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:welcome: First let me start by saying I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this but looked like the most appropriate spot. I am an RN, my boyfriend is a new grad RN, who graduated in May 2006. He used to be a cop in NJ. We live in NC. He went through school and the licencing procedure without a hitch. He has a criminal background that he was convicted for in 1995. It was a civil rights violation, no assault or drug charges. Although there were no questions asked from the school he attended and the nursing board he is having no luck with finding employment. He's had several interviews. Most of the time they like him and offer him a position or say they would like to make an offer but then they see the "yes" box checked on his application and tell him they don't hire anyone with a criminal background. He doesn't know what to do. I personally would give him my job if I could! Anybody have any suggestions, ideas or comments or experience dealing with this kind of thing?

Well lets see...I was an LPN for 10 years. I have been an RN for 6 years. Everywhere I have worked has given me 1/2 credit. So, in other words, I have 10 years LPN experience for which I get 5 years credit. I have 6 years LPN, so the translation means that I make way more money than most places are willing to pay me and am now traveling to make the kind of money I think I am worth!!! hee hee hee!! Big huge challenge to get what you are worth!! Play your cards right, get your ewxperience and do what you want to. $$ isn't always all there is to consider, nut you still gotta eat!! right?

I am a traveler and rent a room from another traveler, I basically pay $200.00 per month. I work 3 night shofts per week. I sleep and shower there 2 days per week, possibly 3 depending if I work an extra shift. I take my own towels, sheets etc...I think it is a fair price, the peerson I rent from tells me that the utilities haven't changed.

I live and work and travel in NC, I haven't heard much good about Pitt, however I work in E.D. the hospital I am currantly working in I was warned against and am overall not having a bad time.

Here's morbid one!! MFC= measure for coffin In anearby county the local EMS call in their "BS" patients with a "Brava Sam"

here's some rude ones I don't remember seeing on here yet! A "F.O.O.S.H." injury is a fall on out stretched hand T.U.B.E.-totally unessesary breast exam D.B. as in "did anybody kow we have a D.B. in the hall?" dead body

I've always been the sympathetic vommiter too! It's the combo for me:the retching, gagging, slimy, stench of it all! :barf01: But the newest stench that has gotten to me lately is that homeless, alcohol, never wash or brush, funk! Ew w ew!

We do whatever shift we are hired for. LOL! I'd love to see some of these people that have been on days forever try to stay awake past 11pm! They make fun of me when I help out on 11 AM to 11 PM and drag in there needing MORE COFFEE!! I've been on nights about 15 years! We don't rotate shifts unless we pick up an extra that isn't are usual.

In the hospital I work the start pay for new grads is $17.50 an hour, there is no "unit" differential or increased hourly rate for certifications, BSN'S and ADN's make the same...and I'm pretty sure that is that same for the other hospital in town... I work in Hickory NC, I have 10 years experience

I ran into that same dilema, in the most recent staff meeting at my PRN job the director announced that meal breaks were a privledge not a requirement and he didn't want to see "no meal" written in the exception book any more! I realize there are times when we don't get breaks and we all sneak in the break room for a quick 5 here and there when we can but they take the 1/2 hour out whether we take a break or not, God forbid we clock in one minute early and they have to pay us for an extra 15 minutes!!...

We haven't had to do the admission assessments in out ED, yet! We do what we can, we mostly hand chart meds instead of using MARS!!! We do the advanced directive paper work on all admissions reguardless of whether or not they are held in the ER. The thing that burns my butt is that any patient that is admitted to the hospital through the ER doesn't get surveyed as an ER pt, they only ask that patient about their inpatient care for the patient satisfaction scores! These are the patients that we do more for than any other! They even make us get a regular hospital bed and put them in it!

"I was sitting in the PTA meeting and my hand suddenly turned blue for no obvious reason"The pt had unilateral "blueish" color to her left hand, pt denied any pain, tingling, numbness, had good bilateral radial pulses and I noticed the edge of her fingernail was also blue...I got up got some alcohol cleaner out of the dispenser and rubbed it on the patients hand...and wiped it off with a white cloth! The girl had gotten new jeans that were the dark blue and had been putting her left hand in her pocket!!

I had a 20 something female last week who was Precious Melody

I think that ER docs shouldn't do lumbar punctures on little babies, I think if it were my kid...under fluroscopy or forget it, for that matter if it were me under fluro or forget it!

we put the bags down sometimes but it really sucks when they live and you gotta take the bag out from underneath them before they go upstairs!