Maevish ASN, RN

Maevish has 9 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in ICU, Postpartum, Onc, PACU.

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1. Can someone who struggles learning skills ever be a successful ICU nurse?

   Maevish replied to purplegal's topic in Critical Care

   If I can do it, anyone can. It seemed like I had to work harder to retain things in nursing school and had to practice the skills multiple times before I felt comfortable doing them correctly. To...

2. New Grad RN in the OR feeling discouraged... Need advice

   Maevish replied to YelenaRN's topic in Operating Room

   OOOOH comments like that make me so mad!! I sometimes hear the same things in ICU. Sure, a new grad isn't ideal for ANY nursing position in reality, but everyone has to start somewhere and even the...

3. Trouble finding work

   Maevish replied to qcfynest1's topic in Travel

   It's the most obnoxious/stressful thing ever. There are jobs "everywhere" including cities I'd love to work in near me, but they either don't seem to look at my file or they have enough nurses (even...

4. Should mean people be allowed to be mean at work?

   Maevish replied to jessimee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Is that a rhetorical questions? Of course they're not allowed to be mean at work! There ARE, however, nurses who get away with it because they're amazing nurses and other people say, "Oh, that's...

5. 6/4 WILTW: Oui jete' du Nursing???

   Maevish replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

   Haha!! I do the same thing most of the time (I still have to use my nursing brain sometimes, though) cause it's just not worth it!! They're going to get the meds anyways, after they go home,...

6. Are nurse's all that and a bag of chips?

   Maevish replied to Nash3222's topic in General Nursing

   All that you say is true, but I also know very obnoxiously holier-than-thou people in other walks of life as well. I don't ever preach about my chosen career (because honestly, I feel like if I can...

7. 6/4 WILTW: Oui jete' du Nursing???

   Maevish replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

   I learned that I'll actually miss the assignment I'm on now, even though I'm going back to a place I also loved for the next 13 weeks. This place makes me do minimal real ICU work (which, sometimes,...

8. 6/4 WILTW: Oui jete' du Nursing???

   Maevish replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

   Is that for LVN or RN? My mom's going to challenge the NCLEX-LPN (or whatever it's called) and she was asking me about a good course for that and I had no clue what to tell her, but we looked some...

9. Codes

   Maevish replied to applesxoranges's topic in Emergency

   OMG the Lucas device!!!!

10. Codes

    Maevish replied to applesxoranges's topic in Emergency

    Good grief! That does seem stupid (I was gonna say "silly", but no, it's stupid). That's how codes are run at a lot of places, but most of the time, when that happens, the house super will dismiss...

11. How much are nurses making? 2015 Salary Survey results available soon.

    Maevish replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    It also depends on where you live and the cost of living. The Bay Area nurses (and other nurses in expensive cities like Manhattan) make a TON more money than us regular folk, but the cost of living...

12. How much are nurses making? 2015 Salary Survey results available soon.

    Maevish replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    That seems about right. Right out of school, I was making about $75,000 a year in Northern California. If I just did one contract after another as a travel nurse instead of having 1-4 weeks off in...

13. Unsure of what nurse recruiter meant

    Maevish replied to EP10's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    If you didn't get anything from the hospital, which is likely, check the website to see if there are any form on there. Maybe she, like the other posters have said, forgot to attach them in an email....

14. Will leaving this job hurt my resume?

    Maevish replied to nursingjudgment's topic in Nursing Career

    Your agency should back you up if you want to quit (I mean, don't just not show up for work one day, but you know...do it the right way). They may have even had other people who didn't like that...

15. What type of nursing job can I get with ICU experience

    Maevish replied to NURSEJSS's topic in Nursing Career

    PACU is great! Wake 'em up, pack 'em out! Or plastic surgery...that's the dream. Worked part time at one office for years and it was the best!!