caryrey02

Hello, I am new to the world of oncology nursing and in my unit I see nurses with The tittles OCN (Oncology Certified Nurse) and BMTCN (Bone and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse). Can anyone explain what the differences are, if one is more basic tha...

I am waiting for a call back from select specialty hospital to start working night shift for them... does anyone know thet start pay rate for them ? approximately ? thank you very much

I just received a call, I have been accepted to start august 26th.... see you all there!

Are you sure you have the right number to call? On my fist call I got a rapid response from an admission advisor and spent about half an hour on the phone with her. Then she sent me an e mail will all the info she had just given me on the fone and di...

I also applied to start fall 2013, hopefully all goes well. Greetings from Miami

we do not pace DNR patients in my unit, it is part of the DNR form "No external pacer", "no transvenous pacer".

Just wondering since I am new to home health. This week I filled out two missed visit forms due to patients having to visit the doctor. If it helps the patient's inssurance is Medicaid. I was wondering if somehow I get paid for this missed visits. Al...

Chocolate labs are beautiful :yeah:

I strongly disagree with you since this nurse has no obligation to do someone else's job. It is the management's responsability to fill in those gat that they allowed in the first place to occur. There are plenty of nurses out there that would be mor...

their way of saying you didn't get is to simply disappear... If I were you I'd give them a friendly follow up call, worked for me ;-) Good luck

well it is doable and you can learn quickly. Hopefully they place you might start working at has a wound care team and you can learn from them. I really like wound care, you can see some tough cases but it is rewarding to see the patients get better ...

in Miami

as a new grad I received 4 weeks of orientation then on my own witout letting me know, it it was good to eliminate the stress of knowing "today is my first night on my own" since 8 am in the morning lol

That happened to me too when they called to offer a job, it is probably three days general orientation plus the 2-3 weeks clinical orientation

:yeah::yeah:Best post around...way to go!!! Kudos, Kudos, Kudos:up::up:

yes, way off topic but OMGGG!!! what were they thinking?? no justice for that kid ? only guilty for lying to a police officer? what about not reporting that kid missing for 31 days while she was seen dancing and celebrating during those days ? that i...

If you belong to the Academy of Med surg Nusing (AMSN.com) they have awesome articles from journals that you ready and they give you CEUs

IMHO you could try any new area to see which one will hit that excitment button... don't go to home health, there are better options out there for you

it is totally normal when u first start to not even do well report, you are not expected to do well period...it is a period of adjust,emt and you will be on your own doing everything a nurse does in no time. Your preceptor seems to be happy with you ...

my facility in south florida pays 25.29 to new grads plus 5 dollars differential for nights and 6.50 differential for weekends

I agree with this poster...not everything is black and white. Sometimes, given the special situation you have to adjust the way things are done to make sure you inject the medication into the muscle.

Like almost everyone else have said you are not alone in this. I am fairly new nurse and I remember how embarrasing it was so spend almost 5 minutes to try to pop a pill out of the package only for it to fly across the room and land in the floor. It ...

I wouldnt say it's OK to go to human resources. This is a person that graduated and has a lot to learn, probably needs the money and the benefits from a jod too. I understand patient safety is the main priority but there must be a way for this person...

sometimes the best option just doesnt exist, hopefully pharmacy can change the rout or the preparation of the medication but if not, I open it and mix it with apple sauce, I rather do that that have my 90+ year old patients not being able to swallow ...

Id say if you can afford ACLS it is much better. With the job market as bad as it is these days it makes you a better prepare candidate, also there are places that will give you both cartifications for almost the same price of ACLS alone, thats how I...