ranchwife

Greetings, fellow rural nurses!! I have been discussing this very issue with several co-workers and would like the opinions of all of you as well!! In the 14 years experience I have as a "rural/frontier" hospital nurse, I have seen nurses of all shap...

I have had the privilege of working with a few MCCC nursing grads and they are top notch....they most certainly know their stuff when they hit the floor as new grads and are prepared for the "real world"!! I strongly encourage you to take on their pr...

We are lucky enough to have several schools here in Montana that offer top notch nursing!!!! One of the top rated is the Salish Kootenai college....another that comes highly recommended is the one in Miles City!!! Carroll college, MSU (in Boze-angele...

What does your partner do???? Plenty of jobs here in Ennis......construction and contracting is HOT right now and there are ALWAYS ranch jobs;) The construction work is pretty seasonal, but the pay is pretty danged good (make more than I do, that's f...

Greeting, mt33133----First, I want to wish you the very best in your schooling!! Our hospital hires new grads, but they often find if more challenging than they would have ever dreamed! So, I am glad to hear that you wish to get experience in a "bigg...

Greetings!! I have been an LPN for 14 years and will FINALLY be going for my RN this fall at a college about 80 miles north of where I currently work and where my family ranches!! I have TRIED the Excelsior program and was NOT impressed....expensive,...

I guess I should thank my lucky stars!!! About the only problem we have here in the madison valley with transfer of pts to a larger facility is transport!! If Life Flight is needed from EIRMC or Billings, then we start praying for cooperative weather...

Wow!!! Looks like I am TRULY "frontier" here!! Our town of 700 has a critical access hospital with 9 beds, 2 trauma rooms (with one bed each). Our lab and x-ray are here monday-friday and on call on weekends, holidays and "after hours"....NO surgery...

I have been an LPN for over 14 years and will FINALLY be going back to school for my RN this fall. I have worked several different fields, but most acute care! While many LPN's do work mainly LTC, there are other options out there...you just have to...

Emma---keep your head and your chin up!!! It sounds like you did the right thing by your patients!! I am simply heartbroken to hear that you have had to go through so much!! hang in there, though!!! Somewhere, someone is looking for a nurse like you ...

I am soooo excited!! Our FIRST ever Relay for Life for our little county will be held the 29th and 30th of June and I am the Team Captain for our hospital team....we already have 22 team members, so we had to break into 2 teams!! Not bad for only hav...

how did your move go??? where did you end up??? I am in the madison valley, here in ennis and the old saying really does hold try....if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes or drive 5 miles...it'll change!! hahahaa!!

unfortunately, with Boze-angeles having their own nursing program through MSU, you will probably have a harder time than most getting on at BDH!!! I worked there a few years back and they "prefer" MSU grads (though noone will actually come out and sa...

Wow!!! After reading a few of these postings, it is now loud and clear why Montana cannot recruit and retain good, experienced nurses!!! I am an LPN with 14 years of experience in ER, Med/Surg and Geriatrics and am only making a little over $16 an ho...

since my hubby is a self-employed rancher, I must carry the health insurance through my employer for our family......however, if I could only work 8 hours and be home with my kids, I'd do it in a heartbeat!!! I have had 2 of my kids grow up and are n...

at our facility, we are on a set schedule (at least us full-timers are).....3 on, 1 off, 3 on, 7 off...if we are SCHEDULED for a holiday, we get time and a half....if, however, someone else calls off and we are called in to cover, it is double time!!...

We also call Ativan "vitamin A" and also "captain Ativan".....a dulcolax suppository is called "the silver bullet" and xanax is "madam x"!!! We have a poster up for a "new anti-anxiety" med called "Dammitol"!! Hope it gets FDA approval really soon!! ...

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Just found out today that our little hospital has agreed to pay for me to go back to school and get my ADN!!!!!!!!!!! I will start august 22nd!!! When one of my patients found out (a "repeater"), she said "Bout t...

I have worked in 2 facilities that have paid their nurses a "differential" to orient a new nurse!! Unfortunately, the hospital where I am at now (and plan to remain for many years) does NOT pay and the responsibility placed on that nurse is incredibl...

GO FOR YOUR RN!!!!!!!! Whether it be ADN or BSN....I have been an LPN now for 14 years and wish each and everyday that I had just gone on for my RN...which I will be starting in August...at the "tender age" of 38!!! ;) ;)

June 14, 2003.........our tiny little town of 700 was horrified to find that a man that we had taken into our community, helped him find a home and a job had turned on us in the worst way!!! He spent the evening at one of our local saloons, drank way...

First off, I wish you the very, very best in your future career!! You go, girl!!! ;) ;) Second, do any of the medical facilities near where you live offer a "summer shadowing program"?? Our little hospital/clinic is thinking of instituting one wher...

Daytonite!!! LOVE your report page...quick, easy and TO THE POINT!!! One of my biggest pet-peeves is when you get into report and "someone" wants all the details of the patients...most of which could easily be found on the chart or kardex!!! Getting ...

Very true!! Very, very true!!!

Is this an "in-house" move??? If so, check with your facility's policy book or the house supervisor....or your Human Resource person!!! Many facilities require different lengths of notice depending on whether you are doing a inter-facility transfer v...