annieboo444

annieboo444

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  1. Job hopping

    I am bit of a job hopper. I have been a RN for 5 years now. My first job only lasted 6 months. It was a horrid med surg job. My second job lasted 2.5 years at pretty good hospital on a tele floor. Then i took a case manager position for a better sche...
  2. Utilization review CM

    Well it turns out, I had another interview with transplant CM at the same hospital. Pretty confident I got the job. After my interview they sent me an email saying they are sending my info to HR. I so would rather have transplant CM than UR. I am so...
  3. Utilization review CM

    Omg I am so excited but trying not to get that excited if I dont get the job but I can't help it!!! Lol. So I went on a interview today for CM UR. Don't know really anything about it. I am a Tele nurse 3 yrs experience but in serious need of a m-f jo...
  4. interested in dialysis

    I have always been interested in dialysis since I started nursing. I have been a tele/med surg nurse for about 2 and half years. I have applied a couple of times but never get hired. I have had 2 phone interviews with davita but I think they give ev...
  5. Should I use SBAR when rounding with doctors??

    I have tried to use the SBAR and a doctor told me one time just tell me what you want lol. I was recently asked for the first time in over 2 years as being a nurse to give the doctor a SBAR lol.
  6. tired of the hospital

    I have been a RN for over 2 years. I have only worked in 2 hospitals. My first job I only lasted 6 months doing med-surg and I am currently at another hospital doing tele/pcu I have been at for about a year and half. I am so tired of the hospitals...
  7. New to Home Health

    I have some RN hospital experience a little over a year and half. I am tired of the stress of hospital nursing. I am starting a new home health job as prn once a week. If I like it I will want to go full time and leave hospital completely! I am s...
  8. For new nurses who hate their first job there is hope!

    All I said was looking for a better opportunity. Although he did used to work for the same hospital system that I was at and knew how bad that hospital system was getting after being bought out by tenet. So he didn't hound me with questions on it. Gu...
  9. I am 7 months into nursing. To start off I hated my first nursing job. I had anxiety almost everyday going in. I dreaded going to work. I felt i couldn't quit because I wouldn't find another job or would let them down. It was a horrible med surg unit...
  10. NURSES

    Most places let you make your schedule, you make them like a month at a time. You normally have to work a,certain amount of weekends. I work 12,hours shifts 3 days a week. Pick up overtime when I want. I am a new nurse and get paid 24.60/hr. I live i...
  11. Going from med surg to telemetry

    I am a new nurse been on a med surg unit for 6months and got a new job going to telemetry unit. I had 6pts on the med surg unit some of them were on the telemetry monitor. I will have 4-5pts on this unit. I floated once to our Tele unit. The patien...
  12. Input, please? :-)

    Yes the proper way and safest way is to use a gait belt but I have never really seen anyone in the hospital use one,but physical therapy. You can always tie a sheet and use it as a gait belt too. Everyone just bear hugs and transfer that way, but if...
  13. So I am a new nurse about to finish my 6th month. The first 4-5 months of nursing was hell. There was some days I literally felt like I choose the wrong career, and hated it. I hated feeling so incompetent and making stupid mistakes. Feeling like I c...
  14. Why is Med-Surg so hated?

    I work med surg and like it. But yes it is all time management! We get 6pts and if something happens to one calling a rrt or something like a doctor writing 3 pages of orders it can take up a lot of your time and put you behind! Or they give a crap...
  15. Meds

    I don't ever give a med unless I know what it is. I look it up real fast it only takes a minute! Download a med book on your phone or bring a book to work. I have only been a nurse for about 6 months so I am looking up meds often. It helps.