saltymermaid ADN

saltymermaid has 11 years experience as a ADN.

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1. NICU —> pre op/pacu

   saltymermaid posted a topic in PACU

   I will be transitioning from NICU to pre-op/PACU. (Hospital, not surgery center although they do outpatient stuff too). would you say this area is more monotonous and lower stress than NICU? Minus...

2. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

   saltymermaid replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

   I have about 7 years RN experience. My base pay at the last job I had when I lived up north for a bit was $28 and some change. When I started that job I had less than 2 years RN experience. At my...

3. New grad Nurse quits nursing

   saltymermaid replied to lilly-may's topic in General Nursing

   I will start by saying that dreading clinical while you were in school and having high anxiety about it does not indicate that you’re a bad nurse or not cut out for it. I always dreaded clinical too...

4. Starting New Life, Overwhelmed Need Advice

   saltymermaid replied to StartingFreshin21's topic in General Nursing

   4.5 years of mom/baby experience is plenty enough to get a travel job!! Start contacting travel companies! Travel nursing is huge right now with so many nurses leaving their workplace or nursing...

5. Burned Out?

   saltymermaid replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

   I will say that, in their defense, over the years more and more is being expected of nurses. I’ve been a nurse for about 8 years and even just within this time frame “customer satisfaction” and...

6. Weekend/holiday requirements for remote position?

   saltymermaid posted a topic in General Nursing

   if you work in a remote nursing position or know someone who does, if you are required to work some weekends or holidays, what does that look like for you? is it similar to hospital...

7. Ever left a nightshift hospital job for a day shift low stress job?

   saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, for sure. Funny thing is, both the endoscopy and “remote” jobs I mentioned above, were jobs I applied to internally through my current company!! ? most places give internal employees a leg up...

8. Ever left a nightshift hospital job for a day shift low stress job?

   saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

   I applied to endoscopy and got turned down immediately because I don’t have surgical or OR experience. ? I know plenty of people who went into endoscopy without that and did just fine - and it...

9. Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

   saltymermaid replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

   It’s absolutely about the numbers and quantity and money revenue. I had to bite my tongue when our nurse sup talked about the thousands of dollars we would lose out on (we, as in the HOSPITAL) if we...

10. how would you list your references?

    saltymermaid posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey, little question for you guys: how would you go about listing your references if this is the case - your old manager left a couple months ago, you had a “sit in” manager and...

11. Remote Nursing Job Advice

    saltymermaid replied to labornurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for your

12. Remote Nursing Job Advice

    saltymermaid replied to labornurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! Well that is waaaay more than I make at my job in my state - that’d be AT LEAST 20k-30k more a year for me! And you sound much like me - sort of introverted and are not bothered by not having...

13. Remote Nursing Job Advice

    saltymermaid replied to labornurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Would you say the pay is less than, more, or comparable to hospital

14. Types of telework nursing jobs?

    saltymermaid posted a topic in General Nursing

    I’m exploring the idea of a different nursing area, one being telework for something like an insurance company or the like. Is anyone able to break down and explain to me the differences between...

15. Ever left a nightshift hospital job for a day shift low stress job?

    saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

    I really like this option. I’ve worked briefly for home health (a couple of those short stints I spoke of) but neither job was quite suited for me. One I was barely a new grad and they were...