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Just wanted to run this by you all.. I'm an inpatient oncology nurse.. So I hurt my thumb (..jammed it against the pyxis of all things) 2 months ago- a couple days of it not improving, i filed workers comp and was told to wear a thumb spica brace. 2...

I'm suppose to come up with an "action plan" for not being there late.... part of the issue is a damn useless CNA, insane assignments that you sucks when your coworkers point out how lousy of an assignment you have and offer to help as they can and h...

Hey, I've been a nurse for 3 1/2 years, doing med/Surg with remote tele and have been on an oncology specific unit for the last 2 1/2 years. What agencies do you recommend for per diem hospital work in the Portland metro area? I have my WA and OR R...

So I just wanted to exclaim my excitement.. I'm gunna be working on an Oncology/BMT unit! Sometime this year, they will chemo certify me, and next year, they will start the mentoring process to get me BMT certified! The unit has 8 BMT rooms. I've b...

ahhhH!!! I just started at a new big hospital (compared to my awesome little 44 bed unit i moved away from =( and at this new hospital, they use Epic and I was just told today I have to go thru and put stop times for the same reasons, and cuz of som...

see, this is pretty much exactly why I'm having a hard time learning EPIC! I just got hired at a new hospital and we use EPIC... and at my old hospital, we used Meditech, and my charting there was rather thorough and detailed, mostly in the form of n...

I told a co-worker about a potiental move and to be fair, I did email the boss and let her know of the impending decision.. and suddenly coworkers on the prev shift i hardlly ever see are sayin "So I hear your moving eh?!" And then my boss forget I ...

So I have been a nurse on a med/surg/tele floor at a small hospital for a year now.. and I want to move back home (Portland, OR). i SOMEHOW landed an interview at a good hospital, on an oncology floor, which is what i want to specialize in! I worked...

Hi, So on tuesday I have an interview for basically my dream job.. noc shift, 12 hr shifts, Oncology unit of a very good hospital back home! (I moved away for nursing school and now that I have a yr of exp, I want to move back..and I very much want t...

On our sliding scale protocol, if the person gets any coverage at HS, (2100), we have to check the blood sugar again between 0200-0300. Also on that, is if the patient is NPO, then we switch to Q6 blood sugar checks and sliding scale coverage instead...

Ive had A LOT of patients that Zofran doesn't seem to do anything at all for... My last shift I had a pt with severely delayed gastric emptying/slow peristalsis who said she had tried everything (and we had given her a lot of different stuff over the...

Weekend for my hospital (and every hospital I've worked for) is Friday and Saturday nights. Our weekend diff is $4/hr, on top of our night shift diff. which is $4.75.

My mom's resting HR is around 140-150 without her meds...she also has random episodes of SVT with no apparent cause. She had tried quite a few different beta blockers (including atenolol and metoprolol) and it wasn't until they put her on propranolol...

Okay so Im going to graduate on June 7th... and likely then wont be able to take my boards till late June or July, based on what I'm being told. I have started to apply for positions and I was wondering if you guys click the little button on applica...

Lil late but figured I'd chime in... I've been a CNA since 2004, and did homecare for a year privately before I got hired on with my first agency. I was thrown into a nursing home and i literally had no idea what i was doing or what needed to be don...

I did agency as a CNA full time in the Portland-metro area for a few years (about to graduate nursing school now tho! =) In Portland, OR the top 3 agencies are Maxim, Nurse Finders and MSN. Maxim was definitely my primary agency... i got paid a lil...

Venting about screwing up my first interview... Well, I had my first nursing job interview....and it was the phone for a major teaching hospital halfway across the country. and i'm quite sure i botched it! =( Dangitall. they barely asked me anything...

Hi =) I've searched the forum for your wonderful answers regarding other new grad jobs and interview stuff.. but I have a question I was hoping to get help with! I graduate in a couple months (8 wks!) and recently started applying for new grad positi...

Hey =) I'm graduating from nursing school in June and have started the dreaded hunt for a new grad nursing job! Some of em are pretty dang far away thanks to the 15% unemployement rate in my area. I have been a CNA for 5 years now, and I have acquir...

So, my school (thankfully!!) didn't require TEAS testing prior to acceptance, they did however require us to take the test our first couple wks of the nursing program. They said they wanted to compare the data to other students regarding how long ago...

I am the first to admit I didn't study...cuz we showed up for lecture one day in the 2nd week of first quarter and they were all "Oh hey, btw...after lunch meet us in such and such computer room, ur having a test." But i still thinks its ridiculous...

haha!! I've had those moments... I graduate in June and its so weird that the nurses who are (graciously) working with me and helping me, actually listen to what i think or ask what we should do.. and whats even weirder, is I have answers (sometimes!...

I've been a CNA for 5 years at a variety of hospitals (mostly agency per diem work). (gunna be a nurse now in about 3 months tho! =) Wish i had a good solution to this problem but unfortunately it seems to be a bit universal. Shift-Change sucks. lol ...

ok i know this was posted awhile ago.. but Im readin thru the humor section and it came up and i have to agree with every ******* single one of those! GREAT IDEAS!

just commented on the youtube vid itself.. but OMG that was great!!! I wish you guys were in my nursing program!!!