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I just started in a Level III NICU last month and love, love, love it!!! I am completely overwhelmed and slow as molasses of course but I am learning new stuff everyday and plan to stay until they drag me off to the nursing home ..... to live, not w...

Anyone have experience working for Vitas that they would be willing to share with someone considering a Hospice job there? Or advice? I've never worked for a for-profit Hospice before. You can PM me if you don't want to post in an open forum. Than...

I can't answer your question about WHY Medicare won't pay for home IV antibiotics but I can tell you one solution I use when possible. If a patient can get to an infusion center 3x a week, then they may be able to get their abx in an infusion pump f...

Moondancer, Another RN Case Manager & I share a 36 bed floor, mainly oncology & ortho patients plus we are responsible for a women's health unit that has beds for up to 20 pts. The women's health unit rarely has any discharge planning though...

LPN1997, This post is probably too late for your interview....sorry! Did it go well and are you still interested in the job?

Hi SanFran Nurse, I am a hospital case manager and probably 50% of my job entails discharge planning. The other 50% or so involves what I think of as regulatory compliance.....making sure that new admits meet criteria to be in inpt status and doing ...

Have someone look over your resume or have it professionally revised to give yourself the best possible resume. Then I'd call the human resources department of the hospital and ask if they have a job fair coming up soon that you can attend. If no...

Tiffy, I am sorry but I laughed out loud when I read your post! :chuckle Were we nervous...are you kidding??? I'd be worried about you if you WEREN'T nervous!! Yep...I think I can speak for the great majority of nurses in that many of us weren't j...

Amber, Your interviewer KNOWS that you can't know much about Maternity...you are a new graduate!! They expect to train you so relax about getting too many clinical questions. What they WILL want to know is what kind of work ethic you have, will yo...

Des...it is too late for this interview but each interview that you have prepares you for the next. The interviewer might have been looking to see if you knew how to ask for help or knew how to work together. If you are working on a floor as an RN ...

This is a REALLY interesting admissions question! I am not sure how I would answer it either but I'd probably dodge the "conservative" part of the statement and focus more my high standards. Nursing requires high standards because we can literally...

laylani, TRUST me...you won't be the first nurse (or doctor) to struggle with this. The good news is that your squeamishness will get better with practice but you WILL be anxious when you first start. Just give yourself a break and the time to lear...

Good catch! You have to wonder how many people read the wrong weight without even thinking about it. :chuckle I've seen a fair number of errors myself but my most recent one was of a WOMAN whose prostrate problems were described thoroughly. :roll ...

I think being terrified is realistic! :chuckle You don't yet whether this is the career for you and trust me, even seasoned nurses have occasional moments of heart stopping anxiety! But...I wouldn't change this career for the world. Your fear is p...

Great work!!! Enjoy your fellowship.

bwb22...I agree with llg...follow your heart but be prepared to detour if needed! I've worked in a number of clinical areas and I found that what I THOUGHT about a particular area was not always correct. I discovered too that I liked specialties th...

ASHJ5153...I did an accelerated program for a BSN like you are describing and it was wonderful. I too had a non-nursing bachelors and didn't need to repeat a lot of the classes I took toward that degree. The Accelerated program lets you focus on th...

I've known a couple of nurses who have done health coaching and it was totally telephonic at the company they worked at. (I am blanking on the name of the company) It might be different somewhere else. The company had contracts with big employers or...

A couple of the discharge planners at my hospital (including me) realize that we are interpreting some of the IQ criteria differently. Would someone give me their take on this? For example, using the CNS/MS subset, (pg 86 in the 2008 book), for t...

Hospice is my "true" calling but I haven't worked as a Hospice RN for several years. I'd like to return but I keep hearing stories about how brutal the on-call schedules are. How often do you have to be on-call? Anyone have a dedicated after ho...

Csunkis, Welcome! I see from your profile that you are in high school and it is wonderful that you are considering nursing as a career goal. :balloons: The good news is that you don't really have to decide anything right now. In fact, I'd encoura...

Faith08, My experience couldn't be more different than that described by the commuter. I am an RN and have been for many years and can't think of a career that I'd rather have. I came to nursing with another degree and a whole different career path...

I totally ditto what the other posters said! I've been an RN for a long time and I look up diseases, new meds, new treatments, etc. all the time. Thank goodness for the internet! (It wasn't around when I went to nursing school......) Nursing and ...

Great idea to start reading now! You might consider subscribing to a basic nursing journal like Nursing 2007 or American Journal of Nursing. The student rates are VERY affordable and it will introduce you to the issues of nursing plus give you a he...

SeekingInsight, I am glad you are thinking about nursing and I am biased but think it is a great career! :) You already have many of the nursing prereqs and you might find it useful to make an appointment at a university or college in your area with...