RN1982

I have a job interview tomorrow and I am putting my reference list together. How do should I write them? I kind of have a template but I'm not sure if this is right. Thanks in advance Name RN Colleague-ICU Hospital name Phone number email

From what the OP described, that's how my non-union hospital ran. And that's how my union hospital is run. However, I like working at my union hospital more. I am more respected.

Pay is going to depend on the cost of living in the area where you plan on working. I can see new grads in Cali making 40 bucks an hour because the cost of living is high. In Michigan, New grads start at 24-25 bucks an hour.

Seems to me you cared more about yourself than you did your patient. It is really concerning for me to read that you are more concerned about the regular staff coming in at 7a.m. to complete orders that should have remained STAT orders to begin with. I don't think you truly understand how fast a person having an AMI can decompensate. You are lucky that the patient wasn't in any "distress", had they been, it would have been your license on the chopping block. Perhaps you will think better of it next time, I hope you do.

You were both in the wrong. You were both responsible. You both should have stopped bickering and went to see the patient.

You were wrong, the resident was right. You should have just drawn the labs. I think you were putting them off so you wouldn't have to do them because it was 6am. Sorry, I call it how I see it. In the time you spent calling to "override" the intern, you could have performed the ordered tests. The patient could have been having true chest pain but instead you wasted time.

They are only harder to find if you are not looking. Have you looked?

I hate to say this but I work with a lot of former St. John's employees. Conditions are horrid. 3 patients to 1 nurse in SICU. Scary.

One last thing, be careful. People have died working home health care. I know this, because my friend died 6 months ago on the job.

Oh, and wear scrubs.

Well, stop going on about how "attractive" you are. As far as I am concerned, it's irrelevant.

Confident doesn't mean attractive though. Just because one is "pretty" or "attractive" doesn't mean they are exempt from being attacked. The OP should be more modest and just so ya know, the patients could care less about how "attractive" you are...

good grief, not another thread like this. It's less about your "attractiveness" and more about your safety...

Thanks, I actually spoke with the manager already to set up the interview. I got the hours, the weekend hours and the call hours. It's not a bad deal. It's two twelves and two eights, days. I'm excited, I'm just hoping I can get this job. I need a change superbad.

Thanks. What should I say when they ask me why I want to leave my current position? I was planning on saying that I wanted to get experience in a different area of nursing or something to that effect.

As some of you know, I've detailed much of my struggle within the ICU and my frustrations. So I finally got up the courage to finally make the move to move on. I will miss the traumas and the interesting cases but I need something new and a bit different so I decided to apply for the PACU. I need to come up with a list of questions to ask the RN who will be showing me around the pacu. Can anyone offer some suggestions of what to ask?

My friend's sister works at another area hospital and her boss is writing everyone up because it affects their raise. Nice cost-saving...idiots.

I had a patient tell me he was recording me. Said he was gonna sue me, "blah blah blah"...I said sure, whatever, record me, it's not admissible in court anyhow. He was a drug addict, very hostile with staff, think he was also on police hold, meaning as soon as he was discharged, he would be arrested.

What did she say in return? I cut my so-called friend off completely, took her off my facebook, blocked her phone calls but she only ever texted me so I can't block them. She even requested to be my friend again on FB and I ignored it.

I just wanted to point out that people keep mentioning turning off the cell phone. Most of the time, that's all anyone has. People use cellphones more often than landlines. Hell, does anyone own a landline anymore? I don't. I use my cellphone as my main phone and so do most people. So no, turning off one's cellphone is not feasible. I could see maybe getting rid of text messaging but turning off the phone, no.

I know how you feel. I felt the same way when I didn't help. I felt bad and guilty. It took me a long time before I realized how much I was getting stepped on. I talked about it a lot on here before. You have to let them go. Cut them off. Because if you don't, they will continue to walk all over you. I thought I had a good friend but as it turns out, she was only my friend when she wanted something from me. Let them go!

I've learned a big lesson in regards to this. I had a friend who lost her job because she was on FMLA and was laid off. They asked her to come back but she couldn't because she was getting ready to give birth the week they wanted her to come back. So they gave her position away. They offered her another position but for a couple dollars less. Would she take it? No, she turned it down and applied for unemployment. I, out of pity for her and the baby, paid a large electrical bill. It was 150 bucks. Not to mention all the money I doled out ordering pizza and food when we hung out together. The final straw was when her baby turned a year old and she wanted me to drive an hour out of my way to bring some freaking bean dip to the party. I said I couldn't but I'd make it for us and we could hang out, chat and eat. She said she needed it for the party. I pretty much figured out from there that she was just using me only because she only called me when she wanted something. I haven't spoken to her since.

I'm getting sick of all the cattiness and bureaucracy in my current unit so I saw a job posting for the cath lab. It would be a pre/post procedural position. What do you do? Is there on-call in your position or in this position? The description didn't say there was on call and I'm assuming this is a day shift position.

Yeah, you are right. I did speak up. I told the nurse in charge of our pod last night that it was unfair of her to dump on me and the other nurse. I will be speaking to my manager in the morning. I think this nurse is too inexperienced to be in charge of a pod. She was basing patient acuity on insulin gtts and an amiodarone gtt that didn't get titrated.

I didn't mention it, but I work in an SICU, so two patients is the max we get. Our Charge does not take an assignment unless we are horribly short. If it had been me who had been running the pod last night, I would have given the nurse who was coming in at 11pm an admit, but I would not have given her one right when she got there. I would have let her come in and get her assignment, let her get to see her patient before assigning her an admission. That's what should have been done and that's what is usually done. I don't think the girl who was running the pod last night knew what she was doing because she was basing patient acuity off of insulin gtts and amiodarone gtts. Just because your patient is on an insulin gtt doesn't make them the most critical patient in the pod. And amiodarone does not get titrated and her patient was stable. So she could have kept the patient she gave me at the start of the shift and let me get the first admit instead of the new nurse getting the first admit.