Hi All, I just took an ER job in Sitka, Alaska working at Mt Edgecumbe SEARHC Hospital. It is a facility for Alaska Natives (Eskimo and other tribes). Any tips/cultural advice for working with this...
LOL! So glad you all can feel my paper hat pain!!! I forgot to write the best part though.... That freakin construction paper beanie was our GIFT for nurses week AND hospital week that year!!! Cheap...
Never had the pleasure of scripting thank goodness, but: One year for nurse's week one of the administrators made a bunch of white construction paper nurse's caps which the staff was MANDATED to wear...
I left South Central MI because I couldn't make any money and started travel nursing. I was making $28/hr in the ER. Avg wage across the states I've traveled has been more like $32. Have rates gone up...
Hi Jay, It sounds like you and I are in a pretty similar situation. I am also a 24 yr old ER nurse starting grad school for NP this month. More importantly I am also feeling pretty dang overwhelmed. I...
Hi there, I hate to give bad news but $25 is a pretty low wage to live on in AK. Of course that would depend on what other benefits are being provided. I'm in Sitka, AK, but have family in Anchorage....