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  1. Life is too short to be this stressed

    karenchad replied to missninaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    To Gooey RN- I noticed from your post you are per deim. I am per deim now also. Are you getting any shifts,( cancellation), what speciality are you per deim in? I'm med/surg and tele but the agency...

  2. Any St. Francis School Of nursing students?

    karenchad replied to GWENLYN18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    To Philanurse 74: How did you feel when you got on the floor for the first time as a new grad? - I noted you have med/surg on your post. Did you feel more confident as na new grad coming from a...

  3. Average hourly pay for per diem agency RN?

    karenchad replied to CowsRGreat's topic in Agency Nurses

    I am from the Phila area. I'm not happy (I can't stand)with my agency- favorite nurses. i've been with them since april 2009. the only place they want to send me to is LTC and for $40/hour and can...

  4. Life is too short to be this stressed

    karenchad replied to missninaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm responding to the poster who wrote about the nurse dodging patients and families in the med room and not doing the maintaince work of their shift- changing IV tubing- DITTO- I'm tired of coming in...

  5. Is anyone having trouble finding a good assignment out west?

    karenchad replied to Tennesseeliving's topic in Travel

    I tried to sgn up with Onward- I'm tele med/surg. they submitted me for a Pccu with vents and vasoactive drip titration in a university level 1 trauma center. I asked why I didn't get the contract and...

  6. Thinking about NOT signing another contract!

    karenchad replied to nursetmj's topic in Travel

    I think I'd rather be miserable with money- I could get hapy by going shopping and staring to look into another assignment( with another company) from the start of this contoversial extension. being...

  7. Are you having a hard time finding travel jobs?

    karenchad replied to aakrn's topic in Travel

    I am working with 1 company and applied to another and am checking out 2 others. Like all of you I'm getting the same run-around; these companies all want you to sign up but Nothing. I was thinking...

  8. Staff acting like mean girls what do you do

    karenchad replied to amiconfused's topic in General Nursing

    I don't thinkthat this can just be "ignore it and HOPE it will go away" anymore. If you make a mistake in a Pizza shop- someone gets mushrooms instead of sausage. If you make a mistake in healthcare...

  9. Staff acting like mean girls what do you do

    karenchad replied to amiconfused's topic in General Nursing

    I do believe that some hospitals /risk management departments do a "root cause analysis/investigation?' when they receive insident reports. it may only be afew hospitals, I'm not sure. I know when...

  10. Staff acting like mean girls what do you do

    karenchad replied to amiconfused's topic in General Nursing

    Threasa1166 I'm am so sorry that is happening to you, it's down right unfair and by your own preceptor-- We NEED you new nurses, desperately. a preceptor afet 2 years experience- this is exactly what...

  11. Staff acting like mean girls what do you do

    karenchad replied to amiconfused's topic in General Nursing

    All they ways of trying to survive this behavior are mentioned above- quiting before you're fired (I've been there done that), trying to fly under the radar( difficult to do, can cause all kinds of...

  12. Staff acting like mean girls what do you do

    karenchad replied to amiconfused's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen this garbage behavior in nursing for 30 loooong years. This is the very behavior that has made it long, this is the reason why so many of us nurses struggle and then get out of nursing...

  13. What, if anything, will this do to nursing jobs?

    karenchad replied to GCTMT's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It's time these big salaries-CEO's, administrators. risk management lawyers, marketing and finace directors stared to take a proportionate hit in there salaries and standard of living. I'm sick of...

  14. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

    karenchad replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    DITO- It will be difficult to prove since it's probably burried under layers of camoflage. Look at the hospitals we work in- The CEO- High Salary, then all the entourage under him/her taking up...

  15. CLINIC MANAGER PAY-Fresenius

    karenchad replied to thanson809's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I have been think of making the move to dialysis after 30 years of hospital bedsde nursing. I have applied to Fresenius for all thier open positions around me- I was interviewed for 1 last year but...

  16. Life is too short to be this stressed

    karenchad replied to missninaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Please read the thread- Nursing Board investigates Reno Hospital NURSE Managers. here's another example of bedside/ER RN's making ligitimate complains that need addressing and those complaints being...

  17. Life is too short to be this stressed

    karenchad replied to missninaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't mean to discourage anyone from entering nursing if that is what they really want. I think all should go into nursing with a realistic picture of what exactly nursing envolves- what does a...

  18. Got terminated from first job cant find new one, still a newgrad

    karenchad replied to newRNurse08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    alot of us make a med error at some point in our nursing career- i wonce gave a librium for a resoril- i called the supervisor, called the doctor and filled out an insident report- i got a note from...

  19. Local Ambulatory Care Nursing Networks- is there such a thing?

    karenchad replied to 3boysmom3's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    there is an ambulatory care nursing certification just like there's the CCRN for ICU nurses. look under the AACN's web site/ google the american association of nursing

  20. Life is too short to be this stressed

    karenchad replied to missninaRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    the grunt work- there is no shame in doing bedside nursing- this is the essence of nursing- where nursing begins, it's reality - not nursing administration. a bedside nurse with razor sharp...

  21. Got terminated from first job cant find new one, still a newgrad

    karenchad replied to newRNurse08's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have to say that I too got fired from my first nursing job- 30 years ago. I was placed on a tele floor as a new GN, My day shift prectptor was a real witch- that was back when demeaning a...

  22. Any St. Francis School Of nursing students?

    karenchad replied to GWENLYN18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I am a St.Francis School of Nursing grad of 1980-It was a tough school to get into, a tough school to graduate out of, we had a few nuns, there still was a dorm but my class was the 1st or 2nd that...

  23. Cooper Nurses approve new contract with 3-4% raises

    karenchad replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I know this post is late and probably none of my business but I thin $36.00/hour is much to low pay for nurses working Cooper Univ. Hosp- it is a wonderful and large teaching hospital, in a very...

  24. Wellness Director

    karenchad replied to Hadassah's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I only found out what a wellnes director was about 2 weeks ago. I am agency and went to a Nursing home. The LTC facility had a skilled nursing wing and an assisted living part to it. The wellnes...

  25. Tele/IMC/Med-Surg Agency question

    karenchad replied to meriposa's topic in Agency Nurses

    I have to wonder about these agencies. I agree with Brady , if tele is not your speciality why are you being sent to tele? are YOU comfortable with tele, can your read the strips. I wouldn't...