kcalohagirl

When I hired on to Mountainview last year, they didn't do a hair test. Just urine.

I just relocated here from Kansas. My advice would be to stay there and get some experience before relocating. The job market here is tough, especially for new grads.

um, she IS an LPN.

Not all hospitals are paid through property taxes, though UMC definitely is! Maybe try contacting the NMs of some of the corporate hospitals (HCA, Valley Health) in person? Something else that I have heard (but not verified) is that many hospitals (...

How easily you are able to find jobs may depend a lot on your specialty and experience. My husband and I are relocating to Las Vegas, and we were both lucky enough to have verbal job offers within a few days of submitting our resumes. The "official"...

I swear by sports bras! I have some really good ones by both Nike and Adidas that are fairly high cut at the neck. They completely take care of that annoying gap that you get when your name badge dangles while you bend over. Plus, I don't have to w...

Good question! Ototoxicity refers to the fact that if lasix is pushed too fast, it can cause tinnitus. We don't have syringe pumps at the hospital where I work, so when the order comes down for 80-160 mg Lasix Iv push, it can be kind of a bugger. We'...

When I was a student, if we had showed up that late for report, we would have been sent home with a 0 for the day

When I was in nursing school, my instructor monitored our first several med passes. Usually asking a zillion different questions about every med we were administering, and woe to the student who couldn't give a good answer! After we had checked off ...

They aren't going to hire you as a nursing assistant. Because you now have "RN" after your name means that you are expected to care for your patients as an RN would, no matter what you title. So a hospital isn't going to hire an "RN" to be a "CNA" ...

There is nothing anyone is going to say that is going to give an "easy" solution to the dilemma. You and your husband are very fortunate that he works as a firefighter, and has a schedule that gives 24/48. However, the rest of the world doesn't alwa...

Okay, allnurses hates me and ate my first, very thoughtful reply. A condensed version, since I don't want the full version to be eaten again. I think the previous poster is being an alarmist. Yes, nursing school is probably the hardest thing that y...

I agree. It is very common practice where I work to stop the drip, flush the line well, waste the first ten mL, then draw labs. I have never seen anything in evidence based practice that would seem to indicate that this is incorrect.

I've been working for 2 and a half years now. But believe me, I still remember what it felt like to be a "newbie"!! I also came out of a BSN program, tho not an accellerated one. I think you will come out of your program with a whole lot of knowledge...

I would say naproxen and motrin should not be given in conjunction with each other. Not being able to find my drug book after my recent move, I can't tell you the rationale behind this, I just know that on every MAR or order I've seen, Ibuprofen is...

Darling girl. I haven't read all the responses. In my humble opinion, you did the best you could in a superbly cruddy situation. I'm a horse-girl myself. And sometimes, even though you think your babies wouldn't be able to deal with the stress you a...

I had a really thoughtful post that got eaten by cyberspace. If I get around to it, I'll post it again. *hugs*

Am I an awful nurse because I live in the US, and I've had patients that were prescribed certain meds (Acetaminophen) and the docs said they wouldn't give anything stronger, and I told the patients they were getting paracetomol, and they were perfect...

I wouldn't necessarily say that having an MSN would be a hindrance. However, you may run into situations where they would say you are "overeducated" for the job you are applying for. In my experience, candidates with MSNs are generally considered for...

Okay, my pet peeves on the subject. 1. The person who is complaining about her intractable nausea, and only dilaudid will make her feel better. 2. That same person having the alarm on her cell phone set LOUDLY so she never missed the Q4 hour dose o...

KU Med is union! (on the kansas side)

Just a thought. . . . Maybe there are other nurses that are in a similar situation, and you could all get together on a small efficiency apartment close to work and alternate schedules so that you might be able to work two 16 hour shifts close toget...

I've seen a bit of animosity on this forum towards nurses that aren't "local". When I was a bit younger, I lived in Hawaii for quite a few years. I worked on the local economy, and I felt accepted by the "locals". Hawaii was not the state of my bir...

I actually think that giving new grads a realistic view of the employment situation is one of the best things this forum does. It seems like all you hear through nursing school is about how there is a nursing shortage "everywhere", and I think it ma...

wow. you are so right that this is something that should probably be covered in nursing school! (It's not.) A Resident is a doctor that is still training. They are an MD, but they are still learning, and are generally working under the auspices of a...