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Your timing is so interesting. We all got an email today saying that due to budget cuts, we need to call our manager at home, day or night in order to get approval for a sitter. Our aids and unit...

When will this knitpicking stop? I'm so sorry, I just can't let this go..it is nitpicking. Don't mean to be picking nits with you!

Thanks so much for the link! I'm going to get the manual and see how comprehensive it is before dropping more cash on the review. Thanks for your input!

Have any of you done the review that was given at the last WOC conference? It is $75 for each specialty. You can download it as an MP3 off of the website. I have completed the online course given...

New grad RNs need proper precepting with staff that is willing, and compensated. We are already so busy. It is not fair to ask RNs to take a full load and take on a preceptee. This movement needs...

Good luck! We probably all would screen positive. It would be an interesting study but like the previous poster stated, what would be the consequences?

$2.80 for weekends, $4.00 for nights. Southern Ca, Union, Magnet.

It would be cheaper to pay a family member who could be assisted by home health nurse than it is to keep these folks in acute care. TPN feeding seems to be one factor that makes a pt difficult to...

Oh...so this is where the funny nurses hang! Thanks for the laugh guys!

Perhaps the person who wrote this article graduated at a time when you could choose a specialty and there would be a job available. When I hear of new grads looking for their first job for months to...

Funny thing is it is not just "text speak". I saw a post the other day and the person kept saying "of coarse". This was repeated several times in the post. It may seem like nit picking but it really...

Sadly, this type of facility caters to pts w/ insurance. In other words, the bills will get paid. There is very little incentive to provide care to the un or under insured. Often the hospital foots...

"T" to "T" ratio. Teeth to tattoo as in if they have more tattoos than teeth, probably a meth user.

You may want to use more discretion w/ your posts. I would never mention specific hospital names. You never know who is reading. Could be your manager at Gaylord.

Worked at another "chain" LTAC as a new grad. Great place to work if you ultimately want to do ICU or even ED. You will see everything and every possible intervention (vents, feeding tubes, TPN,...

This girl also needs to learn the consequences of posting personal info related to others as a matter of ethics, not just HIPPA. Is that something to LOL about? Sad. Thanks for doing something.

They can do this if you are not union.

Just curious...how many of you make it a point to say "goodnight" or "good-day" to your patients at the end of shift? I know that most of us are so busy and soooo ready to go home at the end of shift...

Could be an employer, coworker, or even a patient who recognizes you from your post, user name, or state affiliation. Don't forget that if someone wants to, they can see all of your previous posts...

How did you know that was playing in my head?

I have to agree w/ original poster. Look at teaching, administrative assistants and other female dominated occupations. I come from an anthropological background so I would venture to say that women...

Cough up the bucks, do the Kaplan course and enjoy your peace of mind. It's worth it, it's structured, and organized. 75 questions and out the door.

I have seen people use an NG guide wire (a bit expensive but works). Putting a blue tipped attachment on a 3cc syringe will give you extra pressure to clear a peg (don't know what it's called but is...

I think that one thing should be made clear (this took me a while to figure out too). When you piggyback or run something as the secondary, your primary fluid is suspended. That primary infusion...

DookieMeisterRN had a very accurate assessment of what it is like to work in an LTAC. I went into LTAC as a new grad. It was not easy. Minimal resources w/ very difficult patient cases that almost...