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  1. Company loyalty meaningless?

    SpringerCab replied to AprilW3's topic in General Nursing

    I had similar experience at a rehab hospital only I had senority over the nurse who ended up with the day shift. I had gotten hurt on the job and went to work nights while waiting for a day positition...

  2. I dont care what part of the United States you live in!!!

    SpringerCab replied to SDA3694's topic in General Nursing

    Midland Memorial Hosptal in Midland,TX has a residency program. The next program will not start until September however. The link to our website is www.midland-memorial.com . I wish you luck in...

  3. Do you love nursing or hate it???

    SpringerCab replied to ysin's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't want to be a nurse, I wanted to be a school teacher. My parents thought it would be a good idea for me to become a nurse and then if I wanted to go back to school and be a teacher I could....

  4. Away from Bedside Nursing Professionals-please share

    SpringerCab replied to Mac06's topic in General Nursing

    I am an LVN working in Clinical Informatics as an educator/trainer. My job is basically Mon-Fri, 8-5, but our hours a flexible. When we were implementing we worked evenings and nights, but we haven't...

  5. Charge nurse with less than a year RN experience???!!

    SpringerCab replied to RNpandoraRN's topic in Nurse Management

    Our policy at the hospital I work for is that any RN can be trained to charge after 6 months of employment. They normally get about a month of orientation to charge, but not always. I have worked...

  6. Are Transgendered nurses not liked?

    SpringerCab replied to tmwhalens's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked with a transgender nurse. I live in a very conservative city, so you can imagine the comments that were made about her. As far as I know she didn't receive any complaints from patients....

  7. Dangerous nurses

    SpringerCab replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have also worked with two nurses that I thought were dangerous/incompetent. They were both reported and nothing happened to them. One nurse gave Valium IVP in less than a minute and the patient...

  8. Seven 10 hour days followed by seven days off job offer

    SpringerCab replied to krazykev's topic in General Nursing

    I worked the 10 hour days for 7 days and then 7 off. I loved it. It helps to have the overlapping 2 hours from the other shift. If you really want to work it go for

  9. *Weird* Patient Allergies

    SpringerCab replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient that said she was allergice to Golytely. Yep you guessed it caused her to have

  10. promoting use of computer system

    SpringerCab replied to stumpy1's topic in General Nursing

    We have been using computer charting since Feb 2006. As pagandeva2000 said you will always have those people who resist changes. Something that helped us though was for there to be superusers and end...