Drysolong

In the hospital that I work in, our department is termed med-surg. One floor is dedicated to medical patients, while the other is dedicated to post-surgical patients. There is no Telemetry monitoring on the "surgical" floor, so post op pts needing Tele go to the "medical floor". Overflow is handled both ways. Nurses' main assignments are either on one or the other, but we routinely and frequently get floated between floors.

Your comment, "the bottom line was I just needed the time off to really reflect on what I wanted to do." is a very good reason.

I understand calling the DON's cell #. Why didn't the nurse manager know to call the DON's cell? All of this information should have been included in your orientation as clear-cut policies. They dropped the ball, but the blame is put on you. That's the clarification.

Healthcare workers who lose sight of the reason we are here, "the patient". Because of this attitude, they refuse to assist, answer questions or share their experience or expertise with others on the "team" on behalf of the patient. (I don't mean do other's work)

congratulations!!!! and welcome back!!!!

I've been in Med/Surg one year. Appreciate the experience. I'm keeping it as a PRN, but now ready to move on. I'm involved in home health and I'm now leaning toward it and hospice. I think I just like to do different things. Agency is probably the best for me to beat the boredom. My !

Cindy Birdsong, former member of Supremes (the one who replaced Florence Ballard) is an RN

I completely agree!!!

Hi Amanda: What is the cost of living like in Las Vegas (housing, car insurance, etc)?

Check out the DISTANCE LEARNING FORUM. Also, Excelsior is not necessarily an online program. You study from actual textbooks and take exams on computer at PearsonVue locations. Excelsior does provide online study resources. Beforehand you should determine if you can successfully study independently. There are Excelsior study groups on YAHOO. Hope this helps a little.

For better or worse - Some schools do just require maintenance of a "C" average. Mine (LPN - technical college) was one. As do some of the RN programs in my area also

:yeah:YEAH!!! TO ALL THE ABOVE. JMHO 2!

I also agree. I had a high GPA, but a "D" (my assessment) in experience & skill when I first graduated from LPN school. 4.0 + NCLEX = Nurse 3.0 + NCLEX = Nurse 2.0 + NCLEX = Nurse

I passed Excelsior's A&P & NC1 last year. In my experience, NC1 was fundamentals that were covered in my LPN course. So I used my LPN course textbooks only. For A&P, I used the simple (made easy & for dummies type-this was a personal choice helping me with a foundation to build on) books plus a college textbook. (Not Excelsior's) Also, I basically followed the same routine for Excelsior's Microbiology. Oh (I almost forgot) I used Excelsior's practice tests for A&P. Helped a lot.

WHY? In particular.

CraigB-RN: Hi, I notice you are in GA as I am. One of my previous instructors had both LPN and RN license. She stated specifically that she always kept up her LPN and CNA licenses just in case.

Depending on size and location of city you live in, there is often childcare available that take into consideration 12-hour nursing shifts. As mentioned before, doctor's offices, or clinics and LTC, school nurses, (and some hospitals) have 8-hour options.

in the two places where i work, all nurses (lpn & rn) start their own iv's. no iv team. but you can always get help from others. on particularly hard sticks, we can usually get an er nurse to do it successfully. personally, i've only done 3. just beginning to get the hang of it.

This seems to be the way the bottom line is sending us. Bottom line being not patient health but revenues. I once thought that patient and nurses could be allies in advocating for better direct patient care and considerations, but so many patients and their families are focused on hotel amenities rather than actual healthcare.

The title of this thread could be "Children and teens talk to your parents and other 'adults' in your life"

So glad to hear this!!!

Breast feeding, bottle feeding, spoon feeding. Anything other than work at the nurse's station, just seems inappropriate to me. If I was a patient or visitor, that would just seem so out-of-place. My .

Thank you to BradleyRN and jlsRN for continuing this discussion. (And all the other posters) This has been an education for me as a relatively new nurse. Also, I am so thankful that there are nurses who REALLY care and who deem it as being important to be professional and proficient. I knew you had to be out there somewhere!!!

y This too shall pass! My motto is put up with it now, so you won't have to in the future. AND never do this to a student or someone I precept in the future. ALSO, though, in the meantime, learn as much as you can from this person while treating her nicely, NO MATTER HOW HARD IT IS.

I completely agree!!