Not the case in Indiana, I have 2 part time jobs 1 with full benefits only working 2 days a week and 1st of the year I just started a a 3rd part time PRN job where I will make about 14.00 more an...
racing-mom4 replied to Anmarie's topic in Ohio Nursing
If your the main bread winner and your not working--thats a problem. You need to get a job-any job-any shift. Your a more desirable candidate if your already employeed!!!! So take the night job and...
racing-mom4 replied to Price 2002's topic in General Nursing
I have 3 jobs and still have plenty of time at home. It can be done, it just needs organization and planning. I have 1 primary job and the other 2 I work around the primary schedual. With so many...
I am loyal to ME. I chose to work the ]baylor hours because I get paid more for the time I am there. I chose to work a PRN job because I get almost 15.00 more an hour than I do working my benefited...
racing-mom4 replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing
I regretted not ]becoming a nurse in my 20s--I did not want to regret it in my 30s--I am so glad I went into nursing- I can use my hands and my mind and my heart. Every shift I learn something new, I...
racing-mom4 replied to ilovechadkrause's topic in LPN to RN
At our local nursing home we utilize QMA's and the QMA many times will refer to themselves as "Nurses" as after all they are giving the meds that night right...they are not doing the so called aide...
I am a nurse in an ICU where I do complete pt care. I give my pts thier warm blankets, I also give them thier cardizem. I have an influence with the Drs and can really be a good patient advocate. I...
Highlight the nursing work you have done. Were you ever a CNA? Highlight that...include the other stuff but only for dates just to show you have commitment to a job. If at the Chiro office you did...
am I going to be the 1st one to say "come on already and grow up" Your folks remembered you your classmates sang to you-----Maybe i just run with a different crowd but my friends and I may remember...
racing-mom4 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing
thanks for encouraging me to educate myself--i did do just a quick search and i did find this interesting web site: http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/squaw.html below is just a portion of what i...
racing-mom4 replied to NightNurse0711's topic in General Nursing
My adivice as simple as it is ---go to bed and get some sleep and I swear you will feel better once your fully rested. The Dr should not have yelled at you for the Na drop. She didnt drink her water...
racing-mom4 replied to Jack Hawaii's topic in General Nursing
I am lucky that I dont typically hear those comments I work in a smaller unit and we pretty much by all accounts get along--we each have at our own time picked up an opposite shift or two than we...
racing-mom4 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing
I knew this thread would get very passionate either you are for it or against it. I know I will not change any ones mind. I just want to state that not ALL Indian mascots are how someone described of...
racing-mom4 replied to michelios19RN's topic in Indiana Nursing
I have 3 jobs. All part time 1 with full benefits--the benefited job is also paying my student loan bill. I could work full time at any of 3 if I wanted. Every day I am not sched to work I get a...
My advice--take the dog on a long walk, rent a good movie that will crack you up, and pour yourself a tall drink!!! Long story short try and relax, what is done is done. You made it through school...
racing-mom4 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing
My kids attend a school whose mascott is an Indian, so I have actually seen some of the outfits(chief sitting bull and the full headress) in the above add. I guess I can not understand how this mascot...
racing-mom4 replied to racing-mom4's topic in General Nursing
What you think I am not entitled to some christmas cookies!!! LOL My next job I am going to inquire about the Christmas ham-now thats an attractive sign on
We were talking over the weekend that this year we did not get one single gift from the Docs...In years past we would get cookie trays, or meat and cheese trays, cheeseballs and crackers or fruit...
racing-mom4 replied to J.R.theR.N2b's topic in General Nursing
If we are doing a bedside procedure that can be painful we use versed and morphine. We had one pt recently who was getting a major dressing change done Q12 that involved scraping and pulling ( I have...
racing-mom4 replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in General Nursing
I did not read the entire thread---but let me just say I most likely chose nursing for what I think our selfish reasons. I wanted a part time job where I could use my mind, work with people, job...
We do not have spell check at my facility---and my new computer at home does not allow spell check on allnurses.com (so excuse any mispellings I may have!!) I am a fast typer and do tend to make...