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  1. Getting Sick at Work

    meaganellise posted a topic in General Nursing

    How many nurses have gotten sick at work and have had to go to the ER? I had a crazy experience last night and ended up in my hospitals ER for TIA-like symptoms. All my tests came back negative thank...

  2. Staffing levels on Telemetry Units

    meaganellise replied to missangelkitty's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work the standard is up to five pts if we have aids, but only four pts each if we don't have any nursing aids. This is for night

  3. Should I tell my NM or not???

    meaganellise replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure how productive it would be to tell your NM considering your previous response stating that this charge nurse gets very defensive when she feels she is being questioned. I am not sure that...

  4. Should I tell my NM or not???

    meaganellise replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    Considering she had to go to surgery, and had to have pressors and blood I am assuming that the quick administration of the dilaudid was not what caused her pressure to drop so quickly. Did she have...

  5. Review of Louisiana nursing school option

    meaganellise replied to pullnshoot25's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Our Lady of the Lake is in Baton Rouge, but they have accelerated programs in New Orleans, including at Tulane University Hospital (Not Toulane). I graduated from their accelerated program, but it was...

  6. Am I the only one?!!

    meaganellise replied to BrewerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree! There are always those people who seem to be calling in all the time. Then there are the people who come in sick all the time and get the rest of the staff sick! There doesn't seem to be a...

  7. Can RNs pull Picc Lines

    meaganellise replied to Chan285's topic in General Nursing

    Both facilities that I have worked at allow RNs to pull PICC

  8. Experienced RN Job Market.

    meaganellise replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

    I am an rn in Louisiana who has just over a years experience. I applied for two jobs, interviewed at both hospitals. Got a job offer from one of the jobs on the same day and accepted. It may make a...

  9. Moving to Baton Rouge

    meaganellise posted a topic in Louisiana Nursing

    My husband and I are seriously considering making a move to Baton Rouge from northeast Louisiana and I wanted to get some input on the various hospitals in the area (OLOL, Baton Rouge General,...

  10. Moving to Baton Rouge

    meaganellise replied to meaganellise's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Happy to announce that I already have an interview at OLOL. Applied yesterday and got a call from HR

  11. is a BSN going to soon be required?

    meaganellise replied to JeniRN's topic in General Nursing

    I find this topic interesting because of my situation. You see, I have an adn, but I also have a bachelors degree in mass communications. I am interested to see how this affects my future job...

  12. IV Flushes

    meaganellise replied to smiler2010's topic in General Nursing

    It would take a lot of air to do any damage to someone from a peripheral iv, so don't worry about that.

  13. HELP!

    meaganellise replied to dankimal's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with the idea that no one is prepared to come out of school and start nursing. It is a tough profession and there is a steep learning curve. However, I can definitely say that I am 100 times...

  14. IV push concerns

    meaganellise replied to eyeball's topic in First Year After Licensure

    How much blood was in the iv line and port line? I have had pts who were saline-locked have blood back up into their iv line. Its not something that concerned me. I have also seen blood back up into a...

  15. When is the best time to eat while working nights?

    meaganellise replied to LETRN's topic in General Nursing

    My usual meal routine is to wake up around 4:15-4:30, and eat around 5 before I go to work. I eat a full meal. I eat "lunch" around 1:30 or 2 and then I eat something light (cereal, nutri-grain bar,...

  16. OLOL-BR Acclerated Program

    meaganellise replied to lagrl1974's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    WIA paid for our books and fees. I think a separate grant had been set up to pay for tuition due to the lack of nurses in the area after Katrina. That grant may not still be in

  17. OLOL-BR Acclerated Program

    meaganellise replied to lagrl1974's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Our tuition and fees and books were paid for with grant money. That was never a factor. If we got the contract, the hospital was going to pay us a monthly stipend to help cover living expenses. I...

  18. OLOL-BR Acclerated Program

    meaganellise replied to lagrl1974's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    What happened was that nobody got a contract with the hospital and everyone had to find their own jobs! I actually ended up moving to Northeast Louisiana because it was hard on new grads finding work...

  19. Any present, future or past OLOL students

    meaganellise replied to KimGau's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Before I started the program, I took Microbiology, A&P 2, chemistry, a psychology course and a philosophy course, while working full-time. Anything is doable. My experience with the accelerated...

  20. Any present, future or past OLOL students

    meaganellise replied to KimGau's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I graduated from the OLOL accelerated program last October. I am not sure what your schedule looks like, but pretty much anything is doable. I got my ASN in 10 months and I did have to work hard, but...

  21. Raleigh Jobs for RN with Experience

    meaganellise posted a topic in North Carolina Nursing

    My husband and I are looking to make a move to the Raleigh area. I have seen a lot of posts regarding how hard it is to find new graduate jobs, but not a lot about experienced nurses finding jobs. By...

  22. OLOL-BR Acclerated Program

    meaganellise replied to lagrl1974's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I graduated from the OLOL accelerated program in New Orleans last October. Originally, they told us that the top 50% in the class would be offered the tuition-contract options, which included a...

  23. Tulane University Hospital

    meaganellise replied to hs2005's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    I have not personally worked for Tulane, but I have heard a some negative things about them from people who worked there and some nursing students who had clinicals there. Of course, this should be...