Hi, I know that California nurses have a union, but do the dialysis nurses that work in a chronic unit have the same union? How many patients do the CA dialysis have to take care of in a chronic unit?...
Thank you so much for your input. It's shameful that Florida, especially South Florida, is a crappy place to work as a nurse. I do plan to move to California some day and be able to practice nursing...
I worked for Davita and Fresenius in the Fort Lauderdale and Miami area and they were no good. Did not care much about their employees or patients. I now work for a privately owned dialysis clinic and...
Hi emtb2rn, and thank for your comment. This program is indeed 3 weeks long and some of our local hospitals send their newly hired ER nurses without ER background to complete this program. I guess the...
Hi, I'm a RN and I work as an acute dialysis nurse. That is the only nursing that I have done since I started working as a nurse. We lost our contracts and will be out of a job in a matter of weeks....
I tried calling but was not able to speak to anyone. Just got a recording telling me that they are experiencing a high call volume and to try again later. And their website does not have the answer to...
Can an Excelsior graduate that enrolled after California's dead line ever go back to school to do a generic nursing or LPN-RN bridge program that would meet CA's requirements and be eligible to apply...
I graduated this year and to apply for the CPNE I had to have completed ALL of my NC tests and I think 21 credits of the 31 General requirements credits as well. If you've heard different than I would...
I apologize for my comment. I am an Excelsior college graduate and proud of it. A lot of people do not approve of Excelsior because of the lack of clinical skills involved in the program. I just...
I'm really glad that this thread has helped a lot of us say how we really feel about bedside nursing. I did med-surge for 2 months as a LPN and I hated every second of it. I had up to 8 patients in...