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They know. One showed up and couldn't find the nurse for his pt and the nurses station was completely empty and when one came into the nurses station he asked how many nurses they had and when she told them 2 for 6 vent pts he went ballistic. It was brought up to certain doctors on more than one occasion also. It was even brought up at a meeting and Nurse Manager acted as though it didn't matter. She is from a different hospital in a different city than ours but she acts as though she knows the doctors better than anyone there.:icon_roll

I just hate it. I used to enjoy going to work and seeing and talking to my pts and now I don't. I can't even sit and talk to them because I need to rush to do something else for another pt. We are like a family and when one person in particular said that, she said she would put a stop to that. She seems to have it out for one person in particular, our Charge Nurse, who keeps getting wrote up for things like taking pts when it gets to a 7 to 1 ratio or when a nurse was "on call" but never showed up so we were short, but she won't do the same to other Charge Nurses. Alot of people respect the woman she seems to want to ruin.

The old Nurse Manager left because they tried to add more responsibilities to her job that was originally a separate job, but the woman who did that job went on maternity leave and they weren't willing to let her work from home. When asked if the policy was corporate wide (it's a series of LTAC hospitals) she said that it wasn't. We even have physicians that were promised that the nurses taking care of their vent pt.s would have no more than a 2 to 1 ratio, but these nurses think it's okay to give them 3 to 1. They are pretty much screwed if they have to code one because no would would be able to monitor the other five vent/critical pt.s. They are causing a lot of folks to leave and yet they act as though patient satisfaction is number 1. She excuses every change she makes as "she did this at her other job". So of course it must be right here???!!!!

Our old Nurse Manager left the position to become a part-time floor nurse and a new one was hired a couple months later and nobody can stand her. She changed our pt ratio from around 5 to 1 or 6 to 1 (on good days 4 to 1) to Team Nursing. Which means if when have 24 pts, there will be 2 RN's and 2 LPN's and we split the pts down the middle (12 to 1) and Yes I mean 12 to 1. It's like having 12 pt.'s to yourself even though you split the duties. The LPN's give a ton of po meds, the RN's give a boat load of IV meds, prns, and also have to do assessments (Imagine the paperwork). ON top of that, we never feel like we did a good job at pt. care. We don't get time to read their histories or to actually talk to them because we're running constantly. We don't even get group report. I actually liked knowing about what was going on with everyone else's pt.s especially when there was an emergency and we all had to pull together or in case a physician came by and the pt.s nurse was busy. Now we don't know anything about anyone. It's frustrating and she's changing up even more crap and people are quitting or becoming prn because they can't deal with it on a daily basis and the "idiots in charge" have done nothing to fix it. We don't have enough staff to take care of the pts properly and the rate of falls is increasing along with bedsores. There is plenty of talk of some of the people I work with quitting and they are great nurses who have been at it along time who used to LOVE to come to work. I don't know what to do.:angryfire

Stanley, I'm in Mississippi. Gentlegiver, I took state boards Aug 28 and my birthday is Nov 16.

A guy I work with got his back in 2006 and he said that he had to renew it by the end of that year also so I wasn't sure, but like I already posted, I got ahold of the BON and they reassured me. achat chovi, I didn't know that. Thanks. Tntrn, license renewal in Ms is $100. I think it was $50 before.

I just got off the phone with the MS BON and they said that if the card says 2010, then that is when it expires. Thanks y'all.:heartbeat

I didn't get anything in the mail.

this is what it said: that license number, ssn, last name combination was not found. when i looked up my license, it all came up fine. i'm only having problems with the renewal part. will it not let me renew if it isn't time to?

I just got my license this year and it says it expires December 31, 2010. Some people at my job still say I'm supposed to get it renewed because one in particular graduated in 2006 and had to renew his that year. It also says on the MSBON that all RN's renew their license in 2008. I even tried to renew it, but it wouldn't let me. It said something about my license #, ssn, or last name couldn't be found (or something like that). I am an RN (I made sure to find my license and re-look up my name on the BON). Should I do anything else? I'm going to try to contact the BON to make sure. I just wanna know so that I won't screw myself up. Can anyone help?

Congratulations! I know how it feels to fail the first time and I failed with all 265 questions. I was so close. I passed the second time around with 75 also and felt a relief. You're now an RN. Go celebrate!

Serena I felt like I failed my second attempt also when it stopped at 75, but I passed. There's a good chance you did also.

Congratulations! It's a great feeling.

I'm glad you're not giving up.

The Nclex is a national test. No test is easier or harder than the other because of the state you're in. You're right, your friends aren't.