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As a novice to hospice care I have a question related to using the pulse ox with vitals. I could not recertify a patient owing to his 02 sat being too high for too long and have been getting the third degree every since he was disnissed as not approp...

Well that is good info which I appreciate. Sorry to leave you confused but I can understand. There is a specified lower limit for o2 sat in a dx of copd. I do not mean to doubt any info I am given but I believe that is one of the advantages of a web ...

Well I have been on floor as a new grad for a little over two months and was told among many other barbs that I should be running, not figuratively mind you, but literally. I would not be permitted to ask any questions but in the event that I dared,...

I just had a patient who complained about every other caregiver they had and then began to make very personal attacks on me but not before refusing to take all of their meds and screaming and crying. I went through this for two days before the patien...

Hello, I am also a new RN on a med surg floor. I went through 4 weeks of classroom orientation and then was sent to the floor. I was told that The first week was to acclimate and turned out to be one day as I had to watch some training tapes. The sec...

I am over 50 years old and STILL can't get a job in nursing here. After studying for 7 years and spending in excess of 40K needless to say I am very disappointed in myself. I may be wrong but it sure seems like my age. All of my classmate I have spok...

Fantastic! I appreciate that. Things are looking up here!

I am delighted by your statement and wonder what state and country you work and in what type of facility.

Here that is not the case. As previously stated, all of my younger peers got jobs quickly and easily. This is a right to work state and there is no union. From other correspondence I have had, it appears that that is common here. I am wondering if t...

I think that is partially correct. Some nurses who were in their 30's especially divorced, seemed to resent any threat to their superiority in areas other than nursing. For example everything from auto repair, photography, parenting, gardening etc. I...

I guess you misunderstood me, I am far from giving up, it is not in my vocabulary. Praying is not desperation but a healthy part of my hope and life. As to pounding the street I have done that before selling water softeners, encyclopedias, charities ...

There is no doubt in my mind that I am a better nurse! Thank you all so much for your advice! As I stated, if you are a young nurse here in my area according to peers I have spoken with, they were all expressive of how many and and how fast they got ...

Yes I always send a thank you to the interviewer and the recruiter. There is no shortage of nursing jobs for new BSN grads here, just new nursing grads over 50. Any advice is always appreciated and welcome!

I heard today that hiring was being done "on the sly" with jobs posted internally only and specifically not on that website to get only referals and students converting. Pretty widely known within the hospital and was confirmed to me by nurse recruit...

And then me, I spent over 40K and seven years of my life and can't get a job anywhere because of my age! RN BSN

Nothing in Indianapolis area at all. I have elderly relatives, working wife with seniority and enrolled school age children in sports so work geographically locate central indiana a must. The students I was talikng about were hired in December and Ja...

VA is on freeze. They hired everyone in my class except me that applied there. I was 20 years old than the oldest they hired and I am also a twice honorably discharged 5 point viet vet. I have one shot left on a job there I applied for exempt from fr...

I thought the same thing! Am I being overly sensitive or was I just being put down? Rhetorical question and I decided not to let it depress me further but hey, I and my family have spent the last 7 years of my life in school (last 4 full time) studyi...

Yep, I was in the top of my class, have kick arse letters of recommendation and get nothing. I dress in suit and tie and am present well with respectful and positive attitude and the worst part is not getting any call back kma nothing.

Just relax, the test is set up so that you should miss 50% of the questions. It is the level of difficulty so it is hard to know. I was sure I had flunked and then I saw my license number on the state board posting! The mind blower is that I was frea...

Well said.

Aye, I usually do not get so incensed over one small person but when it involves insulting my fellow nurses who are underpaid and oft not appreciated my ire as an American nurse rises. I too have worked with foreign and domestic and see a clear disti...

I think the guy you are talking to is a brash and rude person who despises the US. He is in an ASN to FNP program and knows everything. He thinks patriotisn is racism and I thought he was done with his tyrade until you made a comment. He didn't like ...

I did not realize that there was an online program to go from ASN to FNP. Maybe you would care to elaborate on that for the benefit of others. Patriotism is neither ethnocentric, incidentally. Since you fail to comprehend any difference between nurse...

are you kidding me? i do not believe that phrase was used anywhere but even if it were, it is not racism. i am just curious where you went to school and if they taught sociology there or if it was required in your curriculum? here in indiana it is. i...