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I was working today on my unit and I overheard a Doctor talking to a Tech's and a Charge Nurse the conversation was about our facility never hiring LPN's. They were saying they can hire Tech's and expect them to move up the clinical ladder to become ...

I have a friend who just started working as a NP about a year ago and she said she is really disappointed she didn't go to CRNA school because she is making the same money she made as a RN in the hospital. When she did agency work she made even more,...

I am woking this evening and we just had a CNA leave. She's saying she is very upset with how she's told to just go into a patients room and start bathing them while they are sleep and that it is her job to MAKE a patient let her give them a sponge ...

I was looking into several Nursing school programs and recieved a booklet regarding mineral area college. I am confused because there are a couple of option and one just makes no sense to me. You can eith go the regular Rn route or do the LPN-RN rout...

I posted the question regarding Forced baths and a few people read my post and they want to know What is APS and who do we contact concerning this bcause I have 4 people here who want to know who to turn to because they've been written up for not giv...

I am really good friends with a co-worker who is a Patient Care Assistant, and black the there are only two on our unit. Anyway she has confided in me in the past that she was being treated badly Nurses not speaking to her, not explaining to her what...

To Allisonhillary: Do you just start washing pts if they are sleeping, Do you just enter the room and say it's time to clean up Im not talking about dementia pts. this unit is a step down unit TICU/MICU these people may be on the way home and say I'l...

Yes I understand the infection control issue. But you do not have the right to bathe a patient who is sleeping, and if you ask 3 times and they refused three times you shouldn't fear losing your job or be told your not doing your job.

Missouri. This is a Hospital Not a Nursing Home. I have two pt.s that have complained about this they say they were told they have to take a bath today it's been two days and your dirty. This man was offended. The CNA said she does just go in and tel...

This is a Level 1 hospital not a LTC

APS whats that stand for?

No..The Nurses are very rude on our unit everytime theres a new CNA PCA whatever they will regress to the 3rd grade and give them the silent treatment. I've heard new co-workers ask a question and noone answered and when the person left the room they...

Has anyone belonged to or heard of Diversity CRNA for Minorites wanting to enter the CRNA field? If so how was it for you and would you recommend it for others?

I have wanted to attend CRNA school for a long time my best friends Mother was one before she retired and I always loved the lifestyle she was able to afford for her family as a single mom, she was always talking about her work and she loved it. I ha...

I didn't mean to sound if being a NP is easy. What she was pointing out is that she can make a great living and still be with her kids unlike a Physician friend of ours who said she was told by her family by this x-mas she needed to chose family or c...

I have a friend who ust starterd working as a NP about a year ago and she said she is really disappointed she didn't go to CRNA school because she is make the same money she made as a RN in the hospital and whe she did agency work she made even more,...

I just wanted to say thank you for all the amazing advice I have a few Nurse friends on our unit we work the MICU and it's t be blunt the ass crack of the whole hospital really we get the cdiff, constant incontent pts. almost every room is a isolatio...

I am a Tech at a level one Trauma Unit, the hospital is a good one, but the unit I work on is like stepping into the twilight zone. Really. I have not worked there a year and I have heard countless times from numerous people all the nurses on your un...

I am a CRNA hopeful some day and I hope to attend Webster. I live in Webster and they community is AMAZING your smack in the middle of some of the top Hospitals in the country and your also looking to attend whats been known in this city as the est C...

Thats also a issue, it's the pts. I hear many times say the Nurses are very unhappy. I see more and more pts and their families complaining about the mediocre care they recieve.

I am considering my Nursing options in the future, I would like to look into becoming a CRNA my boss encourages it as well since I already have my foot in the door of the critical Care unit she says she can make it happen that once I finish Nursing S...

At St.Johns They're great with Tuition assistance. You become a TECH which you train with them for and pretty much everyone plans to be a RN,BSN or P.A. Which is really popular with most students and there are a few I know that are training for medic...

I ave to words for her. GET OUT!

I'm a Tech in Nursing school to become a FNP. I chose this after being accepted to medical school but it's too expensive, and your not truly in Patient care, all the years I looked up to Doctors comes to find out that what I loved about medicine is a...

I know it's funny I see so many Nurses doing all the hard work next in line are the Nurse Practitioner and then theres the Doctors who seem to be either sitting on their ass or simply holding up the wall.