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You did your job, carry on. Tough love. Its easier not to say anything but they need to hear it. Granted there are definately ways you can buffer the blow... body language, phrasing, and instead of saying "YOU shouldn't do this, YOU shouldn't do tha...

I was you a couple years ago. Tele experience, some travel nursing, wanted to get into ER. I just put in applications to ER positions, some of them don't specify that it has to be "ER" experience. They're posted as "RNII" or whatever. They just want...

Here's another vote for TED hose! Or compression socks...whatever you wanna call em. They do wonders!

Man, people wanna make the tube more rigid??!!? That was new to me!! The tube already holds its shape easily! Well except for those baby NG tubes, I've started IVs in adults a larger size than those! I'm the opposite.... I soak the end of it in warm ...

Short answer: yes Long answer: I've been thru 6 interviews in 3 and a half years but 5 of those were for travel nurse positions which are a different in ways but similar in many others... However generally speaking, yes, I pretty much knew if the int...

Short answer: yes Long answer: I've been thru 6 interviews in 3 and a half years but 5 of those were for travel nurse positions which are a different in ways but similar in many others... However generally speaking, yes, I pretty much knew if the int...

#1 all the way Many studies suggest the increase in thyroid cancer could be partly due to pediatricians’ increased use of CT-scans. If it were my asymptomatic kid, theres no way in heck I'd let them CT him.

No. It should not be mandatory. As far as pple who are comparing this to other vaccinations, we are not talking about those vaccinations, we are talking about this brand-spankin-new H1N1 vaccine.

I recommend buying some books about ER nursing. Your questions are very broad and are the same ones I had when making the transition into the ER setting. Its good to want to be prepared, theres just no way you're gonna get all your answers on here. ...

Oh, and one thing thats annoying about working the floors after working ER... You know all that little stuff that you're allowed to blow off cuz...well... its the ER and your prioritization skills tell you ''that can wait'' because...it can? Well it...

You'll be fine. Totally do-able. Especially if your ER is anything like mine and backed up with inpatients waiting on beds and you BECOME an inpatient nurse in the ER setting.

Yes some ERs hire new grads Yes in your case (though not all cases) I'd personally recommend some floor experience first (for debates on whether floor experience is necessary, see other threads where this is debated ad nauseum) Yes I think the ER cou...

Hello all you pediatric pro's! :) I beg of you your advice! I'm a nurse of 3 years... 2 in adult Tele, 1 in adult ER... Back in the day I went into nursing thinking I was gonna be a peds nurse. Thats actually WHY I chose nursing to begin with. When ...

And just to add, I just wanna make sure you understand it right. Don't worry if you haven't done everything on those checklists. Its not a "checklist" in the sense of "you must have completed all these skills before travel nursing", it's more just t...

Q 6-8 hrs x 3 sets Wish I could be more specific on the "6-8" part but that really can vary from doc to doc. I wanna say I've seen it Q8 more often than 6 though.

Interesting, just about everyone has said they rarely get sick. Wonder if there is any correlation between our jobs and our super-immunity! I too haven't been sick since.... nursing school, where my immune system was terribly suppressed from a combin...

That cracks me up, so basically your radiology department doesn't want you to transport actual SICK patients to them. Just the healthy ones that don't need monitors, drips, and can sit up in a wheelchair. Riiiiiight...... Um, well, I'll tell you what...

Beautiful story! Powerful message.No, God does not make mistakes, EVERY life is a precious gift and serves a unique individual purpose that God put them on this earth for, however short a time it may be.

1mg/min is an easy rule of thumb to go by

Our unit used that peppermint oil stuff that really just makes whatever the smell was a MINTY-worst-smell-of-your-life...doesn't really "mask" it very well, just adds another element.... ...Christmas has never been...

oops...double-entered a post... so here's editing it out since I can't delete it.....

All that talking and I didn't even answer your questions... 1. Travelling is fairly popular among those who have few enough obligations to be able to do it. 2. See above 3. BSN/ADN whatever, doesn't matter, as long as you're an RN, they prefer 2 year...

It's a bit more difficult to get assignments now than it was before "The Recession!" (so sick of this "recession"..) Let me rephrase that, you can't be as PICKY as before. When I started a year ago I could take my sweet time deciding between contrac...

So I'm working fastrack in an adult ER, I have about 4 Cough/Cold/Achy patients at any given time. These people DON'T need to be in the ER. Theres NOTHING we can do for their cold that OTC meds don't also do! A good dose of emotional suppression kee...

Wow. I was seriously just thinking about this.. maybe i worked too much OT this week and am getting a little burned out but yeah... i've thought a LOT about this actually... *sigh* elementary school teacher (love kids, love being creative, maybe elem...