oh-agnurse

Can anyone give me more information on rural nursing?

That is a really tough situation. I've been on a tele floor just like yours with 33 beds, and I also work all the shifts. Nights can be really tough with low staffing, and the majority new grads. I myself have been a nurse for only 4 yrs. Sometimes I...

Our unit is similiar, we are a 33 bed unit that is postinterventional. However, we also see MIs, CHF, and tele. We check the ACTs, and pull the sheaths on the floor. We also get post-op day 1 open hearts on occassion. Our policy is to have 7 nurses o...

I hear there are huge bugs! Any truth to that? My husband is dying to move there. Any nursing jobs?

I work in a small hosp. in Western NY also, and the key for us is to involve the community. The community knows the hospital is the only one within a 30 or more mile radius, and transport may occur to the larger city hosp.. However, if it was gone se...

Sorry but Western New York has way too many nurses, not enough positions, and the pay is ridiculous!!

In New York, I've filled them out daily!!! Management does not care for them, because it throws all the responsibility in their lap, if something disasterous happened with a patient. I would have 15 pat. at a time--MRSA, hips/knees, tele, and babies ...

Just mean in the States.

Went to the conference and found that basically if you are practicing rurally you are a rural nurse. There are many specialties in the field.

Usually I've only seen the surgeons PA do it. Definitely not the RN(floor), but then again I'm not sure if a NP could?

Thanks, all of what you had said is true so far!!!!

I started a job in OHN in the auto industry, anyone have any tips for this aspect of occ. health? I'm not an ER nurse, do you recommend a basic first aid course? I have my BLS/ACLS but am not familiar with some of the injuries that may walk through t...

I like the opsite or the 2x2. our sites are in for 3 days, and ususally have 3-4 drips going through--heparin, tridil, integrilin, etc. .We need them really secure, and a bandaid wouldn't cut it.

excellent site thinking of going to the rural nurses conference!!

I know a nurse, from a European country, that I was at work with one day. Her husband came to have lunch with her in the cafeteria. After they came back we were talking and come to find out, they left their two kids, both under 2, in the car in the p...

Bandaidexpert--- I also have been looking into forensic nursing, except i would like to be a nurse corner.

No she was not sensitive at all!!!. What if you were to have a reaction there, or pass out? I gave blood the other day and God how I hate those needles, and boy did it hurt.I don't mind letting anybody know. It is different doing things to others, th...

never called off. once I tried and they guilted me into coming in. But with they way things are lately if i had to I would feel no guilt. OK maybe a little for my fellow workers.

I feel angry at times at the transporter, but I know they have a job to do. I don't feel it is appropriate to slam the floor with admissions at change of shift: we had three the other day roll on up at 0705 (perfect timing). i understand the ER is fu...

In my state being a CNA is not required if you want to go into nursing school. Several hosp. in my area take new grads. to mold them in the ER and other units. My question for you is why take the nursing route if your long term plan is to be a PA. Th...

good point SmilingBluEyes!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the input!!!

I started a new job 2 yrs. ago in cardiac, and it was so new to me! I have a binder I take with me daily filled with information on things I use the most (IV drips and charts, and certain protocols) and those I don't. In fact all the nurses on my un...

I had 75 questions also and passed. My friends that took them with me got 89 and 99 questions and both passed. We all cried together thinking we just had to have failed, but we all felt real confident. We knew our stuff before we went in. I found out...

Are you part of a union that you can place a grievance with?