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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.

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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

statistics!!! my only c in nursing school. still don't see the purpose of the darn class till now :icon_roll

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if you're into plain scrubs and are looking to buy them cheap, check out alko on ellicott city, route 40 and gallo on ritchie hwy . they carry printed ones too. just make sure to try them on before you buy them, sizes are irregular at times. whats 10-20 minutes of your time when you end up paying $9-10 for a top or bottom versus $20?

you're absolutely right about the studying. we did do a lot if it. emphasis on the we. i don't know how many seats they offer now, but back then it was 24. i can honestly say that there was a lot of bonding. between clinicals (2 8 hour days/week) and study groups, and after hours skills lab, we spent a lot of time together. some clinical groups carpooled. we tried to help each other out with our issues, whether personal or with school. of course there's always gonna be that someone who tries to be the best, the "know-it-all", but remember that in the end, your ultimate goal is to pass each course and the boards.

if you have your fluids running through a pump, hanging a bag lower than the other one wont affect anything. did you check if your pump was set to run on piggyback? it sounds to me like it was set to run "concurrent" meaning that a line and b line run at the same time which is what we do in potassium aliquot infusions.

i work at a surgical unit too and only those rns certified by the hospital in staple removal are allowed to take them out. pas do that too. i'm sorry this happened to you though. how many days post-op was your patient?

when we were almost through with the program, there was talk of them extending it to 13 months i think mainly because lack of time in l&d. how many seats are they offering now? they only took 24 when i did the program. you won't feel the 14 months go by. it's more a matter of 3-4 weeks of lecture/clinical, then test, then another 3-4 weeks, then a test, then u move on to the next course.....on and on and on until next thing you know, you're on your last course and we're talking pinning/capping ceremony!! i personally believe that it's a great program. you get to develop close relationships with your batchmates whether you go to the same clinical sites or not, but then again who wouldn't if you all see each other 5 days a week at least!?!? congratulations again!!!

It's very competitive. Don't settle for just meeting the GPA requirements. Some applicants go in with 4.0s. Being an In-county student earns you points in the application process too.

congratulations! you are correct about it being "intense". it's definitely not for quitters. there's an exam every 3-4 weeks. be prepared to spend saturdays/sundays/evenings in the skills lab. no social life for 14 months! the teaching staff is very supportive and are always available to the students. you are lucky that they extended the program to 14 months. we had to do it in 11 months . yes you are required to have all your prerequisites done (gpa at least 3.0; 3.25 in sciences) prior to even turning in your application. good luck!!! and yes, we did have a 100% pass rate.

we have 3 winter and 3 summer holidays; we all get to work one of each. its assigned and we rotate. i work nights so we do the night before and the night of. oh and we also have "hard to staff days" like halloween, black friday, jan 2, dec. 26, etc., and those are assigned along with the holidays