Rose_Queen BSN, MSN, RN

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    No Overtime

    It is illegal to work and the employer not pay- the employer can be fined. If the employer is stating no OT, then employees should be clocking out and leaving, not returning to the floor. Nursing and...
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    NCLEX after 9 years

    Oh yes, because of course people always act one way their entire life and in all settings. A. Realistic advice is not harsh. Not a single one of the responses was harsh in my opinion, until yours....
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    "I Narcanned Your Honor Student"

    In my area they sure do. It's been in the news for the last several years because now the police are carrying it, school nurses have it, pretty much all first responders do, and families can ask for a...
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    Fastest way to get out of state license

    You will need to have graduated before you can receive your ATT regardless of the state you apply for. The BON must receive your transcripts in order to process your application. If you were to apply...
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    Insulin gets into eye...can you get disease from that

    You must always follow the correct procedure when dealing with a needle stick or body fluid exposure. You should have reported it to your instructor immediately. You still need to discuss this with...
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    Swan-Ganz Usage

    I believe it's becoming a trend, even with cardiac surgery patients. I know that with several of the newer anesthesia providers that have come to my facility recently, they did not routinely place a...
  7. The accreditation that matters most for nursing schools is ACEN or CCNE. That accreditation can indeed affect furthering education, as many grad schools look for students who graduated from an...
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    How to get into the OR?

    You'll need to make sure that OR experience includes scrubbing- not all facilities will utilize RNs in the scrub role because surg techs come out of school trained to do that exact job. And they...
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    Repealing ACA

    What are your thoughts? Please begin the
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    How to get into the OR?

    It all depends on your facility or other facilities you may choose to apply for. Some will take new grads into the OR, others won't. I can't really say there's one specialty or another that truly...
  11. Just a heads up that it doesn't work that way. You have to wait 45 days between takes. You won't be able to retake at all before the job starts if you fail. Please do prepare yourself- you're going to...
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    Sterility

    I've usually seen that the ST/scrub person will be on the side opposite the surgeon when possible. It also facilitates passing of
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    Working and school

    This is a topic that comes up fairly frequently, and there is just no one right answer. It's going to depend on your ability to handle multiple obligations, what you're willing to put on a back...
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    ER vs OR?

    They certainly are in my facility. They are permitted to do the actual vein harvest while the surgeon is working on opening the chest and freeing up the mammary artery for a CABG. Depending on when...
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    ER vs OR?

    I'm going to be quite honest with you about how it is at my facility. In traumas, the assistant (NP or PA, there's a couple of each) don't do too dang much. Why? Because a second trauma surgeon has to...
  16. Chances are, you're going to find the most accurate list of open positions on the website of the facility doing the hiring. My facility (employs somewhere around 10,000) does not post anywhere but on...
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    Surgical Tech certification

    From the NBSTSA: Certified Surgical Technologist Exams [ATTACH=CONFIG]24675[/ATTACH] I'm not seeing anything about a time limit from graduation to taking the exam, but you can always contact and
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    Surgical Tech certification

    You would need to investigate with the agency that offers the CST exam as far as
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    Any Labor and Delivery nurses out there?

    You also need to realize those are some of the hardest specialties to break into as they do tend to be quite popular. So have a back up plan and a back plan for the back up
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    graduate RN without license looking for job

    I missed it too. And I'd like more info from the
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    Contacted multiple times for same empty shift

    Seems to be a theme. I was on a hiking trail 5,000+ miles from home. I answered and "politely" told them where to
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    Scheduled to Work A Holiday Not Assigned

    But when are you going to take care of you? Working 29/30 days per month is not sustainable. You will never find someone in their old age who says they wish they could go back and spend more time...
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    Any Labor and Delivery nurses out there?

    I didn't like L&D because it was 100% not what I expected. Yes, there's babies. But there's also moms, dads, other family members, family drama, sad outcomes, issues like drug abuse and newborn...
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    Flotrac Sensor

    Is your facility part of an ERAS plan for vascular patients? That may have something to do with it. As for the Vigileo, it is no longer produced or supported, so that may be why you didn't see one....
  25. I don't think it's complete BS. I think there is still a large segment of the population who views nursing as a pink collar (aka, women's) profession. I do think that trying to push more people into...