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Banner Health is buying the AJ location, and it will be run by the Banner Ironwood management. Congrats in the bump in employment!!!

I called them yesterday and the secretary said they are expecting to mail out letters this week. We'll all get a letter (not email) for either acceptance or denial.....

You followed standing orders and you also alerted the doctor to the patients condition. Oxygen is a medication. I swear, nurses are darned if you do and darned if you don't. It sounds as if you are...

Does anyone know if USA has discontinued their MSN program for Spring 2013? Its not listed on NursingCAS and the supplemental application isn't up on the CON's website. Thanks for any insight!

I work as a nurse at a hospital that has the state's contract for DOC inmates. I agree with the need for education!! We recently had an inmate being admitted basically in acute (waiting to be dx as...

We use baxter pumps at my work, so I'll chime in. I do what someone else here spoke about. Each secondary has it's own secondary tubing. The ones that aren't being used at the moment are...

Did everyone see that the AZ BON is holding a special session tommorow, Saturday Feb. 11...... It looks like they may be discussing the ordered psych eval.... Per the posted agenda, item 2 of the...

I work at an acute care hospital that has a locked down DOC floor, where the inmates are sent when they are shipped out. We know the ones that are fakers: 1. Frequent flyers with negative work-ups...

MGA is very sketchy and I tried to get on with them as a new grad (2 years ago) and they gave me the run around for 6 months and they never gave me a day's work.That's a great tip about Google earth!

Do a Google search. As a nurse you need to be comfortable looking things up. And I think the correct acronym is HCAHPS.... Either way, it's easy to find.....

It sounds like you've got your plan set! Gilbert is also a pricey area.... Glendale is a good choice, lots of LTC facilities and close to Sun City, some high end areas and some safe but affordable...

HCAPS is a big things these days, and especially on a med-surg floor, its really important. When you are answering scenario questions, or relating your experiences, they are looking for customer...

I'm an Az native and I hear that people want to move here and live in Scottsdale.... There are unsafe areas of Scottsdale just like the rest of the Phoenix metro area. Scottsdale is very expensive to...

My hospital in Tempe (a Phoenix suburb that houses Az state university) started hiring LPNs a few months ago in order to bring back team nursing. It is a for profit institution, and the plan is to...

I think CCL RN is getting what I'm saying.... Lets all be savvy consumers of our information here and not use this issue as fuel for the inferno that is nursing politics ( which by the way, I...

And those meds require a second nurse check....... Going back to a previous post about this nurse being an unemployed new grad with tons for debt needing a job..... Again, what kind of...

I get and agree with all the "nurse thrown under the bus" stuff, and errors usually occur after multiple things go wrong, however.... How rushed/inexperienced/stupid do you have to be to put Jevity...

I sooooo agree!!! I feel like night shift gets treated like we are just babysitting the patients until the "real" RNs come back on the day shift!!! Don't they know that patients go downhill in the...

The other big issue here that's not being talked about and could get the OP in big trouble is that she went to administer those meds alone. She stated that the instructor declined her request to...

Al dente, I live in AZ. Thanks for putting into words exactly how I see my wonderful state. I'm an AZ native. I'd also like to add that it's a beautiful state with amazing weather 9 months a year....

I was told last night by a pt that she didn't want her lactulose because she didn't want to catch c-diff in the hospital.......

Kory, Yes, those things are important. However, a hospitals reimbursement rate shouldn't be judged on those things alone. And the HCAHPS surveys are based upon the percentage of respondents that...

Are you following the PCH page on Facebook? They are really good about updating applicants there!

I can't answer most of your questions, but do know that Banner Heart Hospital, which is on the Banner Baywood campus at Power Rd and Broadway has a CVICU. They do open hearts and other scary stuff (I...

Thanks for the confirmation! There's another thread under students/graduate nurses about the 2011 GAPP, and 1 or 2 people reported there that they were offered a postition from Tuesday's interviews.