rumwynnieRN

Yes it is. So I wonder about people who have restraining orders in place, and we see our fair share of crazy, and these aren't mentally ill patients. Just people who, if Arkham was real, probably need to be left there forever.

I'm fairly certain the appropriate response would not be to like that, but I worry about that from time to time.

I'm unchecking that option

That is true, but I thought it was just really disconcerting with that particular result. Hey from one of the previous posters, I know now NOT to put my email. Good grief -_-; and yes, until I started working at the current hospital I'm at, I never worried about a patient following me to my car until that one patient. Good thing my full name isn't on my badge.

Let me preface this with yes I know this is the internet and you can find almost anything, BUT, since moving to Florida (I have no idea if this is uniquely a Florida thing or if other states have this issue, and if it is uniquely Florida, I don't mind having this thread moved), apparently a lot of my information became public? There are some things with the Google search that are acceptable -- like my LinkedIn, but the part I squared off in red scares me. Some of the information is stuff that could've come from the BON's website -- like my primary place of practice. As you can see though, after I blocked out all the information, it has my home address, my phone number and my personal email. There are other things that if you knew my real name, you could find that on the BON (...okay some of that is fair game), but it makes me uncomfortable (I really need to figure out how to get rid of that white pages search?). I also looked up my coworkers, and apparently they can all be found this way too. When I lived in Texas and Arkansas, I didn't have this issue. So am I being paranoid? Has anyone gotten their information taken down? I'm half wondering if there was a disclaimer with the FL BON that said they could release this information (...if they did, I thought that was just for like someone had a complaint against me which I thought was all states?). I could just be overreacting -_-;

I've given beer. It's the cheapest option for where I work 😂

I work at TGH now. I can tell you now that no, TGH, unfortunately does pay as well as the other hospitals, BUT, you have more pros working at TGH. If you find a floor you really like in the acute care rotation program, you can apply and if you do well on that floor, they'll probably take you (or you can float). i got hired on as a nurse with experience (I had like a year experience) so I got paid about what some new grads get paid.

To answer your question about ICU-type pts being sent to the floor, the answer is yes, we've had that problem. It's easier now to make sure we don't get them with EPIC. I have mixed feelings about the ER not even bothering to call report (we have a program now where we want the critical care and ER nurses to shadow the floor nurses for a shift because some of them where I work don't think we do anything) because they have sent us patients who are most definitely not appropriate for our floor. They assume we will have looked up the patient and send them -- room isn't ready and the nurse doesn't even know he/she's getting a patient. Bed file has decided in the past that (I work on a med surg floor -- we are ENT/Eye/Urology mostly) we can take insane traumas because we deal with trachs and chest tubes. As in traumas that are by no means stable (BPs 60/40, insane blood loss, requires closer cardiac monitoring than what we can provide). Last Saturday, they tried to send us a patient who was dx-ed with sepsis. It's a good thing I looked because the pt was definitely not hemodynamically stable (BP was trending down from 111/80 to 80/60 to 75/51), and no, the ER would not have called report. We also don't have negative pressure rooms, and when they don't call report, we end up taking pts who have active TB or shingles or chickenpox. x.x; We have to notify the supervisor immediately and get them moved to a floor with negative pressure rooms.

1) See if there's a nurse residency program at some of the hospitals. Those positions don't usually appear until around graduation time for the nursing schools. In some cities, you need to have a really good GPA and your interview would need to go well to land a job. 2) What the other posters posted above. The hospital I work at now has number one, but also, a lot of the floors are seriously understaffed. Some of the new grads didn't have to do the year residency, and stayed on our floor. I started out in a hospital I didn't really like, but as soon as a med/surg position opened up, I took it at a bigger hospital.

I'm Catholic, and prior to my present job, I worked at Baptist affiliated hospital. Yes they had things like "We believe in the power of Christ, and we strive to live his message," but other than the daily "prayer/huddle" thing (which depending on who was charge nurse, we got the "corporate gospel" aka the sheet of paper without the prayer or we skipped it all together), that was as religious as it got. I think we might've had some religious leaders, but besides that, a hospital is a hospital. You do what you were taught in nursing school (with the appropriate growth/changes), and no one says anything to you. I would ignore it. I bet half the higher ups except maybe a handful are (practicing) Catholics anyway.

What bothers me about the release of her information is that now, if she survives (which I hope), everyone or anyone who has been paying attention, will know her as the "Ebola Nurse." What with how "educated" our public is, future patients would be wary of her. I read here that supposedly ebola survivors become immune to whatever strain of ebola they were infected with, but the theory hasn't been tested. This medscape article corroborates the possibility of immunity. As for Duncan's information -- I never got who released that. Was it family/friends? I don't think his information should've been released -- who would've wanted to be known as the guy who brought ebola into the country?

I do 4-3. At my previous job, I would do 4-4, but yeah, I agree the burnout is a lot faster when you work overtime a lot. At my current job, I've figured out this balance thing in my head -- one day off is too little, two to three days is preferable straight, but I save my four days off for when I know I need it. I volunteer for overtime when I have energy, but when I know I'm tired, I take my breaks. If you can do 4-4, do it. I have to admit -- I do like my extra money.

I've always felt that way, and yeah, as someone before has said, my biggest fear is to be aware of what's going on but not be able to communicate. If I was told I had stage IV cancer, and it was incurable (after the second opinion), I'd say, "Okay, so give me my pain medication so I don't hurt. If it's that bad, I want to enjoy the rest of my time here." My parents had too many stories from work about families who couldn't let go, and their loved ones already had one foot out of the door. My husband and I have discussed this -- we just have to write it down.

They had the CNL at the university near my in-laws (which is where I live at the moment), but at the moment, they've stopped admissions. I'm happy with the responses I've gotten! Thanks everyone:)

During my orientation at the hospital I work in now, I found a lot of people were in the new grad program who were not from Florida -- a lot of them were from out of state. I wasn't a new grad when I started here. I moved to Florida from Arkansas (I'm originally from Houston, TX), and the hospital where I worked before is hiring. No, Little Rock is not the first place I would want to live in, but experience is experience, and the only thing I loved about Little Rock was my job. I don't think that particular facility is very big (...although I have all the Texas Medical Center to compare hospitals so I'm really biased), but I have heard of nurses who come from out of state who freaked and said, "Yeah I can't work here. It's too big."