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Am I the only person who works for an institution where your annual review and raise are 90% based on performance and patient satisfaction score of your unit as a whole and only 10% on YOUR actual work performance, attendance etc? How common is this?...

I truly understand. We have the same thing where I work, where we are expected to have high patient satisfaction score, work with high acuity patients (cardiac stepdown), education, Magnet committees, patient and family teaching, etc, etc, and we do ...

I work at a hospital in Delaware. We have quite a few nurses that couldn't find positions at institutions in Philadelphia. Keep in mind however, the pay will be much less than you would make in Philly.

i think the programs and the instructors are great....the only down side is that the instructors seem to preach how hard it is, and that not everyone will make it rather than encourage you. but if you're like me, you'll encourage yourself and make it...

praise god! i just want you to know, that your post has inspired me. like you, i have had so many trials and tribulations...not with the nclex, but all through nursing school, which i just finished and graduated last week. i was sure that i was going...

i am still around...but in my last semester towards my rn. taking peds and psych right now....

if anyone can help me, i'd surely appreciate it. i need to find out what graduate nurses can expect when transitioning into the role of registered nurse. for example, at your facility, 1. how long is the probationary period 2. how long will you have...

thank you so much! that information is a blessing...you rock!

1. i have been an lpn since may 2007/i am in an rn program that allows you to sit for your lpn after the first year. it is a community college. 2. i have only worked in a nursing home, and a couple times at an assisted living facility. 3. you have to...

i've seen it done, but i don't understand or know how to read it either. i'll be interested in the answer.

ok...i have been on my first nursing job for a little over 2 months, and i hate it. it is a "skilled nursing facility". my nurse to patient ratio is 1:20, we have no wound nurse, so along with passing meds to 20 patients in a 2 hour window, we have t...

i think you would be wasting your breath to complain to the dean. my class (we are taking med/surg 4) is experiencing something similar. my entire class is struggling. each day, our instructor begins the day telling us how we all are not where she ex...

as an rn student who just got her lpn, what are the expectations when we do our clinical rotations? am i required to only do what any rn student would do, or am i allowed to do what is in the scope of my lpn licensure? i know that the instructor is r...

:monkeydance:thank you so much for the advice. i am going to ask the instructor on the first day of class. and yes... i do not want to find out the hard way!

yes! yes! yes! i am dreading it....

i couldn't wait to become a nurse. i studied, took classes all year around, and received my pn diploma in may so that i could get my lpn to practice while taking my last year for my rn which i begin in the fall. i have just accepted my first lpn job....

in the fall, i'll be taking: nursing care of adults iv w/clinicals nursing leadership and management ii maternal/newborn nursing ii w/clinicals

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yes...if you have the little spiral book called "rn notes" use it...all the meds and procedures i got questions on were in there....good luck!

i go to the allergist twice a week and the nurse gives me my injections. she also assisted when i originally got tested by doing vitals and assisting with the 67 freaking pricks of allergens on my back. she notes my chart on amount given, previous re...

i think my school requires a 2.5. i had a 3.8 gpa from my pre-reqs before i started to nursing courses but i am not down to a 2.99. i hope to bring it up in my last year.

as an rn student and new lpn one of the things i did not expect is people to start asking me for advice as soon as i got my lpn license. i do not, can not and think i should not be giving any advice; i don't even have my first nursing job yet. the fe...

thank you so much for the excellent advice. my brother lives about 40 miles away and she used to call him all the time with every ailment, complaint and issue under the sun until he said enough and does not answer the phone when she calls. he calls h...

saying go see your pcp generally works for most people, but my mother...i get the guilt trip from hell like i don't care about her, blah, blah, blah....i will continue to send her to the doctor though.

maybe i am confused, but i thought the point of the entire thread was to show some of the things that can be done incorrectly so that new nurses and students like myself can read it and learn not to do those things. i think as in any profession, ther...