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I am a 62 1/2 RN and will retire mid Summer. I will need to work a little bit, something very flexible, as my elderly parents need alot of help. I am considering flu shots in the fall, but what are other nursing jobs you have done while retired?? Flexible and relatively well paid. I have done hospital, clinic, AL, LTC, mental health. What, if anything, have you retired RN's done for extra cash?? Thanks !

So Madison, Have you taken your boards? Have you found a job ? What does a job search look like in this time? I have had the same job for about 15 years and will most likely retire from here, so have no idea what current job searchs look like....especially at this time.

Dear Students, Wondering if you are still able to do clinicals during this time, and if not, is this delaying your graduations? Best of luck to all of you. It's a strange time to be entering medicine. Or to be in it at all!

One of my clients was just prescribed Ingrezza for Tardive dyskinesia. I have not heard of it before, as I believe it is pretty new and very expensive. Has anyone had experience with the drug and has it been helpful for your patient? Thanks.

The Center Cannot Hold By Elyn Saks

Good luck on your jobs. Shelby, it sounds like you have a great gig! Have you started it yet? Also, Bethesda has a good reputation as a LTACH. I am considering going back into hospital and would apply to Bethesda, who are opening a new psych unit, but Im not up for the commute. Again, good luck on NCLEX and first jobs!

Yikes! I am considering going back into the hospital at 57 after 15 years in the community. I could work a .6-.7 and make what I make now full time. Politics are everywhere.

I haven't been looking for myself for years, but one thing I do notice that I wasn't seeing 2-3 years ago was the phrase "New grads welcome to apply" attached to many "want ads". Where I work, we have job openings that are going begging, so it seems the market is much more open than it was a few years ago. Sign up for Indeed.com for Minneapolis jobs and you will get a daily email that gives you a good idea of what is out there. Good luck.

When I took boards in 1993,(back when it was still pen to paper) was taking the test for the third time, so it was happening then, to some extent. 100% of our class passed, 100% of our class that started semester 1, finished. Took 6 weeks to get results of NCLEX. Didn't have one doubt in my mind that I would pass. One of my coworkers is in nursing school now. Started with 30, and by semester 3, they are down to 18. (for-profit school)

I know! That's why when the social worker said lots of her clients have this, I couldn't believe it.

She doesnt have a UTI. The smell is garden variety urine. :) I think is long term catheter is the path to a UTI.....

I am a nurse at a home for people with mental illness, many who also are DD. We do NOT do skilled nursing. I have a resident who has terrible urinary incontinence. She is middle aged and ambulatory, cognitive impairment, and just does not recognize when she is incontinent. We have set up behavior management plans with her, but it is not working. The constant smell is affecting other residents. Her county case manager suggests I see about her getting an indwelling foley and she will send around a skilled nurse every month to change it out. SHE SAYS THIS IS OFTEN DONE. This seems ridiculous. Has anyone ever heard of this? Forget the fact that my resident is not capable of doing her own cath care or irrigation, and we are not skilled nursing, but is this something that is actually done??? Basically a catheter for convenience?

Hopefully, in the next 5 years, I can retire from full time work but I hope to work part time or PRN as long as I can. Question for RN's who are "Retired" but still work a little bit, What do you do? If still working as an RN, what kind of nursing are you doing? 1) Stayed on PRN where I was working FT 2) Got a PRN job as RN elsewhere 3) working, but not as RN 4) other..... Thanks !

I haven't done hospital inpatient psych for 15 years.....doing long term psychiatric care now with very stable, high functioning residents. I am thinking about trying to get back into the hospital setting, but my question is, ....Are patients sicker now than they were 15 years ago? Are they more acute? Stay longer? Less options for discharge? For those who have been in Hospital psych for a long time, what do you think? How have things changed in the last 15 years?

3 miles ! Takes me 5-10 minutes to and from work no matter the weather. THis has been my situation for 8 years. I can not bear the idea of commuting again.

Psych tech or mental health worker in a group home or residential psychiatric facility...There are a billion jobs of this type where I live. But if you are going to move on in a month or two when you pass boards, tis the season for seasonal work.

My sister and her husband, both in health care, gave me " The House of God" to read before I started nursing school. Takes place in the 70's and follows a group of first year interns. I read it in the 90's and thought it was hilarious! Don't know how it would play now, but Fat Man's laws are worth the price of admission.

Wondering how the Twin Cities RN/LPN market is now, both for new grads and experienced nurses looking for a change. I am in the same job for 8 years and not looking to change, but I have noticed many more ads for nurses, and use of the phrase 'new grads welcome to apply". Are things getting better? In my company we have jobs going begging (residential psych).

HCMC is the "county hospital". I found it a great place to work, if you don't mind getting your hands dirty. Its a teaching hospital and the Doctors by and large were great, as were the rest of the staff. I haven't worked there in 10 years. It IS downtown, so the traffic is a pain, but HCMC has a big parking ramp. Again, this was my experience. I never worked for the Allina system but it has a good reputation. There are several hospitals in the allina system...AbbottNorthwestern, which is in uptown Minneapolis, Unity and Mercy which are in suburbs, United Hospital in St. Paul and several small hospitals in the area. I think you have 2 good options here. Good Luck.

I was taught to not chart med errors in patient record. Of course, we fill out an incident report saying what was done, any adverse reaction, how to keep this from happening etc, but that those are to be kept internally. Of course if we are surveyed we must turn this over, but these are not to go into a client record. has this changed and what are people learning now, doing now. ?

I got my ADN 20 years ago and have never been denied a job because I didn't have a BSN. I have only 10 years left to work so NO WAY will I go back to school.

I haven't been around this site for a while, but I remember a few years ago, new grads were having a heck of a time finding jobs. Has this gotten better? (I have been a nurse for 20+ years, and have a stable job so haven't been paying attention to the trends....)

Romney/Ryan

I could stand to take off some weight and i'll tell you why i am succesful at at least beginning a conversation with patients about food. I tell them i struggle right along with them...that i know its tough...people will respond to "down to earth" much more than "finger wagging". But I do not consider myself a role model as a nurse. I am a human being with a job to do. struggling right along with the rest of you....we all have our weaknesses, whether it be food, smoking, money problems, family issues, mental illness...whatever. I will give you the benefit of the doubt.

I have a patient who has terrible hypersalivation secondary to his use of Clozaril. Clozaril is the only antipsychotic to deal with his schizophrenia, but the side effects are terrible. He cant use atropine due to heart issues, and anticholinergics have been useless. Has anyone seen anything that works, other than above mentioned meds? Thanks.