sparta802

sparta802 has 5 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg.

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1. Philly new grads- where are you finding jobs?

   sparta802 replied to hiddencatRN's topic in Pennsylvania

   From what I've heard new grads are having a tough time in the Philly/South NJ area. Most hospitals are offering very few jobs and tend to hire experienced nurses or from within. I've heard other states are still having shortages though. In this econo...

2. Help this Tele/CICU nurse floating to Med/Surg...

   sparta802 replied to CrazyPremed's topic in Med-Surg

   I work in Med-Surg and am jealous of the experience others have in tele/ICU! The main thing, as mentioned, is the # of patients. For example, dayshift here can get up to 6, nightshift up to 10 (no monitors). It's a lot but you don't have to do VS as ...

3. hourly rounding

   sparta802 replied to suni's topic in Med-Surg

   We just started this and it's not a part of the pt's record. We just have to go into the pt's room and make sure they're ok, see if they need anything, etc. If they're sleeping, we let them sleep. We have to initial a paper hanging in the room each h...

4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   sparta802 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   Great thread! -Families who want to talk to the attending doctor at 8pm- sorry, but the doctor is long gone! Or the patient is fully capable of answering questions but the family wants me to give them info and they think I'm lying about HIPA laws. Or...

5. Nursing Shortage

   sparta802 replied to ruthere04976's topic in General Nursing

   In this area (Southeast PA/South NJ) there's definately NOT a shortage. My small hospital usually hires a lot of new grads from a nearby nursing school but this year they said they were able to be "picky" since they only have a few openings (and we d...

6. Unit now overstaffed, and we keep getting floated

   sparta802 replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

   Our nurse manager also hired several new grads- and we don't really need more nurses right now since we don't usually have a full census, plus we have lots of pool nurses to fill in. The new grads unfortunately become resented since they're taking aw...