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Yes, I got a settlement and the company tried to find another job for me but not much was available. I did not quit and I guess I wasn't fired so I said I was laid off, that's the wrong term. I have a lifting restriction of 25 lbs. and am only applying for jobs within that restriction. I am still getting disability too so I'm not hurting at the moment but I'm getting anxious because the money won't last forever. Thx for the good info.

I was a labor and delivery nurse. I still feel like an L&D nurse but I have a lifting limit of 25 lbs. so no more L&D. I hurt my back transferring a patient from a broken, unmoving bed to the operating table for an emergency c-section. Anyway, I've had 6 interviews-I have never had more than 1 or 2 interviews before being hired. It's possible because I'm older-53 but also I've always given a nebulous reason for leaving my job-I want to move up or be more challenged or something. I am now thinking on the next interview to be truthful. I had a job I loved and great co-workers but got hurt on the job, I am well and stable now and perfectly capable of working hard. Does that sound okay? Should I word it some other way? Any thoughts? Thank you for any advice!

This happened to me at the end of my preceptorship. I was called into HR and told if I didn't shape up in two weeks I'd be fired. Of course that made me more nervous but what happened is that one of the educators (who was very nice) followed me around for a shift. This really helped me, during that shift one of my patients asked who to write a letter to about my excellent care! Anyway, the educator reported that I was a good new grad nurse and off I went. Is there any way a friendly nurse could follow you and see if you are ready to be on your own? It really saved me.

I wish I'd known what nursing was really like before I became a nurse. However, I'm referring to the responsibilty of patient's lives depending on you. Somehow I got thru school without realizing this-was I wearing blinders? Cleaning up a person is nothing compared to the responsibility nurses carry. I work in labor and delivery where all bodily functions can happen at once, in fact, one of our patients vomitted out her baby, we almost missed it because we were trying to help her up top not down below!

I work in labor and delivery, one patient's request that when she had pain she'd like to use hospital-provided marijuana for pain relief. I told her that's not something we stock.

I think to go to CRNA school you have to have a year or two experience as a nurse in an ICU. Can you shadow someone? My friend is a family nurse practitioner & it looks like a great job. Good luck.

It's called Labor and Delivery and it's really hard work. Very physical and also stressful-as are most nursing jobs. You are taking care of 2 patients, one is invisible (the unborn baby). I liked it because there is no greater feeling than being a part of a wonderful birth, the family will remember forever. But the down side is there can be complications, I have done non-stress tests and found no heartbeat-that is the worst. You are constantly watching the fetal monitor & your heart plunges every time the baby's heart rate does. More often than not, the baby is fine but it is stressful.

I always went into clinicals telling the nurse that I was their servant and anything they needed me to do-just ask. I really tried to take some of the burden of patient care off the nurse if I could. Cleaning up a patient is not something to avoid, it's something to learn, I found this really helped me and I got thru clinicals with great marks. Also, I was lucky to have a very organized friend in my class, she would tell me when a paper was coming up or test or care plan. Sometimes she'd tell me super early and I'd get it done way before it was due. It was a great feeling! I am a very disorganized person so this was a huge help. Without her it would have been helpful to set alarms on my phone.

Actually, we get overtime for anything over 8 hours daily, not 40 hours weekly so we still get good OT. San Francisco is probably the best paying, benefits and ratios in the US. Our union is pretty strong.

I work the evening shift, my daughter is grown so I love this shift. The traffic is better and I have a lot of time in the morning to myself.

I work at a hospital in San Francisco, most of us work either 32 hours a week or 24 hours a week. The pay is quite good and I get fulltime benefits so 32 hrs a week works great for me. The people who work 24 hrs a week either have a family they want to stay home with or pick up shifts at other hospitals, per diem pays even more, but they still get benefits. I have only once worked a 16 hr shift in 4 years. Lots of people do pick up an extra 4 hours tho. It is a union hospital so if you can't stay, you go home. It's actually a really good deal, I would hate to go back to 12 hour shifts.

I work in L & D, there's lots of lifting and pulling. Many patients get an epidural and they become dead weight & they have to be turned or changed. We often transfer patients from beds to the OR table or to the bed in postpartum, if they have had a c-section they are a dead weight. I am out with a bad back right now, it's been a year and a half since I hurt myself at work. I was 50 when I got hurt, so I'm an older nurse.

I work l & d, it's a good possibility the woman in labor was only 3 cm's when she was checked by the nurses, patients can dilate very quickly-it's happened to me. This is the kind of patient we have that we send walking to be checked again if anything changes or in an hour. She would have been fine at my hospital.

Her abnormality is that her labor stalled. Her pitocin was not effective in getting her contractions regular.

You should be fine without intermediate algebra. Look over a chemistry workbook and see if dimensional analysis is understandable. I was quite an older student and hadn't taken algebra since 8th grade. I was fine, but I did hire a tutor for chemistry-well worth it!