Yes, I got a settlement and the company tried to find another job for me but not much was available. I did not quit and I guess I wasn't fired so I said I was laid off, that's the wrong term. I have...
I was a labor and delivery nurse. I still feel like an L&D nurse but I have a lifting limit of 25 lbs. so no more L&D. I hurt my back transferring a patient from a broken, unmoving bed to the...
This happened to me at the end of my preceptorship. I was called into HR and told if I didn't shape up in two weeks I'd be fired. Of course that made me more nervous but what happened is that one of...
I wish I'd known what nursing was really like before I became a nurse. However, I'm referring to the responsibilty of patient's lives depending on you. Somehow I got thru school without realizing...
I work in labor and delivery, one patient's request that when she had pain she'd like to use hospital-provided marijuana for pain relief. I told her that's not something we
teensmom replied to EarnedItTheHardWay's topic in Nursing Career
I think to go to CRNA school you have to have a year or two experience as a nurse in an ICU. Can you shadow someone? My friend is a family nurse practitioner & it looks like a great job. Good...
It's called Labor and Delivery and it's really hard work. Very physical and also stressful-as are most nursing jobs. You are taking care of 2 patients, one is invisible (the unborn baby). I liked it...
I always went into clinicals telling the nurse that I was their servant and anything they needed me to do-just ask. I really tried to take some of the burden of patient care off the nurse if I could....
Actually, we get overtime for anything over 8 hours daily, not 40 hours weekly so we still get good OT. San Francisco is probably the best paying, benefits and ratios in the US. Our union is pretty...
I work at a hospital in San Francisco, most of us work either 32 hours a week or 24 hours a week. The pay is quite good and I get fulltime benefits so 32 hrs a week works great for me. The people who...
teensmom replied to nursingstudent3109's topic in General Nursing
I work in L & D, there's lots of lifting and pulling. Many patients get an epidural and they become dead weight & they have to be turned or changed. We often transfer patients from beds to the...
I work l & d, it's a good possibility the woman in labor was only 3 cm's when she was checked by the nurses, patients can dilate very quickly-it's happened to me. This is the kind of patient we...
You should be fine without intermediate algebra. Look over a chemistry workbook and see if dimensional analysis is understandable. I was quite an older student and hadn't taken algebra since 8th...