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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 th...

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 ...

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. wh...

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...

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 te...

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...

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...

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 ru...

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 month...

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 ...

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, et...