Hi, I am still a student and was wondering what the highest paid nursing area is. Like my friend says that Dialysis is one of the highest. Anyone have an idea. I'm just lost on what area to start at....
Hello, I was really considering on working for an Advocate hospital around Illinois when I graduate this May like Christ or South Suburban. Although I was wondering if anyone knew around what their...
Hello, I had a question about agency nurses because I was interested in doing agency as soon as my two years are up, but I just had a question on how you learn all the procedures about the hospital....
Im thinking about going registry but will not have insurance anymore. I love the fact that its more flexible. Any one out there get private health insurance if so is it way too
Hello, I am a nurse on a medsurg/tele floor, have been for almost a year. I have always wanted to do home health but interested in still staying in the hospital like for one day a week doing registry....
I agree, I think hospital work ft can be extremely stressful a lot of the time, thats why I was really considering working like 24 hours a week at the hospital and doing part time home health also. I...
I graduated from SSC in 09 from the ADN program. For me it was almost impossible for me to work because they give you enormous amount of studying to do in a small amount of time. Some girls did work...
You are the one being a drama queen with these types of comments! This is someones career, livelihood, waiting the first two days to find out if you passed is bad
Hello, to all you nurses who used to work medsurg what unit did you transfer to and do you like it better? Im asking because I am a new nurse on a medsurg tele floor, have been on my own for about 6...
Hello, Im a nurse on a medsurg floor and there is a coworker who is so rude to me. Ever since I started on this floor she was never nice to me. Every time I would talk to her its like she wouldnt even...
Experienced nurses if you knew then what you know now what would you have done differently. For example one nurse told me when deflating the balloon of a foley make sure to use more than 2 10 cc...
Hello everyone Im a new RN been knew for about 3 months now and Im just not happy at my job, my stomach starts to hurt before I go in. Im currently working on a medsurg floor with a ratio of 8:1. The...
There are going to be tons of different personalities while working in any setting, not everyone is going to get along as easy with everyone but there still needs to be respect towards one another and...
Hello, I am currently working on a medsurg tele unit (night shift) with patient ratio of 8:1. I am still orientating and not yet by myself in a week or two. The only thing that gets me confused is...
Hello, I just started on a MedSurg floor about a month ago, and I am in orientation and I feel like the nurses are not really teaching me anything, I feel like for the most part Im just watching them...
Hello all, Im about to enter my Acute Care MedSurg III Clinicals in about 5 weeks and I just found out that my clinical instructor is a teacher who is like a drill sargent. Everyone has been trying to...
Hello, Im in currently in NS, and I had to hang a IV of Zosyn, and my teacher told me to do it as a drops/min. I was wondering are there certain drugs that can only be drops/min. Thanks so
Thanks, no we did not use a pump, the amount was 50ml/30 min, the drip factor was 20gtt/ml. So it was 33 gtts/min. But there was no IV fluids running. So could this have been on a
Hello, Im upset because I made a mistake during clinical. I had two patients in the same room and one patient was NPO and the other was on solid foods. During the day the CNA and the nurse told me to...