Lady_Leijing

Long story short, I did something stupid about two years ago that got me fired from a job. As part of my punishment, I'm having to take the Ethics and Boundaries Assessment Survey (EBAS). I can't find any suggestions on how to study for this test; the links leading to practice essays are all broken or inactive. Has anyone else taken this test? Do you have any tips to prepare for it?

I hadn't logged in to check this for a while and only recently had an update. The BON absolutely has decided to pursue it and made 3 years probation their opening offer. ?

It's lined up but it doesn't start until January 27. It's taken me almost a month to get all the paperwork done to even start because it's a through an employment agency.

Ah, thank several of you for completely missing my question and assuming that I haven't learned my lesson or suffered at all being without a job for 2 and a half months. I'm literally asking what I should do next since the hospital that fired me has decided to complain to the Board of Nursing, but y'all have decided that it's more important to brow beat me about my failure than help me figure out how to move forward. ?

No, they never asked. They have my resume, so they know I'm not currently employed, but the question never came up and that feels like something you don't bring up unless asked.

Funny you should say that. My husband and I went out yesterday for celebratory sushi and Soju before I found that awful letter in the mailbox

I already have another job lined up, but getting that letter today has me a little rattled. I don't want them to screw up my new job before I can even start it

I was fairly recently fired for having my phone out at the wrong time. Per hospital policy, we aren't supposed to have our personal phones out except in the break room, but at night, it's not uncommon for nurses to have their phones out at the nurses' station, and I have seen several others scrolling social media while holding a sleeping baby. I wasn't touching my phone at the time in question, just listening to a podcast while feeding a baby, but since I had prior offenses, they called it "failure to follow directions". Just got a notice that it was reported to the state BON. What do I do now? Is this the end of my nursing career? Because of a cell phone?!

I'm curious about this myself. I'm also a NICU nurse who is looking for something different. I'm wondering: what sort of prerequisites do I need to make the switch? Is there a class or certification needed? What kind of training (if any) can I expect?

I've got a question for my fellow travelers working in bigger cities. I'm looking for my next assignment, and my recruiter found one in Miami that I'm interested in. The catch: it's a 12 hour drive to get there. My recruiter suggested I could fly out and then use public transportation to get around the city. My recruiter talked like it was no big deal, but he's from New York and has grown up using public transit. I grew up in Kentucky, where the bus was infrequent if it was running at all. My knowledge of city buses and subways is limited to what I've seen on TV. How safe and feasible is using public transportation for a petite woman working nights?

I had a pretty intense dream during the day today. (I'm night shift if you didn't guess). I dreamed that I was getting report on the little one I've been taking care of for the last couple weeks, and the day nurse says "well no wonder she didn't tolerate you putting her on her right side last night. She has a broken clavicle." So I'm freaking out, trying to figure out when it happened and if I missed it on assessment or if I caused it. Then I hear water pouring. Not just dripping or leaking, pouring. I run into the unit and water is gushing out of the vapotherm machine and making a puddle under the isolette. I look around, and I'm the only one in the unit, so I start scrambling to fix it. Needless to say, I woke up in a panic. I get to work and the actual report is "Oh, hey. She did fine today. We managed to wean her oxygen a little but otherwise nothing has changed." I still double checked her clavicles and the vapotherm. ?

Centricity Perinatal and I don't get along. I somehow ended up with 3 different lines for charting urine output on one patient.

A little thread necromancy, but I have a real life update on how to cook dinner with an electric kettle. I rented what I thought was an extended stay room, but it turns out that this hotel just has extended stay RATES plus a mini fridge and a microwave. ? As of this week, I have cooked green beans, canned soup, ramen, and a foil packed heat-&-eat curry. Greasing the hot plate in the bottom or stirring regularly helps keep things from sticking to the bottom. I checked the local shops for a hot plate, but no luck yet. I feel like I'm back in a dorm room without the roommate! ?

I'm going to second what some of the other nurses have said: go with the hospital policy. I've worked at hospitals that required a position check and a residual check before every feeding if the kid has an NG tube. I've worked at some that didn't check residuals unless they suspected something was going on.

So far I've only made tea, coffee, and instant oatmeal/grits, but a while back I saw a list of things that could be cooked in a coffee maker that would be easy to switch over to an electric kettle. Mostly soups, pasta, and vegetables. You basically have a mini hotplate in the bottom of it that boils the water; with a little creativity, just about anything you can boil could be made in it.