NurseL20

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  1. New Nurse - Unsafe Hospital

    Any advice appreciated. I started working at the hospital as a nurse 2 months ago; prior to that I worked as a CNA. I work on a med-surg tele floor. My current patient ratio is 7 to 1, with the...
  2. New Nurse - Unsafe Hospital

    I figured, it seems unreasonable. I am used to seeing q15 min integrity checks requirement for 5 point restraints, but not for soft wrist. My hospital/floor requires us to do this for all restraints,...
  3. New Nurse - Unsafe Hospital

    I want to clarify, are you trying to say no such requirement exists as a law or standard? or are you saying no such requirement exist in any
  4. New Nurse - Unsafe Hospital

    My hospital requires all patients in restraints have an integrity check q15 minutes and reassess need for restraints q2 hours. It does not matter which type of restraints they are, whether 5 point...
  5. New Nurse - Unsafe Hospital

    I appreciate all the responses. It’s very unfortunate reading so many responses saying the same thing, about the hospital never being properly staffed. It totally takes away from the reason most of...
  6. New Nurse - Unsafe Hospital

    Thanks for the response. How long did you stay at the first job before
  7. I really want to become a CRNA in the future, but I was offered my first nursing job at a Psychiatric/Drug Rehab facility (which I believe is really needed in our society). If I accept this...
  8. Am I able to change from Psychiatry to ICU

    What did you end up switching to? Also did your psych hospital deal with any sort of
  9. Am I able to change from Psychiatry to ICU

    This makes a lot of sense. Thank
  10. Thanks in advance any advice is helpful. When I was younger I messed up pretty bad in college and I am still paying for it today. I will be graduating with my ADN in August. I made straight A's so far...
  11. Thanks for the heads
  12. WOW! I did not know it was so expensive to apply, thank you I will keep that in mind. I started to look up different certs, but it seemed as if CCRN was the major one for CRNA. Can you suggest any...
  13. That's awesome, thank you so much for sharing your experience. I would be grateful to get into any
  14. Great advice; I definitely will learn as much as I can from ICU. I get mixed review about new grads working in ICU, so I may have to do a year on Med-surge. What changes did you make the 2nd year you...
  15. Thank you for responding. That is very encouraging to hear, it really gives me a lot of hope. Were you able to get accepted to a school in your state? Also how is the CRNA program going for
  16. Just graduated from CRNA school

    Congratulation!! What was your GPA and GRE scores when you applied? Also how many programs did you apply
  17. Fscj LPN program summer 2017

    What was your score to get into the LPN program, and how is it
  18. Fscj LPN program summer 2017

    Did you get
  19. Fscj LPN program summer 2017

    Did you get