MelEpiRN

Perimenopause. Dunno if that's true, but dayum it's messing me up

OK...but does it emit more radiation while warming up than a patient gets during a CT scan? We scan people all day every day. They don't all get cancer.

Yeah....not HR, but I think the difference is if you are exempt or not. If you're hourly, you have to be paid for time worked. I wouldn't know about termination, but you could very well get reprimanded (especially if OT kicks in and the company doesn't want to pay it if they don't have to). If you're exempt, you could work 4 hours or 14, you're only going to get paid that amount you agreed upon at hire.

As you said, every hospital is different. I worked neurosurg/ ortho at one place and the only neurosurgery we ever got was elective spine surgery. Some people needed more help ambulating, bathing, etc. Others felt AMAZING after their surgery (yay pain relief!) and went home immediately. Now I work in a level 1 trauma center, with extensive neurosurgery. You could be working with elective surgery, to severe spinal cord injury patients (total care) or TBI patients. These are as other people said, physically and emotionally challenging. But you'd definitely learn a lot- especially how our healthcare system is not designed to help people with these types of injuries.

What are your facility needlestick policies? Is there employee health you can report to? It's OK to go see them. But it sounds like you're fine.

yes, it has always come out of my PTO

Join your local APIC group to network with other infection preventionists. They'll help you learn the rules, provide education resources, etc.

There's multiple condo/ apts close by on Main st/ Hillsborough Rd within walking distance/ shuttle route. Can't speak to price/ availability though.

if you're hourly, make sure they're paying you for it!

warntracker.com I don't know if hospitals are exempt from this, but businesses with a certain amount of employees are supposed to file a notice if they're doing a mass layoff 60 days before it happens with the state. Some sort of federal ruling. I'm not 100% on the details but supposedly you can check with the above website to see if your place of employment has done so.

Maybe narrow it down a bit? There are different types of strokes, you can focus on ischemic (the most common) or hemorrhagic or specifically subarachnoid. You can easily get 5 pages out of stroke, but I'd definitely choose a specific type.

mmc51264- I think the poster is referring to certain medications used to treat autoimmune diseases (eg methotrexate) can be used as abortives and therefore it's getting hard to get methotrexate due to current policy/ law. (just a guess)

I don't really have any advice other than the CM I usually have worked with are often understaffed and seem to be "pulled in 10 different directions". It's just 10 different directions than bedside nurses.

When it came time for senior placements for whatever they called it...like a 2 week internship in various clinical settings...your GPA determined what place in line you got to choose your clinical. So if you reeaaallly wanted one of 10 peds positions and your grades were average, you probably weren't getting that clinical. But after graduation? Not really. Maybe for a competitive new grad position. In general, no.

are you saying they were pulled and not given under your ID?