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i did weekend premium with home health and was paid hourly. i also had to rotate on call. i did soc and it was a very long day. i am now doing week day and i still do soc. i am primarily the admission nurse. to me the weekend was a test of endurance.

i moved to north central wv from upstate ny. i am living in fairmont and finally have a job interview with a hospital currently working in a nursing home. how is mon general to work (the only one that has contacted me yet). thanks for input.:chuckle

i work on an infectious disease floor in upstate ny that has reserved 5 beds for the flu. we are using droplet/contact precautions.

i work on the prison unit in our hospital. each state has an inmate lookup on their department of corrections that is public information. i have looked up what their crime was. i do know the more guards usually means at some point they have tried to escape.

i just think when do you say enough is enough. such as staffing for example "they are doing fine 4 nurses and 1 pca and this becomes the norm. if you keep accepting the changes there will be continually pushing the limits. i also work on a floor that has no hoyer or any type of equipment to faciliate patient transfer safely. this is where money should go not how many times i went into such and such room.

i just felt it was an invasion. i would feel that i would be more concerned with tracking than patient monitoring. even though i do walking round quite frequently at least Q30 minutes. on the union vs non union. i think a unionized hospital would have more say on the treatment of an employee.

is it legal for management to track nursing movement in and out of patients room. I have heard through the grapevine that this is going to start at the hospital i am working at (a non union hospital). i would like also to see people's feedback on this issue if it would effect quality of care and also the legality. union vs non union. thanks

the parking once you get the hang of it isnt that difficult. i work nights so i get to park in the main garage. days usually park behind the pharmacology school in what the call the notre dame lot. its a big hospital your unit usually becomes your world so to speak. i am eventually going to transfer to post partum or 23 hour surgical stay. i currently work on infectious diseases/aids treatmetn floor. plus our sister floor is the prison floor. i am still getting used to the all units.

as a former cna - i have heard you have a depends. i would always try to get them on a bedpan. if they were an undependable transfer - i would do the bed pan. i threw my back out on a dependable 1 assist transfer because she dropped on me. so i am cautious on transferring patients in nursing homes.

i know berkshire medical center is about 23 miles from my house give or take a mile. i have been considering getting my mass license and working there. a few people i graduated with went there. i heard there starting pay was 26.00.

albany med is 20.50 hour with shift dif's st peters dont know for sure - i even went to the open house.

RN1 starts out at 20.50 with the various shift dif's. which i cant remember those. RN2 i belive starts 20.75.

i am sorry the daughter told the nurse manager this.

i was taking care of this elderly lady who was nice. the daughter was very demanding and was angry at the doctors and the hospital (she didnt feel the dr's were doing their best). so i get this lady 1900 when i came on. she vomits large amount of brown liquid about 2200. i call the md and tell him. he goes what did i give her for nausea. i said i am telling you first before i give any medications (it was a resident). i was concerned about the color. her abd was firm and distended also. i am thinking bile or possible bowel obstruction. she does fine on the zofran. no further issues of nausea or vomiting. i get a call from the nurse manager that she told her daughter that she vomited all over her (she made it all in the bucket - i was there the whole time). and she vomited again in the morning. she also told the daughter she was crying out for help and no one came. i came as soon as she rung the call bell. this is the first i had cared for. it is so frustrating because of what she said to her daughter was untrue. i was told the nurse manager the pca was in there with me too. anyone have this happened.

i had to post on this because i questioned how early do you give a prn. my assistant nurse manager on nights said 30 minutes prior - is acceptable. because we do computerized meds (we scan them). i gave a prn med 6 minutes early and the hand held was asking why - so i usually put in patients request. but my anm said she always puts in nursing judgement. :w00t:

i have to say i called in - not for superbowl but for one throwing up daughter who has a fever of 102 and a sick husband who also had a fever of 101. i had a 4 year who was running wild. a 13 year old who fell on the ice and hurt his back. i couldnt get anyone to come to watch the kids. so it was up to me to stay home with them. I also think people forget that when it comes to sick kids it always falls to the mother to take care of them. day care wont take them, babysitter with other kids doesnt want to watch them.

this is a large hospital. they employ over 9,000 employees and are currently expanding. due to the size with the electronic stuff is still behind. they do scan meds. they do ask you stay on your unit a year before transferring to another unit but they did tell us in orientation that if it isn't working on that unit for you they rather you switch than quit. the union thing isnt a big deal. i do get breaks - i take them when i can but i also work overnights.

i have worked here for 6 months. i have learnt so much. i am quite profecient at blood transfusions. i do have to say alot use this place as a stepping ground. they hire alot of new grads in every department. so alot get the critical care training to take downstate. enjoy:specs:

The hospital i work with has a contract with the philipines. i asked them alot of questions. they told their education system is based on ours. the only thing is some of the iv pumps are different. they are taught english young. this makes them excellent cadidates for our healthcare system.

it is so nice to know that you are not the only one that feels this way. i do feel i have grown since i started but i do know i have a long way to go. i wish they would have assigned a mentor for questions that come up along the way.

here is some for upstate new york and one for mass. i live 7 miles from mass border. albany medical center 20.50 RNI Columbia Memorial hospital 21.50 Berkshire medical center Massachussetts is 26.00 plus shift diffs/and weekend diffs.

i am looking for opinions on how it is to work at cmh in hudson, it is so much closer to my house and i am tired of commuting to albany med. thanks:w00t:

i am in need of advice. i am currently working at a major medical center which is also a teaching hosptial. i work on infectious diseases/aids treatment center. I work 7p - 730am. i have been working here for about 6 months. also the commute is 45 minutes each way. this is also kicking my but too. i was doing fine until the last 3 weeks. i cant sleep during the day anymore. i wake up after 3 hours and that is it. i really dont like the floor anymore. the ration is 1/6 which are alot of high accuity and 2 hour pain med iv push. i recently had a young man who was coughing and when he coughed he desatted. i called the md and the md said he was fine. i assessed he showed no signs of respirtory distress. his lungs were fine, he was not acting apoxic (sorry about spelling), moving about. the doctor told me the same thing. i guess during the day they did his abgs and he ended up in medical icu. looking back i wished i called icu. here is my problem due to the tiredness i cant belive i did this i did not chart on any of it. when i started charting in the am chaos broke out with everything and it slipped my mind (broke the cardinal rule of not charting). my assistant nurse manager called me at home and asked what happend why i didnt call the md. i said i did and that is when it hit me i didnt chart on it. i always chart these things. so the next night i went in the assistant nurse manager refused to acknowledge me or look at me. i would like to ask for a transfer to days on another unit. i feel that i have been marked now on this unit. i really do want to transfer anyway. any advice. thanks i also have been thinking of going to the hospital (smaller) which is 15 minutes away. i think i would have more patients but the accuity is not nearly as high as i have been dealing with.