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I am surprised there is so much floating! At my hospital we have a no float policy for RNs (we don't have LPNs). No nurses are ever floated. I have heard on one occasion of a nurse requsting to...

Did you ever end up moving to Eau Claire?

I would not let your RN license lapse! I would expand your job search. If you have only been applying to hospitals, start applying to nursing homes or assisted living facilities. I would expand...

I would just spend your time with family and friends. Make sure to warn them that you will not be as available once nursing school starts.

Med errors happen. Learn from this and make sure to really pay close attention in the future. Usually the parameters are included in the eMAR, so you can include it in your med checks. I am very...

I work on a split cardiology/PCU unit with 15 beds of each. Our PCU has open heart patients as soon as 1st day post op. Drips like cardizem, amio, nitro, dopamine, integrilin, angiomax. We run Lots...

I am not exactly sure the lowest amount. I do know that I have had it say 24 mL one time & 36mL another time.

During nursing school i would mostly focus on the things the teacher addresses in the materials for the class. it is too much when you are trying to focus on every detail in the readings. I suggest...

In my area the hospitals do not schedule 8 hour people with 5 shifts. It is either 3 12s(.9 FTE) or 4 8s (.8 FTE) I have only been working 12s for 4 months, and I am still adjusting. Besides the...

If you want to stay in the region, you should head over to Eau Claire, WI. Just 1.5 hours east of the twin cities & the two hospitals in town hire quite a few new grads. We have a Mayo Clinic...

I think you just need to practice NCLEX questions. I would check out a strategies book and practice questions. My last semester of school my school started using the Kaplan integrated program which...

Graduated end of December 2011 and took NCLEX the end of January, which was the first available date. I started my first nursing job February 1st.

As a new grad, they will not expect you to know about drips or ventilators. I think they usually are just trying to make sure you are willing to learn, so I would just emphasize that you are...

You are doing just fine. I am a true believer in Kaplan. I forget my percentages now, but know that l was in that range. I was totally freaking out, but passed nclex in 75. All of my nursing...

I would take this position, as long as the nurse/patient ratios are good. You will learn so much! I can't even adequately express the amount I have learned in the last 9 months working in a PCU. ...

On night shift we usually do the report quietly by the door if the patient is sleeping. We do go in to check all tubes, wounds, lines,drips, dressings though. Our PCTs report to each other, and...

Up in Eau Claire, new grads have a fairly easy time getting jobs. Staffing at the local hospitals is good too. It seems the job market is a little tighter in the southern part of the state. ...

My unit only has pediatric telemetry patches stocked right now. These patches are significantly smaller than the regular adult patches we normally use. There is a hand written sticky note placed on...

Anne & Lacey, it sounds like you work in LTC?? I felt the same way for the 2 months that I lasted in LTC. At the 2 month mark, I was completely burned out, and wanted to quit nursing. I would...

I also found the memory notebooks on a DVD with PDF files on eBay for much less money. It made it so easy to just print the files that related to each unit & stick them in my binder with my other...

At my facility PICC lines are usually placed in the basilic. A 10 ml stringe needs to be used on PICCS verses a smaller syringe due to the amount of pressure exuded. The smaller the the syringe the...

It depends on your location. It also depends if the facility is union or non-union. I am not sure if all places are union in MN or not. I checked in to some wages when I was considering relocating...

In progressive care we do assessments Q4H. Yes, we wake the patient every four hours to do a head to toe assessment. Sometimes certain assessments are every hour or even every 15 minutes (like when...

We were just discussing in our staff meeting having an admission/discharge nurse. This is I improve patient satisfaction, since most patients think they can march out the door as soon as the Dr says...

A good place to look is the dictated operative report in the patient's EMR. If it is previously placed usually it is in the H & P. A few I do know are: PEG tube= percutaneous endoscopic...