copperkali

Wine....lots of wine....

The pay in Co is much lower than anywhere else.

Lately we have been so busy I don't even have a chance to sit during the night. However when it is super slow, I will play solitaire or other games on my ipod, search the internet (what we can), or try to chit chat with coworkers.

I wish I made 65k a year...

No charting would be magnificent. I'd get to spend more time on patient CARE!

I usually sleep from 9am to 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I can't sleep any longer than that I have a hard time sleeping during the night let alone the day...It sucks.

It's not just nurses, that would describe women in general

I always aspirate, but have never gotten blood.

I used to think I wanted to, but I spent the day with lactation on Monday and it was BORING! I learned a lot of great stuff, but I would never want to be a full time Lactation consultant.

We have ambien 5-10mg as a standing order. We only give it occasionally.

We do this too. Lots of times we don't have a CNA so the unit secretary (if we have one) will sit with the babe for a few minutes. Sometimes it's nice to have to "babysit" because you can't really leave the baby so you have to chart I often will volunteer to watch the kid so I can catch up on my charting.

Wow, I'm glad I don't work with people like you...

I find this funny, because I just saw my first circ with EMLA two days ago. I've never seen that before and I was like what the heck!! I've only seen it done with lidocaine before then.

Ugh...Human Resources Generalist for 6 years...

I have found alcohol prep pads, empty medication blister packs, a whole small jar of sublingual NTG (OOPS!), paper towels with vitals written all over them...

I would really wait until after school. Why make nursing school harder than it already is? Just my opinion.

I decided at 21 when I had my son. I wanted to be an L&D nurse. I didn't get into nursing school until I was 26 (tried accelerated BSN programs for years with no luck). Just finished at 28 and start my job on the mom/baby unit in 2 weeks!

Boys are bad. Stay away.

I think that would be an awesome job! I'd love to work for planned parenthood.

This is hilarious, because I went to work with my boyfriend last week. He calibrates methane wells and let me tell you his job SUCKS!!! I have a whole new respect for him now. He makes good money and started this job while I went through nursing school. He hates his job so much, and now I know why. On the flip side I said I wished he could go to work with me however I really doubt patients would be cool with him coming in with me while doing assessments, finding fundus', checking bleeding, nipples, breastfeeding etc....

I just applied for several jobs, and a recruiter contacted me back in April. I went in for 2 interviews and after the second they said they wanted to hire me contingent on passing my boards which I passed last week! If I were you I'd contact the recruiter @ hospitals directly, I think it may be easier that way. It helped that I had 1 year of mom/baby experience as an LPN. I'm pretty sure that was a pretty big deciding factor.

What did you dislike working for Swedish? Since they are both HCA I figure they are somewhat similar in how they run things. Anything specific you didn't like? Thanks!

I shave every single day. If I take a shower I will shave my legs. People think I'm crazy, but I really don't feel clean unless I do. The only exception is if for some reason I don't take a shower that day....or I'm camping...

**crickets** Anyone?

I've got waaaay too many bills for a yay!