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Hi everyone - I work for a small community hospital (non-profit, non-union). We had a staff meeting today where a new hospital-wide vacation policy was introduced. This policy does not cover "prime-time" summer vacation (Memorial-Labor day). It on...

I've worked for the past 8 years part-time in an acute setting (telemetry/PCU) and the past 3 years part-time in homecare. Like others have mentioned there are skills that you perfect in homecare which you do not get as much exposure to in the hospi...

I work per diem at two ambulatory endoscopy centers. Both require patients to be able to walk in and out of the facility on their own. Occassionally we will have a patient that requires a wheelchair ride to the car but minimal lifting in terms of p...

My tele unit has regular tele beds and 6 PCU beds. The PCU trained nurses will occasionally have to float to the ICU but if you are not PCU trained they will not float you.

My unit has 25 tele beds and 6 PCU beds. Tele is a 4:1 ratio with 2 aides and 1-2 secretaries. PCU is a 3:1 ratio with 1 aide and no secretary although the tele secretary will help out if she has time. The PCU nurses also watch the monitors. Ther...

I've worked all shifts at my hospital. I started out 3p-11p and really liked the work of the shift - fast paced with lots of admissions and discharges. But I had no life outside of work - all of my friends work a normal M-F day shift and I was miss...

Type of Hospital: community Type of Unit: cardiac telemetry, occasional surgical tele overflow from another unit. Number of beds:25 telemetry - divided into 2 wings (12 pts and 13pts per wing) and 6 PCU beds Number of patients each RN has:usually 4 p...

We don't get holiday gifts at my hospital. For nurses week we got dinner served and candy delivered to our breakroom.

Where are you located OctoberBride? My unit just hired a slew of new grads over the summer.

At my hospital anything over 40 hours per week or over what you are hired to work in a 24 hour period is overtime. So if you are hired for 8-hour shifts and work a 12-hour shift you would get 4 hours of overtime for the extra 4 hours worked. So in ...

I'm in a small non-profit hospital in the suburbs of Boston. I make $25.50/hr. Evening differential is 12.5% and an additional 10% on weekends.

I'm on a cardiac tele floor. day and evening shift is 4 patients, rarely 5 if we are short. Night shift is 6 patients. We have aides that cover 12 patients.

I work on a cardiac floor - we have 4 patients per nurse on days/evenings. On nights each nurse has 6 patients.

I make $24.75 base with a 12.5% differential for evenings and an additional 10% differential for weekends...so about $27.80/hr during the week and $30.32 on weekends. That is for a community hospital outside of Boston. I have about 6months experien...

I felt tired and had a temp around 101 for a couple days after my flu shot this year.

just a guess but maybe "direct observation unit" ???

I'm going to a cardiac tele/PCU floor. A lot of my fellow classmates got jobs in telemetry. A couple were paramedics and went right to the ER. Some went to nursing homes/rehab and the rest ended up in Med-Surg.

I interviewed for a job in a medical telemetry/PCU. I can tell you a little about the medical floor from what was discussed in my interview. It is a 24 bed unit for medical telemetry and 6 beds for PCU. The ratios for the medical part are 3:1 or 4...

There were volunteers on the floor where I did one of my clinicals. They escorted visitors to patients rooms, helped the secretary with shredding, filing, making copies, etc. Did supply runs if transport was not available, helped to re-stock supply...

I used the Saunders and Kaplan books for my NCLEX review. Looking back I don't think they would've helped much with my fundamentals course. Maybe a little bit on the infection control and the nursing process. But I wish I would've bought the Saun...

I was 28 when I graduated in December '06

I use this website a lot when I write papers and need a quick reference on APA format: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

I will be orienting on a cardiac telemetry floor that includes a PCU (progressive care unit). My unit is strictly cardiac so lots of MI, CHF, etc. It is organized into 2 wings with 12 telemetry beds in each wing and 6 PCU beds directly across from t...

I don't want to hijack the OP's thread - but I am starting orientation on a tele floor in 2 weeks and have had some reservations about not getting as much exposure to all the different conditions I would see if I started in Med-surg. Thank you deeDaw...

I am a new grad and will be starting orientation in 2 weeks. I've been talking with many of my classmates about their orientation experiences and not one person I talked to has had more than 1 patient in their first 7 days. One of my classmates has...