kaydensmom

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1. Crisis Pay

   kaydensmom replied to gemmi999's topic in COVID

   When we implement crisis pay it is $10 extra per hour, but it's not very common. For example in 2015 there was a 3 month period when it was offered, but it was never offered in 2016. I feel it should have been offered the past few months due to us dr...

2. 2017 Nurse Salary

   kaydensmom replied to Darkstar1485's topic in General Nursing

   Ohio BSN 2 years, hospital tele unit float 26/hr. $2 night (I'm night shift), only cents for weekends. About 5k per year float bonus. Decent benefits, facility pays about 15k per year towards health insurance costs for family. I'm in a very bad econo...

3. Order that says "Don't call MD for pain meds"?

   kaydensmom replied to Summers3's topic in General Nursing

   We have a group of hospitalists where a standard order for every patient is "do not call for sedatives, pain medications, or anti anxiety meds, these will be addressed on morning rounds". I still call if it really seems like the patient is in pain, c...

4. Nursing school is hard and with bipolar disorder its making it harder

   kaydensmom replied to vvilla21's topic in General Students

   I was in the same position during school, I'm a RN now and struggle on and off still with the almost paranoid thoughts of judgement.Regularly seeing a psychiatrist and regularly going to counseling is what helps me. They help you change your way of t...

5. How much is a normal raise

   kaydensmom replied to Sully64's topic in General Nursing

   What percentage were you expecting?

6. May Is Mental Health Awareness Month

   kaydensmom replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   If you lived in my head for one day you would be begging the big pharma companies to come up with a medication that would just help you feel a little bit "normal". Mental illness is very real for the people that suffer with it everyday.

7. clinical gripes

   kaydensmom replied to sassynerd's topic in General Students

   We are required to bring our own cuffs to clinical and always take BL manually. It may be your first day on the floor but it is not the nurses first time seeing students and their job is not to make you feel welcome. Yes I know you would like to pick...

8. Weeding out?

   kaydensmom replied to wantccu's topic in General Students

   The third semester!! Yes 1 and 2 were hard but nothing like the third. We started with 80 and lost 20 in the first 10 in the second and 32 in the third, all but 2 were due to grades. They said that only one or 2 will fail the final semester. We kept ...