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Working in hospital nursing part time is, in my experience, extremely difficult and typically reserved for those semi-retiring nurses. Hospitals want to ensure nurses are available and specifically available two weekends a month. Since firefighters a...

My suggestions would be to look at one of these, not nursing: 1) Physician's Assistant school. These programs, MEDEX in particularly, were designed for just such a transition from military corpsman to civilian practitioner. 2) Firefighting...

Successful people take responsibility for their mistakes and learn from them. They may internalize the pain that comes with them for a short while, but they fight on and vow to do better. This is what you must do. Nurses are in huge demand. Yet...

Some of the community colleges, like Palomar for instance, have accelerated EMT programs. I think I completed the whole thing over a Summer and they may have a Winter break one as well. You'd have to figure out if this is doable with your schedule an...

The California PHN license now expires and requires a renewal fee of $125 for two years (unless you are late and then it is even more). The only requirement is that you first renew your RN or have an active RN. The California RN renewal is now $190.

This seems cowardly and passive aggressive. He might try to ask to speak in private and assertively and not threateningly express his concerns and what he thought happened. Or go to grad school and move beyond working with children.

I resisted the worksheets at first. Eventually I committed to one and simultaneously had to update a Kardex (shared worksheet). I stopped writing down meds and just circled times for meds. I learned to keep labs and vitals and abbreviated versions of...

As a medic, all that can be assessed is PMS. Is there still good pulse, movement, and sensation. In other words, any risk they will lose the finger. Do you ever offer to buddy splint or otherwise splint the finger? That will at least relieve and prot...

I think this is extremely common and they will have no problem letting you start anyway. Schools are a business after all. Write a check. Keep moving.

To flip the script and work backwards, no actual harm came to the patient, right? So there is nothing to defend legally. Cases against nurses revolve around harm caused and provable negligence that caused that harm. You were neither negligent nor was...

Seems silly. I would never do that... unless they’re hot!!! Just kidding. I’m old and find no joy in life or virtual life.

You all are doing what needs doing. Still you can work hard in life or work smart. There are hospital units that I bet pay twice what you make and you only have one to two patience that require very little care. Do research. Ask around. Move.

Now I sit down at a card table in Vegas and tell everyone I’m a nurse. You know, just to intimidate them with how much experience I have.

The Med Surg and Pharmacology material cost my cohort one or two. Otherwise it ain’t crazy hard. Just adaptation, friend making, loss of sleep, and the ability to absorb ideas quickly for 2 years. Mostly it is just repetitive busy work to get you to ...

Generally speaking, schools operate as a business. They want to fill seats and get confirmations early. They don’t want risk. Will they hold a seat for an unknown, last minute. No. Slow down. Apply if you want. You will get in give or take a few mont...

I am an Alum. Ask me anything. I’ve talked to local community college nursing students. They have a harder time getting in and a higher fail rate, but they are younger and don’t have the background education of most csusm applicants.

Sweet! I hate nursing for the reason that it constantly operates under threat. You are threatened through school, threatened as a new grad, threatened on the job constantly. Most other degrees and corporate jobs Do Not operate that way.

Agreed. It is illegal and thus fireable and reportable to your licensing agency, not to mention immoral, to steal from your employer. Pen, paperclip, or car. What’s monitored and reported is your employer’s discretion. Hint: cameras are coming.

I broke mine in California. Nothing ever came of it. There is precedence from LAPD that these contracts are not legally binding. That said, Florida pays nothing compared to many states. Umm grab your fiance and move to Sacramento. You will make like ...

Minimize if you want. Is it a legally dismissible offense in your state? Even a paperclip? When management wants you out, the paperclip may not be the cross you want to die on.

Correct. Apologies on that. My argument was toward Spadeforce. But that changes nothing else as you are the one defending his or her disrespectful, false views with misdirection.

The ATI Mentor phone app is a great practice tool. I know it’s on iphone. Not sure about android. The library nclex books are also great.

To be crystal clear, you were the one that called the advice you were given to work in med surg, as a career direction or experience, dumb (to the guy asking). You are now changing the topic.

Definitely chase specialties. Med Surg is a lot of running around and chasing call lights. Nobody loves that. But Med Surg interacts with so much more and does more broadly than any unit. The call light chasing is bad, but the knowledge gain is worth...

In any other in demand career, it is ok if not normal to bounce a month or two in due to another offer. If within the same organization, that company should support it. If in disparate organizations, who cares. They need to work on their package. Cor...