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I really appreciate all the posts. Yeah money was never a reason to start. I never did nursing for the money, and traveling would be for the experience of course - i just didnt want to spend my whole savings on a job lol. Again all this has really helped!!!

Yeah really does help alot. I have thought about waiting at least for two years and I am pretty much settled on that. The expenses would be saved; however alot of people (me included) kinda thought that travel nursing was a good way to "save" money...meaning I really thought they paid almost all your living expenses except for of course extra things you do, groceries, etc. I always thought the majority of the companies paid your rent at the minimum. Maybe this is all wrong in general but that is what I kept seeing on other sites.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I do feel like I am a resource person. I have been put in charge several times and work at a very good hospital that is serious about education and always holding mandatory classes etc to learn more. I have been a nurse for a little over a year..is that typical for travel nurses or do you find that more difficult and usually they want nurses who have worked for at least two years or more? I think my patient care is great and I have good time management etc. I think the floor I work on I have had good experience and we get almost everything (to an extent). Again thanks

I have begun researching but a little background about myself - From the south, have had my license for almost 13 months and technically worked off orientation and on my own since Novemember 09 but was hired in Sept 09 so I dont know what they count as my experience? time i had my license or out of orientation? My experience is on a neuro floor but we are pretty much med surg and monitor other floors tele's etc. do i generally have to have one or two years experience? any advice you wish you would have had starting out? are the places they send you generally safe living environments? is it really likely you and another friend could get nursing jobs around each other? i have applied to certain online websites - american mobile is one and i dont see good posts from other nurses on here about that company. what are some of the negatives to travel nursing? thanks for more information

I dont want you to think no one cares so i will post a reply...I have no idea nor have I ever heard of that. If you find out post some info

Depends on your floors tele level 1,2,3, etc at least that is how ours is. Each floor has regulations as to what you can hang certain meds you can hang only because chest pain but not to control bp etc. Most importantly our hospital will not allow a new nurse or any nurse for that matter to hang drips if they have not had the proper educations (cardio pulmonary assessment, etc). I dont consider heparin, insulin etc a drip but yeah we have those two on our floor as well as cardio drips etc on our neuro floor but some other floors can not have what we can and we can not have some that others can. Hope that helps.

you know your a neuro nurse if.............your back is KILLING YOU

hmmm thats even more stressful. no we dont have people who are suicide attempts if that is the only reason for admission. we have a lock down psych unit however they do not take patients who have other complications going on. so if a patient comes in has a stroke or an overflow med surg type patient has schizophrenia then yup we get them, etc. the majority of our patients have psych issues going on. we have a lot of patients in restraints some due to brain injury related reasonings others due to just being crazy lol. keeps it interesting. lol

I think I have heard this before as an old tale but not sure but that would explain why the person at the entrance would have handed you that. On the floor or a patient that is already in the system etc. we immediatly give ativan etc not really waste the time to do the alcohol under the nose. And to comment on what the doctor told you about the smell of alcohol kinda made me giggle because that is bizarre..if drinking alcohol smelt like alcohol pads I for one would never drink lol. When I go to work tonight I will do a little research...the person was probably done seizing and it was just coincidence that it coincided with the time you placed the pad under his nose. Oh and thats funny the md said he needed suction...what he needed was to go to the er and check in lol

There are a lot of nurse practitioners that work "under" the mds. They make decisions on pretty much the same thing as the doctors. If you call them in the middle of the night they will return the phone call back for the mds etc. I dont know where there places of study were, and I do know the neuro patients are not the only patients that they deal with. I dont know if you will be able to ONLY have those type of patients if you do NP but yeah its possible. Of course like anything else you might not get to start off in neuro - endocrine - or whatever your top choice is right away. Well, good luck!!

Well I wonder if you are working on your project right now? I was smiling when I saw it was due tomorrow cause I use to do the same thing and yes...I am a Christmas Eve shopper too. Well by the time you get this you will not need the information at least I hope not lol. Good luck on it and yes I am sure you are overthinking it and how ironic that like everyone has diabetes but this one guy didnt have it....I think I would have said in my project that he did have it lol. Again good luck

Ok I will try...this is the first thing I thought about and it might not be what your looking for. But how about pt started out with dx of diabetes which leads to neuropathy, then the pt gets leg ulcers which get worse or go untreated because of nursing home/ home health care neglegt/abuse. Or are you saying you have a particular patient already and cant play with the scenerio? Because many pts with neuropathy cant feel a cut on their feet, etc and wounds. And I didnt know if you meant it specifically had to be a trauma that occured and because that trauma it led to neuropathy??? Sorry Im a night shift nurse and cant sleep tonight here at home hope I was somewhat close to what you meant lol

(pinching comment above) hahaha thats a good one...... and this is random but is this symbol a smiley face smoking? thats funny too

Hahahaha yeah thats great! Keep thinking like that and soon a later you will be like dang im fine...there is challanges but a team with me that has my back (some do i promise ) ) and im doing it. Good luck heather

omg rainclover lol hahaha. you know your a neuro nurse when 1. your patient calls you and asks if he/she can be reoriented 2. knows exactly what meds can be crushed with your handheld pc in one good swift bang