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I've heard of the requirement (one year away from the bedside eliminates consideration for a travel contract.) In fact, I've heard that a year away from the hospital bedside is a deal breaker for ANY future acute care nursing positions. Hospital...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but hospital leadership doesn't really want to retain experienced, frontline nurses. They have a kind of "wish list" much like you'd see in an online dating profile and they are absolutely convinced that anything o...

"......I don't want to be put into a situation where I am overworked and burned out within a couple of months either." I think that sufficient credible information is available (both here and elsewhere) to make a valid determination; disregard t...

Thank you JBM for the thoughtful and kind response to my post. But for the record, I am quite familiar with the predominant EMR systems (and others) in this area including Epic, Cerner and Meditech. Also, med (& supply) pyxis' have been around a ...

Do I think you're crazy or too old? Nope. I myself considered a return to acute care nursing in response to the near nonstop media articles/stories that the beds were filled to overflowing, the nurses were overwhelmed/distressed, staff vacancies abou...

"Did you ever get to look the Director in the eyes after that? Lies like that deserve to be confronted.." Oh sure. The day we were informed, HR representatives, Nursing Administation members etc. and other "suits" showed up on our unit en masse ...

My thoughts? LOL Reminds me of the time when an agency nurse shared during shift report that her agency couldn't extend her contract because the unit was closing. Like the OP, I asked the Director directly for the truth; Similarly she downpla...

"This 'hospital' allowed the nurse to work after the first 3 deaths, what the heck made them investigate and fire the nurse after the 4th?" A bad Press-Ganey maybe?

A lot of steaks involved? emmmmmmmm sounds yummy

Mandatory minimum staffing ratios with significant financial penalties for failing to adhere to those ratios at all times.....this is the ONLY answer. Anything short of that is a waste of everyone's time.

In a perfect world employers would be fully transparent and explicit with regards to the expectations for a given position; Unfortunately, that is often not the case in the Long Term Care industry. ADONs are typically classified as salaried, exempt (...

Intraosseous (IO) Line/Access /Insertion What you'd do in an emergency if you couldn't get an IV in--------as opposed to trying to trying multiple IV starts when the patient has "no" veins

I can't believe what I'm reading here. Seriously, I just can't. All I can say is if this scenario ever "played out" at any school or facility that I've ever heard of, both the OP and the other student would be out of their program and the school as...

As several posters have already mentioned, California overtime laws are a different "animal" entirely; Fortunately for you, the differences between California regulations and other states' favors the employee. In general, in California, working ...

My take as an old AF nurse who has experienced a similar situation (or two or three) and has observed several like situations in the course of a very long career? OK then. The Nurse Management should feel shame, however, they likely haven't had...

Just curious: Does this new policy include all of your Nursing Leadership including your Chief Nursing Officer/Executive(s)?

I would have to agree with those respondents who feel that you could handle a full time nursing position as an age 50 plus new grad.......but that's not really what you asked. I entered nursing 30 years ago at age 42 when the energy industry collapse...

Of course this is all about massive transfers of wealth to the oligarchs. Do think that all of the world's developed nations (save Sweden) immediately decided to take the unprecedented action of totally shutting down their economies and then in virt...

It's difficult to determine whether or not this nurse should have been tested on a timely basis without the relevant assessment information. At present this thread contains six pages of posts; I've read them all and yet I STILL don't know how many po...

Well, maybe for vampire attacks.

But, but, but how could that possibly be true? For years I've been hearing from those same folks that BSN preparation should be the minimum for entry into professional nursing practice. Where else will nursing students learn to think critically? .......

There is an excellent article which I "googled up" entitled "Understanding the Basics of Medication Administration" by Nancy Brent, MS, JD, RN. Despite the rather broad subject matter implied by the title, the entire article focuses upon the matter a...

I would encourage the OP to research/Google up "counter-offer". I believe the recommended course of action in cases such as yours will be quite obvious.

As a new grad ICU nurse who worked the night shift I was initially thrown into an internal panic when asked by the oncoming nurse, "...And was that a LEFT subclavian or a RIGHT subclavian?" But it wasn't all that long that my response would be, "Firs...

"While only having a bachelors (or less)" I believe that you are referring to those who have earned a "bachelor's degree" (or less); Ordinarily, I would not point out the lack of an apostrophe, however, I would have thought that an individual in poss...