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1. Has anyone left nursing job due to COVID19 virus?

   morningland replied to Tirednurseandmomma14's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I am staying and working through this but let me say this: I genuinely thank you who are taking a stand and quitting. It is a fact that our hospital systems do not care about the well being of us, our...

2. What is it like in your hospital right now?

   morningland replied to FloatFNP-C's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I’m in Phoenix. It has been very very slow all over the valley with low census’. Before this I was racking up mad amounts of overtime, now people are being called off for low census. We will see...

3. Best Flashcard app

   morningland posted a topic in General Students

   Hey, I'm looking for a flashcard app for my iPhone that will let me type them up on a computer and the cards will sync to my app. Does anyone know of such an app. There are a ton of good flashcard...

4. Poor Judgment, Didn't notice Compartment?

   morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

   I was relieved to come into work and find out the patient was totally fun and didn't have compartment. Even an though it was a horrible feeling, I'm glad I had this experience. It helps to make...

5. Poor Judgment, Didn't notice Compartment?

   morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

   But when you think about it, the pain really does make sense to be the true hallmark of compartment. If a patient is in pain simply because of the surgery, the medication should help reduce that...

6. Poor Judgment, Didn't notice Compartment?

   morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

   That does. If we can learn from these errors we all become stronger nurses. Since I've been home, I've been re-studying compartment syndrome and I am feeling a little more reassured that I didn't...

7. Poor Judgment, Didn't notice Compartment?

   morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks so much everyone. I was taught that one of the hallmark signs of compartment is uncontrollable pain. By the time the doctor was called, I had already weaned him off the Dilaudid and we were on...

8. Poor Judgment, Didn't notice Compartment?

   morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. I don't think I mentioned the patien arrived At 2100 but I didn't call the doc until 0600. Again , I didn't see any other symptoms and finally called because...

9. Poor Judgment, Didn't notice Compartment?

   morningland posted a topic in General Nursing

   I feel very awful. A patient arrived from OR with an ORIF of the L forearm. Patient was fine and I even educated him on compartment syndrome (which what makes this so troubling). He was complaining...

10. San Francisco Job Market

    morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

    I do have my BSN (REALLY thankful I went back to school), I have five years experience and I am med/surg certified. My GF's work is paying for all of our moviong costs including the cost of a rental...

11. San Francisco Job Market

    morningland replied to morningland's topic in General Nursing

    I want to live and work in the City of San

12. San Francisco Job Market

    morningland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've five years experience as a med/surg RN with 1.5 years in PEDs. It's looking like my GF has to move to SF for work. How is the Nursing market there? I thinking it may be worth it to try and...

13. Traveling without a tax home

    morningland replied to B_OTT's topic in Travel

    Do not take this as advice, ALWAYS SPEAK WITH A TAX PROFESSIONAL. But, as it was explained to by a travel nurse tax company, one work around is to have mail delivered to a location and simply pay...

14. Screaming match with my preceptor

    morningland replied to jherd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The correct response to this scenario was to resign. If you weren't fired already for yelling at your preceptor, consider yourself lucky and take that change to get out intact by resigning. Then at...

15. How do you deal with a toxic workplace?

    morningland replied to LPN9200's topic in General Nursing

    There's nothing to can do to change a toxic work place. The only thing you can do is leave, so long as it doesn't damage your own job viability. I was once in a toxic HOSPITAL and I started to...