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I take it you are in Chicago? I'm scared to ask what hospital you work but this management and all the missed interventions are FRIGHTENING! I used to work in private community hospital in Chicago as a first hospital job, new grad and it SUCKED. PCTs were better than you described but otherwise missed a lot of things, like abnormal vitals. RNs would pass things off to night shift and things were bad but not as bad as you described. Management was terrible, no one EVER filed an incident report. I once put in an incident report because we had a trached patient and we didn't have any more continuous pulse ox monitors left and protocol necessitates a continuous pulse ox, so I ended up HAVING to use a dynamap with a pulse ox, at the patients bed side. I wrote an incident report because frankly when we only have 2 dynamaps on the unit, now were short 1, PCTs cant adequately take vitals, it isn't proper care of the patient, and we should have more cont. pulse ox monitors considering how many vent and trach patients we get! I also wrote an incident report for a missed medication dose by a previous RN, and one when a blood transfusion order was written for 10 am and passed off to night shift, and one for when an RN didn't transfuse the 2nd unit of blood because she thought you could only do one per shift, I mean i wrote them like crazy and NO ONE EVER followed up, the supervisors even said "um, I don't think you need to write an incident report for this". OF COURSE YOU DO! I got a better job, better pay, better bennies, extremely competent management. Now if anyone makes one mistake, there is a write up, the SMALLEST mistake, the SMALLEST delay, and while it is stressful its outcome is optimal patient care and accountability. When mistakes are made, they are brought up in an calm and understanding way and my manager is extremely knowledgeable and understanding. You deserve that!

Good now just rest up and hope you feel better!

stress anxiety task oriented real nurse? sometimes confident i do my best

Cedars Sinai? Lets trade places!!!

Um are you really that sick here you feel like you absolutely can't work, or you just don't feel good? If you are really that sick, it is a no-brainer, CALL IN! :) I wonder if any other professionals have this much anxiety over calling in sick :/

Are you looking to work/live in the suburbs or city? If you have a child I would suggest suburbia - there are some good suburbs that are close to the city but still pretty suburban, best of both worlds - arlington heights, glenview, deerfield, inverness, palatine, vernon hills these are all 20-25 minutes away from the city and have excellent school systems. they are close enough where you can commute to the city (although be prepared for the commute) or you can work at nearby suburban hospitals, advocate lutheran, alexian brothers medical center, evanston hospital, northshore system, northwest community hospital. if you venture further west into the suburbs your going towards the newer suburbs, cheaper housing, probably better school sytems, and pretty good hospitals, these suburbs are naperville, aurora, elgin, st charles, etc - great school systems and good hospitals - EDWARD***fantastic hospital, provena, SHERMAN*** fantastic hospital, CDH. There are also some FANTASTIC hospitals in the city to work at of course, top rated in the us news world report, however I don't have much knowledge about the school system although I can't imagine it would be as great as some of the suburban schools (although that could be my biased opinion..)

I work at a Catholic Hospital and although I do not have much other to compare it to, it is a nice place to work. I am NOT Catholic but I do appreciate all that the hospital does, it is a spiritual place whether you are Catholic or not thus, a lot of the care given focus's on the patient, what the patient really wants, the patient's spirituality, it is a calming force in the chaos that is healthcare. Ok maybe not so mushy but every now and then you I do get a warm, fuzzy, spiritual feeling. Of course our patients are mix of religions and ALL get treated the same. We even have our chaplains speak openly to patients of ANY religion to provide comfort. I think we even have a buddhist monk roaming around. We also have a GORGEOUS chapel that is a wonderful place to go to if you are feeling overwhelmed, ******, stressed, burnt out - it has calmed me down in the past and again, I'm not catholic. The sucky part is that they do not perform tubals, sterilization procedures and our INS does not cover contraceptives which I'm on so.. Oh well.

Same here.

dont do it.

^I agree with the above. And the OP. That's ********. If he is praising the dudes for something they are supposed to be doing then I want to be recognized for something I'm supposed to be doing too. I hope he realized what he did wrong when you pointed it out. He is supposed to be a professional.

I like the tube systems. I also very much like computerized charting, moving from a hospital with computerized charting to a better hospital that is still STUCK on paper orders makes me have to do 5 extra steps to initiate and carry out orders. We have mobility teams too i find them to be very helpful. We don't have these but have you heard of those tracking things that track how many times you go in a patient room and how long your are there from tracking your ID? Its like big brother! Good for when a patient says ohh she/he was never in my room when in fact you were there multiple times during your shift. But..just scary to think about that is what healthcare has come down too. Im not sure if its "new" but seems a new concept to me.

Suburbs of Chicago $24 for new grad at my current hospital, however I had 9 months of experience (and I still consider this being a new grad) but since they didn't give me the new grad residency which is a 3 month orientation - they gave me $26.50/hr + 6 week orientation + $3/ hr for evening shift (which is what i work) and $4/hr nights (which is what I will work eventually). $2/hour on weekends. $5/hr extra for incentive shifts.

Sounds like you are a fabulous nurse to me. God Bless You!!

Lucky.

This could be a foreign student who has worked their ass off to try and perfect our language, which let me tell you makes little sense in the grammar department. She may have just as well obtained her bachelor degree in SOMETHING, maybe it was online, maybe it wasn't..whatever the case may be I find it a bit disgusting that you jump to such conclusions that this person is illiterate/not a good candidate. While I agree that this is a poorly written email, and she may need a class or two on the English Language; this email shouldn't be grounds for not considering her, she is reaching out to someone who thinks can help her. And you come on a public forum and post it up and people are making fun of it. Maybe I am being overly sensitive but this just doesn't sit well with me. It just irks me that someone on faculty can act this way. How very unprofessional of you. I was born here and english is my first language. But I sure as hell believe that if I were to go to another country and study there, & in their language, I would probably make many, MANY more mistakes than this person did. Or maybe this person should go to med school...ha ha ha Have you ever met a Dr with poor penmanship (my GOD, what has happened to our educational system, how did this man/woman not learn proper penmanship in kindergarten).... or met a Dr with crappy english? I have.....