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The Clinical Nurse Leaders at our facility are not from a program. They are experienced floor nurses that are wanting to have more responsibility and have leadership skills that are necessary. We do have a training program that is in-house for Nurse ...

I am a Clinical Nurse Leader on a busy Med-Surg floor. This is definitely an expanding role. We transitioned from the charge nurse role into the Nurse Leader role. The role has expanded into more than just a supervisory role. We are an extension of o...

I am in my last semester of nursing school. Last week's clinical was in the Burn Unit. I was able to help with taking off dressings, hydrptherapy, and redressing. Some of these patients were on vents, had 12 or more IV drips running, in induced comas...

There is not a difference between a BSN and a BS in nursing. It is just the individual school's preference in what letters they use. I checked into this extensively before starting my bachelor's degree because one school offered a BS and another offe...

Can someone tell me what I need to do to get licensed in Ohio. I live in Ohio, but have my RN license in Indiana. I live only 2 miles from the Indiana state line and I work in Indiana. I want to apply for a job at our local hospital which is in Ohio....

At the hospital I work at, you must take a class and that will certify you to give and read mantoux tests. You must also take a certification renewal class once a year. That is the policy at our hospital.

My charge nurse once called me on a Sunday at 0730 to see if I would consider coming in at 1500 to 0330 that afternoon and I would not have to work my normal shift on Monday of 0300 to 1530. I told her that I would and and made sure that if I worked ...

You know how we are supposed to be the patient's advocate??? You know, looking out for their best interests and making sure they get the best of care and all that. Have you ever not wanted to be their advocate? I am talking about the frequent f...

J. Thanks for understanding my post. This discharge was happening at the same time as another discharge for a patient that was terminal and all they wanted was a slip saying they could go back to work the next day.

I have found that some of the frequent flyers that we deal with are homeless. Usually their significant other stays in the room with them, and the patient may be admitted for one complaint but inadvertently developes some other ailment as the day goe...

I am so sorry you have not had an ideal experience with your preceptor. I have been so lucky with my preceptor. She had been an RN for over 30 years and has been one of the nicest and most helpful preceptors that you could ever want. She even apologi...

I work at the other hospital, one that Lutheran calls the "Mean green machine". Our management has been rolling out new ideas from the TCAB bit by bit. Our nursing assistants are even starting the bedside reporting. We have had no negativity days, wh...

We have started implementing this at our facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It seems to work well, a lot of patients like the bedside report. It has also helped in making sure the patients are set up for the next shift, ie..turned, dry, and IV fluids O...

I start my new RN job tomorrow. I am a new graduate and I haven't done blood sugars and insulin injections since my med/surg 2 clinical last spring. I am going to need a quick refresher on what to do. It doesn't mean that I was never trained to do it...

I took the NCLEX-RN today and it shut off at 79 questions. This just has me so freaked out. Has anyone passed or failed at 79 questions?? I know some have passed and failed at 75 questions, but have never heard anything about 79 questions.

i passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:yeah::yeah::yeah: thanks to everyone that replied.

You can take the test in any state. You have to determine which state licensing agency you want the results sent to. I can take the test in Ohio and have the results sent to Indiana. It just depends on which testing center you want to pick. Good luck...

I took the ATI NCLEX predictor proctored test and it said I had a 92% chance of passing the NCLEX on the first try. Does anyone know how close this predictor test measures your test taking abiltiy on the NCLEX??? I had a lot of stress during nursing ...

All of the hospitals that I have done clinicals at require us to have an S in front of our login to indicate that we are students. They can easily track each individual's charting. Our clinical instructor also is responsible for checking our charting...

How would you like to be in nursing classes with a soon-to-be- nurse know-it-all??? She would tell us what we were doing wrong during labs and clinicals, and always had a story to tell about every procedure or illness that we discussed. She wasn't in...

There are always 2 sides on things. I job shadowed a tech last week and she was the only tech covering 20 beds on a medical floor. She had 2 feeders, 6 complete bed baths, and 4 assists, and then she said she was required to help with vitals if she h...

I am one that loves to watch "ER" and on last night's show, Sam (the ER nurse) walked into the trauma room and it was her son on the gurney. To me this would be the hardest thing to have happen. I know this is only a TV show, but even the thought of ...

These personal accounts of your loved ones and friends that you have had come through the ER is just so sad. I really don't know what I would do in that instance. My heart goes out to the ones that have went through this. In the case of the possibl...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!:bow::bow:!!!!!!!!!:yeah::yeah:

There is a website www.highwayhypodermics.com that has really good information on travel nursing. Good luck. :nuke: