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I worked corrections, albeit prison and not jail. In my prison, opiate users don't get any special treatment for detox except for perhaps an infirmary stay for a couple days through the worst of it. The first 2-3 days (in my experience) are the harde...

I'm going to ignore all the backbiting about taxes and post to the original topic. I'm union, and while ours go by seniority, our managers weigh in, also. Everyone gets to make two requests for "prime time" summer vacation (May through September). W...

I just hired in to be a full time faculty member in a school of nursing. I am on my second day of orientation and already wondering if I should be looking to jump ship. My first big red flag was that after long discussions in my interview about my se...

Yes. Even so, they had a relatively good rep until the last few years, apparently. They were purchased by a large national for-profit at some point.

I am working on finishing my RN-BSN, and to do so, I need to find a BSN prepared preceptor in a "community health" setting - more or less any setting but inpatient hospital care qualifies. I moved here 5 years ago and immediately went to nursing sch...

Yes, I've tried reaching out to a few, as well as a couple of traveling outreach clinics, and I'm not getting replies. When I call, I tend to hear that "So and so will call you back if there's anything" and I never get a call.

I float system-wide for four hospitals. I don't have to work weekends, holidays, or essentially any day I don't want to work, and I get a higher base rate, but I don't get benefits or PTO!

That isn't an excuse to make it up. I just admitted a patient today who still hasn't recovered from taking her labetalol and having a major hypotensive episode. We're talking about the potential to cut off adequate blood supply to organs because you ...

Geographic location: Central Ohio Pay rate: 40/hour In which area / specialty do you work?I flex for Stepdown units across 4 different hospitals in one health system. What type of license do you have (RN or LPN)? RN What type of degree and/or certifi...

+ If you think you'll ever be too good to scrub down a patient in a good old fashioned bed bath. + If rectal foleys don't make you happy. + If you can't treat nursing school like a full time job. + If you can't own up to mistakes. + If you have no hu...

On a unit I was a charge nurse for, we'd occasionally pull people aside as we checked our crash carts each morning and run them through it. "How do you pace? how do you change the joules?" etc, and have them flip the switches and show me. It's not ne...

It's a million times easier to understand in practice than in the classroom. The classroom tends to be rote memorization of signs/symptoms and normal levels. While thats certainly necessary to some extent, it's not until you've really completed all y...

I've been interested in Oncology from the beginning; I've been looking at the jobs, and most require one type of certification or another from ONCC - I knew this and am not surprised. I've been working medsurg to gain experience in general since you ...

I hated wearing 60 pounds of gear and running alone to emergencies across a 3/4 mile wide spanse. My facility was built in 1918 and now consists of 11 different buildings, any of which I could be called to at any moment. COs were cut a lot lately so ...

I've seen plenty of obs units that are extensions of the ED - usually patients who may not meet criteria for admission but the doc doesnt want discharged yet (often chest pains, SOB, etc). I've never heard of an obs unit that is an extension of an IC...

Ohhh, I got lots of it. Correctional Nursing is definitely a niche. I loved it and hated it at the same time. I've moved on to hospital work since then, but I continue to PRN at the prison to keep my emergency skills sharp. Be ready to get a thick sk...

There are definitely preceptors who like to eat their young still, but you also have to understand, that a good chunk of the people we precept are lazy, know-it-all, unappreciative, and argumentative. I stopped precepting for awhile because I burnt o...

Don't friend your boss, either, and be very wary of even what coworkers you friend. One of my jobs has a policy to not be friends with anyone in a leadership or management position over you, and my boss tried to friend me later that week! Also, set ...

I still work with LPNs at one of my hospital jobs. Most of the time I don't mind, but days they are assigned patients with lots of IVP meds, or for oversight reasons given patients with CVCs and PICCs, it does get really annoying, because I have my o...

Either way, fortis is not a reputable school. They've gone through multiple name changes in the last 10 years because they kept getting in trouble; they were reprimanded just in 2011 for having an RN teaching RN coursework (requires an MSN). Just in...

OSU doesn't require you go through new grad residency, at least, not for the position I interviewed for recently - I was interviewed along with a brand new grad. I could've had the position, but it would've required a pay cut so I turned it down, and...

Ohio as a whole is going for "BSN in 10" and trying to get as many nurses as possible BSN prepared. Regardless, BSN is the way to go. I did my nursing in 3 steps (LPN, RN, BSN), so either way you go about it is fine, as long as you understand that pr...

I've been interviewing over the last couple weeks for a great position at a large research and teaching hospital near me. I was really excited because I the interviews went excellent, the benefits were amazing, and it was only 10 minutes away (versus...

1. Ohio 2. 3 3. PCU 4. Hourly pay: 24.40 5. Nightshift diff = 5.00/hour, Weekend diff = 3.00/hour 6. Union? Nope

In 10 months at this particular hospital, I can count on one hand the number of times I have gotten out "on time" -that is to say, within a half hour of the time Im SUPPOSED to be clocked out. We are supposed to leave by 730, giving our shifts 30 min...