PMFB-RN RN

Two high school friends, both want to be nurses. Kelly (names have been changed) works hard in school to get accepted to a good college. Doing so ment she missed out on some fun. She got a 4.0 and accepted to Marquette University BSN program. ...

What they mostly care about is a solid track record to showing up to work when you are supposed to. Emphasize your reliability in your past work experience

WGU will get you a BSN faster than any other school.

As a full time senior staff RN who only works occasional OT (less than one shift/month) I made $161k in 2022. My base pay in in the $130K range, the rest of the pay being made up of NOC & weekend differential, holiday pay and that occasi...

Sounds like you and I went down very similar roads.

A few weeks into the first wave of COVID (my definition of a covid wave is when my hospital opens a covid ICU) I realized something. I was the last person most of these people would ever speak to. We were on a treadmill of keeping covid patients on ...

Several times in my career my fellow nurses have warned me about certain hospitals being awful places to work and I've appreciated that warning. Vanderbilt has a solid history of being a terrible place to work as a nurse. I'd suggest you an...

After years working in military and private hospitals ICU, ER & transport I have recently been hired as the Rapid Response nurse for a large VA hospital (well large by VA standards, it's actually quite small, like 275 beds). I was shocked when we...

I'm not an NP and can't answer your question about what they are looking for to promote to nurse 4 for NPs. But I can tell you for sure nurse 4 is not a permeant pay grade. You can only be a nurse 4 while in a nurse 4 position. If you leave a nurse 4...

I'm not frustrated and nothing I said would indicate I am. Your dishonesty is noted.

I'm appalled that any nurse would consider working for Vanderbilt after what they have done to nurses.

Your feelings are 100% normal and appropriate. Ide be worried if you didn't feel like that. In my unit we don't really start to considering a nurse a "can handle anything" critical care RN until about their 3rd year. Longer for some.

They all do.

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In my unit we had two fully vaccinated people die of COVID. One had advanced leukemia and a trashed immune system. The other was a healthy young (31) man who came in to our ED with SOB and was dead less than four days later. Had our docs stumped and ...

Nothing I said suggested or implied hatred towards the unvaxxed or anyone else and it's dishonest of you to falsely accuse me of hating. You have been consistently dishonest in this discussions, completely fabricating lies several times. ...

The medium-sized hospital (275 beds) where I work only has one ICU. But thanks to the unvaxxed we have had to open another ICU for COVID patients again. We first did this last Winter and it was awful, but it was nobody's fault. Now it is. W...

There were two studies presented at a Wisconsin AACN conference I attended back in (I think) 2012 that supported smaller is better. Unfortunately I took the information I needed and have no memory of what the studies were called. I do remember that o...

Even though smaller is better when administering vasoactive drips in a PIV, I naturally assumed that the small bore IV would not be a critical patients only access. Two 18ga in place until a central line can be placed and then Ill add a small bore fo...

Did you consider calling the cops and trying to get staff charged with battery? Something I would have definitely considered.

Nearly every advanced directive I've ever encountered was totally useless. Containing useless terms like "persistent vegetative state", or "brain dead". As if your body can't rot away in the ICU in the absence of brain death. My advanced dire...

Traditional nursing students don't do clinical on our covid wards. But some, like those assigned to a primary preceptor in accelerated BSN programs, take whatever patient their preceptor takes. They get fit tested by the hospital and N95 mask are (no...

Babylon Bee is fake news.

Nodays with small portable bedside ultrasound machines I can pretty much put and IV wherever I prefer it.

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