koala_bear

i personally think it's great that your manager is even willing to work as a floor nurse. think about it, how many managers do you see/hear of ever doing that? of course she has to stay on your unit, she is the manager, it is her unit to run, and the only way she can do both jobs effectively is to be there and not on any other floor. unless your unit is a closed unit, expect to be floated/pulled to other units every now and then. it's either get pulled or get canceled. i for one want to get my hours in, so i go where they tell me to go. it doesn't mean i won't complain though :). everyone gets scared/intimidated the first time they get floated but it can be refreshing to see how other units do things. for the most part, they're pretty grateful that you're there to help them out. give it a chance.

good luck!!!

last I checked Harbor Hospital was still hiring for ICU and Tele

i don't know how many times i wished i could tell the pita parents of pediatric patients that if they weren't going to let us put in ivs, draw blood for tests, assess their children, and medicate them then why'd they take them to the hospital in the first place?

harbor hospital is hiring l&d and nicu (prn) nurses.

heparin, blood, pca, insulin & narcotics (peds only)

check uniform city for decent priced nursing school shoes. what area are you in?

bwmc and harbor hospital are hiring.

are you working? maybe your income makes you ineligible for the pell grant. not only should you be eligible for it if your income is low enough, your state should offer other scholarships and grants specifically for those in taking up nursing. what state are you in?

yikes!! i hope not. pacu, or, and case management are the only units/departments in my facility that have their nurses working 8 hour shifts. being a new nurse, i can't imagine getting all that work done in 8 hours.

care associate

we have a yakker tracker on our unit too. it was set so low what it would start alarming whenever we had to put or take something from the charts and had to clip the ring binders together. the "snap!" of those binders made the alarm go off and the alarm made more noise than the binders themselves. it was so stupid that people started messing with the settings and got our manager all upset. now, it's on mute. the lights still flash depending on the noise level. visitors and patients get a kick out of seeing the lghts change... "it's red....do i have to stop walking or something?" carrying phones help a lot i think. no need to yell to the other nurse at the end of the hall. course in my case, the phone almost always rings when i'm trying to sneak into a room usually at midnight to do my rounds which of course wakes up my patient

Research maybe? Or work as a clinical trial nurse....I hear that's a pretty laid back environment.

It's everybody's responsibility, RN, BSN, CA, CNA or whatever. Having an RN/ BSN doesn't mean you no longer do the nitty-gritty, nasty, hold your breath chore of putting patients on bedpans, wiping butts, and emptying pan into toilets. Yeah they teach delegation... but if you're right in the room with the patient when said patient asks to be placed on the pan, then take an extra minute or two to do it yourself. Its acceptable to tell ur CNAs that "Ms. So and So is on the pan, can you please just take her off it later?" I've worked with several nurses who think bathing and toileting patients are beneath them and that just ticks me off. :angryfire