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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 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Curious who’s ever been in my shoes and what you chose to do instead. I’ve been a nurse for 7.5 years total, 6.5 being RN (1 year working as an LPN while finishing RN degree). Except for a few...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. Remote Nursing Job Advice

    saltymermaid replied to labornurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for your

  13. 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...

  14. 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

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

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

    saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of hours does that entail? Day shift 12 hour

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

    saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

    Bedside isn’t priority for me, but I’m not opposed if it’s more low stress. I’d have to look into the on-call requirements at my hospital, but something to

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

    saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I am looking into those!! I know a lot of people will say that they are hard to get because everyone wants them, but on the other hand, I hear people at work all the time speaking about “oh I...

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

    saltymermaid replied to saltymermaid's topic in General Nursing

    That’s the only thing I *do* really like about inpatient hospital hours. Getting long stretches off. However, with our staffing, more often than not I only get 2-3 days off between shifts, and when...

  21. Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    saltymermaid replied to RaineyRN7's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I meant in the workplace. I’m assuming my fellow nurse coworkers legally have RN behind their name. ?‍♀️ As for this forum, you can forget about respect. Hardly any one shows respect here....

  22. Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    saltymermaid replied to RaineyRN7's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I only skimmed comments but from what I can see people are divided on the vaccine. Around half the healthcare workers at my hospital don’t want to get the vaccine, many have already (knowingly) had...

  23. "Not a Good FIT"

    saltymermaid replied to Tomboytammy's topic in General Nursing

    I also was in this situation a few years ago! Like someone said, some clinics can be cliquey. Not all but it does happen. I remember feeling like *** and a little unworthy but in retrospect good...