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Hey everyone, Just curious, I accepted a job offer in a Neuro ICU. Down the line if I wanted to travel, do I have to travel as Neuro ICU or can I switch over to MICU? I know it would be difficult to travel as a SICU, CICU, or CVICU RN but I’m kind of curious if I could do MICU. My reasoning is getting different types of experiences to make myself competitive for CRNA school.

Hi all, I currently have my associates degree in nursing and am looking to begin a RN to BSN completion program. I have a strong interest in being competitive to hopefully attend CRNA school down the line. Some RN to BSN programs offer “competency based” programs now, where essentially you graduate without a GPA. Has anyone completed one of these programs and attended CRNA school?

I know I have a previous post that discusses this, but I’m flat out asking, are any travelers in NYC seeing their contracts get cancelled?

My offer was around 4600 for 4 days a week. I am a new nurse, but I feel confident enough to succeed on an assignment. I saw the posts for 10k a week. It’s a 21 day assignment, but it’s 21 days STRAIGHT. That’s an insane amount of money but I know I physically and mentally wouldn’t be able to make it through that. Also my assignment is 13 weeks so that allows me to hopefully build up some sort of relationship with a charge/manager and get references for my next assignment.

Hi all. I’ll try to make this as simple as possible. I’m taking a travel assignment in NYC starting 4/20 and going through 7/18. I have put in my resignation at my current job. I will be honest before anyone throws accusations at me. Yes, I stepped up to do this purely because of the money being offered. My question is this. If projections hold true, there is a possibility that COVID cases could sharply drop off in early May. While this is amazing and I hope this happens, I am also curious as to where that would leave me standing with my “crisis” assignment. Would my contract be cancelled? Do you anticipate there being a cleanup period afterwards where they would still require some help? While I hope this virus stops today, I still would like to know where I stand as far as employment during this crisis.

Just learn what your instructors like and show it to them. Nursing school is a joke and taught me next to nothing besides how to pass meds safely. You learn real nursing on the job, seeing it every day.

Totally disagree with some one the comments here. I work on a pretty high acuity intermediate floor and I’d be lost if I didn’t show up a little early to research my patients. Yeah I can get a quick history through shift report but I benefit from reading their admission notes, trending their labs, looking at past encounters, and reading the last nursing shift notes. I do not mind doing this 30 min before my shift because it allows me to do my job correctly

My charge called pharmacy and that’s what they said

This is where I went wrong in my part of the administration. The patient was actively vomiting so I thought I would give the medication and then scan it when I got a chance. I didn’t wait for the order to populate in the computer. It is my fault, I get that. I needed to slow down

So I’m a new grad still on orientation. Long story short I was taking care of a pretty critical patient the other night. I was taking frequent verbal orders from the provider. The patient was vomiting frequently and had prn zofran ordered. The provider wanted me to give a dose so I went into the Pyxis and began to pull the zofran, 4mg. As I was in the process of removing the vial, the provider came into the Pyxis room and told me to give 8 of zofran. Not thinking this through, I pulled an extra vial. I drew up 8mg of zofran and gave it IVP to the pt. When I went to scan the vials after I had given it, I saw the order had been put in for 8mg IVPB. I was then told that I shouldn’t have given it IVP as anything over 4mg should be diluted. I am not placing blame on the provider, ultimately it was my fault for not following the correct administration process. I was confused by the provider and the multiple verbal orders, but it was still on me. I reported this immediately to my charge nurse. My question is, what should I expect to come of this? While I’ve heard of nurses being terminated for less than this, I hope to take this as a learning experience and not lose my job over this. There wasn’t any patient harm, and I’m extremely torn up about this. I just need some words of wisdom. Thank you!

I’m a huge believer that past a certain age or certain point, comfort becomes way more important than try to “fix” someone. In clinical rotations in school we had a 96 y/o with afib (this was a secondary problem, not the reason she was admitted). They wanted to run every test possible on her, cardiovert her, and wanted to try out a plethora of medications. She looked the docs in the eye and said “no way in HELL you’re putting me through all of that at my age. When I die, I die”.

New grad in eastern N.C. $24.5 base pay

Davey, In my few years of being a member on this site I have always enjoyed your posts. BUT THIS.... this meme is unacceptable. No nursing meme should be this dang funny ??. You have truly outdone yourself with this one ?.

Guys does the PVT work? I had 80 questions does this mean I passed? If a tree falls in the woods and nobody’s around to hear it, does it make a sound? Kind of poking fun here ?. I took my NCLEX this morning. Test shut off at 80 questions. I feel confident that I passed. I wasn’t going to do the PVT but ultimately did. I got the good pop up (I guess?). It reduced my anxiety a little, but I know nothings official until I get the quick results, and even those aren’t official haha. I’m just glad to finally have taken the exam. Good luck to everyone taking their exams and good luck to those waiting on results! I hope my results reflect this stupid PVT pop up that I wish I never read about.

Hey guys, thanks for replying. I reacted too quickly. I spoke with the owner and he made a mistake on pay. Problem solved. Guess I was just having a bad night...