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Working 3 12's (7p-7a) per week, plus mandatory on-call shifts, due to short-staffing (imagine that). My pregnant body isn't handling it too well, so I'm planning on talking to my OB about cutting...

I've been a nurse for a little over a year now and have been on a tele unit for the past 9 months. From what I've been told, tele units are rough in general, and after reading your post, it seems...

Whatever you do, don't move to Indiana. It has to be one of THE worst states to be a nurse. Not that I've worked as a nurse in other states, but I've formed this opinion after talking to nurses in...

I feel the same way about my job. It gives me a great deal of anxiety and I dread going. I'm a high risk pregnancy, and this job is really taking a toll on my body. I saw 3 different doctors in 1...

This sounds like the unit I work on! It's a tele unit, and we have a 6:1 ratio with NO techs on nocs. This job is already making me reconsider my career as a nurse. I find myself looking to apply for...

I started off in LTC at $19.05. When I moved to a hospital, my starting pay was $18.03, so I took a pay cut for acute care experience. I have had this job for 8 months now and a raise has never even...

Damn, where do you live that you're making THAT kind of money as a new grad?! I don't even make half that... I'd choose the burn unit.

As others have said, I still feel lost some days and I've been a nurse for 9 months now! Just when you think you've got the hang of it, you'll graduate, become a nurse and feel lost all over again....

My school required ATI. When I took the comprehensive predictor, I got a 92% probability of passing NCLEX on the first attempt, and I passed NCLEX on the first attempt with only 75 questions. I would...

I have an ASN degree and have not had an issue finding a job. I've had multiple offers. I think it depends on where you're from. Bigger cities and bigger hospitals tend to lean more towards the BSN...

Before I graduated from nursing school, I worked as a qualified medication aide (QMA). I worked under the LPN. A QMA (or med tech) cannot take the place of a LPN, because QMAs cannot assess...

Let me start by saying that you shouldn't feel bad for spending 6 years on a 2 year degree. I did the same. When I started college, I didn't put my heart and soul into it, so I didn't get very good...

When I worked in a LTC facility, it was locked up. I work in a hospital now, and pharmacy doses it. We don't have to count it. I think it varies from facility to facility and state to state. I have...

When I was in nursing school, I never had the desire to be a hospital nurse, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I started off working as a RN in the same LTC facility that I'd worked as an aide in for...

She's not my teacher. She teaches a clinical on my unit. I don't know about her history, but I know she's not a LPN. The school we went to has a LPN-ASN program, but not a LPN-BSN program. She...

My thoughts exactly! Tuition is $690 per credit hour, plus technical fees and what not. I have nothing against new grads (since I'm still a baby nurse myself), but I certainly wouldn't want one...

Thank you for sharing that!

She's not my friend. We've never even socialized. I just know that we graduated the same semester. And actually, the school is supposed to be one of the best in Northwest Indiana. That's why this...

Well, she does have a BSN. I don't know what the laws are in Indiana, but it would be interesting to find out. I think - and don't quote me on this - a BSN is acceptable, as long as they're pursuing...

It's a Catholic university.

A girl I graduated with (in December '11) is teaching a clinical on the tele unit I work on. She has less than 6 months of RN experience and she's already teaching a med-surg clinical. That doesn't...

That's not low. Nurses in my state would be lucky to make that much. I don't even make $20/hr as a RN.

I don't see it a CNA stuff. As nurses, we care for the whole patient. If that means putting a patient on a bedpan or swabbing their mouth, so be it. It's just as much my job as it is the CNA's.

Our unit "princess" is married to one of our cardiologists, so yeah, she gets away with a lot. She only works one shift a week, and it's an 8 hour shift, when everyone else has to work 12 hour...