I did my senior practicum in Community Health and I still got hired into Med/Surg after graduating. I learned so much and I absolutely loved it. It felt so nice to sit down with the people coming in and having non rushed conversations with them and g...
What part of Kansas are you in? I'm in NE Kansas at a small hospital, getting $20 an hour on a med-surg/tele unit with $3 shift diff for nights and $2 shift diff for weekends.
I was giving scheduled IV Ativan to a very confused older patient. As I was pushing the medication, he looked up at me and said "I need you to do something for me. Open your shirt and show me the light." Another time I was getting ready to discharge...
We do self scheduling at my facility so we pretty much get what we want unless there aren't enough nurses scheduled for a particular night. Your schedule sounds exhausting! I absolutely love nights though and never want to go back to days.
We had the ATI tests in my RN program too. We were required to pass the tests and if we didn't reach the required level on the test (usually it was Level 2) then we had to retake it. We also had to take a comprehensive predictor during the last semes...
I work nights in a small hospital too. Our med/surg floor is also the telemetry and peds floor and I think we have around 32 beds on the unit. At night we can get up to 7 patients per nurse. If it isn't too full we may start out with 4 or 5 and those...
I go by Brae and have it on my name tag since my full name is apparently too difficult for people to pronounce correctly. (I've had to deal with that all my life! :) I guess Brae is hard too because some of the nurses call me "Bree" but oh well, no h...
I have absolutely no idea how to respond to this. "How come nurses either failed to be admitted to medical school or didn’t try?" Excuse me? This is so offensive and sad. I'd like to see a doctor who has this offensive view to be in our shoes on the...
If I had accumulated that much debt in student loans, I certainly wouldn't buy a brand new car. How very irresponsible of her. I agree with lovelylpn, I'm not sure if this plan can work with a new grad salary. If she is getting paid that much money ...
Hi everyone! I'm starting orientation next week for my first nursing job (yay!) and I am wondering if anyone has any ideas on what will be included on the med test. I would also appreciate any links to websites where I can brush up on my dosage calcu...