nicholaa2

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1. 2nd shift vs. 3rd shift

   nicholaa2 replied to kennybania's topic in Psychiatric

   I think it depends on your hospital. I work in an "acute care" hospital and this is the difference for me evening vs. night: The night shift on a "good night" means you have plenty of time to do pretty much whatever people do with free time. The pa...

2. Outpatient Renal Care RN Responsibilities

   nicholaa2 posted a topic in Urology

   Hi all, I'm considering a change from psych nursing to dialysis nursing, but I wanted to see what clinical skills are expected to be a quality dialysis nurse providing OP renal care. The job description seems VERY vague: "The registered nurse is resp...

3. Understanding Pay (Wage) vs. Per Diem

   nicholaa2 replied to nicholaa2's topic in Travel

   Thanks to both of you, and Ned, your posts are always so chock full of good information! I am just worried that when I see my per diem rate for this county on the IRS website as $77 + 46 ($123/day) that even if you multiply it by 7 and divide by 5 (5...

4. Pysch nurse to dialysis

   nicholaa2 replied to JermillaRN's topic in Urology

   It's so funny I just came across your post because I too am a psych nurse and I do love it, but I have grown increasingly frustrated with the way my floor is run (i.e. management/physicians) and I have started researching dialysis nursing as a possib...

5. Understanding Pay (Wage) vs. Per Diem

   nicholaa2 posted a topic in Travel

   As I research travel nursing and read this forum and all the information on compensation, I can't help but be afraid of accepting a contract just because the overall numbers look good, especially since I have always had simple tax filings with no fea...

6. Please help! New grad with possible geri-psych job offer.

   nicholaa2 replied to Panda30's topic in Psychiatric

   I work on a geri-psych floor and you basically get the "best" (depends if this is your cup of tea, then yes, best is probably the right word) of both worlds -- an elderly patient with the standard plethora of medical co-morbidities and then mental he...

7. Disagreeing with MD Treatments

   nicholaa2 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I have become so frustrated lately because it seems like many of my patients are not being appropriately diagnosed or treated. I know I'm not a psychiatrist and of course do not have the ability to diagnose, but when I have long-term patients (100+ ...

8. A Question for Night shift Psych Nurses - Do you limit PRNs?

   nicholaa2 replied to greenbeanio's topic in Psychiatric

   You make a lot of wonderful points, but what we have to remember as nurses is that we are not the prescribers, not the doctors responsible for deciding what prn medications to order/give and our patients typically know exactly what meds they have ava...

9. Any week-long travel assignments?

   nicholaa2 replied to nicholaa2's topic in Travel

   Thanks everyone for your answers. I spent all last night up and reading this forum and going to a variety of mentioned sites to look into options. I may definitely be able/willing to do the 2-week cycle (Th/Fri/Sat - Sun/Mon/Tues on) - and I am als...

10. Any week-long travel assignments?

    nicholaa2 replied to nicholaa2's topic in Travel

    I should have considered that orientation would be obviously a huge time killer - ugh, what mind-numbingly boring material. I'm not sure the ex-husband would ever agree to changing the custody agreement to do 2-weeks on, 2-weeks off, so I am beginnin...

11. Any week-long travel assignments?

    nicholaa2 posted a topic in Travel

    With the influx of opportunities in travel nursing, I was curious to see if there has also been an increasing need for more variety in assignment lengths to be able to fulfill the ever-changing scheduling nightmare many of us professional parents enc...

12. Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

    nicholaa2 replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

    Took the test Monday, kept trying the trick and kept getting the message saying that I couldn't re-register. Paid the $7.95 fee just now and it said I passed.

13. Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

    nicholaa2 replied to Silverdragon102's topic in NCLEX

    I don't know how you guys even remember what kinds of questions you had. As soon as the screen shut off for me at like 85 questions, I couldn't have told you a single question that was on there. All I know is that they seemed to be *harder* than the...

14. Anxiety Setting In

    nicholaa2 replied to nicholaa2's topic in NCLEX

    Well, I got 85 questions and it shut off. I tried the "Pearson Trick" and went to the website to register to take the test again, and I got the message saying that I couldn't. Supposedly that's a good sign. I will keep checking both that trick, an...

15. Anxiety Setting In

    nicholaa2 posted a topic in NCLEX

    Warning: This post is mostly me just ranting. I feel better that I can post my complaints here where some people might understand and feel my pain.. :) --------- I've never been someone that's gotten overly anxious about exams. I had to take like 5 o...