kharma09

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1. No I wouldn't recommend nursing

   kharma09 replied to manuelvillanueva's topic in Career Support

   Hmmm, in many areas of nursing it is

2. Nurse manager or Human resources

   kharma09 replied to chester427's topic in NICU

   I don't think that contacting the nurse manager yourself would harm your likliehood of being hired and might actually increase it. Some human resource areas aren't terribly efficient and I actually had an application lost once. Had I not wanted the j...

3. What to ask a Nurse Manager

   kharma09 replied to angel_82's topic in New Nurse

   Just a few of the things I might ask include: - Staffing, acuity, patient ratios to nurses and aides. - Scheduling requirements and how it is done. Is there self scheduling? How many weekends a month, holidays a year, if you'll be required to float o...

4. Why is it ok to euthanize animals but not humans

   kharma09 replied to admorn03's topic in General Nursing

   Hmm ... interesting.

5. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

   kharma09 replied to ZZTopRN's topic in Psychiatric

   :chuckle

6. No I wouldn't recommend nursing

   kharma09 replied to manuelvillanueva's topic in Career Support

   As the nurse to patient ratio and acuity level continue to increase (as seen in my own personal experience) I don't feel that the payscale is in proportion to potential liability (whether due to time constraint and an untimely short cut or simply a f...

7. Nurses and our Healthcare Needs?

   kharma09 replied to Nurserose's topic in General Nursing

8. Anyone Else Out There Marked Absent For Missing A Meeting?

   kharma09 replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in General Nursing

   If we don't make 75% of our monthly unit meetings it counts against us at eval. time.

9. 8 hour vs 12 hour shifts

   kharma09 replied to lstimpson's topic in General Nursing

   I see the above alot. I personally choose 12H shifts because although they leave me physically exhausted, the near daily mental stress of 8H shifts was burning me out fast. It's nice having 4 days a week off. If I couldn't do 12's i'm pretty certain ...

10. Signing new grad contract?

    kharma09 replied to kurlykay's topic in New Nurse

    The term indentured servant comes to mind ...

11. NCLEX - Psychiatric - Mental Health questions

    kharma09 replied to Drysolong's topic in NCLEX

    I took mine in the late 90's and it was full of OB and Psych. questions (which i'd aced in school, anyhow). Other people i've known over the years have had other focuses entirely or even a complete hodge podge. To tell you the truth, there's simply n...

12. New hosptial computer systems pull nurses away from patient care

    kharma09 replied to lee1's topic in Safety

    At 3 of the Florida hospitals where i've done medical surgical (1 south and 2 gulfcoast area) the computer saved us so much in charting time that we were given more patients. Of course, then there's more charting. As well, the more patients the bette...

13. Where have all the experienced nurses gone?

    kharma09 replied to mharrah's topic in Med-Surg

    Me: "Thunderwolf, I feel a need to respectfully disagree with you regarding your response to RN34TX." You: "And for additional info, members are not to criticize mods on the board...against TOS." Thunderwolf, I did not realize you'd interpret disagre...

14. Where have all the experienced nurses gone?

    kharma09 replied to mharrah's topic in Med-Surg

    "Small request here...could you edit it a bit. I'm glad you did not generalize it to all of them. Whew! But, as it stands, you set yourself up for an attack. Acknowledging your frustration with having experiences of lacking pca/cna and secretary supp...

15. Pensions

    kharma09 replied to kharma09's topic in Florida

    Thanks rjflyn for your input. I am currently checking out state employment opportunities but the application/hiring process seems very lenghthy. It looks like i'm really going to have to buckle down if I want to get into something like that.