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Oh, just wait until I finish my 2 years on my unit. PEACE!!!!!!! I am gone.... Where? Dunno, but anywhere that doesn't involve admitting vents 30 min b/f my shift ends, with 2 admissions b/f that. Bump this.....

What about my husbands peritoneal dialysis. Ummm I am not a dialysis nurse mam. Have you asked the Dr. about it? Whats the last he told you? Ok then thats all I know. "Patient has

This is a critical unit... I am getting a page, sorry I have to go....

OH, I just have to say, Montgomery has to be the most boring city in Alabama, JMHO....... If your thinking of going there.... Mobile or W Georgia is where I will be heading next.

Starting pay is from $18 to $18.75 + about a $5.75 shift diff. We had nearly all hospitals come to our school b/f I graduated. Raises are non existent at my hospital right now. We have an extremely high turnover rate in critical care for the last 3 y...

Yep, thats what I think when I see CA and NY posters...

Its a needle and its entering my body.

I was started at less than that with no raises hospital wide right now. Not very ideal for for retention especially with my level of current responsibilities! Nevertheless, I feel as if I have job security more so now than ever, "I think:confused:"

I have been orienting on CIU and ACCU for around 12 weeks now. 2 weeks were in the classroom and 1 week in another classroom and 2 days in ACLS. Well I passed my BCAT the first pass, I didn't pass another test that forces you to critically think. Sin...

I was told by my supervisor that I didn't need any. Even as a newbie I looked at her and said I do not believe for one second that this hospital has my back....

We do at our hospital. She spoke openly about a heb B exposure from working in dialysis, it got real quit real fast in the room. I later told here that I appreciated her honesty and it actually was very sobering to hear her testimony...

Maybe some of us are wrong and some are right?? I have decided not to let this bother me anymore, I will do what is required of me and yes I will suck it up. I'm already grown up and this thread is starting to make me want to throw up..... I didn't c...

No, I have the right to be a skeptic.

Some people will get this and some won't. Sometimes its like beating your head against the wall trying to make people understand "rights." You will be accused of being an idiot conservative too... I have a European wife that will tell you all about i...

Huh.. Hep B immunization has always been an option for us. We don't have to take it. But, it is strongly advised...

I understand what some of you are saying. I know this is totally different situation as far as job in this hospital. Some of you just repeated the same thing my father told me yesterday when I got off work and called him. All I know to do is try to h...

Seems to be a trend in other hospitals....

I can feel ya... Nursing was my 2nd degree, I was already working in the hospital and became sick of health care and decided sick care would be more stable and I could "most likely" be good at it... The drive to succeed in school was overwhelming. F...

No I have been an Exercise Physiologist and a Physical Therapy Aid. 3 different supervisors over the years... I am a brand new RN... I don't know these supervisors...

I wasn't pricked but, I had been working on some metal parts at home and had cut my fingers and scrapped them up pretty good. Well we were doing an Artic Sun on a patient that had a massive MI... He was out and I was rushed in as a new orientee to "a...

75 questions 45 min. Passed NCLEX RN. No dose cal or OB. Lots of infection controle and select all that apply. Only one place in order and it was easy. Had another friend that passed Hesi and failed in NCLEX Rn in 75. Seems like more than 2 dose cals...

I was thrown into a situation that became terribly risky b/f I could put on PPE. I ended up having to get blood drawn and waiting results from infection controle. Let me tell you they are taking there sweet time. I truly feel like I am on my own on m...

As an RN, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and former PT aide; I can tell you that 30 min 3-5 days per week "preferably everyday" is all you need to meet ACSM recommendations. 1 set of 10 reps full body for weight training. 30-60 min brisk walk or bicy...

If you want to run around pushing pain meds every 5 minutes, transferr to commode and ambulate hips, knees and backs. Sure.......

Nope, and I would not tell my supervisor of this. Termination....