graceomalleyRN RN

Hello, I am seriously considering starting a 36 month Psych NP program at the age of 54. My projected retirement age is 67. Additionally, if my current employer goes belly up, I would end up going full time and finish sooner. My questi...

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Swedish is a great atmosphere. Unfortunately, Health One pays their RNs considerably less per hour than the Exempla or Centura hospital systems or DH. However, they have an excellent benefits package. I worked at Swedish briefly after leaving an Exem...

I start with a hospital system-based Home Health company as an RN next week. Training is $30.67 an hour, $.50 per mile reimbursement (but you go on a waiting list to get a company issued Nissan Rogue). Once off orientation, the current pay structure ...

Unfortunately, I was reading this while sipping my morning java and burnt the soft palate of my mouth.

To my CNAs: I'm getting ready to hang blood on Patient A. Patient B has a bed full of poop and needs to have a bed change. Sorry to drag you away from Facebook or YouTube. Please don't argue with me, roll your eyes or pout. It's unbecoming. This is y...

Congratulations! I actually said a choice four letter word OUT LOUD and they record and videotape you after the first ELEVEN were SATA. I, too, would've bet my home on the belief I'd failed after the machine shut off after the 75th question. I cried...

To the OP: Your post really sounds as if you are NOT defensive, almost painfully so. My gut reaction here is that it has something to do with your language. That opinion was reinforced when I read when they fired you they mentioned that your second l...

Eight patients, even at night?? On our Med-Surge floor we complain if we have five.

You sound like me. If I had known before nursing school that I would end up working Med-Surge upon graduation, I never would have applied. Had less than zero interest in this kind of nursing. At all. However, new grad jobs being scarce I felt gratefu...

The dosage is fine (per Epocrates and Micromedex), it's just given more frequently than recommended (which is q8hr). Since she's in end stage cancer and vomiting uncontrollably, the dosing should be appropriate if that's what is required to keep her ...

Most of my patients are diabetic and I've never heard of this. I'd ask your instructor, who should probably in turn speak with the facility's educator. This RN sounds as if she needs to be educated.

About 6 months ago, my hospital let go of all of our LPNs. No one was grandfathered, nothing. It was something like a 3 or 4 week warning. All those who were LPNs could stay on as CNA's if they wished. One of them was 2 years from retirement and a gr...

What she said. I can't tell you how many times I've received a patient from ED and in report I was told the patient had a foley but "low urine output." I get the patient, fiddle with the tubing and put it behind and, lo and behold! An extra 200 ml of...

Hurray!! GOOD for you!!!

What VivaLasViejas said. By the time you're finished with nursing school, you'll be proficient enough at math that it won't really matter. However, as TiffyRN pointed out, at most facilities the pharmacy doesn't send up the medicines precalculated --...

Ah, memories! I could have written this post a year ago. I had a nearly identical experience with a nurse on my unit as a new grad. I came to dread getting/giving report from her. This won't be the first or last experience you will have like this, I ...

I'd like to hear from those who have actually gotten RN jobs in Hospitals. Hello. Did you have BSN? Yes. previous medical experience? No. Did you have a good contact at the hospital that hired you? Yes. I did a paid summer externship, my Med-Surg...

BRAVA!!! And please, share your secrets.

My hospital in Denver just let go of all the LPN's. No grandfathering, nothing. Due to many hospitals going toward Magnet status, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available for LPNs. The cost of this program (half of what I paid for an RN-BSN at an...

I've been on nights a year. Usually, I work 3 nights in a row and have four off and usually revert back to a day schedule with no problem. Here's what I do: on the last morning in which I work, I stay up until about noon then nap for a few hours. The...

Always check with your in-hospital pharmacist or whoever your facility designates appropriate for med questions. I'm pretty sure the Joint Commission would have an issue with you asking here.

You will puzzle hiring managers when they review your resume and see that you took the CNA after graduating with a BSN. They will question your judgment. Get NCLEX passed first and focus on your future career.

I have been perhaps the most outspoken against Platt on this board. It is now my pleasure to eat humble pie. There are two Platt grads on my floor who are among the best/smartest nurses I know. Furthermore, one of them is almost finished with her Mas...