charley75

Its interesting to read everyone's experiences. What is bad for one is great for another. Like myself, I've worked at St.Anthony's for three years and really enjoy it. I also work in the department with the "bad reputation". I feel we have many great nurses that do a good job. It's amazing how staff and patients come to our facility complaining about other facilities and vice versa.

I just took the ECON final, Her Own Catalyst RN i wonder if we were in the same class. The final felt better than the mid-term, but its worth so many points that it can really impact your grade. I've had all A's through out the program but I don't think its gonna happen in ECON. I know I didnt give it my all because I'm really felling burn-out.

Just finished my Economics and Capstone!! I took two classes at a time and it took a year. I carried an A all the way ecept I think I'm gonna end up with a B in Economics. I bombed the mid-term and not sure about final but felt okay. The final is worth so much that you can have 100% all the way and change it drastically if you do poorly on it.

St. Louis Mo. starting new grads around 20/hr and + $3.50/hrly for nights

RN122, I am into my 7th and 8th class and have not bought a book yet. Unless its a DeVry course and its automatically online for me. I am also taking EVP and Comm Health right now, wish you luck. So far I have had all A's and trying to keep the streak but as many know two classes and work can become difficult.

Your post made me smile after reading it, I now know I was not the only one to feel this way. I have been a ER nurse for about a year and a half and it was my first nursing job. I had that feeling of dreading to ever go back for at least the first year. I was not only learning how to be a nurse but also how in a very busy ER, I remember when I got my first cardiac arrest I thought I was gonna vomit, I was so nervous. Of course I had a doc with me and others to help but it was my pt and I was the team leader. I work nights so every morning I would lie in bed going over the nights events and every pt I had. We have four patients but often one of those patients are a CCU pt and another a intoxicated psych pt with two others maybe an appy or who knows what. I still feel like I am unable to spend the appropriate amount of time I should be in order to give optimal amount of care. Everything I do is rushed in order to get that pt out and the next one in, I do believe it gets better. Hang in there, your confidence will grow and soon your will find yourself helping other new grads. :)

I completely agree with your post but sometimes I find other departments being nasty to each other and I dont get it. I feel like often when I call report to the floor or unit they are looking for things to knit pick about, I am not saying everytime, also they huff and puff about getting another pt. I try just to listen and kill them with kindness. I dont complain when EMS brings me one new pt after the next. We need to all realize we are there for thesame reason, the patients, we all have good and bad moments but keep your smile on :)

Have heard many say hot appendix with an appendicitis but never hot abd

My work just started bed side report, I work in the ER so Hippa with roommates is not a problem for me but one problem I have is with our psych patients. We have to go in to tell the next shift how the pt attempted suicide or took ?amt of pills, or what tox screen showed and it just seems to get the pt more aggitated and defensive. The intoxicated pt just passed out and now u are going in to wake them. Or the trauma that u have to relive the story with the family at bedside and the pt trying to hold on. Not liking it much either, I see fewer benefits than it may be worth.

OMG!! I can really relate to this post. I have been a RN for a little over six months and started in a very busy ER. I don't think the staff was quite as bad but I definitely have many times that I just don't think I can do this. We are so busy that I feel other nurses are unable to answer a ques. or help with a difficult IV start. The docs get frustrated if u haven't done something yet they want. It is all about getting the patients in and out that u dont have time to give quality nursing care. I like what I do and some shifts are better then others but it can be very stressful.

We use SBAR also, I work in ER and this week going to start faxing report instead of calling floor. We are to fax our SBAR and doctors orders. How does your ER give report. We used to do it verbally over the phone, now if unit pt we have to go along with the pt after faxing report, which we have always gone with but usually called!!

Miwila completely agree. Though I am not working as a Medical Asst any longer and now a RN making much more I am not as happy!! Happiness and enjoying your job is major for myself. I have no children and married so Teiladay, making 18 a hour worked for me. I may have a degree now but with that I also have student loans to pay and much more stress on the job then ever before, so to each their own!!

I have been a medical assistant for 12 years and make about $18 a hour- i love it!

These posts really surpriseme, my mom was in Dubuis about two years ago and I thought they were great. Maybe they have changed, is this the one in Saint Louis?