KalipsoRed

Addendum: DON'T EVER, EVER, EVER TRUST YOUR EMPLOYER. Your life is about you...and your kids to a certain extent. You look out for you. Employer's WILL manipulate every possible situation in your life to their benefit...that's only alright when it wo...

Damn, girl! That sucks!!! I'm so sorry that something that should have been so wonderful turned out to be crap. There are times in my life that I feel as though something is pulling me in a direction I don't want to go, but should. Here's my two cent...

I guess what I don't understand is why the lady in Ultrasound chewed me out for sending a possible DVT to doppler in a wheelchair. It is pretty minimal activity, to me anyway, for a patient to get up from bed walk the 4 or 5 steps to the wheelchair, ...

So I would like the masses to provide me with their standards of care related to DVT patients. I've worked in several hospitals and there is the sect that says the patient should not get up and walk around at all, period, no matter what. The second s...

Hi! I'm a tele/med-surg nurse. I worked cardiac stepdown for 2.5 years before I decided to do traveling. I chose travel nursing because my dad is ill and on occasion I need to be at home with him for 1 or 2 months at a time. I have discoverd that for...

Ha! I looked up some articles. Preventing ambulation has NOT proven to help prevent PEs or the development of new DVTs. Suggestions are now for compression (SCDs) and ambulation in early DVT treatment. I wish I could stick my tounge out at that lady ...

Yeah, I agree with everyone here. Get out of nights as soon as you can. I work nights on and off as a traveler. I worked a year worth of nights as a new nurse. I find that doing it for short stents (13 weeks) is not so bad. I do that then switch to a...

I don't either, but with the way jobs are these days I don't know if I'd refuse because they might take it offensivly. Maybe they've just had a lot of turn over and want to know before you take the position if you REALLY want to deal with the crap th...

You know I just had an interview for an ER yesterday. I had the peer interview too. This is the second time I've interviewed for an ER and I didn't get either job. I have 3 yrs tele floor experience and I worked in several nursing support positions f...

Uh, I'm no expert, but that sounds like poo to me too. As far as I know a T valve does not creat positive pressure and thus should still be clamped if it is not in use. It seems to me that if you DIDN'T clamp it you would have a greater risk of clots...

@TheSquire It doesn't sound like you've worked med-surg. Tele and Med-Surg are EXCELLENT places to get a background for emergency. I know because I worked ER before med-surg and tele and am now going back to the ER. Your hospital likes new grads so t...

As I've read some of the other posts now I'd like to address a few other things. LPNs/LVNs--- I don't know about the rest of you but I don't even know how to work with an LPN/LVN. In school and in real life we were taught how to work with aids or CNA...

Ha! You know what I took care of a nurse today who has 37 years of nursing experience, so she's only 34 years ahead of me, ;P Anyway, here is kinda what we came up with: I thought being a nurse today was so bad because of a high patient load, but my ...

Well I have $47K in subsidized and unsubsidized Federal Loans which is $532 a month for 30 years. I also racked up debt by credit card and other things while trying to live on my own while going to school out of state. The first 3 years out of school...

You know, I think the unfortunate thing is that the guy who gave you the advice was a guy. It sounds like he showed some emotion for a patient at some time and was shuned for doing it. Might have been shuned by the patient, but I'd think it just as l...

Well if she saw it and did nothing she should be fired. The CNA should be in some serious trouble for not reporting it to BOTH the day and nightshift RNs if it was change of shift. In fact she should have reported that kind of blood pressure as soon ...

I agree. I've never worked in a LTC, but it's crazy for me to have 8 ortho patients without an aid or a secretary in the hospital. Also to have 5 cardiac patients (like two fresh thoracotomies and 3 fresh CABGs, 12 to 24 hrs post surgery) with an aid...

So, for the last 3 years I've gone from one crummy situation to another. Started out as a tech in a level one trauma department with a 16 to one ratio (RNs had a 6-8 to 1 ratio, which is also crazy), then got my first job cardiac step down with a 5 t...

I don't know if I'll stay or not. I've asked, but my boyfriend is in a different city and my family. With travel nursing at least I can possibly get placed close enough to them to see them for more than just a week or two out of the year. But I wish ...

My first job was in Saint Louis Missouri at $21.16 per hour ($20.16 for other new grads.). I got no increase for having a BSN I got the dollar because I'd been a nurses' aid for 3 years prior to becoming a nurse so I had 'clinical' experience. I don...

I think that CNAs and LVNs are more the vocational area of nursing and ADN and BSN are the more 'professional' sectors of nursing. Mostly because BSN/ADNs have college degrees AND are responsible for being able to do everything a CNA and LVN does pl...

I think it's obvious...get a new job, no one at your facility sounds like they are going to help you. When you find a new job post every where you can what a horrible work enviornment your current job is for nurses so no one else has to put up with t...

Well when you sit for your test you should be able to state that you want to get a Texas license. It has something to do with how you fill out the forms that you need to fill out to apply for your NCLEX exam, thus you will never have an Illinois lice...

@ Roy Fokker: Thanks for saying what I was trying to say in much more civil terms. @79Tango: Just trying to use simple words for simple people.

Poi Dog, I'm sorry you have been violated just to care for someone. Nursing is insane to accept such hazards as part of our field....especially for the lousy pay we get for such a s**ty work environment. I say start looking for another job. While res...