darn1219

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1. Did anyone fail their boards the first time around?

   darn1219 replied to NICUNURSE's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know of anyone who walked away from their boards thinking they didn't fail! Keep your chin up. Before you know it that letter will arrive with ,RN after your name. Good Luck

2. Treatment of Agency Staff

   darn1219 replied to nightingale's topic in Agency

   As a full time staff RN in a community hospital, I just wanted to add my experiences with agency nurses. I work in a small 10 bed ICU on the evening shift. We use agency nurses VERY frequently due to staffing shortages and actually have policies on...

3. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   darn1219 replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   And our small community hospital wanted to have volunteers come around each morning and offer coffee refills with breakfast. Hey, where's the newspapers?

4. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   darn1219 replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   And our community hospital wanted to have volunteers come around each morning coffee refills! Heck, where's the newspaper to go with it?

5. EMERGENCY MEDICATION DOSAGE CALCULATOR

   darn1219 replied to nurseree's topic in MICU

   Sounds like a dream for those who are math illiterate like myself. Please pass along the info my way. Thanks!

6. New grad needs your opinion!

   darn1219 replied to ERRN13's topic in General Nursing

   At our hospital the unit secretaries are under another supervisor. If we have an issue with our secretary we first go to our nurse manager. The unit secretary can really wreck havoc and make a difficult job even more so. It also appalls me (thoug...