RNinDM

RNinDM

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  1. I agree with the posters who say to take the OB job. A year goes by in no time at all and then, with OB experience, it will be much easier to have the job you want in the city you want.
  2. My preceptor is everything they taught us NOT to be...

    Not all hospitals have techs to handle things like getting the patients fed and other aspects of am care.
  3. Can a Criminal History Stop Me from Being a Nurse?

    I think that you also should be aware that getting a nursing job these days is competitive. You don't want to spend all that time and money and then have trouble getting a job. Which happens to many people even without any felonies in their past. ...
  4. You can get copies of everything, but if you live in an at will state, the hospital can fire you for any little thing. All nurses do something wrong eventually and then they'll just use that little thing to get rid of you. They can even lie and you...
  5. The same thing happened to me recently. I was an ICU nurse for over 20 years, spent my last 7 years in one unit then transferred to another hospital, same job. All of sudden I was getting written up over crazy things. Should have seen the writing ...
  6. Fired for med error

    Management wants RN's to be accountable, but who is held accountable when we are understaffed and overworked? Self-reported and was made to feel I was incompetent, even though the patient was not harmed and I did not have a history of med errors. W...
  7. Thinking of going back into nursing....

    she stopped working 6 years ago,not in 93
  8. Code Lavender?!

    We, supposedly, have a Code Lavender team where I work. There was a lot of PR about it. Supposedly, if a nurse is extremely stressed or upset, someone will call a member of the code Lavender team who will bring the nurse to a quiet place - that is ...
  9. Alone as a New Grad in the ICU

    If you can't figure out which "meds should not be turned off", you shouldn't be turning any of them off. In the ICU, it's important to know your drugs and not just by a list, but by what the drug is doing. Before turning something off, figure out w...