Looking for advice. I started a new job 5 weeks ago as a care guidance nurse in a clinic. The job was just created as part of medicare's pilot initiative the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative. My clinic is owned by a larger hospital that has 16 ...
Yes, I am anticipating having to take time off work IF we have an adoption come through. But being that it will be adoption and not me having a baby, I will have no control over when we know about the availability of a baby or when the birth mother g...
Recently we have had several nurses on our med-surg floor apply for another job within the facility who have been refused an interview due to too many absences. One of those nurses was a 11p-7a charge nurse who was having health problems from her wor...
I'm in charge of doing education to all our RN staff on CHF core measures to help improve our core measures ratings. I'm looking for ideas for this education. I'm probably going to use powerpoint handouts. If anybody has suggestions or examples, I...
This should probably be moved to the Oklahoma forum, but I'll answer it here. I'm currently living in Stillwater but just moved from Tulsa where I was a LPN working at St John and then bridged to RN and continued to work at St John. As a LPN I was ...
I've been a nurse for about 2 1/2 years now. In January of this year I started a new job after getting married and moving. At my previous job I felt like I was always giving so much of myself while at work but my manager and co-workers made it a go...
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Thanks for everyone's replies. I'm super nervous about this, but hopeful. NEOtoKIDS - congrats on the new job! Do you happen to remember anything specifically they asked you about? I'm a good prioritizer, as that's what's required in floor nursin...
I'm so excited about my interview for the elementary school nurse position next week! However, I'm a little nervous about the interview because I'm sure it will be different than when I've interviewed for other nursing positions. For one, the perso...
I would recommend it. I feel like I got everything I needed from it. Just remember that he requires 2 trips there for in-person labs. Don't know where you're from, but I drove almost 5 hours for mine I think. If you have someone locally who would...
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Thanks everyone. I talked to our clinical instructor and manager about this and they say it's being addressed. I would love to leave this position and find something else, but that would mean at least a 45 minute drive since this is the only hospit...
I've been at a hospital for 4 months now and am working on a general medical floor. Like every facility, there are problems. However, there have been a lot of staffing issues that scare me. I recently had a day when I was assigned 9 patients at th...
I developed a nasty abcess last Friday and had an I&D on Saturday. The Dr was pretty sure it's MRSA but I haven't been able to find out about the culture yet. Since it was done in a clinic on saturday, their stuff doesn't get sent out until Mon...
Okay, first I want to appologize that this is a totally non-nursing related question! I'm traveling to the UK, Scotland, and Ireland next month and we'll be renting a car. This may be a stupid question, but do the cars there have 12V cigarette ligh...
I'm currently working on a Med-Surg unit that has ages 3 days to 100yrs for patients. Next week I'll be starting Enbrel for Ankylosing Spondylitis. Seeing as how I had to show a negative TB test prior to starting and have blood work showing no acti...
I'm applying for a school nurse position. Are there changes that should be made to my resume for this position when transitioning from hospital setting to school? What should I emphasize? Right now my resume is heavy on the clinical aspect. Advic...