monroea23 replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing
1. State you work in - Iowa 2. Years of experience - 12 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) - Emergency/Critical Care 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary - $27.45/hr 5. Differentials (if any) $1.00/hour night shift di...
You absolutely need to send that letter to everyone you can think of sending it to including the ER manager, the CNO and CEO of the hospital, and if you know who they are, the members of the Board of Directors of that hospital. I would also send it ...
thanks for making my point. attitude problems don't stick with just one experience level. we all should know that. i also think a lot of people over reacted to the original posting. perhaps in her case it is a valid observation. i am not a new n...
oh my god....i can't believe i am reading this junk. first of all old timers, old bats, old nurses...whatever you want to be called...get over yourselves...i think we can all think of a nurse or two, new or experienced, who isn't exactly open to new...
In my hospital the ICU (where I work) is self staffed, we do not have to float to other units but if we are cut for a day due to low census we may let nursing services know if we are willing to work on another floor if we want to keep our hours. I w...
monroea23 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing
I DO NOT risk my life to get to work. I understand that people are still sick when it is snowing but in my opinion it is far better for my facility to be without me for one day than to have to replace me because I am DEAD from driving in horrible con...
monroea23 replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing
Your post, to be blunt, really ticked me off. As a former travel RN I know from experience that many times we are FORCED to work in areas where we are not comfortable, espcially new travel nurses who don't know enough to have where they will work me...
It seems to me that you have some underlying issues about your job or how you feel about your role in the unit becuase you are coming across a little hostile. I am a coronary intensive care nurse and know my rhythms in and out but I sit and look at a...
monroea23 replied to HealinghandsRN's topic in Geriatric
At the LTC facility I used to work at in Iowa we did not do CPR on residents who were full codes unless we saw the resident go down. If we found them dead we did nothing.