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I am thinking of relocating to Florida. I have 5 years of hospice experience. What is hospice like there? Pay expectation for experienced nurse?

[QUOTE=akemi2001;7330891]I have considered upstate like Albany, Rochester, Binghamtom and Buffalo. Call me crazy but I don't want to go there because I have looked up the crime stats in those areas...

Okay so I am going to try to give you the easy explanation.. I live and work in Arizona which is a compact state. What this means to me is lets say I took a nursing job in texas another compact...

MomRN do we have the same boss? LOL. I have a director who has that whole I am right and you wrong and you will do everything my way attitude! Very frustrating some days! I have gone rounds with her...

Curious as to why it is taking you guys so long. I moved to texas in 2007 and had to pay the 150 as well and was cleared within a month although maybe it didnt take as long because I was endorsing in...

I have never nebulized morphine for a patient in chronic pain. I have however nebulized morphine at end of life for respiratory distress. And let me tell you it works wonders. It relaxes the...

Thanks Dee. Thats what I plan on doing tomorrow.. Just wasnt sure if that would be approriate out here..lol.. i actually have a job interview tomorrow outside of the health care industry.. I needed...

I am beginning to think its not just new Grads.. i have applied at Sunrise, and Valley Health systems. I am a nurse with 2 years experience and I have yet to get called for an interview. Is it the...

Nursing students that are selfish, catty and back-biting..say it isnt so.. Sad to see that not much as changed. More nursing schools should give a class on team work and how to get along with fellow...

Sue. I actually took a pay raise coming to hospice. But anyway. I know all about the paperwork!! Now i seem to be having communication issues and learning how to deal with families approriately. I...

Let me reclarify something. Most floors have standing Diabetic protocol. and Standing Sliding scale protocol. I think i misread the post and started myself on a tangent..lol Our standing protocol...

Um since when does a nurse ever need an order to hold insulin? That is a nursing judgment. I worked on a cardiac unit with lots of diabetics and we would always hold the insulin if we felt it was...

Its not that easy to do but I have seen it happen. And you would not believe how fast I have seen people running to get to that patient.. (just grab the wall and stay out the way if you dont know...

Personally PATIENT SAFETY should always be a priority. You will learn there is a big difference between "textbook nursing" and the reality of being overworked, short on staff and you have 5 patients...

And to add to that..make sure they show you the difference between the code light and the button to turn the call light off. My first week on a unit no one showed me the difference(they were right...

And if you do accidently extubate, make sure you hit the code light and call a code!!!!:yeah::yeah::yeah:

Remind me not to let you stick me lol :D:roll I absolutely love my job now. It took me many job changes to find an aspect that I truly loved. Dont get me wrong. I liked peds and NICU were I first...

Hmm maybe OR nursing might be for you, or a postpartum. Most moms on post partum can toliet themselves. The fresh c-section patients are up by the next morning after surgery. There are so many...

I am so sorry for what you are going thru, my thoughts and prayers are going out to you tonight! Several years ago I lost my grandma and grandpa on the same day. I remember crying for days because I...

Okay I know that most of you are still in school, it looks like nursing school never changes.. you guys have given me a chuckle because I think we have all had those instructors that you want to beat...

Please dont stress yourself out you are there to learn!!!! When I was in nursing school I think i had to redo it twice.. I kept messing up with the sterlie gloves. And My instructor was a big...

I was reading this thread and I just had to respond. I have only been a nurse for 2 years. Worked Mother baby in a hospital before I went to LTC. I ended up after a week being night charge nurse on a...

Congrats!!!! Just an FYI for all those waiting for results. I personally think that if you are getting a lot of prioritization questions your on the right tract.. Seems to me when I took mine...

Okay I started out in mother/baby, L & D .. your post made me think of all the dads out there that just couldnt stand to look down nether to see their baby being born.. Always made sure a chair was...

Em1995 i tried to private message you and it wouldnt work...lol .. could you pm me first?