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  1. telemetry staffing ratios trauma level I hospital?

    OneRN replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a classic stepdown unit. We have only cardiac pts and ICU overflow. Our staffing is 4:1 on days and 5:1 on nights. These days it's difficult to know what to call a unit like ours. We used to...

  2. nursing school yes or no

    OneRN replied to rtin05's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, if I were you, I wouldn't do it. Nursing school is really tough; not just academically, but it takes up your entire life for 2 and a half years, and then the first year of nursing is pretty...

  3. CNA issue~can anyone advise?

    OneRN replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as a CNA in a LTC facility during my prereqs and Level 1. I was a good one, but some of the ones I worked with were just this side of convicts and gang members. It's a tradgedy what takes...

  4. Feeling like I blew it!

    OneRN replied to lisamc1RN's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in level 1 of nursing school. A neighborhood kid had a bleeding nose. I told him to put his head back and hold his nose closed and then walked him home. On the way, a ten-year old told me...

  5. What Doesn't Matter

    OneRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is for all the nursing students who have yet to work as a nurse on the floor. I just graduated, got my RN licesnse, and am in an internship on a stepdown floor where I was a tech for a year...