Nursing_chick

Pt came in by EMS b/c she ran out of colostomy supplies. She had it her ostomy for years but her supplier went out of business and she didn't have the foresight & planning to look for a new supplier. Plus she wanted us to clean her up when she wa...

Would you like me to order you a six course meal now that I've given you Zofran? (To the vomiting abdominal pain who hasn't eaten this this morning)

I've called in from overseas ... I missed my flight & by the time I would make it back it would be a day too late. So I called in a day before & told them I'm stuck in Dubai (thankfully, they all knew I had gone there on my trip)

So I'm a RN that works for a private Ambulance company that does CCT. We have rigs with: 1 RN an 2 CCEMT-P medics for the nurse calls and for independent CCT rigs with 2 CCEMT-P. The regular medics EMT-P have to work at the company for a while & ...

Had a pt come in for alcohol detox, while triaging him my charge nurse came out to get him. Pt: "You didn't let finish my story, I can't go back yet" Me: "what haven't you finished telling me?" Pt: "I have my pet with me" Me: pet? Where? Pt: right h...

No problem! Good luck on your search ... It's just a very tough job market in Illinois right now (truth is, where isn't there?). Illinois state is also flat out broke, the state budget in so far in the REd, that they aren't paying the hospitals their...

If you move to Illinois let me flat out tell you are in for a FULL culture shock!!! Illinois hospitals can't even touch the benefits you are getting in California - benefits, pay, hours, etc ... Your best bet to get $68/hr is maybe Agency & that...

We have a gentleman that our ER saved 17 years ago from an Acute MI - every year he drops off a cake & a thank you card to both us & ICU thanking us for helping save his life.

I don't know all that you have applied to, try doing searches on your very little hospitals in and around Chicago. I graduated 3 years ago & was in a tough position to find a job, I'm a NW suburbs girl and I ended up having to go to the West side...

I work in the ER so I see a lot of bad things ... the most recent sad thing was a 32 year old man come into the ER due to a stroke, no major history that would bring this on ... the other was elder abuse, an 80-something year old Alzheimer's female ...

Does anyone know of if Thorek Memorial Hospital hires new grads? I saw on their website that they want 2 years experience, but do you know if they make any exceptions?

Has anyone worked for United health systems? Either St. Catherine's or Kenosha Medical Center in their Emergency Department? My husband and I are both new grads, he has an interview next week with them & I've been talking to HR ... does anyone k...

The Targhee II, Voyageur or Ridgeline - all three haven't caused me any problems; my husband wears the Ridgelines a lot.

Go-lytely + big women who was bed bound = complete liquid poo that left her in a poo pond that leaked out of her diaper & pooled in the bed ... that or the GI bleeds. Either way, you will become really good at identifying your types of poo smells...

Love my Keens!! My husband (also a nurse) & I swear by them!!

To be honest, I would be vary wary of hospitals that offer big bonuses right now ... I work for a very small 100 bed hospital in Chicago that offers a $5000 bonus (1/2 given at 6 months) ... there is a reason they are offering bonuses right now, the...

Forgive me if this has already been asked, but I haven't be able to see any post on this question ... I am a new grad nurse that graduated back in December 2008, I took an ICU position and only lasted 6 weeks (horrible orientation - promised a bunch ...

No, I have an ADN, bachelor's in Computer Science & an almost completed Masters in IT ... that being said, I finally found a job in bedside nursing ... so I have backed off on looking at the IT route. I eventually plan to skip over a BSN and go s...

College of Lake County in December

Condell pays their new grads 25.26, weekends $2 (they just upped there new grad pay) ... I forgot what the night diff is, I work days.

Long story short, the pay uhs was offering was extremely on the very low end of the pay scale, plus all they could offer me was a part-time position. I didn't think it was worth the hour drive (not very cost effective) for the low pay or the low hour...

To F4Mom ... I would highly recommend if you decide to get a computer science degree that you don't take any computer programming classes if you are in nursing school. While I'm not in informatics right now (big possibility for me in the future), my ...

I did take my boards last week, passed with 75 ?'s. Thanks for asking. My husband had a horrible interview ... HR had filled the position internally a few days before he came up for the interview, but they failed to call him off or tell him before he...

I found out that the Aurora Medical Center offers their new grads 22.80 to start, with only a 1.95 differential, there's seems to be no weekend differential ... so I'm making the assumption that UHS is offering around the same for starting pay.

I know who she is, but because I was in the night section I didn't really interact with her. I think you are in my friend Jamie's class ... she has clinicals at Vista. Tell her Kathy says hello.