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...

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. ...

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...

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 t...

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 sh...

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 mat...

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 wh...

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 bee...

I always wanted to be an orthopdic nurse. I was so lucky to get a position on that unit when I graduated last year. I sometimes wish that there was less phsyical work but I prefer it to regular med/surg nursing.

I love nights and would never work another shift. I work with the friendliest most helpful staff I am so lucky. Days on the other hand has problems-too many bosses, doctors, PT, OT, and worst of all families. Is it just me or are the family member...

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 si...

About 95% of the docs where I work are married and in orietation the nurse educator told us if any one of us was looking for a doctor to marry we better go elsewhere. I don't know why anyone would want to marry one they seem like more trouble than t...

1. RN 2. 6 months 3. Orthopedics 4. 21.83/hr +15%shift differential, 3 weeks vacation, 3 personal days

God I hope I don't know anyone who was there. This is just terrible.

The only people I'm afraid of at work are the CNAs. Had one say "I know where you live". And I always pray that my car will still be in working order when I get off duty.

In class we discussed the fact that there is a severe nurse shortage right now. But is the shortage due to not enough new nurses or too many established nurses leaving the profession? And what I really want to know is what can be done to fix the pro...

I like the ads but don't think that it will make people enter the field.

I work in LTC 3pm-11:30pm. On the best of days I'll have 20 patients and 1 CNA. On the worse 45 dementia patients 3/4 of whom require total care with 3 CNAs. Management seems to only care about cost cutting. On an average day a spend 20 minutes f...

I have made med errors myself but never with such a bad outcome. We all make mistakes and I hope that this would not cause you to leave the profession. Personally I will not give medication to anyone who is not wearing a ID band. When I find a pat...

Graduation is on May 10th but the final exam is April 29th. I'm skipping the graduation but I'm going to the pinning. I can't wait to start working so I can buy a house.

I'll be 31 when I graduate next month. The youngest student in my class is 22 and the oldest is around 50(I have to guess because he won't tell me). The vast majority of the other students are between 25 to 35.