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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 families or the community. A change needs to happ...

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 what happens in the coming weeks

I've been a nurse for three years, having half peds and half med surg. I'm ready start travel nursing but I'm wondering how you go about brushing up on information that you are unclear on while on assignment. I'm confident in my skills and ability t...

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 apps, but they all make you type the cards on the i...

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 stronger nurses!

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 of some numbness in his fingers, but his cap refill...

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 (although, sometimes unrelieved pain from operations ...

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 yet have all the information needed to indicate a ne...

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 the Oral pain meds. If there was no sensation whe...

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 the patient said he was worried, so I wanted to rea...

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 land a travel gig and take the living stipend while I...

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 broker, who is going to be finding a place for us....

I want to live and work in the City of San Francisco

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 rent in your tax home. The company I was working wit...

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 your next job interview, "it just wasn't a good fi...

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 develop a bad reputation among the nurses, so they jus...

I'm a floor nurse on a busy med/surg ortho floor. Been doing it for four years and I love it... more or less. My memory has never been great, but over the last year it is deteriorated to the point that I am really alarmed. I can't remember pt history...

I swear by my back brace. I have a bad back just from poor posture. When I don't wear a back brace at work, I walk home with an aching back. So that's enough evidence to show me it offers support However, I use proper body mechanics and I never ever...

True, but the patients on the other side of the picket line are humans with healthcare needs. People aren't crossing a picket line aren't building cars or delivering mail, they are providing life saving measures for people in need. Thats the sticky ...

Ya know. You are right. I shouldn't have generalized so much. not all nurses are cold and cruel. However, in my experience it seems to be more common. To be fair though, this coldness exists in all walks of life. I guess maybe I am projecting a littl...

But you are highlighting the point I am making. I am expressing my experiences with the field, which are mine alone and your response is that I am too stupid to interpret what happens around me, I deserve this kind of treatment and that I am mentally...

Well, nurses are so cruel and backstabbing that we have a saying "nurses eat their young". Now we expect loyalty among each other? Life doesn't work like that. Some me of the worst people I know are nurses. Why should I be loyal to them? Everyone i...

No, but you can have enough humility to realize where you could

Yeah, refresher courses seem to be more for people who have been out of practice for a long time

I've been a practicing nurse for three years, but I still don't feel like I "know a lot". Nursing school was a blur, I just can't learn as quick as what was expected of me. Anyways, I want to take a refresher course, but they are so expensive and I ...