kalevra

kalevra BSN, RN

ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor

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About kalevra

kalevra has 5 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor.


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  1. Leaving Bedside Nursing

    Congratulations, and welcome to the club. I respect your decision to place your family and health before others. It is a difficult decision to make, but at the end of the day, you must take care of your own first. Corporate healthcare is the face o...
  2. Why are Nurses and CNAs so mean/rude

    LOL is the Original Poster serious?!?! Another, "Everyone else except me is a crappy nurse/cna". How many of these threads do we come across on a daily basis. OMG, hahahahahah You honestly cannot be serious? Watching this thread devolve into trolli...
  3. Bad situation

    Be careful of what you say, there are some in the nursing community that do not like the idea of having an Associate prepared nurse serve as a manager or director. Many academic faculty I have worked with in the past try to keep "lower" degree holder...
  4. New grad RN, hate nursing?

    Try getting into the OR. Keep in mind there is bull-work no matter where you go. The level of bull-work in the OR is nothing compared to the level of bull-work found on the telemetry and med-surg floors. DO NOT stay on a floor you hate, it will only ...
  5. "Best Practice" would be to have more nurses.

    Does your hospital or facility have a DNP that is in charge of policy and procedure? I ask because most of the senior leadership hold an RN license. Perhaps the RN leadership are not properly informed or not aware of the inconvenience these new "best...
  6. BSN New Graduate Salaries

    Northern California, average low end of the start rate for new grads is $40. We hire a lot of travel nurses. I highly recommend getting your foot in the ER or ICU experience for 1 year. Get in with a travel company, pick up an assignment in Northern...
  7. Forced transfer

    Being floated to different units, when one is contracted to work in one specific unit, is a really pain in many cases. It will all come down to you as an employee. I speak specifically of how much "crap" you are willing to take from managers. If you...
  8. Earning Ceiling

    Are you talking about a geographic earning cap? I know in the West Coast, regular bedside staff nurses make $100,000 a year right out of school. I can tell you this from experience, our new hires start at $47.60 working 144 hour a month. Once you fac...
  9. Hospitals are not paid in FULL in cash at the start of the ground breaking. There are loans, bonds donations etc. I am sure Unions like the National Nurse United with their 185,000 members all paying $40 in union dues every 2 weeks could muster up su...
  10. I find it to be an interesting experiment. Maybe the unions could create a better example rather than the traditional model that most hospitals are built on today.
  11. There appears to be a lot of pro-unionization responses on this discussion. There also appears to be a lot of anti-administration responses on this discussion, If Administration is the problem, why not propose the unions build a hospital from the gr...
  12. The majority of current modern American Healthcare Industry is a for profit system. Even when hospitals report that they are a Not For Profit”, they still need to make a profit due to their inclusion in a multifaceted corporation that may or may no...
  13. Another reason unions suck!

    I do no think unions are necessary. I believe RNs can sit down with their managers and come to an amicable solution. As a profession, communication, negotiation and collaboration is key. I believe unions create very strict rules that prevent the crea...
  14. Working for free?

    I am a firm believer in getting paid for one's work. If you wish to NOT get paid, especially when you are entitled to compensation, that is your call. To each their own.
  15. Ratios are a politically charged and sensitive area for many people. There are far reaching after effects of implementing a state or federally mandated ratio. For one, many nurses feel that unions are not necessary to practice their profession. In fa...