shamrokks ADN, ASN, RN

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    Pay in Tampa/St Pete/Clearwater?

    Apply at Baycare. Work mobile pool if you can. It’s $45/hour. Night shift is $5 more shift differential for any nurse. You can easily make $35+/hour dayshift with experience. It depends on specialty. They pay well.
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    Work From Home: Nurse Case Manager

    I transitioned from the floor into case management in March 2018. It is a lot different but I like it more and more as I go along. I work from home 4 days and in the office 1 day a week. It is a blessing. My pay basically stayed the same but I am no ...
  3. I just got accepted to Galen Tampa, FL for their evening/online LPN to RN bridge and I'm trying to see if anyone else is going to be starting then that is on this forum. It would be nice to get to know others who will be in the program with me. I'm e...
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    Case Management -Humana

    Let us know how you like it.
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    Nurse's Week Gifts from Employers

    Events, contests, cookies, ice cream, lunch bags, steak dinner, Greek dinner, a year of CE direct...first time ever working somewhere that did this much
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    no more than 4 shifts in a row

    I think my hospital would let us work every night if we would
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    Any Psych NP's with advice???

    I was thinking the same thing
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    StaRN internship program?

    I've heard of it here in Florida with HCA hospitals. The pay is low until you're on the floor in your assumed position but then it goes to their base rate pay. A nurse I graduated with went into a CCU or ICU StaRN program due to no experience but if ...
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    Dosage answer on nclex 0.1 or .1?

    Always put the 0 before the decimal point ... Prevents a med error
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    High amounts of flatulence in Psych

    I notice it too but a lot of ours are homeless or basically always institutionalize do and seem to eat a lot and almost hoard food if they can so maybe a mix of that and the meds??? Some rooms hit me like a brick wall of funk when I open the door to ...
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    Problems with q15 rounds

    I'd leave. My techs always do their rounds as scheduled and it's never an issue. If I remind anyone they aren't vengeful and admin backs this up wholeheartedly. Patient and staff safety are a priority.
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    Nurse-Patient Ratio Adult Unit

    Dayshift and nightshift differs but for adult we have up to 1:16 at night with 2 techs ... On days they get 2:16 with 2-3 techs depending on acuity ... Geriatric is 1:8 with 2 techs day or night and pediatric is 1:10 with 2 techs day or night .. If a...
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    Galen January 2013 LPN to RN role call...??

    They are sticklers for time so try to get your employer to work with you regarding timing of classes. All of my clinicals were 6:30am-6:30pm so it had to be on a day off. I did work full time but luckily I had PTO to use when needed.
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    Galen January 2013 LPN to RN role call...??

    On quizlet I searched hesi and nur280
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    Florida RN Salaries

    I've thought about Urgent Care, especially maybe PRN. I didn't know they paid well but it seems they do. I'm in psych now but don't want to get stuck as a "psych nurse".
  16. This was the option I was looking for
  17. Just an FYI in case it hasn't been mentioned - the StaRN positions have been posted again for HCA. I seen it listed on Indeed.com. I was looking in Florida and seen it listed for Largo Medical Center but it said it is for all regional HCA hospitals.
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    10 Worst Employee Excuses For Missing Work

    ME TOO!!
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    Need some comic relief from all this Ebola-ness?

    This is great. I love that we can laugh no matter what the issue. Life is too short.
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    Galen January 2013 LPN to RN role call...??

    marshandaly - to study for NUR 280 comprehensive exams and the HESI exit exams I used the nclex study guide that is going around the internet and can be found on this page https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/nclex-study-guide-622449.html (c...
  21. Also: one of my patients today said she's a 57 y/o student working at a children's hospital and getting her tuition paid to be a speech pathologist ... Never too old
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    Bedside not for me. Any success stories doing something else?

    Also surgery centers... You get iv experience as well as other skills but a smaller setting and a little more laid back.
  23. I'm 39, just got my RN, was a LPN for 2 years prior, 3 kids 8,10&13 and I worked full time through school. It was rough but I survived. My support system rocks!! Good luck!
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    Bedside not for me. Any success stories doing something else?

    Clinics or doctors offices, specialty satellite offices of hospitals, psych nursing, home health, telephonic nursing positions... They do exist. I don't want to do bedside nursing either. I was a LPN at a GI clinic, moved to clinical research as a RN...
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    Galen January 2013 LPN to RN role call...??

    Thank you! And it's official! My license showed up in the Florida dept of health 48 hours later :-)