NavyVet

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1. Bathing Pts Question

   NavyVet replied to anarchy187's topic in Critical

   Baths! Ugh. Hate them with a passion. We bathe all of our vented patients at night as well, and that is usually when shtf around here. Patient is doing fine, I'm getting the vasopressors titrated down, vitals are looking good....I give a bath and bam...

2. younger generation of nurses and blackberries?

   NavyVet replied to stephva1008's topic in General Nursing

   I guess I fall into the Young'ins with phones category, though I don't see any problem with it under certain circumstances. Nurses station at 3 a.m., charting and patient care work done? I'll take a look at yahoo and catch up on the news. If I wasn't...

3. 40yr old guy needs advice on STNA

   NavyVet replied to Grumpy69's topic in Ohio

   Hiya my4helpers, I graduated from Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences last May. It's an associates degree program here in Canton, Ohio. Aultman hospital provides the clinical sites and most of the general education classes are contracted t...

4. What to do about pay?

   NavyVet replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

   I realize some consider it crass to discuss/compare wages, but if you don't know what others are making, its tough to determine if you are being fairly compensated. I live in Ohio, outside of any major cities, and hired on a few months ago and got th...

5. If nursing is your second degree/career...

   NavyVet replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

   Caliotter3 makes a very good point here, if you can afford to work as a CNA or patient care tech, you will have a big leg up over other job seekers on your resume. I really wish I would have listened to this advice when I was a student, but I was she...

6. If nursing is your second degree/career...

   NavyVet replied to netglow's topic in General Nursing

   I had this same problem transitioning from the military, with a career focused on mechanics and engineering. I had no other experience to include on a resume, so I used my military positions. I emphasized the increased levels of responsibility and le...

7. Do you agree that Nurses are on the Worst Driver List?

   NavyVet replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

   Ya, my humor tends to run to sarcasm, but its all in good fun. For the record, my wife is an RN as well and over the same 10 year period, she had 1 ticket for not buckling her seatbelt (while driving through a parking lot!) and zero accidents. I for...

8. 40yr old guy needs advice on STNA

   NavyVet replied to Grumpy69's topic in Ohio

   I'm sorry to hear your plight Grumpy. Sadly, the manufacturing jobs are all leaving our state and many people are feeling the pain. I don't know what your educational background is, or your feelings/desire/financial ability to go back to school are, ...

9. Do you agree that Nurses are on the Worst Driver List?

   NavyVet replied to rn4ever?'s topic in General Nursing

   I can't believe no one has connected the dots on this one.... From Minoritynurse.com (I cannot vouch for accuracy of statistics, but the ballpark numbers sound about right), there are @ 2.9 million licensed registered nurses in the U.S., of which @ 1...

10. 3 medication errors in 7 months!

    NavyVet replied to NYCRN05's topic in New Nurse

    I realize this thread is 4 years old, but since it was getting bumped and this topic was on my mind, I figured I would chime in. I'm a recent grad lucky enough to have found work as an RN. I trained in school on computerized med systems and I'm curre...

11. What to do about pay?

    NavyVet replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

    /rant I realize you have been poked at by multiple people in this thread, but I just want to drive home the point so you don't continue running around spouting this anymore. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to be paid well for the work ...

12. Accepted a charge position...now a little nervous!

    NavyVet replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    Certainly doable, I took pretty much the exact same position as my first nursing job. I've only been doing it 3 months, and kind of got defaulted the charge position since there is only 1 RN per shift on the unit. My unit is smaller, 10 beds and I ge...

13. feeling guilty, anxious about wanting to advance myself...please advice

    NavyVet replied to jmeng's topic in CRNA

    I don't know how to answer this without seeming like a jerk, so I'll just go for it. You don't owe anyone anything. I know it may seem like a cynical outlook, but you'll only be unhappy and resentful in the long run if you hold yourself back from you...

14. Does anyone know how long the waitlist is as of now at Stark State??

    NavyVet replied to itsnever2L8's topic in Ohio

    You are correct in the hourly cost at Aultman, its a tad over $400 an hour. You do all nursing classes and clinicals at that hospital and all academic course work at Walsh University. I can understand your trepidation in going too much further in deb...

15. Does anyone know how long the waitlist is as of now at Stark State??

    NavyVet replied to itsnever2L8's topic in Ohio

    Hiya, Hopeful! I don't know how long the waitlist is, but in 2006 when I was looking for a school, the wait list was 2 years. This was when the economy was still pretty decent. In a down economy, a lot of people go back to school to ride out the down...