there are pages of jobs open and each hospi...
  4. Should mean people be allowed to be mean at work?

    Is that a rhetorical questions? Of course they're not allowed to be mean at work! There ARE, however, nurses who get away with it because they're amazing nurses and other people say, "Oh, that's just so-and-so" and let them get away with it. There...
  5. 6/4 WILTW: Oui jete' du Nursing???

    Haha!! I do the same thing most of the time (I still have to use my nursing brain sometimes, though) cause it's just not worth it!! They're going to get the meds anyways, after they go home, (legally or otherwise) and if it's not gonna hurt them an...
  6. Are nurse's all that and a bag of chips?

    All that you say is true, but I also know very obnoxiously holier-than-thou people in other walks of life as well. I don't ever preach about my chosen career (because honestly, I feel like if I can do it, anyone can, and my job doesn't make me). I'v...
  7. 6/4 WILTW: Oui jete' du Nursing???

    I learned that I'll actually miss the assignment I'm on now, even though I'm going back to a place I also loved for the next 13 weeks. This place makes me do minimal real ICU work (which, sometimes, is annoying), but I get paid better than I'd ever ...
  8. 6/4 WILTW: Oui jete' du Nursing???

    Is that for LVN or RN? My mom's going to challenge the NCLEX-LPN (or whatever it's called) and she was asking me about a good course for that and I had no clue what to tell her, but we looked some up. Just wondering. Thanks! xo
  9. Codes

    OMG the Lucas device!!!! #heaven:saint:
  10. Codes

    Good grief! That does seem stupid (I was gonna say "silly", but no, it's stupid). That's how codes are run at a lot of places, but most of the time, when that happens, the house super will dismiss people after awhile (leaving 1-2 extra people for co...
  11. It also depends on where you live and the cost of living. The Bay Area nurses (and other nurses in expensive cities like Manhattan) make a TON more money than us regular folk, but the cost of living in those cities is INSANE. I had a friend who was...
  12. That seems about right. Right out of school, I was making about $75,000 a year in Northern California. If I just did one contract after another as a travel nurse instead of having 1-4 weeks off in between assignments (sometimes unwillingly), it wou...
  13. Unsure of what nurse recruiter meant

    If you didn't get anything from the hospital, which is likely, check the website to see if there are any form on there. Maybe she, like the other posters have said, forgot to attach them in an email. That happens often. Otherwise, bring everything ...
  14. Will leaving this job hurt my resume?

    Your agency should back you up if you want to quit (I mean, don't just not show up for work one day, but you know...do it the right way). They may have even had other people who didn't like that particular place too, for all you know. If you don't ...
  15. PACU is great! Wake 'em up, pack 'em out! Or plastic surgery...that's the dream. Worked part time at one office for years and it was the best!! xo