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  1. University of Florida (UF) BSN to DNP - Fall 2025

    snickers17 replied to ICUMurse21's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Also denied for Peds Primary Care 😞 7 years of nursing experience with 6 of them being in PICU. I have charge experience and also assisted with the creation and manage the sedation/newborn...

  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...

  3. Compact license and renewal

    snickers17 replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

    Alabama

  4. 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...

  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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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...

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Difficulty Transferring

    snickers17 posted a topic in Nursing Career

    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...

  15. Was I wrong?

    snickers17 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...

  16. Troponin not flagged as critical?

    snickers17 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...

  17. Trauma Floor

    snickers17 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm a new grad and I have been offered a job on a trauma floor at a Level 1 trauma hospital. The manager explained to me that the patients would be the ones who were stable enough to leave the ICU. I...

  18. Crazy to leave this job?

    snickers17 posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I got a job as a patient care tech in my home town. Originally, I only wanted to work during the summer because I go to school in a city 1.5 hours away and will be moving to an apartment there. I am...

  19. PRN schedule?

    snickers17 posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I got hired as a patient care tech and had my first day today. I am fortunate enough that I'm mostly doing this job for the experience-to feel more comfortable at clinicals and employment after...

  20. Summer jobs

    snickers17 posted a topic in General Students

    In a couple of weeks I will be finishing my junior year. I really wanted a job in the hospital this summer for more experience and to be more comfortable at clinicals. The difficulty has been that I...