River&MountainRN ADN, RN

I haven't seen this conversation come up on AllNurses, even after Scrubs Mag addressed the erosion of women's right to choose. I apologize if this is too much of a hot-button issue to open up for discussion, but I'm curious as to where folks on here ...

Has anyone else heard the news? It looks like Maxim has sold their home care portion of the company to Aveanna. See the announcement here: Link What do you all think of the move? What do you think it means for those currently employed by Maxim?

***Please keep off FB Before coming to Big Name Agency, my skill sets were all from SNF/LTC and clinic nursing. I had extensive G-tube experience, wound care experience, suctioning, some IV experience etc from my SNF days, but no trach/vent/TPN exper...

When you try multiple times to reach a patient about their controlled medication that they're requesting EARLY, leave multiple voicemails, and then they call back to complain "no one called me and now I'm OUT!!!!"...on the weekend answering service, ...

People talk and 2 hours away isn't that far away when it comes to the small community of nursing...heck, go 2 hours away here and you're still part of the same hospital network! See what I mean? So, folks from the community hospital could very easily...

Never have I ever had to work out a notice while still on orientation. It just doesn't make sense, since you're still training "under" someone and not on the schedule by yourself.

If this isn't just a joke post from a "one and done" new member, then let me be blunt: You will need to work extremely hard and, yes, you do need to know basic math.

How do you determine which CEU credits you take to meet your state-mandated renewal quota (if your state has one)? Do you just do the cheapest/freebies as you find them? Do you limit yourself to CEUs that pertain to your current nursing specialty? Do...

I count three ways, depending on the situation: x amount of years since I graduated nursing school, x amount of years since I passed the NCLEX, and x amount of years since I first started working as a nurse. It's only a difference of a couple of mont...

Reminding myself that a. You can't care more than the patient, b. Patients are allowed to make stupid decisions, and c. You don't have to like all of your patients. It's saving me a lot of grief and I wish I could have developed those "mind hacks" to...

Did it seem particularly worse this past week? Because everyone I talked to at work seemed to share in the same sentiment...for some reason, this past week was worse than most! Hang in there! You'll be surprised how quickly the first year passes when...

You just need to find the right practice...some will be absolutely miserable, with the teams at each others' throats, the doctors throwing them under the bus, with no hope of lunch or leaving on time in sight... But then you have the good teams who w...

8 hours is great (8.5 if they make you work to make up for your 1/2 hour unpaid lunch so that you get a full 8 hours' pay)...you get there, get busy with the start of the day, before you know it it's lunch, and then the day is already half over! Then...

It's one of those "you love it or you hate it" areas...but it does allow for a more normal schedule, no heavy lifting, less acuity (therefore, in one way, less stress). The EMRs can be an absolute pain, but that's just about everywhere these days. Th...

It depends on the clinic...I've worked in some where they average 30+ patients over 8-10 hours per provider, on top of also having to do nurse procedures, PAs, telephone triage, case management, medication refills...it's not the acuity but the massiv...

It depends on how hard up for help the facility is that you're applying to as far as ease of being hired. When I hear the term "Ambulatory Nursing", my thoughts range from Walk-In/Urgent Care (where your ER experience would come in handy) to Primary ...

YES, it is very scary! They exist and they walk among us as coworkers that subtly (or not-so-subtly in the OP's case) try to sabotage us in our day to day shifts together.

Have you considered fostering (either just to foster or a foster-to-adopt situation)?

Sorry, but this website is not allowed to provide medical advice. This would best be a question for your PCP.

She needed leave donations, even unpaid, to protect her job, even better if they were paid days off to have some income. I take it you're not in the US if you're unfamiliar with FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act)...it's a US labor law that allows fo...

I wouldn't sign up for a radius farther than an hour (what an hour TRULY means for your commute, factoring in major vs back roads and amount of traffic) away from your door. Once you start picking cases, a GREAT case closer to the hour mark away stil...

Usually it's when you hit get to the job site, find the tablet that documentation is done on, and then get the tablet started up (or the off-going nurse finishes their notes and logs out so that you can log on).

That is fantastic news! In that case, have fun with it!!! ? ? ? They sometimes have shorter shifts that'll be perfect to slot into down time that you have without becoming overwhelming since it's going to be just a second position!

Like I said in my last post (too late to edit it), I enjoyed it and LEARNED a LOT. To go back to your original question, though, $29.50 can or cannot be "enough", depending on the hours/cases available. Try to get an idea of what cases/availability/h...

Ah, have you ever done home care? It's a special specialty, but as long as you have backup income for those famine periods that is the "feast or famine" nature of the beast, know what you're doing already skills-wise, and aren't relying on full-time ...