mlvnurse03

Don't forget about holidays. Working in an office has the perks of being closed for certain holidays. That's a plus for me. I want to be home with my kids on Christmas and other holidays. Being at home with my kids is very important to me. So keep that in mind.

I'm a nurse who has been on both sides of the show. Although I have never worked in the NICU. I have had a baby in there for a few weeks. And I was amazed to just how many babies Never had a visitor. Is this pretty common?

I work in a family practice office and we do school physicals and sports physicals all the time. We have never had a child undress unless it was due to a medical problem that needed to be looked at. Never for a physical. I did speak to my doc and she says that some peds office do have kids undress for physicals but doing a breast exam on a little 7yr old girl is very bazaar. I don't think I'd feel comfortable with this.

Hey, I don't work in a Anticoag dept. but I do a lot of them in our family practice office. It must be kind of diff at times to figure out what to do with some patients. In the past our docs had a kind of standing order of what to do. But we had patients who either didn't understand or they would forget what we told them. So we gave them a card when we did their protime. That told them how to take their meds. It seemed to help compliance.

Yes, the hosp I work for does ask you when you are available and call if someone calls in or asks you if you can take a shift. They require us to take at least one shift per month. It's a pretty good deal if you don't mind being kind of "on call".

You did the right thing. This is a diff situation. But it is suppose to be for the Patient to decide if they need the med or not. Not at the nurse's choice. If a patient is in severe pain. He/she Will push the button. We were stressed in nursing school.-NEVER push the button for the patient.

This happens to me all the time. Either someone at church or a family member. But if I give advise it's like the question what I say. So I just tell them to call their doc or use something otc.

I myself do not smoke. But many of our patients have quit using that new drug-Chantix. Maybe you should give this a try.

I don't know if you are still interested but I love working in a Family Practice Office. We see all ages of patients. Young and old. We have awesome hours(8-5) and off weekends and holidays. Also there are many other perks- such as free lunches,sample meds, and free medical advise. Sometimes the pay isn't as great as hospitals. But it's worth it to me to be at home every night with my kids.

I work in a family practice office and I love it!! The nights I can be at home with my kids(8 and 1yr olds). Plus get nice perks like holdidays off and less stress. Also free lunches(drug reps), samples of meds if needed, and mostly free office visits. Good luck!

One of the cool things about being per diem nurse-is -you can tell them no if it going to be when you are out of the country. Now-some places require that you take at least a certain number of hours or shifts in a certain length of time. So keep that in mind and be sure to check if there is a required number of hours. Good luck.

Well, I would probably start out in the Telemetry unit. That is going to get you some great experience! Which maybe you will be able to get on days if an opening comes up.