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You cannot treat all patients the same way, just as you cannot treat all your coworkers the same. The key is to first look and listen, then adapt your interaction to the individual. If you start by introducing yourself and stating the reason you are ...

I am just finishing up an 8 week travel assignment. The cons are: staying in an extended stay over an apartment, just getting the hang of things and having to leave, staff does not wish to interact with you because they know you will be leaving soo...

Although it seems that this topic has strayed a bit, I would like to bring it back. My last job required that I wear a giant round 'ask me if I washed my hands" button. It was so heavy that it brought down my scrub top to expose my bra. Patients ...

Once you discharge the patient they are no longer an emergency room patient. If you were to chart on them, it could be taken that you have accepted them as a patient again and are responsible for them. Don't chart on them after they formally leave ...

I am from Michigan & just finished my very first travel contract (in NYC). After that terrible experience with horrid nurse patient ratios (in the ED) of no less than 9 patients & being ripped of continually by my agency (begins with an Ll.....

I would think that it is the Union's responsibility to effect this. Don't you agree? At least, the type of campaigns you suggest, is what they used to do in the past and what made Unions strong. Seems like they lost the ability to represent their ...

I am in the same boat as you. I'm in NYC and have both state and city taxes taken out. I can't get overtime, either. I am going behind my company's back and doing per diem work with another agency so I can break even. I think the mistake is that whe...

i found the same thing with cerner. cerner is one of the most user unfriendly programs i have encountered. i think the most frustrating part is that you continue to get an icon to do something after it was already done. to make the icon go away, y...

My favorite is the brown things in the bed to inicate it has to be cleaned.

Don't worry. Some nurses are just old school about paying your dues on the med-surg floor. The ENA has an excellent curriculum [ENCC-Emergency Nurse Core Curriculum] that many level I trauma centers use to educate the newbies. With the right train...

I can assure you what you describe is hospital-wide and not just on your floor. Have done agency per-diem work there and found it to be quite strange of a place (trying to put it mildly). After my 7th shift there, I realized it wasn't me & told ...

Nahhh. They'll just have less nurses handling more patients and blame it on the law. I can see nurses turning on nurses. Imagine how you would feel if you started your shift and was told that Nurse X was not agreeing to overtime because her repla...

I know I have come across a lot of Turks in the Flushing area of Queens. Certainly avoid Astoria because of he high concentration of Greeks (your husband could tell you why i said that). I found a website that list neighborhoods with the predominant...

I would think that anything mandatory would impose hidden resentment. If they want something more cost effective, why don't they just try a giant group hug :hgu:?

I signed a contract with Lloyds over a month ago and will be starting with them in Manhattan soon. Only after the contract was signed, was I told that I would have to pay my own utilities and incur other expenses prior to my starting. To top it all o...

Hello, I am new to allnurses and I apologize if this isn't the correct place to ask my question. Next week I will be starting my very first travel contract job with a hospital in NYC. I just found out, after I signed the contract, that utilities are...

Why don't you apply for the night job just to get to the interview with the manager. Human Resource's job is just to screen you through to the manager, anyway. If you seem to hit it off with the manager, and are offered a job, then go and tell abou...

Someone privately emailed me a recommendation sounding very similar. By any chance is the initials of the person you are talking about C.L.? If so, could you tell me more?

Thank you. I will do that. Have you ever worked for them?

I would rather not say right now. However, I did post their name on another topic related to travel nursing. Get in touch with me privately and I will give you the name. Since I have to work for them for the next 3 months, I don't want to get myse...

Does anyone know if you can take out 2 separate {through 2 different companies} nursing malpractice policies? I am about to start my first travel nurse job and the company just told me that I have to have a policy to show them. I do not want them t...

Thank you for your response. To answer your question is a bit of a long story that I will try to condense. I heard about them while I was visiting NYC to show a dog of mine at an event called Westminster. I had to use an emergency room nearby the...