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BIGBLOCK472

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  1. In my opinion this is the path to take. My advice is to volunteer to be a Super User or equivalent position for an IT initiative to get your feet wet and go from there. I can't count the number of...
  2. "Hi Mrs. X, I'm Y and I'm your RN until 7."

    I introduce myself as, "Hi, I'm Matt, I'll be your nurse tonight." Since the nursing assistant on my rotation is named Matt as well, I invite them to call me anything they want, as long as it's not...
  3. Male nurse crying!!!

    I cry at work when I need to... it's nothing to be ashamed
  4. the bottlenecks of nursing

    Oh no, sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. Actually, I made my post not considering that not everyone had nurse aide/ward clerk experience like I did going into nursing school. I hadn't considered that...
  5. the bottlenecks of nursing

    Hmm... a changed perspective you have granted me :) I originally said no to working as an aide because all through school I worked as an aide and unit secretary. Had my hospital wanted to continue to...
  6. Nervous Student Nurse

    oh my gosh! that's dr. lansdell's slideshow on therapeutic communication! her lectures were
  7. How many patients are you assigned?

    I'm a new grad ortho nurse (though I've been working ortho for 2 1/2 years now) and we routinely have 6-8 patients nightly. There's usually me and a CNA, but sometimes I'm coupled with an LPN. Our...
  8. the bottlenecks of nursing

    Absolutely not! RN licensure is way too hard to come by to be a nursing assistant...even just for a few months until a job comes open. If a hospital has dozens of jobs posted but won't hire a...
  9. I'm a new grad (5/2006 from NEMCC) and I started out at $19.20 per hour plus $2/hr from 7p-11p and $3/hr from 11p-7a at a privately owned hospital near the TN state