chicagonurse

You might be stuck with the agreement. But you should contact a lawyer for better advice.

I remember my first LPN job. I was paid $11 and hour and had to care for 43-48 patients,on a dementia unit, with 4 or 5 CNAs. I never had time to answer the phones. I was lucky because I had some very good CNAs. I was there four months. That was until one of the patients was found dead outside sitting on a bench. It was natural causes but I coldn't work somewhere I had to worry about them wandering off. Good Luck

I make about $4300 a month full time with no differential. I have been working in correctional nursing for about a year. I made more in the hospital but this is an easier job that I enjoy much more. I have been a RN for four years.

http://www.usdoj.gov/06employment/index.html This is the department of justice website. You can look for jobs by state or job title.

I'm a correctional nurse. It is sure not for everyone. Best nursing job I ever had though, I don't mind the clientele. I start at 3pm getting report for about ten minutes. From 3:15 until about 4:15 I prepare the medication for the 9pm med pass. This is a rare thing in nursing. There are only a few places that meds are prepared before hand. At 5pm the diabetic patients come to the health care unit to check their blood sugar and get their medication. After that if no one has any complaints I basically have no work to do until med pass. Should someone have an injury or health complain though he would come to the unit to be seen. Then at 8:30 I take my med cart and go to the units and pass the residents their meds. That can take anywhere from 30-45 minutes depending on what units I have that day. I return to the healthcare unit and chart the medication that I gave which can take about 45 minutes depending on how many PRNs were requested. If no one requests to be seen then I am pretty much done for the evening.

My program required the students to pass the HESI also. Personally I do not think the test was all that difficult. We took it at the end of the first year and I passed it at that time. I will contend that it was harder than the state boards. That test was a joke.

I was a nurse for 9 years before I injured. Stupidly I listened to my boss and weighed a 375 lb patient with a bed scale I knew would not weight the patient properly. She assured me it would. He ended up almost tipping over and i grabbed the end to stop it.....dumb me. Now I have constant pain and I lost my job. Lucky for me I did get a good job where no lifting is required.

I had a doctor push 50mg of phenergan through my IV over 5 seconds. It's supposed to go at a rate of 25mg a minute. That was an incredibly painful experience. Had a patient of another nurse code and die after she pushed 50mg of demoral. When she checked back 30 minutes after administering the medication for effect he was nonresponsive. I am very careful about the rate a medication is pushed

If you insist on drawing up more than one medication at a time label the syringes before hand. Never "guess" which one is which. Don't feel bad about calling the doctor at 3am for pain medicine for a new surgical patient (or any patient for that matter) The doctor should have known better than order just plain tylenol or 1 mg of morphine q3 hours Patients can sleep with a pain level of 8 out of 10. I know that one from personal experience. As hard as it is don't let the doctor intimidate you. You went to school for many years and you are a trained professional. It is your job to report observations to the doctor; make sure you chart that you told the doctor and their response. Get you own malpractice insurance. Do not expect the hospital to protect you against lawsuits. Be careful what you chart. Five years later you may not remember what happened and the charting is all you have to go by. Just keep it simple and write the facts. Try to write verbatem what the patient says. When you paraphase it may look like you are not being honest. Trust your instincts, they usually are correct.

This thread is hilarious :rotfl: Don't drink a 12 pack of beer on lunch and go back to your construction job. Being a quad is a terrible thing....... Don't stick pencils in your urthrea they may end up in you bladder..... Don't ever come to work when you can't pee and ask one of the other nurses to cath you because all that rough sex caused your urthrea to swell shut. that is too much information............. If you insist on caring for your obese demented grandmother at home, god bless you but take care of her. Don't show up at the ED because she has gaping sores under her breasts from sticking tissues under them and you can recall the last night she got a bath................. Don't write the hospital a letter saying I was unprofessional when I restained you after finding you climbing over the siderails first night post op from double knee replacement surgery. I guess when I charted that you stated you were at home and I was trying to kill you I was the one who was mistaken................

I live in the southwest Chicago suburbs and make $23.50 with two years experience. Housing prices vary greatly. I just built a two bedroom ranch for 145K but I shopped around for builders. If I still lived in the city the same place would have been 100K more.

I hate explain to the same patients night after night why they must comply with the doctors orders. Lucky for me most of my surgical patients are there electively and the doctor will come in and yell at them in the morning. Amazes me that people sign up for surgery and then put there health at risk by thinking they can do whtever they want now that they got their surgery.