danaheil

danaheil has 2 years experience.

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1. please advise charge nurses

   danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

   Right on, I totally agree with you, anne74. I worked for this company in my first year of nursing and they did the same thing to me. It was a big part of why I left. Yesterday when my DH went to...

2. please advise charge nurses

   danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks guys, We appreciate all your responses. Dana and

3. please advise charge nurses

   danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

   It is more like an ICU step down for trauma pts. Occasionally a post op from the OR is admitted when space is unavailable elsewhere. Most of the admissions come from the

4. please advise charge nurses

   danaheil replied to danaheil's topic in General Nursing

   NO, he was not offered the job with more pay. He just went to work one day and the staffing office said that he would be charging now. He works the night shift, and the charge nurses at this facility...

5. please advise charge nurses

   danaheil posted a topic in General Nursing

   My husband is a new nurse. He has been on a medsurg unit for less than 6 months. He has already been asked to assume charge nurse role, and feel unprepared to do so. He has had no training or...

6. Advice For The New Nurse Entering Med-Surg

   danaheil replied to RNPATL's topic in Medical-Surgical

   my husband just started in med surg less than 6 months ago. He is already being asked to charge, and he feels unprepared for this. He has received no orientation to charge, and has no desire to do...

7. Would you let your hospital treat your loved one?

   danaheil replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   absolutely. I brought my husband to the facility where i work after he had a terrible experience with a VA systems hospital. He was much happier, better cared for and his exact words were "I feel...

8. secondary cancer after radiation therapy

   danaheil posted a topic in Oncology

   Does anyone know the incidence of secondary cancers after radiation? Pelvic radiation specifically. How much time goes by before this becomes a distinct possibility for patients? I know that pelvic...

9. Drop Rate for Nursing School

   danaheil replied to angelina02_21's topic in General Nursing

   My BSN class started with around 40. 2 had to drop to part time for personal reasons and finished school in the next graduationg semester. All of the class graduated and we had a 100% pass rate for...

10. Need some help

    danaheil replied to xjae's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with prvious posters, that you need to look around in the forums and also contact the schools you are interested in. As for the difference in associates and bachelors, there isn't really much...

11. Jury Duty during nursing school

    danaheil replied to capribry's topic in General Nursing

    I am pretty sure i was excused a couple times when I was in college because i was a full time student. I don't know if the same rules apply in your

12. teamwork and job satisfaction

    danaheil replied to mak2's topic in General Nursing

    Teamwork is absolutely important. It makes everyone's life easier. That is why many places call it a treatment team. And besides, no one person is expected to know everything. It is important to...

13. Are some environments beyond hope?

    danaheil replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    You have to do what is best for you. If you feel it is important to you to be in this orientation program, (if it is the only new nurse orientation program in your area for OR) and this is the area of...

14. Computer Charting

    danaheil replied to sstromberg's topic in General Nursing

    I really like the idea of computer charting. I can type about 4 times faster than i can write anything out by hand. The problem is that our particular unit is caught in the "in between" stage. We have...

15. Wearing scrubs home??

    danaheil replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    i think that nurses fall into two classes regarding germs...the paranoid and the blase I suppose this is somewhat true. Although, I have been known to switch from one group to the other dependant on...