I am a fairly new nurse and my nurse manager has put me in charge a couple of different times. Well, I have this one nurse who has been at the hospital longer than me (but is not the brightest light bulb in the stack) She proceeds to tell me how ...
:stone I started my first position on a Neuro med/surg unit in April, While I love Neuro Patients (most of the time)---I hate the nurse--patient ratio. I work nights and have had up tp 10-12 patients with one PCT. As many of you know most of ...
:angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire I am a new nurse. I have been offered a job and accepted it. I went to my pre-employment health assessment today. i had a 2 page form about do you have this or this or this etc.... I HAVE TO ...
I have just graduated and passed boards. I am ready to start working---but Iam not willing to just take any nursing job. I have been offered a job (first offer) but this is not something i want. pt/nurse ratio is 9/1 it is a med/ surg floor in...
I passed---i feel so much better knowing that all that hard work paid off. i also got a job offer today---i have not decided yet--i am going to think about it over the weekend.
I thought this was a profession that you could easily find a job. i guess i was wrong. I have an interview at a hospital that is an hour from my house. is this too far to drive. it is for baylor.
Today I went to the doctor for this nasty URI (viral)--I was sick of coughing my head off. Anyway, the nurse CMA, or what ever she was gave me deadron in the deltoid muscle. When she came in I had alredy gotten ready to get it in the hip---but she...
I am down to the last weeks of my class. I have to pick three places to do my preceptorship in----I like L&D, Peds, Mom and baby, but I am also interested in peds oncology. What would you suggest?
i heard that you learn all this book stuff---but it does not click until you actual start working as a nurse. The things they teach us ---i might as well be able to do brain surgery. I did better in my OB and Peds classes than cardiac and GI. I ...
Well I failed my first ever nursing class with 10 weeks to go before grauatng. I am so upset because i have never failed a class. I had a 76 average and needed a 78 to pass. It really makes me want to give up.