Not_A_Hat_Person RN

This is part of what I liked about working in corrections. Don't get me wrong, the inmates deserved basic respect as human beings, regardless of what they had done. That said, if you did something an inmate didn't like, and it met the standard of car...

That tells me everything I need to know.

They definitely should have told you about the difference in pay. I would be wary of them.

It was the house phone. They lived in an area with no cell service. Still, walking off with it made my job that much harder.

There's a reason for that. I will sell my body on the street before I work in another nursing home.

If facilities refuse to hire new grads with no experience, where do they expect to find experienced nurses?

Something similar happened to me. The client's family had taken them to a medical appointment and the doc had changed some med orders without telling my employer. When I got there a few days later, Mom told me about the change. I could copy a med ord...

I've only worked on 2 EMRs: McKesson and ERMA, which is tailored to corrections. I find McKesson easier to work with.

When I was in Nursing Home Hell, we had scheduled resident smoke breaks. An LNA who smoked would round up residents 2 or 3 times a day, and they would all go out to the smoking area.

Does your state board of nursing allow mandatory overtime? If not, you may want to talk to them about it. Otherwise, vote with your feet.

Private duty, especially night shifts.

If you pay for additional education, either a degree or CEUs, don't set up a lot of hoops to jump through.

Free or subsided parking. Subsided public transit passes. A prepaid legal plan. Self-scheduling. The ability to use PTO.

Medicare Slashes Star Ratings for Staffing at 1 in 11 Nursing Homes

And now, another exciting round of "every nurse younger and/or less experienced than me is a spoiled entitled snowflake."

I would go, in case the position I'd accepted didn't work out. If the job you took wasn't working for your employer, or they decided they liked another candidate better, or someone high up in the organization had a friend or relative who needed a job...

The hospital and the nurses will resume negotiations tonight.

If they're not paying you on time, you need to get out. Full stop.

The strike was a week ago, July 12 and 13, though the nurses may hit the picket lines again.

Does your employer pay for continuing education? Would they reimburse you, even in part, for an OASIS course?

Many non-acute jobs require acute care experience. When I graduated in 2008, even nursing homes wanted 1 year of med-surg.

I wonder how many facilities complaining about a "nursing shortage" are chasing purple squirrels, refusing to hire anyone who doesn't meet their requirements to the letter.

Will they let you park your camper on site? I've seen campers in nursing home employee parking lots. When I worked in a prison, a few employees lived in campers in the employee lot.

I've been licensed for 10 years this month, working for 9.

A shift supervisor once got very upset when I questioned a morphine dose that turned out to be very wrong. Among other things, the dose was calculated for 1 mg/ml, and the stuff we had was 20 mg/ml. She actually said "I have never seen someone actual...