Awesomepossum

Which is better for a floor nurse RN with a BS in another field? I don't want to stay on the floor ugh. My destiny is in the PACU/ICU/Surgery and eventually off the floor. But I can't decide which masters (if any) to get. I feel like getting my BSN i...

I have the same problem, I'm on a med/surg ward with a lot of complex cases, like people who just had all of their guts taken out and are getting chemo. I routinely have 6-8 pts on a "good" day (we're only supposed to have 5 but hey, why keep nurses ...

Yeah good luck seeing everybody when you have 7+ patients on daylight or 10 on nights. I'm lucky if I see everybody once every 4 hours let alone every 1. I do try to see everybody regularly...which is probably why I haven't had a break or lunch on th...

It's nobody's business what you do in your own home. Politely decline to answer. After all, nobody asks nurses if they're STRAIGHT do they?!

My floor is like that too only usually we have 40-46 patients, but only budget for 36 surgical so we end up with 5 nurses on days and 4 at night with 2 aids on days and 1 (if we're lucky) at night. Do the math...very dangerous patient ratios! Everybo...

At my hospital nrew grads aren't allowed on nights all the time since "The floor is busier during the day and you need more experience" Um ok. I have 7-9 patients at night and we don't get breaks or lunches. I never leave my 7p-7a shift before 9 for ...

I work in a city where if you say the word "union" the giant mega corp who owns the city (no really, they do!) will fire you and you never work in town again! I prefer nights...but at my "lovely" hospital we routinely have 7-10 fresh post surg patien...

This is why I use an assumed name for everything online, even facebook. I don't list my true town, where I really work etc. I also DON"T friend people I work with either. I had a problem with a back stabbing coworker a while back so now I'm extra ext...

So I'm graduating this winter and currently am going on 2 years of being a pharmacy tech. I'm worried that my lack of actual nursing experience will keep me from getting a job. I've tried to get an aid or tech job for two semesters but haven't been a...

We are not here to judge; if you want to judge someone else's business save that for church. We're here to save lives, not souls as it were. The way I see it it doesn't effect ME if someone is a drug seeker. Don't sue me and whatever.

WOuld have been nice to know that there were no jobs back when I started but now I only have 1 class left so it would be stupid for me to stop now when I'm so close. Course I should be used to the no job thing as there were no jobs for my old degree ...

Yes we are all very aware of the lack of jobs and how screwed all of us ADN students are even with another degree under our belts. HOWEVER it does nothing to help other people or yourself to spread all that negativity around! Maybe that Debbie Downer...

slavery is rampant in this country, we just call it customer service, volunteering, community service, and nursing school clinicals ;p

"Eat their young" is very VERY true.

So this week I had a patient who I needed to do a forearm blood pressure on and I just couldn't hear a thing with the manual cuff. I've practiced and practiced on other people and I just can't get the hang of it. Upper arm (normal blood pressure) I'm...

I did have a very hard time trying to get the stethoscope to lie flat. Where i could feel her pulse was right there on the edge by the thumb. Does it work better to listen a little further up on the arm where it's flatter?

A resume with a degree from UoP goes straight to the trash

This could be send of ALL jobs now, not just nursing!

Every time I go to clinical I have at least one nurse tell me to "Get out while you can! Drop out! This job sucks and it's horrible!" Makes it very hard if not impossible to keep a healthy outlook and keep on keepiin on

I'm going to really try and get a tech job by this summer before that last semester. Right now I work in a pharmacy which is great for learning to deal with the irate patient and learning my meds but that's about it.

I have 2 classes left to go before I finish this ADN degree and its so hard to stay motivated to keep up the good fight when all I hear is how there aren't any jobs and the few jobs there are are living hells. I already have one useless degree (BS in...

Maybe this is just me, but after years and years and years of being a patient on the other end of that needle, I still get queezy when giving a patient a shot or watching procedures such as bone marrow aspirations. Is there any way to maybe try and g...

Do NOT move to PA! Nobody is hiring despite certain large cities with black and gold football teams being a mecca for medicine and nursing schools keep pumping out grads by the hundreds.

In PA they need to. No one city needs more than 20 nursing school options and mine does. This creates massive gluts of new grads and no jobs. I graduate in December and I know there won't be a job waiting for me unless I want to move across the count...