Nurse Beth MSN

Tele, ICU, Staff Development

Hi! Nice to meet you! I especially love helping new nurses. I am currently a nurse writer with a background in Staff Development, Telemetry and ICU.

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    Fentanyl Med Error?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I have a resident who has a fentanyl patch. When I read the paper MAR where the day was blocked off it looked as though it was due yesterday so I cut the patch opened and then...
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    New Grad Fired After 2 Weeks

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am a new grad who graduated this summer with my BSN. I was let go from my first nursing job only after 2 weeks. I graduated with honors and had my capstone in a busy Emergency...
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    Leaving Nursing

    Nurse Beth replied to KSjo88's topic in General Nursing

    I think nurses turn on each other when they are completely and overwhelmingly overworked and patient safety concerns fall on deaf ears. Your manager is lacking leadership skills. It keeps us in a...
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    How much do RNs make in other states?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, Where can you find the most accurate information on RN pay in certain areas? I am looking to relocate to Wilmington, NC, and cannot get a good gauge on pay with experience. Dear RN...
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    Accused of Abuse

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I recently interviewed for a dream job for me - being a government inspector for long-term care facilities. One of the last questions was if I had ever been accused of abuse. I...
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    Nurses Advocate for Safer Staffing, Patient Safety, and Quality Care

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in General Nursing

    Nurses are stressed. Nurses are exhausted. And now nurses are speaking up for patient safety and against unsafe working conditions. But it's important that our voices be heard by the public and our...
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    Regrets Leaving Bedside Practice

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, This Summer I'll have been a nurse for 3 years. I started out on a med/surg oncology unit in a hospital and burned out from that very quickly. I moved to home health after a year in...
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    When You Fail Your Arrhythmia Test

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Hi everyone, I'm hoping you can help me with a question we are having: "How long should a nurse wait to re-take a failed Arrhythmia exam/competency?" At my facility, many nurses are required to take...
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    I.HATE. My. Job

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I hate my job. I've been working as a theatre nurse for 3 years now. In the first 9months, I loved it, noticed the negatives but chose to accept that nothing is perfect. After...
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    Taking Job Hopping to a New Level

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I think I have taken job hopping to a new level. I am an RN of 27 years who has had ten jobs in the past eight years, some for as briefly as a few months. Seriously. The longest I...
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    Why Can't I Get a Job?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I can't find a nursing job. I have been a nurse since 1983. I have applied to over 200 hundred jobs since 2013 when I got my Masters degree. I have interviews and have traveled...
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    Forced to Flex Off

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, My hospital, that I have worked at for the past 23 years, has started a new "Flexing down for low Census" policy. Our new CEO's newsletters remind us repeatedly that staffing is...
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    I was bullied out of my job

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    She made up stories about me and accused me of being unsafe. My manager believed these stories, wrote me up, and put a performance plan in place, even though I told her that I could prove with...
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    Quits Without Notice, Threatened with Abandonment

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Dear Nurse Beth, I started a new job and I'm still not in the system for clocking in. I was scheduled to work. Other people called in. Which would have left 2 people for 53 residents. I told the...
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    Can't Choose Between 2 Residencies

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I'm graduating this month and I have been offered two different residencies. Here are the pros and cons of both place. Hospital A ICU - Residency 2 year/10,000 contract...
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    1 RN to 45 patients-should I leave?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I wanted to ask for your opinion. I've been a RN for a little over a year. Currently work in healthcare/assisted living at a nursing home. I love working third shift. I don't work at...
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    Extreme Job Hopping

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am a RN with 2yrs tele/med Surg, and a couple months of home health experience. I happily made it out the hospital and tried HH. I loved it but the company had unrealistic working...
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    Is it a waste of my talent to go into Home Health?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I work on a busy cardiac telemetry floor at a large hospital. I love my job most days despite how hectic and stressful it sometimes gets. The only problem is that the hospital is 75...
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    I Put my Organization at Risk

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I'm a nurse that works in quality Improvement within Dialysis. I made some mistakes and gave too much information that showed some weaknesses in the company that I work for. I...
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    Retiring in 3 yrs, Should I Get my CEN Certificate?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I earned my BSN in 1980 and worked in a variety of settings over the years, mostly critical care. I've worked in the ER FOR THE LAST 10 years. I have tried testing for various...
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    57 and Don't Know Where to Turn

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I most recently finished a 6 month contract in ICU at a local hospital. After being there for only 1 1/2 months, they asked me to extend for another contract. After starting the...
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    Student Nurse Advised to Slow Down

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I'm a paramedic with years of experience and worked for many years as a medic in an ED. (Scope varied by facility) I also have experience in a correctional care unit as an aid and...
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    New Grad Can't Find Niche

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am an older (33), second career (BA in English and Criminal Justice, AA in Education) and will graduate from an ADN program in May (woohoo). Nursing was never a passion of mine...
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    Retiring in 3 yrs, Should I Get my CEN Certificate?

    Nurse Beth replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I love that your facility pays $1,000! I'm taking that idea to
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    Resigned and Can't Get a Job

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I just resigned from my dream hospital. I regret it so much. I feel like when my manger came to talk to me about a prn order and hanging the wrong fluid in the same week she was...