Maula, RN

Hi everyone I am a new ICU nurse with over 5 years of acute care experience. In the unit I work in the nurses are encouraged to be CCRNs after their first year of Critical Care experience. The problem comes in because I have heard how difficult the ...

I am an ICU nurse who had to floeat to the cardiovascular ICU. I had 2 very critical heart patients. This was threatening to me because I work in the trauma ICU and know very little about the heart with the exception of reading EKGs. I simply stated ...

Hello Nurses, I am an ICU nurse and I work 12 hours shifts. The question is what are the best shoes for working in? I come home many days feeling like my feet and my back are having a tug of war with the rest of my body. I am looking for clogs with w...

Thanks for all the great advice. I will soon be deciding on which shoes I like the best or shall I say which shoes my feet like the best.

I like the wooden sole look but it is covered on the bootom and the shoe is comfortable. Plus the hospital I work in has carpeting and the rooms have wooden floors. Thanks for all the replies.

Unless you are a male!!!!!!

A nurse is not a nurse is not a nurse. I was a LPN for 8 years before getting my 2 year degree. I thought I would learn nothing new. I did. There are things I learned in the 2 year program that were not covered in the LPN program. I was a RN for a ye...

curlyrn, I work 12 hour night shifts and love it. I am lucky enough to work in the trauma icu and out practice there is that we are able to schedule our own shifts. That way I can schedule 2 days on 2 days off or whatever. If I want a vacation I will...

leesonlpn, In Minnesota, you can basically make your on contract. They are offering anything from tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment to $5,000-$10,000 sign on bonuses. There was even an ad last week for a nurse and it included a 3 bedro...

I had a similar situation. I was working in a nursing home that was totally out of control and had a reputation for being this way. As a new nurse to the facility I was shocked at what was going on and how the nurses that had been there for a while h...

I don't understand how you can give insulin when yu're not the one who checked the BG, Brownms. Dennie, in Minnesota it is common practice to have the nursing assistants take the blood sugars and the nurses administer the insulin as ordered givin...

One nurse calls in several times a year claiming her immediate family members have passed away and gets funeral pay for the deaths. Problem is that it seems the same people have died over and over and over again.

It seems like a vital part of your story is missing; without knowing the whole story I think it's best for you to contact an attorney who is versed in this type of case because forging prescriptions is a very serious federal offfense and document eve...

You know what you will find alot of hurdles on your journey to furthering your education. Do whatever you have to do but don't let your education fall by the waistside. Also talkk to the union because it sounds like you are being punished for going b...

The fact is that for so long nursing was a white woman's profession. And that was the color of nursing. Today many nurses find it hard to believe I am one of them because I am not a white female. The automatic assumption is that I am a nursing assist...

It's all kind of hard to figure out That's an understatement. First of all I got an A on the assignment. However what I discovered in doing this research was that nurses are quite unprepared academically to handle this undertaking. We have no politic...

I have an assignment called "cosing out nursing care". I need to find out how nursing can bill patients for nursing care and I know that in some ambulatory centers nursing does bill for its' services. I would like to know what you guys think about nu...

People who work very hard are not nurses. NURSES are nurses. I now know that you are a nurse

Well I have the opposite problem. Whenever I work agency I am mistaken for the nursing assistant. I have had the nurses approach me with my name badge reading RN and delegate to me to take so and so to the bathroom or to xray or hand me the nursing a...

I just completed my BSN and one of my electives was Contemporary Film. We had to watch 12 preselected movies each of which had a healthcare theme. "Wit" was not one of those movies, but we watched it in another class. That was a wonderful movie. I ha...

Point well taken.

You know it's hard for you to see the point here because you are not a nurse. It's takes a nurse's point of view not a student's. Your view is jaded by the idealisms of school and the security of your instructors. Come back to this a year after you'v...

Here is the issue: I am a 2-year RN who has returned to school for my BSN which I get on May 3rd :roll Now I want to go to school to become a nurse anesthesist. I have no critical care expereince so I would need to get onto a critical care unit for ...

Teshiee, I feel you girl. I cannot believe that agency nurses are being blamed for so many problems. I have worked agency sine '94. Usually I go into a facility and find that their nurses have overlooked things that I feel are serious. Especially in ...

You know when you add up the cost of paying an agency nurse vs. the cost of paying a staff the the latter is more expensive. The agency nurse is only paid money, however the staff nurse is paid money, PTO (vacation, sicktime, etc.), insurance (health...