EMP, RN

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1. hourly paid hospice job

   EMP, RN replied to mabbott19179's topic in Hospice

   Hourly certainly! Most places only offer salary in my area for full time RNCM's. When I was working as full time CM I rarely clocked under 40 hours and often was in 42-44 hour range per week not including on call time. I would not do pay per visit...

2. If you could pick your ideal job in nursing, what would it be?

   EMP, RN replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

   Agree! 100% + reasonable pay, hourly/not salary preferable. and No On-call

3. Casual workers: How many hours do you put in?

   EMP, RN replied to magn1jes's topic in General Nursing

   I started a PRN job a hospice in April, I've been full time since (we lost a few nurses, so I've been filling in until new ones are trained and before that covering vacations). But I didn't have to agree to this. Typically I know in advance by at ...

4. What is the RN-BSN like, main differences with ADN?

   EMP, RN replied to European's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated from my BSN program in 2010. BSN programs have more of a focus on nursing leadership and broader scope of nursing practice. We did community assessment and projects to address needs of our communities. I worked on CQI projects at vario...

5. New-Grad with 2 offers and need help choosing: Tele or ER

   EMP, RN replied to RNDude2012's topic in New Nurse

   Agree with previous posters. Number 1

6. So very tired!

   EMP, RN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

   I hear ya. I worked full time eves at a LTC/rehab. I was suppose to be working 8's but often was over shift (2-3 hours) to do all my documentation that I couldn't even start on with the multiple admits/dc, unstable patients, sundowning patients, pa...

7. Where does all the money go?

   EMP, RN replied to everydaynurse's topic in General Nursing

   besides the things other posters mentioned, you are also paying for the people that come into the hospital and don't pay and don't have insurance and for all things that medicare or medicaid don't really cover the total cost on. Legislators haven't ...

8. NO LUNCH??? NO BREAKS??? Is that common in nursing?????

   EMP, RN replied to CleveRN2008's topic in General Nursing

   I'm the only nurse from 2-10 pm on a busy 20 bed rehab unit. I always clock out no break because there is no other nurse who can assume my duties to allow me to even take a break. Regardless of how busy we are I always take about 5 minutes to stare ...

9. Hospital nurses - is it really that bad?

   EMP, RN replied to Marshall1's topic in General Nursing

   I would like to mentin that it's not just hospital nursing. Also LTC and skilled nursing (and probably sub-acutes as well, but I haven't worked at one). When census is down we can manage to get everything done generally with our breaks. At full cen...

10. I got the job!

    EMP, RN replied to gorgenurse's topic in Geriatric

    I got about 9 days of orientation for the skilled unit I work on. I was also offered two days of orientation initially, but I refuse to take the job without more orientation (my first job too).

11. Hourly rounding logs

    EMP, RN replied to afteralltheseyears's topic in Geriatric

    I don't know how people would find time to do it. Our ratio isn't bad 20 patients to 1 nurse at a skilled facility but depending on our census and how sick or confused the patients are it can be crazy busy. Often you don't have time to do your docu...

12. Just need some encouragement

    EMP, RN replied to Spotty44's topic in New Nurse

    I went home crying the first night at the skilled facility I work at. I was so overwhelmed and thought there was no way I could do this job. Yet here I am, still working there and for the most part doing okay. There are still days that are just cr...

13. New Nurse- Scared of not enough knowledge

    EMP, RN replied to ajangel25's topic in New Nurse

    I'm still in my first month of working as a RN and feel unsure myself. I have the phone numbers of some of the other nurses working at my facility on my cell. I have their permission to call them whenever there is an issue I don't know how to deal ...

14. taking my first nursing job at a LTC facility

    EMP, RN replied to jmitchell-85's topic in New Nurse

    It all depends on the facility. Night shift nurses don't do skin checks on residents at my facility. They basically assist the CNA's with call bells, prepare paperwork for the next day/week. Go over the MARs and TARs to make sure everything has be...

15. *UNEMPLOYED NURSES*

    EMP, RN replied to bree*'s topic in Job Hunt

    Yes, it is difficult. There are only so many openings in residency programs. And many of the hospitals I almost got hired at for a position where they were willing to train new grads, got taken by experienced nurses (often with 20+ years of experie...