hakunamatata BSN, RN

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  1. I could use some serious help and appreciate any responses. I am a visiting hospice nurse and have a patient at an ALF that has a now Stage III clean pressure ulcer. Multiple issues - no one seems to know the best treatment, and I cannot for the life...
  2. Hi there - I'm a hospice nurse/case manager and haven't had much bedside experience with pressure ulcers in years, and would love an opinion. I have a patient in ALF who has had issues with incontinence dermatitis on his buttocks/sacrum for awhile, a...
  3. Hi all, I've been a nurse for almost 4 years now and started my career at a major Level I trauma/teaching hospital doing acute med-surg, that was back in 2012-2013. I then worked at a free clinic doing mainly clinical trial management and routine pri...
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    Am I a Product of My Environment, or Just a Crappy Nurse?

    OP, just read your post - did not read any replies. Here is my initial though, day after day, when scrolling these forums and posts: It takes someone with true compassion to post their potential flaws on the internet, to a bunch of strangers on the i...
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    PMHNP Psych NP Questions

    I have been an RN for ~3 years now in multiple specialties, and just applied to a PMHNP MSN program. I've always found that I love psych, although I'm not currently working in that. I actually got so exhausted with nursing that I went back to bartend...
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    Another night shift question! Help!

    Hi all, RN for over two years and just going back to bedside the the 12-hr shifts, scheduled to "rotate" (we get to pick, and usually works out OK). I am about to be off orientation and trying to decide the best way to schedule myself, and trying to ...
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    What is a surgical-oncology floor like?

    Hi guys! I have two job offers right now and due to scheduling, it looks like I'm going to take the job on a surgical-oncology floor at a big teaching hospital. I used to work general medicine at another major hospital and found it very stressful. I'...
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    Three 12's or 4 10's?

    I have two job offers on the table, and having a dilemma. One is a *great* job and is 4 10 hour shifts, M-F, no weekends or holidays (so, one random weekday off each week). The other is still ok, not as great sounding as first, and is 3 12's, and sel...
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    Two offers, one hard choice. HELP!

    Agree with all the other posters. I'm from Louisville and I'll tell you that Nashville is amazing. I just started over as a young, single person in Charleston, and I'm happy I decided to move for lifestyle. You sound a lot like me. I also went to a c...
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    Scheduling dilemma...which job?

    Need help folks: have two job offers, and while it sounds crazy, I am likely going to pick based on schedule. Both jobs seem great and do-able to me. Job A: 3 12-hr's, self-scheduling. Job B: 4 10-hr's, M-F, a random weekday off each week. No week...
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    choosing my first RN job ... please HELP

    Hi there! What a post So the first thing I thought was...huh? So she is a staff member at Floor B? It seems like if it was a decent place, you'd automatically accept a job offer there, since that's your "home". Is there something about it that tur...
  12. I have been an RN for 2 years now, just relocated to SC and I luckily have three offers that are all very different. My experience includes acute medicine (at a major teaching hospital), psychiatry at a few different places, home health, and clinical...
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    Leave research to go for AGNP?

    Hi all, needing some advice from those who know their stuff. I am an RN, have been for about 2 years. Did 1 year in acute care in a hospital, hated it; then got my dream job in clinical research. I run pharmaceutical trials in a small office in San F...
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    SNF or Clinical Research?

    Ha! That's what my gut is telling me. Your response is super helpful :)
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    what is the best state for a new RN grad to find employment

    Missouri isn't awful. I have been a nurse for 9 months and working two separate jobs, a full-time and PRN position. Not in my ideal location, but made a crapload of money, and now my experience has me relocating to where I want to be.