kelbel

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1. Taking Lunches, Not Clocking Out

   kelbel posted a topic in Management

   At my facility, we are having a problem with almost everyone in the facility going to lunch but not clocking out. It it were just the CMT or CNA's, we could make the nurses responsible. However, many of the nurses are not taking the time to walk to t...

2. Any advice for a new ADON?

   kelbel replied to kelbel's topic in LTC Directors

   Well, this particular job ended up having alot of "little changes" to the description before I actually started working. I never started because there seemed to be some confusion between the adminstrator and the DON as to what the role/responsibiliti...

3. Any advice for a new ADON?

   kelbel replied to kelbel's topic in LTC Directors

   I live in the burbs outside St Louis. This facility is in towards the city-which I love!! And I think it may have helped because it is tucked away in an older part of town, and it is not very big as I said. People probably assumed it was in a bad par...

4. Any advice for a new ADON?

   kelbel posted a topic in LTC Directors

   I interviewed for a job last week as an ADON of a fairly small LTC facility that consists of 48 beds with an additional 16 low acuity psych beds. The psych pts are able to leave on their own, continent,etc. They are there to receive meds and short of...

5. please help on management issue

   kelbel posted a topic in Management

   I am a relatively new RN (May 2004). Started work straight out of school at hospital critical care stepdown unit, completed critical care internship, and worked on the floor with many strong personalities. Did excellent on my reviews, came in to wo...

6. Greetings Missourians/lets get to know each other

   kelbel replied to Nursie30's topic in Missouri

   Im Kelly , 28 years old, June grad of ADN program, now an RN (WHEW!!!), and currently work on a Telemetry Unit in a St Louis hospital, married, 2 kids, loving and hating nursing all at once. Nice to meet you all. :)

7. Hospital reputations andstarting salaries

   kelbel replied to kelbel's topic in Texas

   Thanks for the advice! I am actually going to accept a job here for a few months before moving. I am hoping they will countthat as some experience when I move and factor that into my starting pay. i love neuro by the way and that is the floor I wi...

8. New Nurse Salary

   kelbel replied to murnahan5's topic in New Nurse

   In St Louis, GN pay is $15 and change ( more with experience as a Tech), $1-$1.50 night and weekend differentials. If you work at one of the union hospitals they just bumped pay to $16 but then you've got union dues. The odd thing is that the nurse...

9. Hospital reputations andstarting salaries

   kelbel posted a topic in Texas

   I am officially movingto the DFW area inthe late summer. As a new grad I will be looking into internships starting in September. I contacted Parkland Memorial and they seemed to have what I was looking for with very good (in my opinion) GN pay. Th...

10. how would you answer these test questions??

    kelbel replied to hrjqtpie's topic in General Students

    Question1- I would stay with the pt. Buspar isn't prn and pt receiving one dose is not going to be acceptable relief for anything. Question2- Not really specific enough as to "new" stoma. New as in 2 hours or 2 weeks? We know that not caring for i...

11. license tranfer

    kelbel replied to kelbel's topic in Texas

    A fellow student told me that you could just pay the fee and your license would transfer, but you had to have worked for at least 30 days under my Missouri license. That seemed unfair to me because I would hate to mislead a hospital and take a full-...

12. license tranfer

    kelbel posted a topic in Texas

    I currently live in St. Louis, Missouri and will be graduating from an Associate's program in May. My husband and I plan to move to the Dallas area in fall and I was wondering what I would need to do to take my boards in Missouri straight outof scho...