JomoNurse

A while back I picked up a part time nursing job at Kaiser hospital because I found myself bored with my days off, so I thought to myself what the heck, i'll get another job. A while back my manager at the part time job said that she really needed ...

That's awesome!!! Congratulations on your 1st day! Today you're just getting started, and in no time at all you'll be weeks away from graduation so you'll have a totally new and different kind of excitement. Enjoy your schooling while you can (hard t...

Is this post for real? Go work at Walmart if you're willing to work for minimum wage. Hardly any stress. I don't think you are sane if this post is for real (I am not joking). I don't quite get why a New Graduate Nurse would be working as a FREE nurs...

I REALLY recommend to everyone that wants to be an RN to take the JC route. It's insanely cheap. Universities are a waste of money if all you want to do is be an RN.

I typed a long responses and at the last second I accidentally clicked the refresh button. Doh! Basically it said two things 1) You did the right thing, and don't sweat it and, 2) The surgeon should not have been paged for the desats. The surgeon ON...

Sorry, but I don't believe a word an active drug addict says. If you want to believe them, then fine, you go do that and see how fast they screw you over. I also love the "I hope youre never MY nurse" responses. Pathetic. Maybe in your land of faires...

Sorry OP, I didn't mean YOU made her take a drug test. My point was it was insulting that she was made to take a drug test, after a druggie said she hadn't gotten her fix.

Oh, sorry! I didn't mean my post to be directed at any specific person. It was meant as a general statement. I understand a LOT of people will disagree with it, but trust me, you will agree with it as you age. School consumes a lot of one's time and ...

You are correct. Drug addicts don't always lie. But they DO lie in order to get more drugs when the supply is gone.

Honestly, i'm pretty much positive the patient took all 4 pills, and then when you came back in, said she didn't get the PRNs, and she ultimately got you to give her a double dose of it. The fact that you made the float nurse take a drug test is insu...

I haven't gotten an offer letter either. I just got a phone call from the manager and she asked if I wanted to take the job or not. After that, I made an appointment with HR and signed all of their paperwork. After that, I showed up to work and star...

If money and job versatility is your motivating factor, then definitely do the RN route. More money and you'll be able to work at almost anywhere all over the country once you get your 1 years of experience on your resume. But if "passion" (ha ha ha)...

If you read mine then you will see that I said I went off on a rant. Ok, I'm not replying to you anymore. You seem to be combing through my posts and I don't have the time for that right now. Have a good day.

I really did not intend for it to be that. Please tell me how I could have said what I did, but in a nicer way. Thank you. It just seems like on this board that if you say something that goes against the popular view, then you are disciplined. So aga...

Since you have just stated, yourself, that your 4 and 6 year old are being IGNORED, then maybe it would be best to put your schooling on hold so that you can be there in their most crucial years? They want their mommy so bad. People say well "you're ...

Nursing orders (diagnoses) are pointless. Nursing organizations, in an effort to "professionalize" a very bluecollar type of working field, wanted to come up with something unique that they could use and would make them look more important and smart....

The BON would/will probably do nothing about this. You have to look at the entire picture, not just the act. This is how things are reveiwed by the BON. The day shift was virtually over. There was an RN there (which is better than no RN). The patient...

I live in Orange County, California. A decent, starter home in a decent neighborhood is about $450,000 in Orange County (that's the recession price. At the height of housing bubble the same house was $800,000 to $1,000,000). That's about 2,000 sq. f...

My family makes fun of me for being a nurse. They don't even know what an RN stands for or does. I was at dinner the other night and my brother said to me "So, wipe any goodlooking a$$ lately?" Unfortunately, nurses will always have to defend themsel...

i'm horrible at starting IVs. I even miss the ones that are painfully obvious and very feelable. My poor patient will be riddled with IV stick marks by the time I get something. I'm not new, either!

if you are capable of getting through medical school then you must do that route. you will kick yourself in the butt if you pick nursing over being an MD. you'll be able to function independently and you will be compensated generously. you'll also ha...

Your post is informative. However, I must disagree on one thing. Putting emphasis on whether or not someone writes Deaf or deaf, and the fact that you and others would consider this "rude" is total nonsense. I took ASL in high school and had and have...

If RN is your goal, then you should really ditch the LVN thing. It will be a waste of your time, your money, and your effort. Just stick to the RN. If you start working as an LVN you'll probably find it even harder to to stop everything and go back ...

I do not think that the word disgusted is a correct title for your post. At any rate, $16 an hour is not very much in terms of an hourly salary for a Registered Nurse. I encourage you to keep applying often to hospitals and doing follow-up, which is ...

Did you TRULY (be honest) report because of that? Usually the other nurse has something personal against the other nurse. I also agree that there had to have been other contributing factors that resulted in her termination.