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Starting pay is close to what the Commuter stated. It is comparable to other hospitals in the area. OUMC is a private, for-profit hospital owned by HCA. It is located on the OU Health Science...

There are plenty of facilities that have skeleton support staff right now - without safe nursing ratios. So it would be an improvement there.

Completely agree! This is the kind of problem that makes end of life care so bad in our culture.

We get prisoners at our facility regularly. Most are just people who got into trouble due to substance abuse. (Which makes them no different from many of our non-incarcerated patients!) I have...

Not exactly a hallucination, but I had a funny thing with an ETOH withdrawal patient recently. I touched his arm and he flung off my hand and said, "Get the f$&@ off of me!" I said, "Hey!" and he...

I for one am very glad that women with such poor judgment had EC available to them. Would you rather they become parents?

Maybe she is just an incredibly fastidious person, and after washing her hands, she used paper towels to thoroughly dry the sink. Or she keeps a small bottle of hand sanitizer in her pocket and used...

I wouldn't say that I lost it, but I really chewed out someone I caught smoking in her room. And when I was done, the charge nurse called the cops on her, and they came in and chewed her out. And...

Yes, that is a little short on details. It sounds like a systemic failure possibly. Why was the kidney where it could be mistaken for trash?

If you default on a student loan, the government can garnish your wages and confiscate your tax refund. They do not have to go to court and get a judgement against you as other creditors would. It's...

My hospital has a little different set-up for stepdown. We have several stepdown beds on each nursing unit. The ratio for stepdown is 2-3:1. (Ratio for the floor is 5:1.) We do total care and don't...

My mind says gross and unsanitary, but realistically, **** gets on everything in our rooms. The floors, the walls, the bed frames and mattresses. These just get the normal cleaning from housekeeping...

I think if this were the case, the OP's preceptor would have explained herself. Her comment of, "you'll figure it out eventually" makes me think she has some preconceived notions about uninsured or...

This is a common occurrence where I work. Nothing as dramatic as a year, but we have patients who have no need for acute care but have to stay for weeks due to no insurance coverage. We see a lot of...

I think it's funny that several people have said they would let students do anything but a foley. I'll bet most students are more conscientious about sterility than a lot of experienced nurses.

If the nurse doesn't have anything to do, definitely go help out the cna. When I was a new grad the things I felt most I'll- prepared for we're things like bathing patients, transfers, helping people...

Eh, this is just one of those things you can't take to heart as a nurse. Sometimes when I see a familiar name on the board I just have to sigh and shake my head and then go give them their meds. What...

I'm sure it depends on the facility. Mine has everyone take Healthcare BLS.

I'm pretty sure all nursing programs do dome sort of drug testing. The facilities where they do clinicals require it, as well as criminal background checks and immunization records. Most healthcare...

Most drugs pass through breastmilk and get to baby. That doesn't necessarily mean they will cause harmful effects. You have to use your resources to establish whether a particular drug has been...

You're kidding right? Patient education is a huge part of what pharmacists do in community pharmacy practice. This debate is such a tempest in a teapot!

When I was in nursing school, I had a clinical day in a dialysis unit. The nurse I was working with called me over to a patient and asked me to check his legs for edema. I pulled up his blanket and...

I think you may find it more interesting after you get into nursing school and start learning the pathophysiology of disease. That's where you take all the boring stuff you memorized in A & P and...

Quite a few years ago, I posted on a breastfeeding message board. Someone there linked to a thread here where a few people were making some less than informed comments. A big inter-board dust-up...

What "extra precautions" should a nurse take when treating an HIV + patient?