Thank you for your reply! That's encouraging to hear. I'm from Vancouver, BC but now live in South FL. I have one year to leave this place and we might be moving to WA where my husband is from. If you can take a travel job to Florida do so, but D...
Though the person who wrote the original post had a misunderstanding of what DNR means in terms of patient care, I think she or he now knows the different perspectives that experience RNs hold when they care for DNR patients and hopefully has come up...
South Florida, 3 years experience WITH BSN and high acuity training 25/hr (includes benefits ect), night 6/hr, weekend 3/hr, 1/hr if floated Stepdown Was not enough money, so I went per diem and now I get 38/hr with the same diffs.
I think it is quite alright to withhold a medication such as a beta blocker if the heart rate is in the fifty's because I would be cautious in not wanting to cause this patient to brady down further (since this patient already did that before to the ...
I'm shocked you are earning 30 dollars an hour down here in Ft. Lauderdale. I'm an RN from canada, with three years of cardiac care and they best two hospitals offered me was 25.00 as a staff RN. I have two degrees, including a BSN. I am now per d...
Florida is the worst state to work in for LPN's and RN's. Experienced, smart and well trained LPN's are treated like PCTs. They are not even allowed to check blood sugar at my hospital in Fort Lauderdale. I'm an RN, and we too are treated poorly. ...
Florida is the worst paying state for staff RNs. I have three years of experience and I get 25 dollars an hour. It is an absolute joke how poorly they treat nurses down here! I work in Fort Lauderdale. I have no idea if the gulf coast is better. ...
Hi everyone, I've been a Cardiac RN for three years now. All of my nursing education and specialty training has been in Canada, and I've worked in the states for 6 months now as med-surg. I do not like it. The unit I was working in Canada was high...
Yes, that is very unsafe. Mostly for you!! The patient won't be harmed laying in bed with all rails up. And as for your "co-worker", if anyone expects you to be able to push a 400 lb man on a stretcher with no help, they need to stop being a nurse...