slauren

slauren has 7 years experience and specializes in Rehab, acute/critical care.

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1. Signs of hospital closing?

   slauren replied to slauren's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you everyone. We do have a union. I've asked all the other nurses I work with and they say it would never close. We aren't a small or rural hospital so it would really delay care for the community if we closed. I haven't seen any equipment disa...

2. Signs of hospital closing?

   slauren posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, has anyone experienced working at a hospital that has closed? The hospital I work at is going down hill - half the elevators are broken, per diem staff furloughed, overtime must be approved by DON, ancient equipment not getting fixed, and suppose...

3. What Does A Graduate Nurse Do?

   slauren replied to Future-NurseRedHeart's topic in New Nurse

   I agree with the previous responses, I would suggest taking the NCLEX soon after graduation. I precept a lot of new hires on my unit and it would be annoying having to wait several months for them to be licensed. It hinders the learning because I wil...

4. Dealing with Students in Clinicals: What would you like to see?

   slauren replied to bsf312's topic in General Nursing

   I like having students that are willing to learn by listening and offering to help. I had a student follow me most of her clinical during a semester and she was fabulous. As she got used to the unit she helped answer call lights, offered to bathe pat...

5. LTC nurses having to do CNA work all day

   slauren replied to Kac718's topic in Geriatric

   I had experienced this when I was working in LTC/rehab. There were some good CNAs but it felt like they ran the show, showing up when they wanted, leaving when they wanted (middle of shift & not telling me nor coming back), yelling at me when I a...

6. I waited to take NCLEx

   slauren replied to nwebster06's topic in Career Support

   Good luck with taking the NCLEX! Finding a job is hard even right out of school, but I think you'll find something eventually. When I was a new nurse I couldn't get a job at a hospital so I worked at a LTC/rehab, it gave me a bunch of experience and ...

7. Unfit for career?

   slauren replied to Guacamolee's topic in Career Support

   To answer your question, I never had a problem with gore, blood, death, etc. Like Sour Lemon said, a lot of it is more dramatic in the movies than in real life. Part of being a nurse is you see someone that needs help and it doesn't matter if they ar...

8. Unfit for career?

   slauren replied to Guacamolee's topic in Career Support

   Maybe you could work as a CNA to see what parts of the medical fields would interest you? Nursing has a wide variety of opportunities. You could do patient care floor nursing, you could work in a doctor's office, do school nursing, case management, o...

9. Looking for advice

   slauren replied to NurseV123's topic in Home Health

   I wouldn't want to work for a company like that.

10. Give LTC a chance, or get out now?

    slauren replied to mc-escher's topic in New Nurse

    It seems that you've already made up your mind, you aren't happy where you are. I feel you could learn a TON from what you're describing but you deserve to be happy with your job. I worked at a LTC/rehab for a few years, it was challenging and I lear...

11. MED cart Wars. LTC

    slauren replied to Trulibra's topic in Geriatric

    I can understand your frustration. Talk to that nurse and tell them you liked how it was? Maybe the new nurse was trying to help with the med cart and doesn't understand they're doing the opposite. I used to work LTC and had a set team/cart each time...

12. "Dancing Doc" Video....Just When You Think You've Seen It All...

    slauren replied to Sarah Matacale's topic in General Nursing

    I feel she should be investigated. Even though faces and names aren't shown in her videos, I still feel it is a dignity issue and the people filmed should know it was them. I don't understand why they would think making these videos, let alone postin...

13. Grooming/Human trafficking

    slauren replied to pedi_nurse's topic in School

    I think you handled that great, I've never worked in peds or been in a situation like that but you did great reporting it and making everyone aware. I'm sure the mother appreciates you notifying her. I hope everything turns out well. You potentially ...

14. Unlicensed personnel administering medications

    slauren replied to boquiabierta's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Florida. When I worked in LTC/rehab, only the nurses gave the medications. I once interviewed for a job at an assisted living facility and the techs administered medications. I was curious about that myself and they explained that assisted ...

15. Being An Advocate

    slauren replied to tonicole's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand the severity of your patient's condition/test that was going on but it seems like the charge nurse was trying to do you a favor cause he/she thought maybe you could use the help I'm assuming. If it was something minor with a comple...