GreentigerRN

Best of luck guys. I am in the Acute Care NP program and supposed to graduate next Sept. It's next to impossible to find clinical sites right now. Start making connections NOW!

Thank you for responding! I will check it out.

I am located in Las Vegas and willing to travel almost anywhere for my clinicals. I have reached nothing but dead ends, docs expecting babies, hospitals not signing new contracts and the list goes on. Is there anyone out there that might be willing to help? I have to have inpatient, non-critical care and it has to be days. Hospitalists, internal medicine, endocrine, nephrology, neurology, cards, oncology, infectious disease and even pulmo (as long as there are patients to see that are not in the ICU. I really appreciate any advice or assistance. Thank you.

4hams and Dina - what agencies do you work for? I am starting to research my travel options... Thanks!

I don't expect her to work regulary scheduled shifts-at all. I would expect her to show up on night shift, which she has never done - ever. This includes her time as a nurse on the floor. How can you be an effective manager if you manage by word of mouth for over half of your employees.

I hate to vent but I don't really have anywhere else to go so I respectfully ask for your advice and support. My nurse manager is only around on day shift and even then she only pops her head in and out of the unit (from what I hear). She never actually works on the unit. We are a 24 bed telemetry unit that has recently been very short on staff. I personally have been on staff there just over a year and have never seen her in the building after sunset. She has never come in to fill in when we were incredibly short staffed, she just let us run short. Correct me if I'm wrong but nursing is a 24 hour a day 365 day a year job...shouldn't she have come in? And of course she is full of everything to say when ALL is not perfect when she arrives by 0800 in the morning... Any advice? I really think I could take all the criticism more if she ever had something nice to say but the "thank you for all you do" just doesn't cut it anymore. Had it up to here Greentiger, RN

You should have access to a database of journal articles that will prove the necessity of rapid notification of elevated trops. We have issues as well, the lab will notify the nurse if the first trop is >0.1 but >0.5 is considered critical. So if the first trop in the ER is >0.1 we don't get a call on the floor if the second trop is 10. Can I get a WHAT?

I just applied to a med/surg floor at Vandy. I currently live in SC and would love to move to the Nashville area. I hate to ask but does anyone have any advice or suggestions for getting hired on at Vandy? I have 6 mos experience at a level 1 trauma ER and an ASN. Thanks!

LOVE THEM!!! I am very tall and my back is usually very sore at the end of a long night. It was the same in my retail job before becoming a nurse. If you follow the directions about how to walk in them you can feel your legs working as you walk (this is how I think some people are losing inches). If you walk correctly it feels like a massage on your feet. At the end of my shift my back is not sore and my feet don't hurt. I will warn you - they are hideous and expensive but you will love them like the ugliest dog in the world.