totallackofsurprise

totallackofsurprise has 10 years experience and specializes in ER, Perioperative.

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1. Home Health Nurse pay??

   totallackofsurprise replied to Okie51's topic in Home Health

   I was hired as 1099 employee -- 'independent contractor' which means an 'at will' employee. Meaning labor laws do not apply. Exactly! That is the exact description of the 'best' employees at my HH...

2. Home Health Nurse pay??

   totallackofsurprise replied to Okie51's topic in Home Health

   I have been doing HH since May and I am looking for another FT hospital or ambulatory job because I can't live on this money, as another previous respondent said. I really love the work itself... but...

3. Fraud? Should I report?

   totallackofsurprise replied to MotoRN34's topic in Home Health

   Hate to sound like a cynic, but that old adage applies: "If you see something you do not understand, look for the financial interest." The manager doesn't care because 1) the agency gets paid...

4. Help! Had to Quit My Job, Now What?

   totallackofsurprise replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   Have you considered registry/per diem RN work at a hospital or clinic, or through an healthcare staffing agency? The trend in hospitals now (at least in non-profit community hospitals here) is...

5. Rn dealing with own family member illness.

   totallackofsurprise replied to captainRN1's topic in General Nursing

   What everybody else said x10. My stepfather, with whom I was close, worsened (metastatic prostate cancer) and died on hospice during my probationary period at my 1st job out of nursing school. I...

6. Need advice on picking best RN to BSN online program

   totallackofsurprise replied to chrisRN180's topic in Online Distance Learning

   I would stay away from for-profit schools like Chamberlain. 1) They are almost always the most expensive programs. 2) They really don't care if you make it through or not, as long as they take your...

7. Dealing with insults from patients

   totallackofsurprise replied to Lycoriselaine's topic in Health, Stress Management

   I understand the urge to fully inform patients, but there are things you don't need to tell them. While it's good to inform patients of what you're doing and why, sometimes too much information...

8. Opposite Sex Coworker Social Boundaries

   totallackofsurprise replied to cyc0sys's topic in General Nursing

   If porificed more skeptically, here is much in the original post intended to distract readers from multiple red flags, deliberately vague back-story, and true motive. First, and ...are...

9. Fired from my first nursing job, before one year

   totallackofsurprise replied to mightynurse1's topic in General Nursing

   A 100 year veteran??? That would make here, what, 120 yrs old? Amazing!! (just kidding!) It sounds like it wasn't worth the migraine to put her in her place a little. That being said, I do agree with...

10. Fired from my first nursing job, before one year

    totallackofsurprise replied to mightynurse1's topic in General Nursing

    Based on your original post, I get the impression that your previous experience was as a CNA or some other nursing support staff. If that's the case, you may have felt -- in school -- that gave you an...

11. New grad RN needs advice on resigning

    totallackofsurprise replied to MidnightStars's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My advice to you is to stick it out for a year at the job you have now, even though you don't like it. Let me explain why. I graduated in 2007 and worked as a camp nurse for 3 months, so I could...

12. New Grad Freaking Out!!!!!!!!!!!

    totallackofsurprise replied to rottie69's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Other replies are right. That's far too little orientation and far too many patients for a nurse like you having no experience and only five days orientation. I understand if quitting is not an...

13. Bad Experience with Nurses at hospital, rethinking my major now.

    totallackofsurprise replied to Lindsey-Student's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I'm an ER RN with 4 yrs experience. I've taken care of a lot of patients who were battered or sexually assaulted. I worked 3 years in an absolutely insane ER on the south side of Chicago. I saw...

14. Tell me this doesn't happen all the time.

    totallackofsurprise replied to grannyrn65's topic in General Nursing

    Was the surgery originally supposed to be outpatient surgery, or was your daughter supposed to be kept over night? That would determine what unit she went -- or was supposed to go to -- after she was...

15. HELP! Newly RN, poor clinical background, where do i start

    totallackofsurprise replied to willowRN's topic in International Nursing

    If you are a new grad or haven't worked as an RN before, most hospitals will put you on some kind of orientation or precepting. No one gets out of nursing school with good clinical skills -- unless...