PhilWayne, My friend cannot even get me hired, sorry my first priority is self preservation. I have been looking at places I can drive from Northern UT and do 3 or 6 shifts in a row, Colorado,...
I have a friend who is a manager, and the old system of knowing someone is been replaced by a ranking system. This is how IHC now does interviews: If a manager wants to interview you HR will say that...
PhilWayne, She graduated from the UofU early spring of 2012 with her BSN. Since she worked for the U in a non medical area, so the U paid for part of her tuition which put her in a contract with the...
Utah has an overabundance of Nurses. Every Community College, University, Technical Centers, Business Schools, and now we even have "special"nursing schools to become an RN. The average job opening...
Stacy67CP replied to Cbrown0520's topic in Nursing Career
You do have to concider is your area over saturated with Nurses if it is, then yes 30.000 is way to much. If the area you live is desperate for nurses then it is
It seems to me the reasons you are getting the heavy case loads is because you ARE skilled enough to handle it. The others are already freaking out and they don't even have your load, can you imagine...
Stacy67CP replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing
Back in 2000 -2004 I worked for the worst manager ever. This manager made my life a living hell to the point I would not answer the phone on my days off. The staff would rather work short then have...
I think that you have a brilliant idea. I do have some thoughts for you, since this will be a one nurse per patient/family you should have an form that the patient/family fills out that tells all...
Stacy67CP replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
Here are a couple: While I was at Triage I had a woman ask to be seen, she had no CC. She stated that she was driving past the hospital and remembered she hadn't had a pap in >3yrs, but she had...
Is there a Nursing shortage in your area or is there an over abundance of Nurses in your area? In northern Utah (Provo, SLC, Ogden...) we have an huge over abundance of Nurses. A manager friend said...
In Utah (the Wasatch Front) the starting wage for an RN is $21.80 for all area's of a hospital. They do pay shift and weekend differential. The hospitals do not pay more for a BSN. I did receive a...