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You folks might consider moving a bit south in the state where there are jobs open and facilities in need of RN's. I think my hospital just hired half of the local colleges graduating class.

In Illinois you can work as a NA but not a CNA. What this means is you can work in a facility but can only work if there is a CNA on the unit with you. Just as people in nursing school can work at hospitals and do the same work the CNA's do, they cant legally call themselves CNA's. They are techs.

I agree that doubling up on the secondary IVPB tubing can be dangerous. If you dont backflush enough and then invert the IVPB bag to empty the chamber into the empty bag you run the risk of incompatable fluids infusing. A much safer choice is to use a separate secondary tubing for each IVPB. And discard them after 24 hours. It also seems to me that joint commission made the decision for us as to whether we have to use pumps or not. I dont think joint commission allows gravity infusions anymore. At least in the clinical setting. OR may be different because the patient is monitored continuously while there.

Ive had it too. 4 days before i could drag myself back to work. I swear i would have rather had a go-lytely cocktail than that. At least i would know when it would stop. I hadnt been that sick since i was a kid.

I work at a smaller hospital closer to springfield and our new grad salaries are about 18.00/hr to start. Pay grows quickly the first year with raises every year for the first 5 years, then yearly raises along with everyone else after that. If you are an experienced nurse you may be able to barter for a bit higher wage to start given some experience coming in the door. Thats not unusual either. The 18.00 is for NEW grads coming in. You have to remember cost of living is lower downstate so salaries will be lower too. Rn wages are still some of the best wages in the area though. Considering all the jobs that have been lost in the area over the last 10 years.

I had a bulging disc that severed and was floating into my spine pinching nerves. I had surgery after being flat on my back for a month. It took about 6 months to completely get healed so i could go back to work but that was in 97. I have been working on the same unit i was then, have gone back and completed my RN from LPN and havent had a problem with my back since. I do have to be careful, esepcially when im tired but that is from another underlying condition i have from a vertebral fracture we didnt even know i had in jr high school. It isnt from the disc surgery.

Sometimes local developmental facilities (private or state) have to have people to train employees to assist individuals in medication administration. Look into places in your area that assist developmentally disabled in group home settings. Maybe something there.

I quite bothering to use them when they changed at my hospital too. I have no use for the carpuject system, the old tubex were much better. Ill just use a traditional syringe thank you. If the pharmacy cant get them for you though, you might see if your nurse manager will go on a locker raid. Im sure we have several lockers full of them in our coat room.

The only advice over the phone i would even consider is if it was a patient that i had discharged that day calling to ask about particulars with discharge instructions. Sometimes at discharge things are moving quickly and people just want to get out so they dont necissarily hear everything you have told them. If it is a change in their condition though i will either tell them to call the office and have the doctor call them back or i will tell them to come back to the ER to be checked out.

We havent used the draw sheet for years and years. The fabric chux are strong enough they double as an easy aid to pull a patient up in bed. They are also more absorbant than the disposable ones in my opinion.

You might want to talk to whoever put the class on and see how those maniquines are cleaned. It could very well be you are sensitive to something they are using or are sensitive to the protective barrier they give you to use for practice. It is worth checking out though because any further contact could cause a worse reaction.

She most likely will not hear anything from the BON unless the Ex decides he wants to press the issue. If that is the case and he brings suit, both the hospital and the nurse can get large fines. Ive seen this happen in my area at least on one occasion.

This has to have been the Pearson site that made the error. I dont know that the board of nursing can do anything for you because they get their information from pearson to issue licenses. However, i dont know that i wouldnt contact a lawyer and make sure if i did have to retest that every single bit of that cost was absorbed by pearson, along with some mental anguish and pain and suffering. We all know how physically and emotionally draining that test is. Dont let it drop, if you have to retest go ahead and do it, because simply put if pearson doesnt pass you you dont get a license. But do find out what legal recourse you might have. Lost wages, lost time, travel time and expense to the testing facility. etc. Get evey penny.

Dont do it. There may be alterior motives on her part regarding her recovery or further treatment and you dont want to risk it or put yourself in that position. I have encountered patients that i have cared for in public before too. I usually am casual, smile at them and unless they speak i keep it short and sweet. I hope you are doing well, getting along ok etc. Otherwise,, its just a hello. No need for anything more.

Whooo hooo to the doc that discharged her. If she was mouthy enough to talk to people like that she was well enough to go home. I probly would have given her the you can sign yourself out AMA anytime you like if you dont like your care or your doctor. Always include the but statement that if you do the insurance and medicare may not pay for any of your visit. That usually shuts them up. All you can do to protect yourself against lawsuits is document, long and hard. Document every statement out of her mouth with abusive language and all. No lawyer in their right mind would take a case with that kind of documentation into court.