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  1. Jobs for new grads in Chicago?

    pageygirl replied to dinah77's topic in Illinois Nursing

    In my area the western suburbs of Chicago not too many jobs being posted. At least in the hospital. I know my hospital has only one nursing position open .5 for behavioral health. I look to see what...

  2. Any projections for nursing employment in the current and near future economy?

    pageygirl replied to Saifudin's topic in General Nursing

    In Illinois I have heard of several Chicago area hospitals that have a hiring freeze have heard of layoffs as well as one hospital letting go of all of thier flex nurses. We have one nursing position...

  3. Violating a Code Status...

    pageygirl replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that too many times things start to get bad and the family tries to renig on the DNR a couple of weeks ago we got a patient who had been on hospice for about 9 mos came to tele with a drip...

  4. This Current Recession!!!

    pageygirl replied to puppyrules's topic in General Nursing

    I dont do any agency nursing yet, but I heard that agency nursing is drying up. our census has gone down are people too broke to afford to go to the doctor? harder to get incentive shifts I had been...

  5. Do you/ did you have a Nurses Cap? Pin?

    pageygirl replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    we had plain white caps with a red stripe on the edge our pin was gold and red I dont wear it on my badge was afraid I was going to loose it worked to hard for that pin. I am going to wear my cap next...

  6. Dumbest Pt Family Statement or Question

    pageygirl replied to Gabe's GirlLVN's topic in General Nursing

    As I am trying to start an IV right before insertion with each daughter at each arm .. You better get it sister! of course I didnt then they wanted to know why the anesthesiologist couldnt come and...

  7. Dangerous medications

    pageygirl replied to Kurious RN's topic in General Nursing

    I actually dont remember this was a couple of years ago. It started with a P I believe it was something I had never heard of before or since and niether had anyone

  8. Dangerous medications

    pageygirl replied to Kurious RN's topic in General Nursing

    One of our nurses gave a patient a medication ordered by the GI doc to get the patient to go to the bathroom. The IV drug book stated " have atropine at the bedside along with a MD when giving this...

  9. Am I "too old" to change careers?!

    pageygirl replied to pixieshmoo's topic in General Nursing

    went into nursing school when my daughter was one years old and my other daughter was 13 years.. Did my prerequisits part time while I was pregnant and the baby was little. I was lucky as far as...

  10. Telemetry Staffing Ratios

    pageygirl replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

    work on cardiac tele we usually have 4-5 patients occasionally 6 unit secretary and pcts who have between 7-11 patients and a monitor tech unfortunatley our charge nurse has to take patients...

  11. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    pageygirl replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Unfortunately my hospital has come up with scripting. Really hard some days to slow down and say everything they want to say when your flying around crazy trying to get work done.. They keep on making...

  12. petite nurses out there?

    pageygirl replied to hapiyogi's topic in General Nursing

    i am 4'11" and one of the phillapino nurses is shorter than me.. the only problem i have is when people tighten the iv pole and put is 6 feet high then i sometimes have to stand on tippie toes but i...

  13. Hardest part of nursing?

    pageygirl replied to batman05's topic in General Nursing

    dealing with all the different personalities all day long hearing about every complaint that the families have like nurses control the hospital running your tail off some days and feeling sorry for...

  14. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    pageygirl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    no she didnt have a name for the strangers we had to act like nothing was wrong as to not scare her she may have a

  15. Cardiac Tele/Stepdown

    pageygirl replied to richtam97's topic in Cardiac

    6 patients still sounds like too much especially with primary care I hate having 5 and when we have 6 its

  16. puching out 'no break'

    pageygirl replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    punched out today no lunch and ran to the cafeteria grabbed some food and wolfed it down in less than 15 minutes did the same yesterday which was a 12 hour shift team lead with 5 patients so...

  17. puching out 'no break'

    pageygirl replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    punched out today with no lunch. ran down to the cafeteria and wolfed down my lunch in less than 15 minutes same thing happened yesterday which was a 12

  18. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    pageygirl replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    This is not a work story but my youngest told me that she saw grandma my mother in her bedroom looking at her and that she was wearing blue pj's and then a couple of days after my mother passed I saw...

  19. 2nd career nurses, are they happier?

    pageygirl replied to scastillo1's topic in General Nursing

    I am a second career nurse. I had started and stopped school several times in my 20's and did not have to fortitude or maturity to finish. After 911 I decided to have another baby and go to nursing...

  20. Do you allow Tele patients to leave unit to smoke?

    pageygirl replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    very rarely i did take care of a patient who smoked 4 packs a day:owho refused the nicotine patch he was allowed to go out 3 times per day to smoke of course only with a Drs order. He also had ativan...

  21. Low census?

    pageygirl replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Illinois and we have a 31 bed tele unit usually we are about 27 patients plus yesterday we started with 11 on days and by the time we left we had 8 I had discharged 3 and we had a new...

  22. How would you have dealt with this situation...

    pageygirl replied to 1hotRN601's topic in General Nursing

    I had a CNA once asked me if I had crushed my patients pills before giving them there was family in the room. She felt the patient would choke instead of arguing with her I went and crushed and...

  23. time management woes

    pageygirl replied to jamonit's topic in General Nursing

    I also work on a tele floor which we have typically five patients. I like to start in the morning and write anything pertinant down on a sheet of paper my brain. Abnormal labs and vitals are in red to...