mrdoc2005

Hello everyone!!! Hope you all had a great Christmas. I need some help with tax deductions. I am new to traveling, just started traveling in Nov., and I am not sure what I can count for deductions. I am keeping my home state in TN but for the curre...

depends on where you go and what kind of demands you have. I have been a nurse for 3 years and I tell my recruiter not to even tell me anything below $35 + housing and insurance and most of those had better have some kind completion $ attached. But...

does anyone use these people or know anything good or bad about them. they got my contact number somehow and keep calling me. Kinda annoying but at the sametime I understand the recruiter is just being a recruiter and trying to get as many people a...

I have just started traveling myself so I may be wrong here but I don't think LVN travel or atleast not to most places. Again I will be the first to say I can be wrong on that. I know most states require RNs to check/take orders and RN do vasoavtiv...

always float travelers, watch out if you have a dayshift contract, they are known for giving you a day contract then putting you on nights about a month into it just to bring in more travelers to work days then pull them to night. this is their way ...

check the handbook very carefully. most of them state you must float if asked. Now with the hours I am not sure but again make sure you know what the handbook/rulebook states. Keep in mind knowledge is power when dealing with these people

depending on states but most of the time you have to pay both states. Your resident state is much less than the other. I working a mill job in GA. when I was in school and lived just inside AL. That is where I am getting this from. I had to pay sta...

I was wondering did any of you have to be put on a waiting list for nursing school. I was in on the first try. I will say that I had a good GPA and the cut off for my class was 3.2. I heard we had 120 people apply and they could only take 64. For ...

Izzygal-- I finished my BSN and started working in May. So far I like it. I think a lot has to do with where you work and who is around you. For example the hospital trained me on days then moved me to nights. The day shift was always complaining...

One thing I don't understand..... Why are you against a peer making more money than they currently are. That is what you are saying by saying NO. If nurses do not start pulling together that we are providing ammo for the other guy (hospital, corp, ...

I second that!!!!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- You will find that all nursing programs are required to have x number of clinical hours in their programs. This number is the same no matter if it is ADN or BSN. (atleast th...

BSN should make more than ADN. I know I am going to get yelled at for that statement, but more school should equal more pay. I am not saying that a BSN makes you a better nurse. That all depends on the nurse him/herself. For the BSNs out there. I...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- My school changed insurance comapanies between semesters my last year. We went from doing almost anything to not even able to touch an IV med. We were not even allowed to go...

Hey guys, I just finished school and took a job at Vanderbilt on a stepdown unit. I did not learn much about ekg in school. I am looking for a good book to teach me about how to read them. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for your replies.

Thanks for the tips

When I was shopping I went to littmans website. They have a study published on there that says the length of there tubing will not effect the sound quality of there scopes. However, they did say that a longer tube would make deep bass notes more pr...

You can go to LPN school. It is around a 1yr. Then there is ADN RN which is around 2 yrs. Or, the BSN route which is around 4-5 yrs depending on the school you go to. I am don't know anything about your education but you may be able to do a brid...

A little off subject but I just had to say: When doing my preceptorship in March I had a nurse inform me "It is YOUR JOB to get the pts family and doctors coffee when they come in". I mean the women got mad when I said no it is not my job to do so b...

My two cents: There is nothing wrong with saying I worked very hard, went to school (while my friends played and bragged about their new 30K car while I had a piece of crap) and now I am being rewarded because of all of this. In short, no manner what...

most of the new immunizations state that but that is all I have seen

WHen you retire from a hospital do you get to keep your insurance like most professions do? I am just a student (until the end of this month) an I was doing my preceptorship last night when the house suppervisor, my preceptor and I were talking abo...

thanks for your replies......although not what i wanted to hear. I am just really shocked by this because most of the companies around here do (mills, ect...).

I have worked in LTC and hospitals as a tech/cna and I personally thought it was easier working in the hospital. Mainly because you will normally have a lower ratio and when you do ADLs you normally only put a gown on them. To me one of the hardest...