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in nursing school during my ER rotation, a 20 something woman came in unconscious. the glucometer reading just said "HIGH". took a venous sample and it was 1200!! new onset type 1... she turned out...

i work in a city with a high hispanic population. not knowing spanish didnt stop me from getting hired, but man do i wish i knew more spanish. m actually looking into taking some classes. every time...

philly is really saturated.. if you dont mind commuting or relocating the reading/allentown area is a bit better.

we never had to come the day before to do research, and im glad we didnt! i find that idea kind of silly anyway. when they become nurses, they dont come in on their day off to look up their patients...

related question: if the patient requests all 4 side rails are up, would you still need a restraint order? i usually just oblige, and chart all 4 side rails up per patient request..

where do you live? in PA i made 12/hr as a PCA/unit clerk.

i work nights, so its a little different but i have always gotten out within a half hour of the end of my shift except for two times when I had a couple admissions to take care of. 1. cluster your...

when i worked days, i would make sure all of my patients were washed. if the aid couldnt get to it because he/she was busy, i would do them myself and just ask the aid to help me turn them if need be.

I am a new nurse on a surgical floor. i still cringe, and at times get a little teary eyed when I have to roll someone over on a broken hip and they are screaming bloody murder in pain, or when our...

i work med surg, on a unit that gets all surgical cases in the hospital. they sometimes float nurses from my unit over to ICU (we are the only med/surg nurses that get floated to ICU in our hospital)...

our unit normally assigns this way. the only exception is if one of the pts is receiving chemo and i am not chemo cert. yet, another nurse will take that pt and i will take one his/her pt. every once...

a lot of nurses where i work are required to work 3 12 hour shifts a week and eow, so theyll schedule themselves fri-wed (6 days in a row,, and have 8 days off in a row. i would be really...

:wavey: oh hi fellow INFP! i agree about the night shift thing, its a much more friendly environment for introverts. i love it, its just hard to get used to the sleeping schedule. i currently...

dont know where you can find one but i can tell you basically what was on mine, as i only took it a couple months ago.. there were a few fill in the blanks that asked what certain abbreviations...

in theory, yes, a new grad CAN be hired into pretty much any specialty. some specialties are very competitive and/or hesitant to hire new grads. depends on the facility, if you have any experience in...

im still on orientation on a med/surg unit. just a couple days ago, i went into a pts room to put up a new bag of fluids. she was sleeping, so i didnt want to wake her and look at her IV site, so i...

a couple of my classmates went right into ICU, but i thought it would be too overwhelming for me at first. heck, im overwhelmed in med/surg, but i guess thats typical. i want to get the hang of...

I am a VERY new nurse. Still in my orientation on the Med/Surg floor I just started on. The floor I took the job on is a predominantly surgical floor. We see mostly ortho, gyn, urology, and CA...

im hired evening/night, so i can either work 3-11, 11-7, or 7p-7a. we self schedule for the most part.

if you did exactly what the orders said, you didnt do anything wrong, but i can tell you what our protocols are on our ortho surgical floor: q 30 min vitals x3 as soon as the arrive on the floor....

im part of a 6 campus hospital network. our main campus was created in 1872! our nursing school (my alma mater), is the oldest diploma nursing program still in operation in the country. the campus i...

Hi everyone! I am a brand new nurse, and I am working on a med/surg orthopedic/oncology floor. we have a lot more orthos than oncology pts, but were the only unit in the hospital that can give chemo,...

RN 23.85 with .75 differential for evenings, 1.00 differential for nights. i work evenings and nights. hospital, med surg PA

i work ortho/oncology med surg. i had one week of orientation classes, and im in the midst of my orientation on the unit. they said it can be anywhere from 4 weeks to 12 weeks, whenever my preceptor...

Where in pa do you live? Im in the lehigh valley area and started at 24/hr, and thats pretty much the standard around here.. what were you expecting?