applesRN

applesRN has 13 years experience.

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1. Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing-FNP Program

   applesRN replied to ms_sheesh's topic in NP Students

   Just an update, I was accepted into Frontier! :) Frontier Bound in the fall!

2. (Long note)Recruiter said I was threatening!

   applesRN posted a topic in Career Support

   Here's my current situation: 1.around 10 years nursing experience, almost all in Med-surg. 2. Med Surg is killing me. 3. 8 years ago I started at my current hospital. I was offered a position on about 6 units. I chose the wrong one- and within month...

3. Sad story for all nurses

   applesRN replied to Kevinwrightjr's topic in NICU

   I do believe that a nurse who has made a mistake, and realizes the seriousness of it and regrets it, will be much more diligent and careful in the future than another nurse who consistently makes small mistakes that never get caught.

4. Nursery and NICU

   applesRN replied to jagalu100305's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Please tell me there are NICU nurses that are team players, as I am trying to get into this area!

5. Med-Surg to NICU or Intermediate Nursery

   applesRN posted a topic in NICU

   Hi everyone, I have been a mostly med-surg float nurse for 11 years, I recently finished my BSN, and have had a lot of life changes in the last year. I never thought I would have difficult finding a RN job somewhere I wanted, but with this economy e...

6. Med-surg to NICU, MB or L+D

   applesRN replied to applesRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Here I am, again. Looking back, I wish that I would have gone for that night shift in NICU, but at that time I guess I really wasn't ready for it (physically). There has not been an opening since, and I recently called the (retiring) manager who said...

7. Float Pool/Resource Team Incentives?

   applesRN replied to tfrisinger's topic in General Nursing

   I was making $17 an hour 7 years ago on a regular unit, and left there to go into pool. We now have about 80 pool nurses (about 12 techs in that). we have 3 divisions- acute care(any stepdown, non-CC uinit, but occasionally take ICU assignments, lon...

8. So Sick of Pushy Patients and Verbal Abuse

   applesRN replied to applesRN's topic in Relations

   Thank you to everyone who weighed in on my post. I still don't know what the answer is. I recently went to Jamaica on a medical missions trip. People walked miles to come see us for medical and vision care. I just want to tell that to the next trivi...

9. Patient complaint filed

   applesRN replied to ladytopaz56's topic in General Nursing

   I am so sorry that you had to work for such an unsupportive hospital. Leave them in the dust and find a place that respects you. I just posted a thread on the difficulties of verbally/physically abusive, demanding patients who are alert and oriented....

10. So Sick of Pushy Patients and Verbal Abuse

    applesRN posted a topic in Relations

    For the most part, I am described by others as being extremely patient and kind. But my fuse is wearing thin! with the increasing number of entitled, demanding patients, as well as verbally and sometimes threatened physically abusive nature. ( Everyo...

11. Wanting to totally bail out on nursing

    applesRN replied to Bruin's Mom's topic in Relations

    I burned out at about 2 years into nursing, maybe less. I took a year or two off and did nothing but occasional prn work (living with family). I finally decided to give nursing one more try and went to a temp position at a children's hospital. It was...

12. lovenox injection sites???

    applesRN replied to OBJandro's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient demand it be given in the arm. He made the case that all the other nurses during his stay honored his request. I looked up the drug info online, and then called pharmacy. It is approved only for abdominal injection. My patient was unh...

13. Cosmetic procedures office RN

    applesRN replied to NiC4's topic in General Nursing

    I think I would fly to Cali once a week to make $145 an hour.

14. What "weight" did your graduate school carry in the job...

    applesRN replied to smkiya's topic in NP

    Great post! I was about to post almost exactly the same question. :lol2:I, too, am debating between Frontier (the name is changing soon to Frontier Nursing University) and a big name- specifically Duke.After debating for a while, I had felt so conten...

15. Med-surg float - change jobs to get out of med-surg

    applesRN replied to applesRN's topic in General Nursing

    2 years later= My new manager is the best I could have ever asked for and didn't know it. But I'm going into grad school now, my daughter has moved out, and the stress of the float is the same (on top of new physical issues). I aminterviewing for an ...