snickers17

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1. Compact license and renewal

   snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

   Alabama

2. Compact license and renewal

   snickers17 posted a topic in General Nursing

   When I started working as a nurse, I got my Alabama license. A year went by and I thought I was going to move to Florida and work there so I got my compact license in Florida. This was before Alabama became compact. I ended up not working in Florida....

3. Would this look like job hopping?

   snickers17 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I worked on a Trauma floor for 15 months, then transferred to the pediatric ICU and have now been there 8 months. I’m PRN there but working full time hours. Lately my hours have been cut a lot due to covid so I got worried and applied to some jobs. I...

4. PTO

   snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

   It’s for vacation, sick time, and personal leave. It goes up a little bit every year, after one year it goes to 0.054 PTO hrs/hr, after 2 years 0.057 and so on. The only think I see about holidays is that they are not accrued, but deposited on the da...

5. PTO

   snickers17 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey guys, I've just received a job offer. The PTO accrual is 0.05 hours of PTO for every hour worked. So that's 86.4 hours/year, or 7.2 days. I'm trying to see if I should take this job. Is this average? My last full-time nursing job I got 197 hours/...

6. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

   snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you so much! It’s such a relief to hear everything went alright. I did end up meeting with the lawyer and it went pretty much exactly how yours did- just helping him understand charting really. With this guy, he had developed a tear on his sacr...

7. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

   snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

   Actually I posted earlier that I got clarification and they wanted me just to speak to the hospitals lawyer.

8. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

   snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

   Of course I am concerned. I’m just trying to understand the situation. I’m a relatively new nurse and I do not have my own malpractice insurance.

9. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

   snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your replies guys. I’m also confused as to why I’m being asked about a pressure ulcer, since those develop over time. It’s not an acute event like a fall. So far none of my co-workers have gotten the same call. Should I be concerned by tha...

10. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

    snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

    I just talked to RM again and got clarification- They want me to talk to the hospitals lawyer, not the patients

11. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

    snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, I work in a state where unions don’t exist for nurses.

12. Call from Risk Management to speak with Attorney

    snickers17 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Today I received a call from my Hospital’s Risk Management department. They said I’m not directly at fault but I was one of the nurses who took care of a patient who apparently developed a stage 4 pressure ulcer while on my floor. They asked if I rem...

13. Difficulty Transferring

    snickers17 posted a topic in Career Support

    I currently work on the step-down trauma floor at a level 1 trauma hospital. I now have over a year of experience and have started applying to the pediatric departments. So far I've applied to 3 different positions: PICU, NICU, and their ER. It's bee...

14. Troponin not flagged as critical?

    snickers17 posted a topic in Med-Surg

    I work on a trauma floor, so I rarely see patients with serious cardiac issues. The other day was a crazy day and I had a patient who was in a minor car accident and was just being observed because of elevated Troponin levels. The ED told me the late...

15. Was I wrong?

    snickers17 posted a topic in Med-Surg

    I am a new nurse (5 months) on a trauma floor on dayshift. Today while giving report, the oncoming nurse noted that a patient was able to get PRN oxycodone starting at 1850, but the patient hadnt requested the medication yet and I was giving report a...