My reply is the same as Banora. My old hospital had hand sanitizer with it and it made me break out in contact dermatitis. I went to the derm, that's what he suggested was the culprit, and it resolved a couple weeks after I stopped using it. Good l...
I like the free pens we get from the organ donation center or the eye bank. They're triangle shaped, black, and always write wonderfully. Weird, I know.
Check out the Tri Cities area (Kadlec Hospital, Kennewick General are two hospitals)... the pay is better than Spokane, cost of living is cheaper than Seattle, and the nursing market isn't as saturated as it can be elsewhere. There are jobs in Washin...
I moved 3 hours from my home town and am currently working in a similar environment. Some days are worse than others. The unit I came from was amazing. I had great coworkers and we were very much a team. It's not everywhere, but it's hard to come ...
I'd suggest if you find yourself in this situation, start looking through the chart before you pop in on the patients. Check out labs, history, code status, plan, etc. Then you have at least have some background on the patient even before you get rep...
It's a general statement. I don't hate most doctors, just the ones we all hate. And I can interact with people I don't like in a respectful manner. It's part of being a professional adult.
Funny how life works out, isn't it? I had a terrible preceptor my last semester of nursing school. I cried a lot. I doubted myself as a future nurse. She was an NP student at the time. She graduated her program, but was never able to pass boards to ...
I went back to my highschool during my freshman year of college and in conversation with my old chemistry teacher, I mentioned I was going into nursing. He said "why not be a doctor? You're smart. don't sell yourself short by going into nursing." Uh...
Focus on school, your family, and your outside friends. Do what you need to do to succeed and get out. Then it doesn't matter. Our nursing program was actually pretty good. We had a small class and we all got along for the most part. Yeah, there were...
I take Melatonin to sleep. Day or night. The day before my first night back I usually sleep until 10am then take a nap late evening and stay up until 5am. Then I sleep until 3 or 4pm, get up, get ready, work. After work I take a melatonin, shower, e...
We don't have weekend options. Somehow it got put into the contract that if you work 2 weekends in a row they have to pay you overtime and you can't opt out. I understand that it's there to protect us, but for the love of pete... if someone wants to ...