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I've tried various nurse-specific brands of shoes, and my best luck has been with plain old running shoes, the kind of thing designed to take a beating on the pavement and protect your knees. If you...

Whoa, what? I'm sorry you don't like your job but if you aren't advocating for your patients and reporting *witnessed abuse*, maybe nursing isn't the right career for you! That it bums you out should...

As a new grad in Florida a few years ago, that's what I would have started at in the hospital setting if I hadn't moved out of state. I've had a few hospital jobs throughout the southeast and the pay...

I spent several years on med-surg before switching to the ER. The biggest transition by far was breaking the habit of doing full head-to-toe assessments in favor of focused assessments. It felt like...

Until recently, esi. Now we do straight back and triage in the room, and the triage nurse is not allowed to stay and help. So basically the triage nurse is a greeter until all the rooms are full....

Is putting a paper barrier down before priming IV tubing considered best practice where you work? I've never heard of or seen it done, and I can't imagine a rationale for it. If you didn't do...

I don't think this is a distinction that any hiring manager anywhere is going to care about. That said do be sure to check the accreditation of the program. Make sure it is accredited and that the...

We do it at our hospital. I think it's great- the providers don't love it (since they have to do the screening but don't get reimbursed) but it saves a ton of nursing time (and aside from saving our...

Nursing is not for everyone- and even for people who are really called to nursing, not every specialty and position in nursing is a good fit for every nurse. It sounds like you're in a really...

As a new grad you won't neccesarily make more money as a BSN- some hospitals pay more to BSNs but some don't, and it's rarely a large difference for equivalent work- one hospital I worked at offered...

My scrub pockets always have alcohol swabs, flushes, swabcaps for luerlocks, iv tubing caps, a pen, and a carpuject syringe (and at the start of most shifts, tape and a scissors, but they rarely...

If I'm reading your post correctly, one job is full time and reasonably well-paid, while the other is PRN and extremely underpaid. Even leaving aside the issues related to specialty, that seems like...

I'm 5'4 and a slim but very curvy hourglass (34D) and I love, love, love the Wonderwink line, especially their "2-stretch" and "utility girl" scrubs. The tops with the toggles/drawstrings under the...

I'm a non-believer working at a secular hospital in an extremely religious part of the country- my patients and coworkers frequently make religious comments, specifically religious comments assuming...

The women's IguanaMed are similar in size/fit to the Cherokee junior fit scrubs, but run much smaller than the more traditional Cherokee women's/unisex cuts. I wear an XS in both Cherokee junior fit...

We don't do this for skill testing, but we do run simulator labs where we take care of the "patient" and our instructor controls the patient's responses via computer from the other side of a one-way...

Good luck! Don't worry- it won't be nearly as scary as you think, and in a few months you'll be looking back and wishing they were still as easy as that first one, lol.

Whoa, that's so different from my program. We're required to link each diagnosis to the cellular-level pathology of the problem, and the expected outcome and criteria for measuring the outcome must...

I'm not sure what you mean... you still have to take the NCLEX-RN if you get a BSN, unless you're an RN--> BSN student. If you finish your ADN, pass your NCLEX, and then finish your BSN, no you don't...

I lived in a dorm for a while while I was working on another degree, and while I did make some friends, and there were fun parts and the convenience of being on campus, there was gobs of drama....

Weak! At our school they just stop before discussing a patient and tell everyone to turn their recorders off, and when they finish, let them turn them back on. It's worked fine so far.

Each semester we have to pass the test before we can start clinicals; the first try each semester, 90% is passsing, if you have to retake it, you have to get 100%. We get theoretically unlimited...

Yes, they told us this in the first orientation session and it's proven true through all of school so far. We know our days of the week (ie, we have clinical only on Thursday and Friday), so we can...

To one: "Contrary to your belief, there is nothing magical about the sound of your voice reading powerpoints that makes us understand them better. If you have absolutely nothing to add to the...

A diploma is what you earn if you go through a "diploma program", which are attached to/run by a hospital. When you graduate you are qualified to sit for the NCLEX and receive your license, but you...