dodgegirl713

dodgegirl713 has 5 years experience and specializes in Subacute/Rehab, Surgical.

Latest Activity

1. How much of a raise did you get this year?

   dodgegirl713 replied to thesundowner's topic in General Nursing

   20 cent. Cost of living raise. Less than half of what I got the year before.

2. And the results are in....

   dodgegirl713 replied to NickiLaughs's topic in General Nursing

   I know the pain of going to a private college. I pay $525 a month for my student loans. My parents income was too much (was still claimed on their taxes since I lived at home) to help me get more for financial aid, so most of my loans are private. ...

3. Scrubs - what do you wear?

   dodgegirl713 replied to pinkiepie_RN's topic in Uniform/Gear

   I love my Koi pants. Tops I have about 30% of solids and the rest prints. Not super crazy prints, except a few I wear once and a while. I work with the elderly in a LTC facility and my little ladies love the prints I wear. They like the bright flo...

4. How far do you drive for work?

   dodgegirl713 replied to CNM2B201?'s topic in General Nursing

   I drive 25-30 minutes from my house to work, roughly 20 miles. It's mainly all expressway driving. Which doesn't bother me at all. Plus there is a lot of other routes I can take to work that are main side streets incase the expressway is bad from ...

5. How Many Residents Do You Care For On Your Unit?

   dodgegirl713 replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in Geriatric

   In Wisconsin, on a subacute/rehab floor, 1430-2230 35 residents for the unit, 2 nurses to each take one of the halls. So when it is full I have 17 residents to care for. Have 3-4 CNAs for the unit, so I get 2 CNAs. But I do everything with 2 med pa...

6. New Grad positions, is anyone in WI hiring?

   dodgegirl713 replied to settinggirl's topic in Wisconsin

   A lot of hospitals in the Milwaukee area are laying off nurses. Heard it from former classmates and fellow coworkers who have friends in the hospitals.

7. New grad discouraged about job oppurtunity

   dodgegirl713 replied to Maciver's topic in General Nursing

   Take what you can get. Around my area a lot of the hospitals are actually laying of many nurses. LTC is hard to work, been there almost a year and have finally got in to a rhythm for my shift to get things accompished without lots of overtime. Tha...

8. staffing

   dodgegirl713 replied to icunurse1955's topic in General Nursing

   In LTC where I work: Only time that is 1:1 is if someone is physically combative with staff. And if they are combative with staff we have to get permission from the DON for the 1:1. If she says no then you deal with it. Usually if it happens durin...

9. First day of Orientation?

   dodgegirl713 replied to jpt's topic in Geriatric

   I was given a 10 day orientation at my LTC facility. My first day I followed the nurse that I was with to get the feel of how the day would go. I didn't do the med pass that day but I did do assessments so I could learn how to do Medicare charting.

10. did your job give you a holiday gift??

    dodgegirl713 replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    We got a employee lunch and a free lunch box with our check last week. We also have a '12 Days of Christmas' drawing. I won a $50 gift card to Chili's from that drawing. Also the day of our employee lunch they have multiple drawings with everyone'...

11. Merry Christmas from...

    dodgegirl713 replied to RNnbakes's topic in General Nursing

    Merry Christmas from Milwaukee, WI!! Cold, windy and icy night!

12. How much is school costing you?

    dodgegirl713 replied to tbell2's topic in General Students

    About 46K. I was at a private career college, accelerated ADN. Most of it was from there but there is like 5K of it that was when I was at the state university for a 1 1/2 yr.

13. ATI Testing

    dodgegirl713 replied to madcammomrn's topic in Wisconsin

    If it is the Comprehensive ATI, which at my school the last ATI you take before you graduate, it predicts what your chances are with how you will do on the NCLEX-RN. I had scored a 84% which translates into a scoring scale of 99% chance passing first...

14. New Aurora Hospital in Oconomowoc/Summit...anyone applied?

    dodgegirl713 replied to Quickbeam's topic in Wisconsin

    I have applied to postings for the new Summit hospital. There are specific ones, just look for the town/city saying Summit. They WILL NOT hire new grads. They are looking for experienced RNs since it will be a new facility.

15. What color are your school uniforms?

    dodgegirl713 replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    Ours are royal blue Landau scrubs. Any style pant you can find to fit and the V-neck top. We look like smurfs. Good thing is I only have to wear them 2 more times in my college career at my school. :)