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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. Thanks.

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 starting pay was for new grads or any benefits they ...

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. Do you get training with the actual hospital before...

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 expensive?

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. Any nurses out there do registry in the hospital ...

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 think this will work out great with my kids who ar...

safe, fair nurse/patient ratio, good pay, well staffed, good orientation, equipment that makes the job easier and more efficient, respectful coworkers

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 and pass but ended up dropping their work hours or ...

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 enough.

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 months. Dont particularly like some parts of it. I ...

Sounds like LTC seems to be slower paced than the hospital?

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 say anything, its liike she was too good to even ...

Did this nurse lose her license?

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 syringes to make sure all the fluid has come out. What ...

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 job itself is stressful, the patients are really "...

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 why not show kindness and offer a smile to someon...

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 when to call the doctor or when to call a rapid respo...

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 do their job, and when I ask them questions they n...

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 avoid her including me, but I have no other choic...

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 much.

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 pump?

Our schools RN pass rate was 89%

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 give water to a patient because they had to have a...

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When should we start job hunting? I thought it was too soon, I wasnt going to start until next month...