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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 programs. GPA 3.8 I'm just wondering what they're looking for? I'm sure there are even more qualified candidates than me but I know a nurse with 1 year experience who got in to this program a couple years ago...

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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. Now the renewal for Alabama is coming up. I would like to renew my Alabama license as compact, and I guess inactivate my Florida license so I don’t have 2 compact licenses? Does this sound right? I have Alabama as my residence.

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 currently have an offer for a cardiac ICU job in a different hospital. One of my goals is to eventually work in a pediatric CVICU in a larger city (we don’t have anything like that here). I might be moving in about a year and a half. My question is: should I stick with the PICU job for longevity sake? Elective surgeries are supposed to start happening again and restrictions in general are being lifted. The only thing about the PICU Is that it was more like a step-down unit acuity wise. The cardiac ICU would be a step up in acuity but they also don’t do open hearts. Thanks for any advice! Also should mention I would try to keep my PICU job PRN if I took the CICU job, but probably couldn’t do both for too long just because of the PRN requirements. I’d be working 4 shifts every week and only have 1 weekend off a month to keep both.

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 date observed. I’m not sure what this means, I’m coming from a place with no paid holidays, no extra pay for them or anything.

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/ year but it also had mandatory overtime so it's hard to compare.

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 sacrum, then we transferred him to rehab and they started documenting it as a stage 2 (so basically same thing, just different wording) and at some point it progressed to a stage 4. I was the nurse who transferred him and thankfully my charting was thorough and his wound looked like it was healing pretty well from what I can tell. I wasn’t the nurse who found it and they were calling in my co-workers as I was sitting talking to the lawyer. I only took care of the guy twice.

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

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.

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 that?

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

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

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 remembered him and I said no, they asked if I could come in and talk to the patient’s attorney and even if I don’t remember anything they like it in writing. I find it strange I’m talking first to the patient’s attorney rather than the hospital’s. I told them I would get back to them. Do you guys have any advice for how I should proceed?

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 been exactly 2 weeks since I've applied, and my status is still "under review." I called HR yesterday to check on my status and she said she would pass my name and number on to the recruiter. I know experience isn't an issue, I've known new grads and a couple of people with the exact same experience as me get jobs on those floors. And when I ask those people, they said they were called for an interview within a week of applying. Also this would be considered a transfer, so I thought that would help me at least get an interview. I'm worried HR hasn't even passed my resume to the managers. Can anyone offer any advice on what to do??

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 latest was 0.411. A couple hours later I saw a lab result that said the Troponin I was 1.01 but lab didn't call me and it wasn't even flagged as critical. The whole time I was assessing her/taking vitals on her as much as I can on the floor and she was fine. Obviously that's a concerning Troponin level and I'm worried I'll get in trouble since I didn't even see it for a while. Is it strange for a high Troponin I not to be flagged as critical?

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 at 1925. The other nurse asked "I have another patient to get report on, can you go give this patient their pain medication?" I normally always say yes to helping someone, but I was not comfortable giving a narcotic when the patient hadn't asked and told her so. She looked dumbfounded and said "I want you to know I will always leave my patients medicated for pain when I give you report." I felt absolutely terrible, but this same nurse has had me give pain meds right after report before and it caused me to stay until 2030. I just would like to know if it was wrong for me to say no.

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 am very interested in trauma, but I'm thinking it might be just like a med-surg floor with a different label. I might be completely wrong, so I am interested to hear of anyone's experience/advice. Thank you.

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 paid 14.50/hour and it's a very hectic med surg unit. I just want to know if I'm crazy to leave this job after 3 months, even though I'm concerned about making the commute work with school and living over an hour away.

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 nursing school graduation. So ideally I want two shifts max a week. My question is how does the PRN scheduling work? On the schedule I saw quite a few shifts that had no tech coverage. Even if I don't sign up for those shifts, will I be called and moved to those shifts, and will I get in trouble for saying no? Also when looking at a potential schedule today, my manager said "You need to do some weekends". But this requirement was never mentioned in the interview, offer, or in writing. So I am not sure about that. I would ask my manager but I do not see her for a while and HR takes days to respond. Any advice is appreciated!

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 live on campus at a school a little over an hour away from home, so this is a job I would only be able to do during the summer and breaks. So far I've applied to 10 patient care tech positions, 4 of them are "under review" but have been that way since April 4th. I emailed a different hospital and they told me they would only hire me as a tech if I agreed to work from them for 2 years after graduation. I'm not sure i want to commit like that so early. So my question is, are there other positions I could apply to just for the summer? Also, how long is too long for an application to be considered under review? Thank you!