Riseupandnurse

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  1. How do you pay for a graduate degree in Nursing?

    Riseupandnurse replied to AntonellaB's topic in General Nursing

    Graduate assistants agree to work part-time for the school, probably about 20 hours a week. They get holidays, week-ends and usually summers off so you can still work somewhere else too. Where I...

  2. How do you pay for a graduate degree in Nursing?

    Riseupandnurse replied to AntonellaB's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as a graduate assistant. Best thing I ever did. Learned A LOT, made valuable contacts and went to school

  3. Disgusting conditions on my floor. What would you do?

    Riseupandnurse replied to lsvalliant's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work in an office of doctors many years ago, before I became a nurse. I was "trained" (haha) to run the EKG machine. We got an average of 20 patients who needed EKG sa day, but were...

  4. How does your unit handle mandatory cancellations?

    Riseupandnurse replied to ms. ann's topic in General Nursing

    I am prn and have never gotten mandated in the 18 years I've been at one hospital. Even when I ask off I seldom get off. I really can't understand it, since they hire boatloads of new RNs every May....

  5. any one out there doing hourly checklists ?

    Riseupandnurse replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to TiaKay for the helpful link to the research study on which the Studer Group bases this current "sell" to the hospitals of hourly rounding. I quote from the credits of the authors of the...

  6. Have U ever left a job after a short Period? Why?

    Riseupandnurse replied to DaretoDreamRN's topic in General Nursing

    I quit after one shift as a cocktail waitress when I was in my 20s. I told the manager that it was a terrible job. He said, "Well, it would be fine for the right person", sneeringly. I explained...

  7. any one out there doing hourly checklists ?

    Riseupandnurse replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses, wake up!! Wonder why we are all doing this stuff at the same time? Management doesn't think of all this nonsense on their own. For that they need a consultant. This is the Studer Group....

  8. Bathroom Inservicing

    Riseupandnurse replied to barbyann's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, but the companies you mention actually have employees who take lunch breaks. I don't mind notices in the bathrooms. It's the only place I have a minute to read them. There is so much "junk" in...

  9. Nursing Photographer? Also, NCLEX question

    Riseupandnurse replied to Mesomorph's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe publishers of clinical skills textbooks would have a use for

  10. You want me to do what????

    Riseupandnurse replied to Creamsoda's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a nurse that got pulled to a medical floor and she said she had to give her patient a Betadine douche. Have any of you ever heard of

  11. Shift change report in your facility???

    Riseupandnurse replied to hope3456's topic in General Nursing

    I do not like the way we give report. We used to have taped report, and if they started the tape on time (a big if) everyone got report on all the patients in 20 to 25 minutes. Some of the nurses...

  12. Have you ever NOT shown up when you were scheduled to work?

    Riseupandnurse replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    Once I showed up when I wasn't scheduled. It was wonderful to go back home again; felt like a gift! We had a nights charge that just didn't show up and it was a speciality unit. She wasn't...

  13. Sad and angry about what I overheard BUT NOT SUPRISED.

    Riseupandnurse replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    I really think that some of this is just having people around who will be loyal to the newer management, who aren't pining for the old days when things were easier and nurses didn't have to do xyz....

  14. Anyone working two jobs?

    Riseupandnurse replied to mcknis's topic in General Nursing

    When I first got out of school, just one job was enough. But I have worked a job and a half for almost all of my career. It actually feels much less stressful, as if I am having problems at one,...

  15. Dealing with Rude Nursing Instuctor

    Riseupandnurse replied to summersent's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree about keeping your head down. I think the student should approach the instructor privately and professionally and keep the focus on how she is being interpreted. Oh would some gift the...

  16. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    Riseupandnurse replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No, my job is NOT so much easier because of all the great computer charting, bar coding, super-sensitive IV pumps and administration "helping" me. And no, I really don't have time to stand here on my...

  17. For those with per diem positions....

    Riseupandnurse replied to RosesrReder's topic in General Nursing

    We have to do one major summer and one winter holiday and one shift a two-week pay period. It has to be an evening or a night shift and is supposed to be a week-end shift, but nobody holds us to that...

  18. Those who love working in ortho

    Riseupandnurse replied to anneles's topic in General Nursing

    You want to work in ortho because it is acute care and therefore fast-paced and stimulating, and yet so very much depends on what the nurse (vs. the dr.) does. Basic nursing issues like pain,...

  19. Alaris pca pump...most annoying IV pump ever!

    Riseupandnurse replied to lmc512's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We don't have Alaris, but our PCAs too are highly sophisticated pieces of junk. Likewise our IV pumps. We used to have great PCAs and pumps that just did what they were supposed to with minimal fuss...

  20. Bucks Traction

    Riseupandnurse replied to reecie54's topic in General Nursing

    I take it off, as we have to undo it all to do heel care every shift

  21. Leave the phone at home !!

    Riseupandnurse replied to disney158's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You will not believe this, but it's the truth. My sister's ex-husband died in his kitchen and my sister and their child (28 year old daughter) went over to wait on the ambulance to take him to the...

  22. Critical thinking Help!

    Riseupandnurse replied to sparrow_1's topic in General Nursing

    Read the Kaplan NCLEX book, Chapter

  23. Press Gainey Surveys, help or additional hindrance

    Riseupandnurse replied to lpnflorida's topic in General Nursing

    I hate Press Gainey. When patients write that nurses seem too busy, administration consults Quint Studer and comes up with making us say, "I have the time" and PEP rounds to give the IMPRESSION that...

  24. Would you come in during an epidemic?

    Riseupandnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    Someone said something about coming in to the hospital during an epidemic, and I realized that I probably wouldn't. This shocked me, and made me realize that I seem to have lost my passion for the...

  25. Press Gainey Surveys, help or additional hindrance

    Riseupandnurse replied to lpnflorida's topic in General Nursing

    Press Ganey is really a joke. There are so many things in there we can't control, such as whether the food is yummy or how the drs. behave. The worst part, IMHO, is if we really want a good Press...