JoeTheNurse

Where can I get a job with a nurse/patient ratio of 1 to 4? This nurse would not get away with this with our team.

Sixteen miles door-to-door...all highway!

Pretty much all our student nurses wear whites...so whites would be out for the staff. If solid colors became manditory we would be putting allot of uniform places out of business, at least those selling lots of print tops. I'm not wearing the hat!

I had been out of clinical nursing for 30 years before I went back just 2 months ago. I had actually retired from an occupational health career and found myself bored so I took a 200 hour RN refresher course, a 35 hour IV Therapy course and my BLS. I interviewed at my local hospital and was offered a job on the Medical Unit. I have now been working for 2 months and love it. The staff I work with is very supportive...to a person, I think they want to see me succeed. They go out of the way to find me if they are going to do a procedure that they know that I need experience with (NG tubes, IVs, Foleys etc.). Just do it...

Katie (CBS Nightly News) was talking about Ford's offer to buy out some 75,000 employees. She ended the story by saying that the average Ford employee makes $65.00 per hour...

I to dealt with death while in Vietnam, almost every day (at least it fealt that way), I was an Army combat medic. The problem with seeing so much death is that you become hardened to a point where you find it dificult to show some empathy and/or compassion.

Savealife, There is certainly a wealth of good advise here...that's what is so great about this forum. You said "Both times I have taken this home with me and brewed for days over it". I know this is easier said than done but try to leave work at the door... The one thing we realize by seeing death so often is how short life is.

I bet that if the the orderly new from the begining that "if he the patient did bleed again, it wouldn't be a little trickle, it would be a big gush and that people could die from nosebleeds very quickly" he would have had that patient in a wheelchair in a New York Minute. I'm not saying that discipline should not be considered here. I'm suggesting that maybe we shouldn't assume that everyone is on the same page as us.

Skyscape.com offers a computer and PDA version of the Davis Drug Guide for Nurses. If you buy the PDA version, they throw in the computer version for free.

Wow...$300 for $300,000 of coverage! Proliability.com charged me $100 for $1,000,000/$6,000,000. That for Florida (Gulf Coast)