YuHiroRN BSN

I would certainly wait until you're 1) actually in the nursing program and 2)done rotations through the unit, before making such a claim, especially since your basis is a YouTube video. Just my 2 cents. Pros: Lots of education for clueless parents. E...

My unit does orientation in stages also. You might find your niche once the acuity of your patient load is kicked up a notch. I don't really take care of stable feeder/growers anymore, which is fine with me.

Everyone is different. Some of us could work an entire paycheck's worth of hours in less than a week and not skip a beat, while others of us need to spread out our days for the sake of our sanity. I'm kind of in-between. I'm in my mid-30's now, still...

I think you should go with the first offer, only because the commute probably won't be so terrible since you'd be working days. I would be super concerned about second job offer falling through... But if you start your first residency, find that the ...

You mentioned your level of experience, and sadly your *very specific* specifications are more like a wish list for someone with your lack of experience. My advice would be to either sit tight in your home unit until a day shift position opens up, th...

Youtube, and your friendly neighborhood RT!

I would be lying if I said I didn't wait until the day after I passed my certification exam before applying for NNP school LOL! Those extra letters...

This sounds like something that would fall under Mandated Reporter laws, easily. Or at least reach out to an ombudsman to see if it does. Regardless, protect yourself until you can reasonably not be a part of that care team any longer. Yikes, that mo...

LOL at the amazon shopping - so guilty. I also decompress by crawling into bed with my laptop and catching up on my episodes that aired while I was at work the night before. I also like to get outdoors w/ my family when I can. It's so much easier to...

I certified in Neonatal Intensive Care very recently (as in, I haven't even received my official paperwork from the NCC yet) but when I saw that preliminary pass certificate, I felt so validated for the last 5 years I've spent learning my craft in th...

Raises don't jive w/ a hospitals' bottom line, regardless of the size of institution. The only reason I think I've seen significant raises throughout my 5 years at bedside at my current job is because we're union - they are contract-driven raises, no...

I have a coworker who attended a local university while pregnant and completely her externship in our unit while pumping every couple of hours. I think it'd be more ideal finishing up the program pregnant than w/ a newborn at home. I had no problem ...

Personally, I don't go to work trying to stand out or feel special. That being said, our hospital supplies color-coded uniforms with our discipline embroidered on the chest. The RNs are very obvious by the fact of the sheer number of people in navy b...

Would you be willing to work down in Southern California? 5 years ago, I was able to move back home from Iowa with less than a year's experience, but I am in LA County. I have no idea what the market is like up there in Sacramento, and my one contact...

For that kind of pay raise and not paying for insurance, you could easily afford a smaller hybrid vehicle just for your commute. I'd consider it to get into Kaiser also, but only if it were a specialty I was interested in. Float might do it for me. K...

For all my years of living in California and orienTING to a unit, it threw me way off when I moved to the Midwest and my coworkers asked how my orienTATING was going. Weird!

First of all, lots and lots of hugs. Hopefully you read this after some sleep, in a nice cool room w/ a fan and black out curtains... Secondly, I applaud your commitment to your unit but you are stretching yourself way too thin! Your unit's lack of N...

This. It is not that hard to log yourself out of charting. And at 36 weeks pregnant, me wearing PPE for all my patient care is basically Hell on earth temp-wise but we are currently dealing with a weird bacterial outbreak in out NICU and you know wha...

Necessary? Of course not. Helpful? Absolutely. It totally depends on your learning style; I took Kaplan and it was nice to listen to the info, synthesize it with their book visually, and study on my own either by writing it out or practicing test que...

I wouldn't move anywhere without a firm job offer anyway, sooooo there's really only one way for you to find out ;-)

At the end of the day, the take home should be that the charge nurse should have taken the instructor to the side and expressed her concerns in private, NOT in earshot of the student. That is the failings of a good leader, not what choice of descript...

See if any smaller hospitals in outlying areas within a reasonable distance for you to commute have a pediatric floor and if their float pool is hiring. Or if the children's hospital in your area has float positions, that would be even more ideal. If...

No, she will not. However, in my experience, other states don't take nearly as long AND even here in California, receiving an interim permit doesn't take that long. OP, my initial job hunt took me to the Midwest after 1+ year of searching here in CA...

I have personally never met any nurses who have received their BSN in anything higher than a state university, so I'm willing to say that no, it probably doesn't matter.

Dartagnan. Mom had a 3 Musketeers kick while preggo.