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Hello wonderful and wise nurses, I am the nurse manager at a facility that only has one nurse in the building overnight. While we are generally very lucky to have great staff, we occasionally run into situations where the overnight nurse has an eme...

I think you misunderstand what kind of control managers (or at least I) have on staffing. The department has a predetermined number of FTE's that are approved or budgeted for. I can not schedule more than the number of FTE's that my department has ...

Thanks adventure_RN; offering increasing bonuses to pick up a shift are intriguing as well!!! Would that make me the auctioneer? LOL Mamabear, I am surprised at how many have chimed in to say that their facilities did not have a backup plan and it i...

I do like the idea of signing up for voluntary on-call shifts and then offering double pay if you do get called in. Something I hadn't thought of. I appreciate the allnurse community that I can bounce ideas off of. I know some of you have asked abo...

It is a crisis / psych facility for youth. The staff to client ratio is 6/1 not including the nurse and the therapist in the building. The nurse mostly does intakes at night and is the point person for emergencies. The clients must be medically cl...

I guess that is what I am trying to find a solution for. This is the way the schedule has always been written since before I came on as the nurse manager and I am trying to find creative ways to make things better. I am not the bad guy here - it's ...

I am working as an RN in pediatric psychiatry, mental health & at-risk youth. I would like to start an aromatherapy program at my facility. I have located a couple of online certificate programs that I am interested in. The tuition reimburseme...

I think you will have pretty good luck getting in somewhere. There are always jobs in your field posted. Just have a great resume and polished interview. As for pay... Cut a pasted from a thread above.... With just under 3 years experience this i...

With just under 3 years experience this is what I have recently been quoted. $29 Denver Health $25 Health Once $29 Centura $29 Hospice of Denver No sure where Exempla falls, and I am not sure how Health One can pay SO terrible!

I am in a similar position, except that I live here. Recruiters usually do a short phone interview and then schedule you to interview with the department manager. I imagine that hiring someone from another state is not anything new to hospitals, so...

Hi everyone, I am a BSN nursing student graduating in June. Just like all soon to be grads in my area, jobs are hard to come by. I have applied to every intern postition and many CNA jobs as well without any luck. I recently had a clinical rotation ...

I would love to hear more about your experience when/if you take the job. Is it year round? Are you an experienced nurse? Is your family moving with you or are you living in Vail and commuting back to the city on your off days.

It seems to me that this well respected instructor is quite a gossip. School bashing by any professor at any school is completely unprofessional IMO.

Dr. Spaulding uses Understanding Pathophysiology by Heuther http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/713137/description#description Quarter 1 is definitely very intense!!! It will challenge you in so many ways. You sound like a ver...

I was looking for a "Nursing & Family Life" forum (which I didn't find and also think they should have) and ran across your post. I just started school and feel the same way. Right now the baby is playing around me while I do some of my workboo...

If you have good credit then you should just be able to go to your bank (CU's have better rates) and apply for a personal loan. It is not an educational loan or student loan, it is a line of credit and you can use the money for anything. Keybank ga...

Good to see a few of you guys will be starting with me in Oct!! :)

Yep, I just got the email. THe schedule seems kinda light. I wonder how much studying this qtr. will involve. I heard it is rough.

Eeeek! I am kind of scared all of a sudden. For so long I've been talking about starting in October and now it is nearly a month away. I have kids too, so now it is becoming so 'real' as I start planning daycare and stuff. The only thing I haven't...

Hey everyone, I start the BSN program at Denver School of Nursing in October. How much time outside of school should I expect to spend the first semester? Did you study in groups or on your own? I've heard it is brutal. Will I still have anything...

Oh, I would love that schedule. My life would be so much easier. I've been a little stressed not knowing. When I asked him last time he was so vauge and said he wouldn't know until early or mid-September. Do you think we'd find more people in the...

Me too! I am in Littleton. Are you thinking of taking the light rail to school. Have you heard anything about our possible schedule? It is killing me not to know what days/times classes are. I am not to active on this board, but I may have to check i...