RNPedsICU

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1. This is for school! Please respond!

   RNPedsICU replied to nursecrazy's topic in General Nursing

   The shortage is everywhere apparently. I would check into local or regional nurses associations. In the states there is the ANA(American Nurses Association), the state version here is VNA (Virginia Nurses Association). I belong to the Society of Ped...

2. Unexpected Request from Boss

   RNPedsICU replied to JuicyJem's topic in General Nursing

   Stay on days if at all possible. You may not be asked again down the road when you'll WANT to work days. Tired now? I've worked nights(what we call P's-7p to 7a), and believe me when I say you have even LESS of a life working nights because the off d...

3. "I quit" but how

   RNPedsICU replied to Pretzlgl's topic in General Nursing

   You first should ask yourself what it is you don't like anymore about hospital nursing. If it the hours say "the hours it requires for me to do this job is interferring with.....", if the pt/nurse ratio, say that. "I cannot do my job to the best of ...

4. Picu Schedules

   RNPedsICU posted a topic in Safety

   Would like feedback from other RNs concerning schedules. My unit decided to initiate a "Task Force" to figure out the schedule-all of it: length of shift hours(most RNs are doing 12hrs/day, 36hrs/wk), weekend option, holiday schedules. We currently h...