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So as a follow-up, in case any OTHER paranoid nurses out there search a similar situation. From the CDC: "The CDC does not list human breast milk as a body fluid for which most healthcare personnel should use special handling precautions. ...

Is the internship paid or unpaid? If it's unpaid, and the things you're doing are duties that would normally be done by paid staff, then they may be working you illegally. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html Something to think...

Blackout curtains and ear plugs, for day sleeping. Ten years of experience, condensed into pill form. A "Healthy Cooking for Night Shifters" cookbook, with meal and snack suggestions to stave off hunger and keep off the Night Shift Nine.

No open lesions - one tiny, healing cut. I realize, intellectually, it's completely illogical, and a ton of factors would have to line up perfectly for anything to happen. I am, as I said, being totally paranoid. Probably new job, new town, and readj...

I pretty much came to this conclusion after I pictured the looks on the employee health nurse's face if I walked down there and asked for prophylactic HIV therapy. The CDC doesn't consider breast milk a substance that requires PPE, unless you work in...

excuse me? i'm hijacking for a moment, but either this is baloney, or you are one lawsuit away from owning your very own nursing school.

I vote dorms! I made some of my best friends living in the dorms my freshman year. You can always go to the library (or sometimes, to the study rooms in the dorm) if you need some peace and quiet. The support you'll get from the dorm environment is i...

:balloons: :hpygrp: :balloons: congrats!

Yay! Good for you for making appointments to get the ball rolling! Best of luck, and keep us posted!

Congrats - good luck with the next interview!

Just saw this - I'm having a "I miss my cardiac patients" day! Hope you got it!

I honestly don't think it's worth getting involved. She's going to have to pass NCLEX before getting licensed, and NCLEX is hard enough when you pay attention and do your own work in nursing school.

Do you have a Bachelor's degree already? If so, you could do an accelerated BSN and be done in a year.

Travelers in the Bay Area (L.A. is similar, I think) make $35-40 hr. Some of the hospitals here don't give travelers/per diem agency nurses computer access, so you have to talk another nurse into logging in to the computer so you can check labs and o...

I would seriously re-consider moving out here unless you have 1. substantial savings 2. family in the area or 3. a definite job. The market for nurses here is NOT great right now. Best of luck to you whatever you decide - looks like you have a lot of...

I put a "clinical hour breakdown" section on my resume.

Most of the lab values will come back with normal ranges in parenthesis, and they'll be flagged if they're high or low. If you must memorize, I would focus on K, Na, Hgb/Hct, BUN, Creat, and glucose. Speaking from experience, you should know that on ...

- Establish a morning routine. I get home from work about 8 a.m., drink a cup of sleepytime tea, take some melatonin, and then read or watch TV until I'm tired. - Remember that when something happens in the afternoon, your body thinks it's the middl...

I had a pt who was supposed to be on intermittent suction - but the hospital didn't have enough suction machines for all the patients who needed them. The doc asked if I could hook the pt up to continuous suction, then stand there and periodically tu...

I think I'm having interview PTSD. I had an interview today for a job I'm really interested in - at one point, they asked for a scenario wherein a patient went downhill really quickly, and wanted to know how I reacted. I talked about one patient wh...

A month or so ago, I applied to two positions at a hospital. I interviewed for one, and received a rejection via e-mail for the other. Today, I missed a call from the recruiter at the hospital. He left a very nice voicemail asking me to call him back...

Thanks, everyone! I think I'm actually going to be able to sleep tonight - better not get used to that...night shift! :)

Well whaddya know - I got it!:balloons: (I've been wanting to use those balloons for a while now.)

I'm in shock - I don't think I'm going to believe it's for real until I'm in orientation. It's my dream job - NICU!

When I was a tele nurse, we were not allowed to have more than 5 patients, 6 if one was a m/s overflow. I was under the impression that if not "legal" mandates, there were guidelines put in place by JCAHO - incorrect? Either way - the OP is in a pre...