ePerfect

ePerfect has 1 years experience and specializes in Geriatric/Hospice.

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1. New grad at a non-skilled nursing facility?

   ePerfect replied to Pets to People's topic in Geriatric

   I'm pretty sure you can go anywhere once you have some experience under your belt. My aunt has been a nurse for over 30 years and according to her it doesn't matter where the experience comes from as long as it's experience. You might have to take ba...

2. Prospective employee's psych hx

   ePerfect replied to ashleed's topic in HIPAA

   The only way I could ever see this as justifiable is if your company has a policy to not hire it's own patients. But to not hire someone due to a disability is not right...

3. Took me three tries...

   ePerfect replied to ePerfect's topic in NCLEX

   It depends on what you need to learn before the test. Kaplan is useful for people who have the content down but need more practice with test taking. Hurst is better for people who need more content. (I did both.) Neither is better than the other and ...

4. Finding a Nursing Job??? Help!!

   ePerfect replied to CMR2012's topic in Men

   Good luck! :)

5. Got my license, no interviews yet :(

   ePerfect replied to srm1136's topic in ADN/BSN

   Be patient. It took me a few months to finally get an interview. Apply everywhere and don't be picky. Right off the bat everyone is looking for people with experience and you don't have that yet. Get a job where you can and stick it out for a year th...

6. 3rd shift nursing assessments

   ePerfect replied to jab1432's topic in New Nurse

   Unfortunately it is necessary. I have to do this daily and I'm not even in a hospital, I'm in LTC. You want to catch s/sx of infection as soon as possible. You need to know if a wound becomes open again, if they are bleeding, inflamed or puss-filled....

7. Smokers need not apply?

   ePerfect replied to RainMom's topic in Professionalism

   Mandated flu vaccines and smoking are not comparable. Flu vaccines are to prevent the spread of the flu to the residents and other staff. My smoking off campus does not affect my patients or other staff.

8. A little anxiety applying for Nursing school as an older male

   ePerfect replied to Magnicious's topic in Men

   My favorite nurse to work with is an elderly gentleman. He's former military and after that he worked for GM. When GM crashed a few years ago he took up nursing. He's in his 70s now and been nursing for at least 10 years. He's great! It's never to la...

9. Mice on unit

   ePerfect replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

   Our CNAs have been reporting a mouse in our facility for months now but no one else ever saw it so no one believed them (these two specifically complain a lot and aren't known to be the most honest about their complaints and some of their stories wer...

10. Diploma nurses are worthless?!

    ePerfect replied to stephdRN's topic in ADN/BSN

    I'm a BSN graduate... it took me 8 months to find a job even WITH a BSN.

11. Why did you become nurses?

    ePerfect replied to rupertmichaes's topic in General Nursing

    To be honest I never wanted to be a nurse. Ever. In my wildest dreams, never. I never wanted to do patient care, I never wanted to deal with bodily fluids, medications or the responsibilities of keeping people alive. I don't deal well with stress and...

12. Anxiety + Nurses = A Need for Support

    ePerfect replied to nancysuzanne38's topic in Stress 101

    This would be wonderful! Especially for new grads (not unlike myself). We all need support systems whether we're new or experienced. Anxiety is HUGE in nursing and one of the best ways to help with it is to talk with other people who feel it as well....

13. Everything is our responsibility. Rant.

    ePerfect replied to dudette10's topic in Relations

    I understand having to call other departments. I do it all the time in LTC but I also understand that those departments get busy and backed up as well. Orders don't always get turned in properly or with proper notice and things slip through the crack...

14. Dealing with 'nurses eat their young' attitudes

    ePerfect posted a topic in Geriatric

    I've been working at an LTC facility for approximately 6 months now. I have only been a nurse for... approximately 1 year and I came from home care to this facility. Over the past few weeks there have been an increasing amount of complaints brought t...

15. Finding a Nursing Job??? Help!!

    ePerfect replied to CMR2012's topic in Men

    I know you probably have preferences as to what yu want to do, but if you can't find a job why not search for other things like LTC? There's tons of jobs out there for nurses in long term care settings because new grads seem to think it's "not for th...