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Hello all! I just accepted a position as an RN in a clinic for low-income families. I'm very excited! I've worked in a school setting, and a correctional setting, but never in an office. On the med-surg forum they have a "sticky" with tons of advice ...

I am a wreck, and feeling pretty wretched. I'm in my last week of a job in an outpatient clinic, administering injectable meds (doing other things too, but this is what I screwed up on.) My first error, two patients of the same name, gave one a shot ...

Well, I knew it was coming... I've never seen anything move so fast as those little suckers diving in and out of that little girl's hair, squirming, running.... ew. Her father brought her back in the next day. "She's all cured!" Spying the nits from ...

A friend of mine took Accutane, and got horrible liver damage from it. She can't process Vitamin D normally anymore. My brother was on it FOUR TIMES for acne that was, in my opinion, not severe. He got dry skin and hair loss. No permanent effects, as...

Hey guys! I'm thinking of taking a school nurse job. But I'm not sure what I would do to earn my living during holidays and summers! I don't have that much hospital experience... right now I work in a residential psych facility. What do you all do??

I have mono. (Aren't I too old for mono?) I also start a new job on Monday. I've had mono for about three weeks (was misdiagnosed for the first two) and can do nice things like swallow, stay awake, and walk across the room. The first week of my new j...

This past year I worked both as a school and a jail nurse. At the jail, treated many, many MRSA abscesses. Then one morning a 7-year-old walked in complaining of a "sore" on his back. Pulled up his shirt- gigantic MRSA abscess, leaking all over the p...

I used to work nights. I rarely could sleep for just a little bit, and not wake up feeling worse. However, some nurses who were having a slow night would put their heads down for a bit, with their beepers on loud volume right next to their heads, so ...

Employers will be happy to hire a 39-year-old new grad- it's not like you're 70. If you had a successful career beforehand, it's evidence that you have basic job skills- somebody just out of college who is 22 may have worked a job successfully, but t...

I got a biology degree before I went to nursing school... and got almost 2 years of organic and inorganic chemistry. I use it often. We are chemical creatures, and if our chemistry gets out of whack, we are toast. It's important to understand at leas...

I do agency work at a jail to supplement my school nurse salary. (Weird, I know.) I'd been thinking about doing some shifts at a nearby prison. Mentioned this to another agency nurse, who used to be the nursing supervisor for a prison. She told me an...

I just talked to a girl with her arm in a sling. I saw her on Wednesday after she fell off the monkey bars. She was calm, didn't seem to be in much pain. Said her arm hurt- it wasn't swollen and she could move it. Gave her ice and sent her back to cl...

Stevens Hospital, Edmonds Northwest Hospital, Seattle Skagit Valley Hospital, Mt Vernon Valley General Hospital, Monroe Providence Hospital, Everett (a more well-known one) Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland Thanks guys!

Heck, I worked in a residential locked psych facility for teens- not criminally insane, just mental health diagnoses- and got assaulted all the time. I work in a jail for a few shifts a month, and I'd say it's safer than your basic ER. Always CO's ar...

I was working in a teenage psych home... a girl told me her ear hurt. As I approached it with the otoscope, this blue glow began emanating from her ear canal... all I could think was, "aliens?" No, she'd stuck a shard of blue glass in her ear that wa...

Our school seems to have a policy somewhat in between. If there are live bugs in the hair- the kids stays home. If there were nits, and the kid still has two or three, but the parents are conscientiously combing them out, we'll let them come back if ...

I work in a jail. 1. 4 hours of classroom, 4 shifts of orientation (I'm agency.) 2. What self-defense course? 3. I won't know until I am, and I doubt I ever will be. 4. Nope- had some unconscious people/ chest pain/ emergent situations, but never had...

Jeez. Even if the candy *had* come out I would have had his parents pick him up, because I'd imagine he was scared and traumatized! If it hadn't... definitely wouldn't put him on the bus.

Quick Update- Did a lot of job shadowing, and my experience in L&D was amazing. I loved the hospital, the nurses, and the experience from beginning to end- actually quite a hard labor, but it ended with a beautiful baby boy. I was able to speak w...

Hi guys. I hope you don't mind me posting in your forum, but I wanted to get a manager's opinion on my situation. I graduated in '04 and went straight into a bone marrow transplant job. After six- seven months, both my manager and I agreed it was not...

I was speaking to somebody (a manager) who said she would rather hire a new grad than a nurse who has not been working in a hospital for a few years. Is this the usual opinion?

Street clothes, no jeans. No nametag. It's a small school, so the kids know who I am.

I think psych nurses are real nurses... but of course I've worked as one. :) There *is* less technical skill involved than many areas. But nursing isn't just technical skills, we're not mechanics.

Jeez! Well, I hope *somebody* will hire me...

Do you belong to a union? If so, call them up. They would be able to help you sort through all this. You don't lose your license as a result of being fired. A friend of mine got fired because she "didn't get along with other staff" (i.e. doctors), an...