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1. Told a salary is non negotiable. True? or room to wiggle

   graft posted a topic in General Nursing

   I spoke with a recruiter about a position and was told the salary was non negotiable. Was told the hourly pay was based strictly on experience and that I was not getting low balled and asked if I needed time to think about it. I was kind of caught o...

2. Being delgated a new task outside your job description.

   graft posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi all. I work in a cath lab as an RN and was told today by my boss that I am now in charge of submitting all the ACC (this is statistical information that you punch in on a computer, which I think you need to submit for accreditation) paperwork. Th...

3. When is being understaffed too much?

   graft posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all. I know every unit gets short staffed from time to time and that's just part of nursing, but I'm just curious as to what others think of my current situation. I currently work in a cath lab with 2 nurses (myself included). IR only has one nur...

4. Asking for raise in small cath lab.

   graft posted a topic in General Nursing

   I currently work in a small cath lab. One room lab with 3 nurses and 3 xray techs. One nurse just had her last day and her position has not been filled and according to my boss nobody has even interviewed for it in the 1.5 months its been posted. Bec...

5. Cath Lab on call schedules?

   graft posted a topic in Cardiac

   Hi, I'm a cath lab nurse in a relatively small lab. Our regular hours are 7a-330pm. We have 2 labs, but only run 1. We have 6 full time staff, 3 nurses and 3 xray techs. Currently we are in the process of training some, but when we are finished we a...