wendilynn

sorry...duplicate.

I am the Clinical Manager (same thing as Nurse Manager) for 28 acute rehab beds. I have a Director over me and then the VP is over her. I just have to report to her. The only downside thing is that she is not a nurse. I also have to be charge nurse and educator. The director does not use charge nurses.

I work on an acute Rehab. Our staffing is 7 patients up to 8. We do have PCA's. I even think that's too much. Our acuity in Rehab isn't what it once was. We transfuse blood and blood products etc.......I would ideally like to have 6 patients. We have no charge nurses on any shift. I am the Nurse Manager / Educator and I am supposed to be the "charge nurse" as well as do everything else that I'm supposed to do..meetings....discipline....scheduling....education.

:) Ok, where I work we do get a diff. We work 12 hours and we get $2.50 from 3-7 pm. We are non union. Wendy

:) Hi there, I am a nurse from Ottawa and I moved to the US about 8 years ago. I am now in Florida ( I met a man and got married). I worked for a few years in Massachusetts and now I am in Florida. I had to take the CGFNS when I wanted to work in the US. The only bad thing about the CGFNS is that it is only good for a certian amount of time and then the certificate expires. If you are planning on moving to the US, check out where you are going to go, if you think moving to Florida is like being on vacation, you are wrong. You don't go to the beach every day. You work and if you're lucky you get to go on your day off. Sometimes the weather is to darn hot to go outside. Then there are the hurricanes that come in the fall. Yes there is a need for nurses everywhere, but just be careful, sometimes you're better off staying at home and finding a job there. I sometimes wish that I had stayed at home, but I didn't and now I live in Florida and I don't think that I will be moving back. Good luck. Wendy