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  1. Which should I choose - Preferred OB position in small town or Rehab job in dream town?

    RNinDM replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I agree with the posters who say to take the OB job. A year goes by in no time at all and then, with OB experience, it will be much easier to have the job you want in the city you

  2. My preceptor is everything they taught us NOT to be...

    RNinDM replied to Live..&..Learn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not all hospitals have techs to handle things like getting the patients fed and other aspects of am

  3. Can a Criminal History Stop Me from Being a Nurse?

    RNinDM replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I think that you also should be aware that getting a nursing job these days is competitive. You don't want to spend all that time and money and then have trouble getting a job. Which happens to many...

  4. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    RNinDM replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    You can get copies of everything, but if you live in an at will state, the hospital can fire you for any little thing. All nurses do something wrong eventually and then they'll just use that little...

  5. Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    RNinDM replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    The same thing happened to me recently. I was an ICU nurse for over 20 years, spent my last 7 years in one unit then transferred to another hospital, same job. All of sudden I was getting written up...

  6. Fired for med error

    RNinDM replied to KJAKE's topic in Patient Medications

    Management wants RN's to be accountable, but who is held accountable when we are understaffed and overworked? Self-reported and was made to feel I was incompetent, even though the patient was not...

  7. Thinking of going back into nursing....

    RNinDM replied to genene18's topic in Retired Nurses

    she stopped working 6 years ago,not in

  8. Code Lavender?!

    RNinDM replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    We, supposedly, have a Code Lavender team where I work. There was a lot of PR about it. Supposedly, if a nurse is extremely stressed or upset, someone will call a member of the code Lavender team...

  9. Alone as a New Grad in the ICU

    RNinDM replied to colie5265's topic in Critical Care

    If you can't figure out which "meds should not be turned off", you shouldn't be turning any of them off. In the ICU, it's important to know your drugs and not just by a list, but by what the drug is...