Ally0981

Hi All, I am strongly considering becoming a pool nurse when I graduate in a year. Can anyone give me the inside on pros and cons pls? Thanks in advance.

Hi all... I am so excited, I have just found a job posting from hospital that I've always been interested in. (even though I still have another year and a half left of school until I'm an RN) I am excited. I think I want to be a pool nurse to start off b/c I get experience from different floors and I have a better schedule:rolleyes:...NOT TO MENTION THE $ The hospital I'm interested in advertised $50/hr for night shift pool nurses...and $46 for day. Thats a lot of money:yeah:! They are also a university so discount on rn-bsn which I am interested in. YAY!

Just to clarify... I did clean it up the best I could. There was also poop encrusted in the floor (this wasn't the first time). All she really needed to do was run "the/her" mop over the floor. I got the major stuff up OF COURSE! If the job didn't req a mop I would NOT have asked "housekeeping" or w/e they refer as. I was the one doing the dirty work here...NOT HER!

I am a student and my pt couldn't make it to the bathroom. Poop all over the floor. I went out in the hall and told a housekeeper staff member what had happened and asked her to clean it very politely. I also suggested a mop would be useful (wet poop). She caught the biggest attitude and asked me why I couldn't do it. I said if I had the cleaning materials I'd have no problem. Then her friend (male) told her to calm down, which made her even more enraged. Long story short, it took her 4.5 hrs to finally clean it up. First of all, that really isn't an rn's job, or should I say priority. Second of all, that is why she gets paid, or a tech's job? How should I have handled this?:confused:

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Oh, and I forgot to mention that last week my instructor SAVED a patient. The nurse gave pt insulin, no food, and went on break. My friend went in the room a few minutes later and noticed something was CLEARLY wrong. She grabbed my instructor, my instructor immediately grabbed the doc. Now I'm not exactly sure what they did, but my instructor said 10-15 more minutes and that pt would be dead. The nurse brushed it off her shoulder when she came back from break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The student just saved your ass- SHOCKING.

I am a student and I feel the same. Why do some nurses do anything possible to steer clear of the nurses?? If anything, they should be happy b/c 1.) More nurses are getting into the field .. shortage will help with understaffing and 2.) we are here to HELLP!!!! answer call bells, bed baths, vitals, ANYTHING THEY ASK I find that the younger nurses are sooo much more helpful than the older ones. Uhg, I just want to scream at some of the nurses and tell them to get over themselves, I will be a nurse just like you in a year!:bowingpur Today, one actually genuinely thanked me for my help. I can't wait to mentor new nurses, I love to teach when I know something well.