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Hey RN1023, I just switched to a insurance job and feel like it is a great field to switch into. I'd recommend learning medical coding if you are heading in this direction. Message me with any questions.

I'm switching to a new job and wanted advice as to how to tell some of my homecare patient's I will be leaving. One in particular is emotional at times and appears to be attached as he states that the nursing visits lift up his mood and his chronic w...

Does anyone have experience with obtaining pt glucometer strips and BD insulin syringes. I have a pt who's MD did not write directions (according to pharmacy) for the glucometer strips so they are holding them. Pt has 2 strips left (just discharged f...

There's apparently a policy in our workplace, a new one that says something along the line of; Anyone who appears drained, unenthusiastic, unhappy in anyway etc. can be asked by the manager to leave that work day in order to reflect on their behavior...

So I recently started a new job at a small HH agency to get away from the chaos of the hospital. I'm just finding Home Health to be close in stress level. My training was only 2-3 weeks and now I'm off on my own and there is only 2 other nurses as se...

So I switched jobs finally, took me a year... over 8 interviews and dozens of applications. I was trying to 'escape' a medsurg job that brought me to tears many times and led me to glorify starbucks baristas. Now I'm in home health and find that I'm ...

Thank you for writing that. I just wish I knew what field to go into from here and how to afford that. I so admire nurses who can do it and be happy with their career; it's not for me however.

OBAMA!

I'm a RN of 2 years and have been working on a very busy medical surgical floor with mostly dementia patients. It has been extremely hard working at this career and I've many times cried or beat myself up about work. It makes me feel inadequate to he...

Leave the clinic so I can have that job :-P

My family is absolutely against the whole contract job so I'm very weary. Hopefully I get something new soon

I'm not allowed to be anything but smiley. Sorry if I must sneeze.

It's so subjective and leans towards favoritism! I was so irked when I read the thing; wish I copied it so I could give a more accurate description of it. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this. Oyy management. Must be easy to be 'happ...

I have applied to an occupational health nursing job just now! What types of certifications would I benefit from getting and how would I get them? Currently I'm a RN with one year experience on med-surg. I don't know much about occupational nursing ...

I'm a BSN RN with a year of med-surg experience in a hospital. I've applied to several outpatient Physician practices through CMC/CHS in N.Carolina and have been rejected for all the jobs! Any idea what they might be looking for? I'm not an internal ...

I've been nursing on a busy med-surg floor for about a year and I'm not sure nursing is for me. I bring the work home and become very anxious before work, and feel inadequate during work- almost bewildered at the massive multitasking I need to do. I ...

I do have a bachelor's degree. I feel like everything is waay easier said than done. I've applied to at least 15 outpatient jobs and no luck :0(

Hey there, thanks for taking the time to read this. :heartbeat I was wondering, for those of you who work night shifts: 1. Do you find that certain problems can only be addressed by the attending during the day? 2. What limitations might there be by...

I also have a lot of confused patients. Haldol and Ativan are often PRN doses but I find it so morally difficult to give anything if the patient is agitated and unwilling. Some people I can't even tell if they're confused or just off because I'm not ...

Thanks for these answers- its helping me understand these questions which have boggled me for a while- they're rather subjective. As far as the last question: 7. Patients who ask for pain pills, a sleeping pill and something for their nerves- how do ...

Doctor ordered by telephone.

I had recommended a MD order a STAT chest x-ray for a patient who had coarse crackles after a large epistaxis. The order was written, the x-ray taken, but the radiology staff said "Don't order a STAT chest x-ray".... I never was able to ask them to ...

Idk, so much seems to be over my head as a newbie... I don't know how to pick up on this assumed knowledge nor were policies explained to me. I print policies and look over them and hope I retain it. I work on a busy med-surg floor.

She swallowed a large amount of blood.... literally clots were coming out of her mouth. Dx of thrombocytopenia.

Thanks for the support mazy