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1. Hospital Nurses: Best Place for Blanket Warmer?

   vt prn replied to LibrarianLD's topic in Med-Surg

   Responding late here, but my advice is to place it next to a clean laundry cart so when a warm blanket is taken out, a replacement blanket can be added to the warmer.

2. What's In Your Staff Bathroom?

   vt prn replied to oldpsychnurse's topic in General Nursing

   The general public, that's what's in our bathroom. We don't even have a staff bathroom but have to share the public one with every Tom, Dick, and Dirty Harry!!

3. New York Nurse moving to Vermont

   vt prn replied to CantonRN'16's topic in Vermont

   Google "Vermont board of nursing". It will lead you to the website which contains FAQ and contact information. Better to go directly to the source than get second hand information that might be incorrect.

4. New Grad Tele job no contract vs OR Fellowship 3 year contract

   vt prn replied to SAS2016's topic in General Nursing

   I would highly recomment taking the OR job. You have one patient at a time - I can't tell you how important that is in the long term, plus no interaction with the family. A tele floor is bedside nursing which means some days you have 5 patients, som...

5. How to fix bedside nursing

   vt prn posted a topic in General Nursing

   We all know that bedside nursing is brutal. I truly believe that this is an of area of nursing which needs a major overhaul. As it stands now, there will always be rapid staff turnover and a shortage of nurses who want to stay in this type job, yet ...

6. I Want to Work Remotely

   vt prn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   While I realize that your goal is to work remotely, you must realize that jobs exist for the benefit of the employer first and if the job they have is not a job that is to be performed from home, then you cannot wish it so just to satisfy your needs....

7. Soon-to-be New Grad : I Don't Want to Settle for Med-Surg

   vt prn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   You need a better reason than assignment size to focus on when choosing a specialty. While no nurse in any area wants a larger assignment than can be safely managed, calling med/surg "settling" comes across in a negative way both to nurses who work ...