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1. Most easy job in Nursing?

   bjm replied to moliuchick's topic in General Nursing

   Oh girl, can I relate . I'm an older (48 y/o) and have only been in nursing 3 years. My first year was medical. I actually liked it, I was learning and I worked with some really nice people. But I moved away, took a job at another hospital on the...

2. advice for concern please!

   bjm replied to texgalrn's topic in General Nursing

   OK, here is a very honest reply. I will not tell you rather this is for you or not but I will give you something to think about. In this last year, I had to leave work for foot surgery...was out for 5 months. This week, my husband underwent a tot...

3. Private Outpatient Surgery Center

   bjm replied to bjm's topic in Ambulatory

   Hi dphrn. I start Nov 8th, a start date we agreed upon so that I would not have to reschedule doctors appts I had prior to accepting the position. I would love to keep you posted of how it goes. In the meantime, I would like to ask you 2 questions...

4. RN to pt ratio @ your hospital?

   bjm replied to plumrn's topic in Safety

   I just left a small hospital b/c they continue to find money for directors, keep inventing new positions for their family members (in magmt positions, of course), and this last year, made supervisor positions, then put them in offices (away from the ...

5. Private Outpatient Surgery Center

   bjm replied to bjm's topic in Ambulatory

   Dear dphrn, I want to thank you for all of your responses,they have been very honest and helpful. You asked to me let you know my decision. Here it is. I am accepting the position. I do, plan to ask if there will be an opportunity to renegotiate...

6. when to look for a new job?

   bjm replied to liz steinmetz's topic in New Nurse

   It sound like you are being stretched to learn to many areas med/surg/tele, etc. I would suggest if you are that unhappy, to not give up nursing. Instead, maybe you need to be looking at another area of nursing, or another facility that won't be ...

7. Private Outpatient Surgery Center

   bjm replied to bjm's topic in Ambulatory

   thank you for your response. May I also ask what type of outpt surgery yours is? I plan to talk to them on start day about the possibility of a pay incentive once I become trained in the OR. I think that what be a fair question. Yes the hours do...

8. Private Outpatient Surgery Center

   bjm replied to bjm's topic in Ambulatory

   I am curious as to how many years experience you have in nursing...I have 3 years experience,and with their offer at 21.00, I am hoping that you are a more seasoned nurse and that your part of Texas is paying you 28.00 to compensate you for that. I ...

9. Private Outpatient Surgery Center

   bjm replied to bjm's topic in Ambulatory

   OK. I have 3 years med/surg background in the hospital. As a new outpatient surgical nurse, the responsibilities are for pre-op, which I can do, I will be crosstrained as circulating nurse and for post op. So, yes, there is some training to take p...

10. A few questions for the "older" new nurses...

    bjm replied to adiliegro's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I was 42 when I entered nursing school. I graduated 2 years later, top in my class. I will tell you that I found it very hard and time consuming. Have you heard the saying "get a life", well, as long as you are willing to "not have a life", ...

11. Anyone sick of being told...

    bjm replied to Sandi0302's topic in LPN/LVN

    I feel bad that some people would refer to an LVN as not really being a nurse. I am an RN myself, and I have worked along side many a LVN that d/t a lot of bedside care years is very quick at noting changes in a pts status. Let me give you the insi...

12. I need help w/charting please........

    bjm replied to crb613's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yea, I forgot to put in my previous note, when you start your note, Pt received semi fowlers, I forgot to also say, with rails x2 and bed in low position, pt able to voice needs........It is important to address those bed rails and position of bed...

13. I need help w/charting please........

    bjm replied to crb613's topic in General Nursing

    I would have charted something like this: Shift report received from J. Doe, RN. Pt received in semi fowlers position, a&o x 3, is able to voice needs ( or write needs, or shake head yes/no, etc), VS (fill in #'s), with resp even and nonlabore...

14. What is med surg like these days???

    bjm replied to johnson0424's topic in Med-Surg

    You are very fortunate to have only 5 pts. I thought CA was going to lower their ratios to 1:4. Is this not the case. I liked med/surg when I was at one facility but moved and when I worked for another, I got burned out in just a year.

15. Trying to get hard-to-get job.. need advice

    bjm replied to NurseCard's topic in Ambulatory

    So glad you are not from my state...for a moment I thought we were competing for the same job...just kidding. See my earlier post. I am curious, though, have they discussed pay with you. I'm trying to find any info about outpatient RN hourly pay? ...