PlourdieRN

I know exactly where you are coming from! I worked as charge RN at a nursing home, followed by RN on a med/surg floor and all I want is to move my career up to critical care (but it takes so long!!). My advice is to keep applying... try cardiac floor...

I'm keeping it simple here ... Why did you choose oncology? Why do you stay? :heartbeat

Sorry OP, it really is just that busy ...especially for those nurses who work hard and care enough to do that thorough assessment, go that extra mile (instead of letting it fall to the CNA), and follow up that loose end at change of shift. Whether y...

Every once in awhile at my LTC facility, they have a free lunch or other food goodies for the day and evening shifts.... ...Us night shifters get the pleasure of seeing the leftover, room temperature, picked over, fruit-fly attracting food on the ...

OK, I know this is a common topic... but bear with me, I'll try to make it different! (plus it's all theoretical at this time!) I might be offered a job on a medical floor, which I am thrilled about because I have been working LTC part time for the p...

Thank you for your insight MJB, I had also considered pushing the start date back. At this point I'm just planning ahead (and fantasizing) but I would never "cut off my nose to spite my face" - it's too important for me to risk losing a job on the ...

Hello fellow RNs! I am an RN who just finished my first year of practice as a charge nurse for the LTC and skilled units of a nursing home. I've had dreams of moving on to a med/surg hospital unit to continue my career onward to becoming an ICU nurs...

I picked up a pair of pants because they're so soft... but they don't feel "workable" to me, too much like pajamas so I might return them... plus they're pink, and I don't think I am actually a pink pants wearer (maybe after a few years of nursing)

I never post about work... I've seen enough postings from my coworkers that make me go "oh that was NOT smart to put up!" ...I also don't think my friends, family and coworkers care about the silly minutiae of my life!

This is my happy-dance moment! I finally got my first position as an RN!! Man, I've been waiting to say that for a long time! (For those of you still searching and praying for your opportunity to come... I graduated with my ASN in December, took ...

No one will watch those shows with me either! I can't stop pointing out what's wrong! The worst I saw was actually not a med show, it was "Criminal Minds" I think... the pt. was lying in bed in obvious respiratory distress and no one thought to ev...

I can agree with both sides of the situation here, for sure! My own take was that the nurse manager should probably have taken the issue straight to the instructor for her to handle it. The student really is the instructor's responsibility, and I be...

Going back to school for nursing is not easy.... but I feel like KNOWING that it's want I wanted in life is a great incentive to do well. When I sit up late at night worrying about money and how difficult it is for me to do school full time and work...

Try breaking up the study sessions... after you finish a section (say, 30 minutes straight studying) get up and walk around, stretch or do a small task for five minutes. I find this maintains my focus by allowing myself to step away from the subjec...

Up until now I've been trying to keep an open mind and experience as many fields of nursing before I decide which direction I want to go... and then I spent my clinical day in the OR for observation :redbeathe I LOVED the seamless teamwork and fascin...

I am just completing my first semester of NS. I started out with my boyfriend of almost-5 years, we never had problems, we rarely fought and I thought everything was going well.... And NS wasn't even wearing me down, I love school so much more than ...

First off...I am a bright and shiny nursing student who has nothing but optimism about my future career in health care! With that said, I'm also open-minded and I don't want to make premature decisions about what field I want to enter into before I...

I have learned a lot on this site, everyone is so informative! I just learned what to expect when I begin my clinicals, but what I want to know is... what would you have done differently on your (nursing school) clinicals now that you have more e...

My experience has been that different schools require different exams. I had to take the NLN but some of the other schools I looked at wanted the TEAS. It's unfortunate that there is no standard test across the board, but the best you can do is res...

Can anyone recommend some good books about nursing, fiction or non? All I get from a search on Amazon is "Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul" and drug reference guides. I'm looking for something that depicts the real lives of nurses.

I've worked for a private cord blood bank for two years and now I have decided to go back to school for nursing... I've often wondered if the nurses are responsible for collecting umbilical cord blood and whether they have been trained or are the sta...

I've been working in a cord blood bank while I go to nursing school and we see some real interesting names... my favorites are a pair of female twins: Crimson and Clover and Baby Girl T-Rex (we werent sure if it was a first or middle name but d...