michelle95

I work in a 63 bed ICF and receive one day off for every week that I am on call.... which is twice a month (I share with the HSD). The only problem is that I cannot save them. So, if I don't use it within the month, I lose it.

These hospitals that are banning smoking on campus....are they banning those artery clogging burgers in the cafeteria? What about those krispy kremes? Double standards. I know that smoking is bad for you but if I do it away from others..what's the difference in my smoking and the other person that weighs 400 lbs going to the cafeteria for cholesterol laden food?

My oldest son was 11.4 at birth. I am 5'9" and had him naturally with no real problems. He was a little hypoglycemic and had to be on an O2 mask at first because he came out so fast (I pushed for 15 minutes). I did have a 3rd degree tear to contend with ... and that was NOT fun. My second son was 10.1 at birth...10 days early. I was only in labor with him for an hour and a half total. That sounds nice but I had NO time to get used to the pain getting worse. It was like BAM! I'm in transition. No screaming with either...and, like someone else said...I was made to have babies. Of course, I think I may turn out diabetic. I had an instructor once that said a lot of women that have big babies end up being diabetic even if they didn't have gestational diabetes (which I didn't).

I've never heard of it being a risk either. If it were, you would never change the dressing.

I just obtained my first needlestick last week (hopefully my last). It was a TB syringe that I had just injected lidocaine into a pt prepping for IV insertion. We both turned up neg for HIV, Hep B&C but man...it sure was scary. I will get checked in 6 weeks, 3 mos, 6 mos and a year. TO the OP, I am sorry that your employer is not handling this. I would be on the phone to OSHA if I were you.

1.Type of nurse? Periop RN 2. How many hours u work per week? 40 3. How many years of nursing? 6 years LPN, 1 year RN 4. What Shift: Day, Evening, nights, or weekend only? 0500-1330, no weekends or holidays 5. City and State: Pensacola, FL 6. Average 2 week gross pay: Almost 1600 gross and about 1200 after taxes, insurance, short term disability, foundation, etc.. I may not make as much as some...but, NOT having to work the horrid floor MORE than makes up for it. I worked a cardiac floor last year and almost got out of nursing because of it.

A couple of nursing homes that I applied at after getting my RN would not give me extra for having 6 years of LPN experience. However, the last hospital I worked at gave me gave me 3 years of RN experience for the 6 LPN years....and I worked on a telemetry floor....I had never worked "acute care" at that point. Worked on a rehab and a couple of nursing homes as an LPN but not acute care. You would think that since LTC was my thing that I would have gotten more. Go figure. The hospital that I currently work at also gave me extra for LPN experience....even though I have never worked on periop.

I will make sure not to make that same "mistake" twice. But, the way he acted...you would have thought I made a med error or put the IV in the wrong arm. He's just like that apparently. Physicians...sheesh.

Do you prep the whole arm on the side of the mastectomy? Just curious. I'm a new employee on a periop floor and this morning, I put armbands on the same side as the mastectomy so I could put an IV in the other arm. I asked another nurse if the whole arm was scrubbed...she thought it wasn't. Long story short, a call was made by the doc fussing about me putting armbands on the same side. He was supposed to have come up to the floor and b**** me out personally...but, he didn't. I was going to ask him if he had nothing better to do...if he did. Thinking about it now...(and also for the future), I should have put the armbands on the opposite side. Oh well. You live and learn.

I know that usually if a person leaves Baptist to go elsewhere, they end up coming back.

9.18 as a new LPN in Auburn, AL in 1999. Up to 14.00 an hour last year in Florida. Now 19.90 as a new RN but with LPN experience.

I'm with you. As soon as the kids are grown, it's on to something else. I like taking care of patients...but when your blood pressure starts to go up and you start to have stress related illnesses...it's time to think of something else to do.

Seriously, if nurses have nothing better to do with their time than to become up in arms because a former druggie rock star calls them "beautiful ladies"....they DO, indeed, need to get a life. It's not rude, it's the facts.

No flaming from me...I think some people need to get a life. Maybe it's cause I'm from the South, but, I took no offense to what he said. Sheesh, people.

Ours pays 2 classes worth of tuition per semeter for full timers going for a Bachelor's. No contract to work with the company after graduation needed. They do not pay for books, however. For part-timers, it's half of the tuition for 2 classes....don't know why it's not just "one" class. Master's level is one class a semester for FTE. But, you do have to sign either a year or 2 year contract (I can't remember). If you're willing to take a while...they will end up paying for all of your schooling. No PHD classes paid for.