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    What Do Hospitals Look At For New Grads?

    hiddencatRN replied to Soliloquy's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Cut out the objective, for one. That's a waste of space. Computer skills and skills and qualifications can also probably be condensed. Put student nurse association under education. Then make sure...
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    What Do Hospitals Look At For New Grads?

    hiddencatRN replied to Soliloquy's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    You need to play around with your formatting more. That should all fit on 1 page,
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    Permanent documentation... "Please advise"?

    hiddencatRN replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in General Nursing

    You had an order to remove the Foley and the patient refused....why wouldn't that get a note in the chart regardless of the type of charting system you
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    Could I fail because of this? can't be that bad...

    hiddencatRN replied to mursetudent25's topic in General Students

    Giving a presentation about a project you did is hardly an unreasonable thing to ask as a clinical
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    Could I fail because of this? can't be that bad...

    hiddencatRN replied to mursetudent25's topic in General Students

    Then why make such a big stink about not wanting to do it if it was such a small
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    Could I fail because of this? can't be that bad...

    hiddencatRN replied to mursetudent25's topic in General Students

    Of course your behavior was unprofessional. Did you really need that
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    What Do Hospitals Look At For New Grads?

    hiddencatRN replied to Soliloquy's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Why wouldn't you list your clinicals? Our career center told us to put them on our
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    What if nursing evaluations were outcome based?

    hiddencatRN replied to Anoetos's topic in General Nursing

    Don't most places do some form of chart audits already? My documentation is addressed in my review (how would they know about my documentation if they weren't pulling charts). At my new job, every...
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    Nights in the ER??

    hiddencatRN replied to scrubsandasmile's topic in Emergency

    It's commonly prescribed for sleep and/or
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    leaving my job gave a 2 weeks manager very rude.

    hiddencatRN replied to purpleRN6163's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So if I'm only getting 2 weeks of vacation, 2 weeks of notice should be
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    Lazy techs!!!!!

    hiddencatRN replied to Wantoknow-rn's topic in Emergency

    When I worked in a children's ER, the kids often don't keep their cuffs on. And at every hospital I've worked at, the machines record BP and HR only, so if you want pulse ox, respirations, and a...
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    How Would You Rate Your Pain????

    hiddencatRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I usually ask kids if they hurt a little, medium, or a lot. Everyone seems to understand that. I ask a pain scale with numbers and people of all ages appear confused. It irritates me yo no end to ask...
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    Getting patient information before shift

    hiddencatRN replied to AikoRN's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. No wonder so many facilities unofficially expect this from
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    Speaking of... Getting to work early

    hiddencatRN replied to jrsmrs's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I don't work for free. I'm happy to stay late or come in early, but if I do so I am clocked in. I don't think refusing to donate time to management makes me a bad or thoughtless nurse. I also fill out...
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    What do you think about this?

    hiddencatRN replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    Why are we assuming the top brass isn't donating too? I don't see the problem. Donate, or don't. I think llg brings up good points about even token contributions speaking well to potential investors....
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    Can you get into nursing school with a D for A&P1?

    hiddencatRN replied to ryangogogo's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The schools I was looking at all required a C or better in science prereqs. 3 times and a D is the best she can do? I'm not seeing nursing school working out for
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    Useless Hospital Committees

    hiddencatRN replied to guest64485's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like a lot of student council stuff to me. Just plan fun dances, give us food, and let's leave it at
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    ABLS

    hiddencatRN posted a topic in Emergency

    I just took the ABLS course which was offered by one of the hospitals I work at for a huge discount. Anyone here take it recently? I thought it was actually pretty disappointing. The presenters sped...
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    African Americans as nurses.

    hiddencatRN replied to Daniel Floyd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    And it's over a year
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    Shared Governance

    hiddencatRN replied to CVCURN's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked night shift, I tried to keep a regular sleep schedule. I also had a long commute. A 1pm meeting in the middle of a day regardless of whether or not I work is still disincentive enough...
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    New Grad interested in Trauma

    hiddencatRN replied to BlueSunRise's topic in Critical Care

    Up at the top of the screen. There is a tab next to specialties that says "Critical". That is where you
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    Sucide lies: is it CYA or blaming?

    hiddencatRN replied to Tiffanybaybay's topic in Emergency

    I agree that "charge RN made aware" doesn't cya, but it does mean that if something happens, they will have to answer in addition to the primary RN. It's not throwing them under the bus; it's pulling...
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    Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    hiddencatRN replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency

    It's already "free" for plenty of patients. I'd like to see universal healthcare with better incentives for physicians to specialize in primary care and an upfront copay required for nonemergency ER...
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    hiddencatRN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, let's have a conversation with the doctor first before we decide we can't carry out the treatment plan. Having good communication among the healthcare team benefits the
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    hiddencatRN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    Nope! This was in peds (kid was 20 tho) and we rarely give dilaudid and always give meds based on weight in kg. The doc had called hematology on the patient because he had sickle cell anemia, and they...