MN-Nurse

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  1. Sorry Nurse Recruiters/Nurse Managers!

    MN-Nurse replied to Isitpossible's topic in Nurse Management

    This is a myth. My personal experience in home health and the experience of my new grad classmates in home health points says

  2. Sorry Nurse Recruiters/Nurse Managers!

    MN-Nurse replied to Isitpossible's topic in Nurse Management

    do all the nursing students who did all those things you list owe you a snarky apology? the new grad nurses i work with who have solid tech, cna, and other healthcare experience are simply better...

  3. Hospice Nurse's comment.

    MN-Nurse posted a topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Hello, A patient I know very well from my first job as a CNA in a nursing home went into hospice care this week. I stayed a volunteer at the facility after I left and visited him every couple weeks...

  4. how to land on a first job

    MN-Nurse replied to nurseboat's topic in General Nursing

    Get a part time job as a CNA at the best facility you can, hospital preferred if that is where you want to work. (Make sure they hire ADN grad RNs). If the best facility you can find is a crappy...

  5. night shift help!

    MN-Nurse replied to laraclaire's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing you mentioned really worked for me. The only thing that helped me handle the transitions was regular exercise. Any kind will do, but yoga worked really well for me. To prepare for a run of...

  6. charge pay

    MN-Nurse replied to suhlir's topic in General Nursing

    i would like to know: 1. how much extra do charge nurses make at your facility? $2.00 per hour. if you want to add in: 1. if they also have an assignment. sometimes, especially noc...

  7. Geriatric Nursing VS Acute Nursing

    MN-Nurse replied to promote.health's topic in General Nursing

    If you like working with the elderly, you can get plenty of experience with that population on a med surg floor. I rarely have a shift that doesn't include one or two patients over

  8. Why don't they change LTC facilities?

    MN-Nurse replied to wish_me_luck's topic in General Nursing

    Because the people in these facilities generally can not afford to pay for their care - and the rest of us are refusing to pay for

  9. Accused by a patient's family member of not assessing

    MN-Nurse replied to rcsprauer's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Every single concern is probably covered by your

  10. Test questions taken directly from random NCLEX book. Unfair?

    MN-Nurse replied to Kboylan1's topic in General Students

    You asked if you need to "suck it up" and the answer is a resounding "Yes." The questions in Lipincott are not super secret unanswerable riddles that cannot be answered without seeing them first, you...

  11. Test questions taken directly from random NCLEX book. Unfair?

    MN-Nurse replied to Kboylan1's topic in General Students

    People who study NCLEX books do better on Nursing School tests. Wow, you mean people who studied NCLEX review materials did better on a nursing school exam?? You don't say!! Look, even if the...

  12. Overheard at the nurse's station

    MN-Nurse replied to Teacher Sue's topic in General Nursing

    Something tells me this CNA pretty much has a license to steal on that

  13. Ritalin prescribed for daydreaming...

    MN-Nurse replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in General Nursing

    When irate mom who saw too many TV commercials won't leave your office without a

  14. Prioritizing nursing diagnoses

    MN-Nurse replied to amandamahoney123's topic in General Nursing

    Nah, you completely missed the priority diagnosis - Disturbed Energy

  15. Nursing home nurses, time saving tips?

    MN-Nurse replied to treeye's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I worked as a CNA in a nursing home and I know a lot of nurses who work in LTC and/or have worked in LTC. The only tip I have is tough it out until you find another

  16. I Love being a Christian Nurse

    MN-Nurse replied to Lauryen828's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    How about this: meeting the PATIENT'S spiritual needs. All anyone wants to talk about on this particular section appears to be their own spiritual

  17. Spotting a bad unit......before you take the job.

    MN-Nurse replied to Sugarcoma's topic in General Nursing

    In this economy, the unit with job openings is the bad

  18. "Sir or Ma'am" when addressing physicians?

    MN-Nurse replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    You proved the point of my original response. Anyway, if an MD says to me, "Hi it's Josh," I am going to call him Josh. Someone who did the "hard work and sacrifice to become an MD" certainly...

  19. University of Minnesota Rochester?

    MN-Nurse replied to bsarver's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't even know there was a U of M Roch. If you can afford it, I would DEFINITELY go to U of M. Heck, with the economy the way it is and improving you are probably better off waiting an...

  20. How do nurses practice giving shots?

    MN-Nurse replied to sakiohma's topic in General Students

    there is a legend, apocryphal no doubt, i think i read on allnurses: a nursing student was taught to hold the needle "like a dart" when giving the injection and the student, possibly esl, thought the...

  21. How do nurses practice giving shots?

    MN-Nurse replied to sakiohma's topic in General Students

    Besides stuff like shot pads and oranges.... In nursing school the first shot we gave was to ourselves. SubQ saline. The second shot, a few minutes later, was to a classmate (Intradermal saline,...

  22. Burned out from floor nursing, need advice, please..

    MN-Nurse replied to frazzled2012's topic in General Nursing

    You would if it happened on the job a lot, but it doesn't In general, unlike Christians, you just don't see atheists running around trying to "convert" people or state a goal of spreading any...

  23. Lying about a med to a psych patient

    MN-Nurse replied to cel58's topic in Emergency

    Getting kicked, punched, bitten, scratched, and having furniture thrown at you is legally considered assault too. So instead of both the nurses and the patient calling police and lawyers to file...

  24. "Sir or Ma'am" when addressing physicians?

    MN-Nurse replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    I think you are making too big a deal about this. I've had MDs call me

  25. Bogus degree?

    MN-Nurse replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Leave it be. Odds are she knows it's