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1. What is the night differential for RN (BSN) at Saint Luke's Hospital?

   listener replied to Jo2016's topic in General Nursing

   Just for context if it helps, here are the differentials for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Note: I believe that they haven't gone up in over a decade!! When you factor in inflation, night and evening...

2. Night shift and health issues

   listener replied to shelw067's topic in Health, Stress Management

   My suggestions include the following: Try to schedule all you week's shifts in a row (3?) and then do nothing but eat, sleep and work for those 3 shifts. Have pre-cooked (frozen?) meals all ready at...

3. 2017 Hourly differentials? Eve, Night, Weekend...

   listener posted a topic in General Nursing

   Please follow format if you can, then add comments. Thank you! Location: St. Louis, MO Facility: Large Teaching Hospital Role: Staff-Nurse Evenings: $2.40 (Defined as 5pm-11pm) Nights:...

4. Starting pay new ADN in St. Louis?

   listener replied to STLCCSTUDENT's topic in General Nursing

5. NCSBN 2011 New Nurse Survey "Thank you" Letters

   listener replied to listener's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I'm sure they do have good motivations and probably are able to make use of some of the info. Still, there were a fair number of multiple choice questions that were so vague or simply not...

6. NCSBN 2011 New Nurse Survey "Thank you" Letters

   listener posted a topic in General Nursing

   After passing NCLEX, I received a NCSBN survey in the mail "on the practice of newly licensed RNs". It was long and tedious, and a lot of the questions seemed a little poorly or generically worded...

7. SSM or BJC ?

   listener replied to rkrs6673's topic in General Nursing

   Old thread, but timeless issue. I worked at BJC (Barnes-Jewish Hospital) for several years but now work for SSM (DePaul). They both have wonderful things going for each of them. But my comment is...

8. PAY FOR NEW GRADUATE RN's FOR ST. LOUIS AREA

   listener replied to tigerrose's topic in General Nursing

   I will graduate this month (Dec, 2010) from STLCC and will start in January at SSM/DePaul @

9. Compact Status Confusion

   listener replied to nevergivingup83's topic in General Nursing

   Check out these 2 pages. I think you might find the answers there. If not, maybe search out the Illinois state BON webpage. http://www.pr.mo.gov/nursing-nlc.asp https://www.ncsbn.org/nlc.htm Good...

10. Definition of Medical Floor in St. Louis

    listener replied to honeycalifornia's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still a nrsg student but i've been a tech on an acute care gen med floor for 2 years. I think if you subtract the the surgery patients from med-surg, that should give you a pretty good idea of...

11. Job as New Grad?

    listener replied to Jess_Missouri_RN's topic in General Nursing

    That's great to hear, about the fellowships for ADN's - I was wrong. Can you say anything more about them? What facilities? What kind of fellowships? Are these places that these students were...

12. Job as New Grad?

    listener replied to Jess_Missouri_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Gee... I'm in my 3rd semester at Forest Park (1 to go!) but they've been talking to us about applying for jobs since the beginning. They've gotten us to finish resumes already and they've emphasized...

13. Any other new grads concerned about finding a job??

    listener replied to TeleNurse2010's topic in General Nursing

    Way to go -

14. PAY FOR NEW GRADUATE RN's FOR ST. LOUIS AREA

    listener replied to tigerrose's topic in General Nursing

    There sure is at BJH! I was in a clinicals group in Fall '09 which had a presentation from BJH human resources and they said as much. I can't remember the amount, but I think the BSN premium over...

15. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    listener replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I'm reacting to various posts I've seen emphasizing nursing's perspective (vs. medicine's) and how the advanced degrees (NP, DNP) further learning and the science of the nursing perspective. I...