ghostchili

everything's been pretty much covered previously, but just wanted to throw in that at my facility, unless it's for two very specific populations, the ED is not required to call report on any patient it sends up to inpatient units... (not sure if this...

meds eventually time out in Epic...i'm not sure if it's 12 hours or 24. i usually chart against it somehow (missed, cancelled entry, &c...if it's a discontinued med i chart it as a cancelled entry and put "med d/c'd" in the comment box because t...

i'm currently on night 8 of 8 (doing 12-hr shifts) and i don't even feel like i can do anything *but* work. i think i've had 4 nights off in the past month, and i never know what to do with myself if i'm off...i end up coming in to work for a couple...

i would caution against calling a manager directly; managers are often really busy and it can make you appear aggressive and pushy instead of positively assertive. i still maintain that if you want to make direct contact, do it face-to-face so that ...

always chart. in 7 years, the people involved won't remember specific conversations, so you have to cover yourself. it doesn't necessarily have to be detailed; you can just chart "d/w _________, supervisor/manager/whoever." in my hospital, we have...

@ 7 years as an RN I imagine you'll start somewhere around $24/hr? cath lab uses mostly techs; you'd work in the care unit (recovery, stuff like that) if you wanted to work around the cath lab.

Sentara has almost a monopoly in the area, and they are on electronic charting vs. the paper charting Bon Secours is on. I don't know what Chesapeake uses. The benefit to Sentara is that once you're hired onto a unit, it's very easy to transfer bet...

i don't like you. i don't like anything about you. i don't like the way you constantly try to make everyone feel belittled, i don't like the way you treat everyone (especially new staff) like they're idiots--i'd rather work with some of these new n...

So...I have a dilemma. I've been working on my unit for about 3 years now. I work in heart failure--we get LVADs, PAH, end-stage CHF, and heart transplants. We also care for the lung transplant patients in the community. It's really a great unit, ...

I honestly have no idea; I've only worked in one unit. I know we have people shadow, but I'm not sure if that's before or after they interview. It never hurts to ask, though, and I imagine it will set you apart as someone who's willing to go the ex...

Ohhkay. So..I think I'll reiterate that this looks like something copy-pasted off a how-to-write-a-cover-letter site sample. You need to take this opportunity to show off what it is that makes you a stellar candidate vs. one of thousands of people ...

i don't know how common it is anywhere else, but around where i am, a lot of the LTC positions open actually ask for at least a couple years' experience in an acute setting before they'll hire a person. that being said, LTC needs nurses, badly, but i...

oh, good to know! that just kind of solidifies the ICU direction more. thanks. :)

one thing i can think of is to physically go into the hospital and introduce yourself to the manager and see if you can set up a time to shadow one of the staff nurses after you've applied. this way, they'll put a face to the name and when they call...

i don't think that being pregnant is a "temporary medical condition" when she doesn't plan on returning to work. as far as the employer is concerned, that would be permanent.

Seriously. 7:1 with multiple drips and what sounds like barely-stable cardiac patients? The most we have here is 4:1, and those are on the medicine & surgery stepdown units. ICU here is 1:1. I agree with the quoted poster--run far away. :/

cause i really like the way she wrote this and it should reappear in this thread. =)

from what i've seen, i would only need one extra semester of o-chem and one extra semester of college physics to fulfiill the prereqs for med school beyond what i've taken for my nursing school, but then again, i also didn't just take the lowest-leve...

i agree with this. a lot of people try to study as much content as possible, and try to know every nursing diagnosis for every disease process, but the NCLEX will purposefully ask you about obscure diseases to test your critical thinking ability. k...

the NCLEX-RN *is* the RN licensing exam; there is no other.

snip: "take breaks if you have to. do the best you can do and relax." i sure don't know what you mean here??? no such things as taking a break during the exam which is timed in sections for two days??? no getting up and taking a break-- what third wo...

good luck to everyone going into loyola's absn program. as for how loyola's program is run, i would say be prepared to dig out information for yourself and always be ready to double-check everything that you're told. i guess it's good practice for a...