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This question came up recently on my unit and I'm curious if anyone has any resource material to back up their position other than "this is how I was taught to do it!" Let's say your patient has an arterial line and the tubing is due to be chang...

Thanks everybody. My hospital doesn't have a policy on this (or most things.) I've been trying out changing it down to the hub lately and it seems to work okay even if it makes a mess. It's definitely tricky on combative patients who are trying ...

Thanks for your comment! What I find fascinating is that no one I've talked to is sheepishly claiming they disconnect it at the valve because they're lazy- they insist that's how they were taught to do it! It seems like both methods are just confiden...

I go to a free community testing site every 2 weeks to get tested for my own peace of mind. My hospital certainly has no interest in testing me.

How can these infrared thermometers possibly be accurate? I take my temperature orally every day before I go to work with a cheap thermometer and it always reads a believable number between 97.5 and 99.0. When I get to work, they check my temperature...

We had a hospital-wide order that all staff wear surgical masks while on hospital property. About half the staff comply. Even in my ICU where about a third of the patients are COVID +, only about half the nurses wear a surgical mask at the nurse's st...

Hi all, I work in a trauma ICU. We currently have enough PPE to wear when taking care of COVID-19 patients or rule out patients. My question is about how you are protecting yourself in the hospital in general. I am practicing social distancing at hom...

Well they changed the policy so then we were each issued an expired N95 for each week to wear at the nurse's station. As long as you replaced the brittle elastic straps with new rubber bands, they seemed to work OK (they were just kind of smelly afte...

Hi all, I have four years experience in a rural community hospital ICU. I'm now trying to move back to an urban area, but have some concern about what to put on my resume. The vast majority of patients we care for are pretty basic. Mostly bipaps and ...

I graduated with a BSN in April 2010, got my RN in June, and am still patiently job-hunting (no interviews yet.) I got an email from my nursing school last week that said "Attention 2009 and 2010 grads! Stanford will start accepting applications for ...

Hi all,Well, after applying for hundreds of jobs, I never thought I'd find myself trying to choose between two hospitals!A little background- a year after passing the NCLEX, I took a job at an outpatient clinic. I stayed there for a year, but still d...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone on here had received a shorter orientation than they were expecting for a hospital position. I've basically been offered my dream position at a local hospital, but my orientation will be one week. I'm a relatively ne...

It's for a Long Term Acute Care floor of a hospital. I wouldn't be cross-trained to the other floors, so I'd only be with the long term acute care patients. They're supposed to be the most stable patients in the hospital, but because it's technically...

I'm so glad someone else commented on this! I was worried I was the only one dealing with these shortages. My clinic uses fentanyl and versed for conscious sedation and we're now out of both! We're doing our best to replace them with combinations of ...

Hi all, I graduated in April 2010 and got my RN license in June 2010. I looked desperately for a new grad hospital job, because I really wanted to have a solid foundation in medical/surgical nursing. Unfortunately, after a year of applying, I still h...

I got an email March 23rd that said: "Congratulations! Your application for Registered Nurse I indicates that you meet the minimum qualifications for the examination. Your name has been placed on the eligible list with a total score of 80. At thi...

I applied for all the locations and got rejection emails for all of them today.

I did the ABSN at another campus. I would be shocked if the school gave you any schedule information over the phone. They're very proud of the fact that they own your life for a year. Your schedule may change day by day, especially with clinicals. I ...

Got my rejection email yesterday. It was verbatim what icuuci posted. That was my fourth rejection in a day!

Hi all, I graduated with a BSN in April and passed the NCLEX in June. I honestly feel like I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to job-hunting. The only jobs I've had in my life were minimum wage, which just required walking into a retail...

That makes sense, I figure "experience preferred" means they'd be willing to let the new grads have a shot competing against the other resumes. I've also only been looking at full-time jobs, which sure cuts down the number of search results. On-call ...

Starbelly, thanks for the offer about emailing the reclassification form but if Lizzie's sending them in the mail, I should probably wait to see if I end up getting on the waitlist before I worry about reclassifying. The CNA classes sound intriguing....

I finally got a hold of SM admissions, and it turns out one of my transcripts was lost in the mail (?). Lizzie told me I may still end up with a spot on the waitlist for this summer, so I'm still waiting and hoping! Is anyone on the waitlist plannin...

All I got was a phone bill today! I have never been so terrified of my mailbox. Anyway, I applied 1. SF, 2. Oakland, 3. San Mateo. On the bright side for everyone still waiting, we get to speed up an hour closer to Monday's mail delivery with dayligh...

Hi sstarr003, According to the SMU website, the start date for the SF campus is April 30, not April 1st. http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/academic_calendar Let's not all give up hope yet. Tomorrow's still the first week of March! And we don't know that t...