DowntheRiver

DowntheRiver

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  1. Verge of nervous breakdown

    DowntheRiver replied to skydancer7's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Once your mental well-being is under control (which is the priority), maybe you should consider a work from home job for an insurance company? Or maybe try something like Urgent Care where you can do...

  2. getting hired in a hospital with an associates degree?

    DowntheRiver replied to chrisRN180's topic in General Nursing

    Somebody already mentioned Florida so I second Florida, just not Miami - an article JUST came out saying that housing prices and the housing market in Miami are equivalent to San Francisco and worse...

  3. What nursing career would suit my mother?

    DowntheRiver replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Very sorry about your mother. I'm actually going through something very similar right now in my position with the state. My program has a running budget until July but after that there's nothing. Even...

  4. Possibly being recorded

    DowntheRiver replied to Papercutz's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Florida finally getting something

  5. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    DowntheRiver replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    The often incorrect assumption that you can interchange fewer and less.

  6. How much of a pay cut is too much? Personal opinion

    DowntheRiver replied to raecudzy1's topic in General Nursing

    I took a $5,000 pay cut when I took my current job. I went from working 3 12s and every third weekend to a Monday thru Friday 9 to 5 clinic public health job. Nobody ever goes into public health for...

  7. Sick of floor nursing, what now?

    DowntheRiver replied to r0seRN's topic in Nursing Career

    I love, love, love Community Health/Public Health. I'm a Community Health Nurse. No call, only weekends very occasionally IF I want to. I make my own schedule and can flex my hours as I see fit. I...

  8. How to get parents to cooperate with immunizations?

    DowntheRiver replied to Amethya's topic in School

    Does your state have a shot database? Some of the school nurses I work with just pull what we call a 680 directly from the database. Also, at least how it works in my state, all the Health Departments...

  9. Relocated from NYC to Missouri to be denied a license please help

    DowntheRiver replied to Nazarr77's topic in General Nursing

    You can still challenge here in Florida as well via PNEQ. Florida Board of Nursing >> Can I challenge the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Examination? - Licensing, Renewals &

  10. How to annoy irritating Drs.

    DowntheRiver replied to Avid reader's topic in Nursing Humor

    I get it... kind of. I try to keep the mood light because it keeps the pace upbeat. I've never once had somebody tell me it was unprofessional. However, I don't work in a hospital setting where I...

  11. UTA Rn to BSN program

    DowntheRiver replied to Ms.RN's topic in University of Texas Arlington

    I think you're looking at the wrong program - you need to look at the Academic Partnership RN to BSN

  12. RN to BSN UTA online program

    DowntheRiver replied to bfrancorn's topic in University of Texas Arlington

    They will not let you switch half way thru. I tried. I was a 4.0 student and still no luck. Got everybody on the phone I could to no avail. You can leave the program for 3 semesters and then re-apply...

  13. Seeking job choice advice...appreciate all feedback

    DowntheRiver replied to Lucky724's topic in General Nursing

    From personal experience, I did the hour and fifteen minute commute to the hospital three days a week. Shifts were long, usually 14 hours. I barely lasted 6 months. I then found a local clinic job...

  14. Tuition Reimbursement How-To

    DowntheRiver replied to FutureNurseInfo's topic in General Nursing

    Or work through school, like the other half of us do. I worked 32-40 hours a week during nursing school as a medical assistant and got some great experience which landed me my first nursing job quite...

  15. Sick policy vs. reality

    DowntheRiver replied to rquinn0111's topic in General Nursing

    At my last job, we received 5.7 PTO/Sick Days per year. Yep, 5.7 days total. No paid holidays, the only holidays that were observed in the clinic were Thanksgiving and Christmas but again, not paid -...

  16. Undocumented Patients

    DowntheRiver replied to srercg6's topic in General Nursing

    This is very true, and being illiterate is part of the reason why I have to bring an ink pad with me to Outreach events so that they can "make their mark." Down in this part of the country, those...

  17. Undocumented Patients

    DowntheRiver replied to srercg6's topic in General Nursing

    Public Health/Community Health Nurse chiming in here. In my neck of the woods (that sees A LOT of Refugees) Refugees are given Medicaid for the first 8 months upon entering the country. This can be...

  18. Keeping your maiden name

    DowntheRiver replied to orangepink's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm just a RN, but I changed my last name when I got married. I went from 8 letters to 5 letters, and I like it because now my first and last names are both 5 letters. I like things being even....

  19. "Observed" urine drug screen

    DowntheRiver replied to thisgirldrums's topic in General Nursing

    Former Occ Health nurse. Observed UDS occurs when a specimen is flagged - temp is out of range, color is off, smell is off, unknown substance was detected in the specimen. Sometimes even something...

  20. "Fixin' to die"

    DowntheRiver replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    Lifelong Florida citizen here. This is just how we speak. I'm very educated, but you can certainly here me saying y'all, etc. I'll also say french toast in place of dropping an F bomb, or shiitake...

  21. To tell or not to tell?

    DowntheRiver replied to nursingRN123's topic in General Students

    I had the same experience with Saunders. Some of my professors would pull questions directly from the practice tests. Usually it was like 10-15 questions per 50 question test, so you still had to...

  22. Quitting job during orientation?

    DowntheRiver replied to angieRN528's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to deviate from everyone else and say that your post seems a little questionable. You didn't address any childcare issues in your original post, only that you wanted to work in L&D and...

  23. How much time for break?

    DowntheRiver replied to Eleven011's topic in School

    Godspeed. I was just at Epcot and Animal Kingdom this past weekend and it was a nightmare. I only live an hour away so I can go anytime but the traffic was just

  24. Upset with delegation

    DowntheRiver replied to lovaza's topic in General Nursing

    Next time this happens, you need to speak up. If it doesn't go in your favor, you need to listen to the above advice and speak to the charge and then the DON if nothing changes. Prior to speaking to...

  25. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    DowntheRiver replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree that many of the classes are fluff, the two classes I learned a lot in while getting my BSN were Population Health (Public Health) and Advanced Assessment. Advanced Assessment has helped...