Maevish ASN, RN

I was wondering something. I got half my siblings from the foster care my family did when I was a kid and always as a result of poor/horrendous "parents" (not the giving up your child because you can't care for him/her thing). My parents are and ne...

I'm a traveler for the time being, but I've never had this problem before (on staff or traveling): This is a really small ICU and there're only ever two of us here at a time so it's been an adjustment (no legal breaks, no help, etc), but one thing is...

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 this day, if I don't do something over and over agai...

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 best nurses knew nothing at one point! You can't r...

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 though there are pages of jobs open and each hospi...

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 just so-and-so" and let them get away with it. There...

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, (legally or otherwise) and if it's not gonna hurt them an...

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 do it, anyone can, and my job doesn't make me). I'v...

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, is annoying), but I get paid better than I'd ever ...

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 up. Just wondering. Thanks! xo

OMG the Lucas device!!!! #heaven:saint:

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 people after awhile (leaving 1-2 extra people for co...

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 in those cities is INSANE. I had a friend who was...

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 between assignments (sometimes unwillingly), it wou...

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. That happens often. Otherwise, bring everything ...

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 particular place too, for all you know. If you don't ...

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!! xo

Honestly, you might do better in school after being out of it for awhile. If I went back now, I'd take it WAY more seriously, knowing what's at stake without mom and dad to fall back on like I had as a teenager. Working and doing nursing school wil...

I agree with the Pro/Con list idea and then figure out what's more important to you. There's NO shame right now in saying that's money, by-the-way! However, as a new nurse, you want to find the hospital that will give you the best experience as a n...

Same story gets repeated so many times...they holler at us for calling in sick, but if we come to work sick, people get irritated that we're not performing at our best and upset that they may catch something from us. I don't know what to tell you, ...

While I would agree that there's a nursing shortage, I will also say that there's no REAL nursing shortage. What I mean by that is that hospitals, recruiters, and schools tell you that there's a shortage, but yet there are thousands of us trying to g...

I feel that the title of the post isn't misleading at all. I've been able to work as a traveler in one hospital (a big teaching hospital in Sacramento) as an ASN, but would need my BSN if I were to work there on staff. It IS necessary to be competi...

I'm highly sensitive to BS. xo

Honestly, the best shoes I've ever had for the longest period of time were the knock off Crocs. Literally, they're about $9.00 at Big 5 or another sporting/shoe store (or online). In nursing school I wanted to get the Danskos because they were ever...

I just read through all the posts since my last one and wow! I've gotta say, even the things I hate the most (and that I have in common with a lot of other nurses) are just one more thing on the list of grievances by healthcare providers, social wor...