ThePrincessBride MSN, RN, NP

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    A doctor needs to be present to draw blood?

    ThePrincessBride replied to psu_213's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yup. And I work at a hospital that allows aides to straight cath and insert
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    A doctor needs to be present to draw blood?

    ThePrincessBride replied to psu_213's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm a nurse's aide, and I don't have to have anyone present to draw up blood.
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    ThePrincessBride replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Back up for a second. Where did I say that the consequences were equal or that doctors and nurses had the same level of responsibility? I didn't. I did state that it is rather easy for an entry-level...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    ThePrincessBride replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I disagree. One med error could easily kill a
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    Class Schedule (need some advice!)

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in General Students

    So I'm looking at my scheduling options for next semester. By then, I will have completed all of my general classes (finally). All I will have left are nursing courses. Next semester I will be taking...
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    Class Schedule (need some advice!)

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    I think I will be going with the twelve hour clinical then! It will be nice to physically only have to go to class two days per week!
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    Class Schedule (need some advice!)

    ThePrincessBride replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Students

    I agree. I will only have two online classes and a three hour lecture on Wednesday to worry about. I would probably use Friday to recuperate. Thanks for all the replies! Keep them
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    Accuracy of Automatic BP machines?

    ThePrincessBride replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

    I really despise the automatic machines, but sometimes I will check manually. Usually, they aren't much off from my readings, but sometimes I'll get a ridiculous number and end up having to take it...
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    Blood draws

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey everyone, So I got a new job as a nurse's aide a few months ago. At my job, we do blood draws. I have been able to get some successful draws (by luck and b/c patient had "good" veins), but I find...
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    Using Your Photo As An Avatar

    ThePrincessBride replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I would like to think that I am as cute as my avatar (long live Dobby! ).But I agree OP. I've heard too many stories of people posting on the internet and getting fired for it. It isn't worth
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    Is a patient care tech the same as a multi skilled tech?

    ThePrincessBride replied to amanda_weinberger's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    At one of the hospitals I work, PCAs don't do blood draws and EKGs, but MSTs do. The MSTs only make about fifty cents more an hour
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    What are PCT/PCA pay rates in your area?

    ThePrincessBride replied to btrflieye's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Wow, I feel like a lowly paid servant compared to some of
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    Salary for pct?

    ThePrincessBride replied to amanda_weinberger's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I'm from Ohio but I work in two hospitals. One has a base rate of 11.10/hr, and the other has a base rate of 9.68/hr. With differentials, I can make up to 15.02/hr and
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    12 hour shift

    ThePrincessBride replied to haiman7's topic in General Nursing

    I would much rather work three twelves (DAYS) than five eights. You work only thirty-six hours, but in many places, you are paid for forty. Also, you get FOUR days off a week instead of just two. That...
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    New nurses wanted.

    ThePrincessBride replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree with some of this post, from my personal experience, the most bitter and callous nurses I have come across are the same ones most removed from nursing school. That is not to say that all...
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    Non-CNA Jobs You Can Work While You're a Student

    ThePrincessBride replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Students

    I worked as a sitter for over a year, and no, you weren't allowed to do anything (read, do homework) unless it was a night shift (at one point, you couldn't even do that). I currently work as a PCA...
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    I feel like they should change the title of this site to "reasons why my job sucks"

    ThePrincessBride replied to hershdawg's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Everyone needs a place to vent, and allnurses is a perfect site to do so. If that dissuades new grads from entering the profession, then maybe they weren't cut out for nursing in the first
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    Night shift better for shy personalities?

    ThePrincessBride replied to mamacita2's topic in General Nursing

    I'm naturally an introverted person, and I would LOVE to work nights, but my body can't handle it. I've worked the graveyard shift, and it is hard. I'm just not a night owl. But I think that it is a...
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    Bipolar Nurse Hoping to Open Awareness of Mental Illness

    ThePrincessBride replied to HannaRNBSN's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Great post. I suffer from anxiety, depression and Borderline Personality Disorder and I can say that many nurses are completely ignorant of mental illness (especially Borderline Personality Disorder)...
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    Why do we eat our young?

    ThePrincessBride replied to jreynrn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Because too many "old-timers" are so far removed for their first year(s) as nurses they forget what the new grad/inexperienced nurse is going through. I myself have been mistreated by clinical...
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    I can't use sick time I've earned??

    ThePrincessBride replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    Since when is being sick the equivalent to "skipping out on vacation"? Seriously? If a person is sick, then they are sick. In healthcare especially, coming in to work sick could be dangerous not just...
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    CNN article on nurses and job growth

    ThePrincessBride replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Sadly, this shortage of nursing jobs for new grads is nothing new. Just yesterday, I was talking to a nurse who graduated from my program six years ago. Half of her class did not have jobs upon...
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    Working for competitors at the same time...bad?

    ThePrincessBride posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does it look bad to work at two competing hospitals-hospitals that are in direct competition with each other-at the same time? I am currently working at two hospitals at the same time. They know about...
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    Cost of BSN

    ThePrincessBride replied to p.xochil's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Lol at new grads only making 24-36k per year starting. Maybe in Indiana. I live in Ohio and new grads start off at 48k-50k year BASE rate. And that is the midwest, not
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    SICK of BSN Pedestal

    ThePrincessBride replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    No. It says more about the field than anything else. And there are things that RNs can do that an LPN can't, so I'm not sure why you are bringing LPNs into