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Call your local hospice and ask about their bereavement services. Nothing wrong with talking to professionals that understand loss and grief. As a hospice nurse we always make sure staff are aware...

Unless you have a clinical background and have experience work with patients, do a tradition program. You want the best clinical experience you can get in a structured setting. You also want hands...

Fox News loves to distort the truth. RN's can't prescribe the pill. This bill in no way allows that.

Here's a clear understanding of the bill. Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. - Newsroom Assembly Bill 2348 by Assemblymember Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) allows registered nurses (RNs) to...

The application for licence by endorsment is pretty straight forward. There is nothing about giving up your florida licence. The temporary license is issued so you can work until your permanent one...

I'm sorry to read you resigned. You should have waited and talked to them. Explain your day to them, give them an action plan on how you would avoid this in the future. They might have given you...

Best thing that helped me make sure I was on time with all medication was setting timers on my phone. I would stop all paperwork and go do the med when the timer when off.

I use pocket informant. Make a template of what you want. Then enter it on the first day and copy it do the rest of the days.

I work with an amazing set of nurses practitioners in Hospice and they provided wonderful emotion support to both patients and their families.

No one cares where you get your card. It's a mandatory requirement to have CPR cert for most jobs I know. Don't take ACLS until you are almost done with your nursing program. It wouldnt make...

Eating is important. I eat a good evening meal around 530pm, then lunch around 12-1am, then I have a light meal before going to bed (usually have a bowl of cereal). Besure the first two meals have...

I would email and not call again. Don't be upset by generic replies. You have to remember that right now there are so few jobs for new grads and competition is high. Hundreds applying for just a...

Wages vary greatly depending on what state/area you live in. My first job was in small down and I started at $25/hr. Friends in the city were starting at $30. Right now jobs are so hard to get as a...

Look at going in to research.

At my old job everyone had their own color. nurses:green, CNA: blue, unit secretary: purple. It wasn't posted who was who, so I always wondered how Pts actually knew who was who.

I agree with Tokyo. Stay put, get your license and a year of experience under your belt and then move. New grad positions are hard if not impossible to get here in California.

I would start with pain as my priority. First thing I would do is get better orders for pain meds so you can pre-medicate prior to every turn.

You can defer the student loans usually for hardship. Check with your student loan company.

Try to make yourself stand out. Send thank you cards after interviews. Take extra training classes. Get your IV certification. It took me over 8 months to finally get my first RN job and it was 130...

I uses google docs. That way you can have access to your docs from amywhere. I uses note master to sync and keep them on my iPhone.

In nursing school we had PDAs provided to us with expensive nursing software for which was part of our fees. When i started working, I used my iPhone as a timer mostly. I set an alarm for every hour...

I would look at how long its going to take for you to get into nursing school. Most schools I know have a year or longer waiting list. Whats the cost for your education? Will you have to take out...

Make packets of cover letter, resume, and any other important docs. Make enough to pass out if having a panel interview. Know something about the company and include that in why you want to work for...

Even in California with the nursing ratio law, if there is an emergency situation like an earthquake (we don't have blizzards here), the hospital just has to write to the state and tell them why they...

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm a hospice nurse and we always included the facility staff as part of the family and honor their grief. Any bereavement services the hospice offers should be available...