MissBrahmsRN

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1. Question About Stretched Ears

   MissBrahmsRN replied to KatieMarie1127's topic in General Students

   i work with several RNs that have stretched lobes, most of them wear clear glass or plastic plugs to work. none of them are stretched larger than 1.5 inch though. nasal piercings are common, many of...

2. Nurses~

   MissBrahmsRN replied to GitanoRN's topic in General Nursing

   i just wanna know one thing....are you hiring?? to be fair, my first nurses week they had free 5 min chair massages and last year i think they had a nice meal on days and i did get a nice wooden...

3. extremely high competition for surgery centers?

   MissBrahmsRN replied to MissBrahmsRN's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   central

4. extremely high competition for surgery centers?

   MissBrahmsRN posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   i'm trying to move into outpatient surgery PACU and/or Pre-Op. i have 2 years experience in inpatient hospital critical care and still cannot seem to get a callback, even for PRN positions which is...

5. Good hospitals in Austin for a Critical Care nurse?

   MissBrahmsRN replied to abigrace's topic in Texas Nursing

   i work critical care for Seton at Brack. If you like adult cardiac (including transplants) Seton Medical Center on 38th also known as Seton Main is the place for you. If you like adult heavy...

6. Controversial new policies at Baylor!!!!

   MissBrahmsRN replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

   that's absolutely ridiculous. whether people approve or not, using tobacco is LEGAL. period. testing for it, and treating it's users like hard core drug addicts is just wrong. my grandmother...

7. Controversial new policies at Baylor!!!!

   MissBrahmsRN replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

   i also meant to add, if they dont want tobacco users on our staff, well there goes about 85% of your surgical staff. including the surgeons actually they'd lose a good portion of the doctors as...

8. Controversial new policies at Baylor!!!!

   MissBrahmsRN replied to tele jelly's topic in General Nursing

   so what makes the cut i'd like to know?!? a SBP of 130? 140? 150? what the hell sorta lab values are "acceptable?" it's my personal medical info and my boss has no business knowing my blood...

9. Going from nights to days

   MissBrahmsRN replied to pumpkin455's topic in General Nursing

   girl, how on earth do you do it?? even when i worked days, after 12-13hrs running around at work all i had the energy for was to put my feet up & watch TV. even then i crashed usually within a...

10. Going from nights to days

    MissBrahmsRN replied to pumpkin455's topic in General Nursing

    is your manager ok with a trial period? i had a coworker who tried days for a couple weeks then decided it wasnt for her & went back to nights, our manager was fine with the trial. if you can...

11. Too old for ICU?

    MissBrahmsRN replied to eyeball's topic in Critical Care

    i would NEVER accept a job from a manager that said something like that unless i was desperate. he/she has told you two things right there: 1- they do not like employees who take a day off, even if...

12. SCHEDULING/WEEKENDS

    MissBrahmsRN replied to apriloglesby's topic in General Nursing

    we dont do seniority, if you are fulltime (36hrs weekly) then you are expected to sign up for 4 weekend shifts per schedule (each schedule is 4 weeks.) the way we do holidays is everyone fills out a...

13. Maintaining the license without work, and a general rant

    MissBrahmsRN replied to hotflashion's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Texas is not begging for nurses that's for sure. Texas is flooded with new grads & everyone with experience who can't get jobs anywhere else!! In my system we have 100+ people competing for one...

14. Preceptor gift

    MissBrahmsRN replied to stumaxtan's topic in General Nursing

    i think i was misunderstood. in our hospital system preceptors get their normal hourly wage plus a precepting bonus (kinda like a shift diff) for precepting. so for example, say your base pay is...

15. Preceptor gift

    MissBrahmsRN replied to stumaxtan's topic in General Nursing

    i didnt get my preceptors anything. not that i didnt appreciate all they did for me, i really do, and i was sure to tell them at the end of my residency and since i still work on the same unit I...