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dont leave for casemanager job its a joke if they are telling you that its 8-5 m-f more like 8-6,7,8 whenever and dont forget the weekend catch up for paperwork. stay where you are

either hospice nurse salaried 10-12 hours 5 days a week then at least 5 on weekends plus on call all for 50,000 a year sweet deal my employer has huh

I know how you feel hospice nurse here, everything keeps getting cut. Work m-f 8-6or7 back in on weekends for 5 hours or more to catch paperwork up and dont forget call sometimes 9 day stretches along with work all for 50,000 a year. Can someone say sucker!

yes for sure, stressful as it is there is no greater satisfaction than being a nurse!

goodness I am a BSN RN and most of you make more than i do! Been a nurse for a year and a half

where i work we use sensicare and nystatin by mixing the two together and then applying. Seems to work

I have a post turp patient who's foley wont drain independently into the drainage bag. If you unhook the tubing it will drain freely, hook it to a leg bag it drains. It has been irrigated no clots where present, bag has been changed. Cannot figure this out any nurses out there ever encountered this?

:confused:Can anyone help with this problem? Post turp patient catheter wont drain into foley bag but will drain into the leg bag what could be causing this? It has been irrigated, bag changed, will drain without bag or into leg bag. At a loss any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I am sorry I don't want to whine. I should never have taken this job, I feel like I am in over my head here. The management is really bad and the policies change daily. I have waited for 4 days to change a leaking catheter bag because we don't have any and waited 2 weeks for thermometer covers and were using these cheap electronic thermometers that take forever to give obviously low temps 92. I am all alone with noone to go to for guidance and don't feel at all qualified to do the job. Hospitals are not hiring new grads and I feel lucky to have a job but am beginning to feel as though working elsewhere whether nursing or not would be safer for my license than staying. Thank you all who have replied, maybe I just need to vent. Thanks again for listening and giving your feedback.

I am a brand new RN who took a job in long term care. The working conditions are deplorable. I have 54 geri psych residents and feel like i am unable to keep up. I try so hard but have no supplies, watch resident rights be abused daily and find medication errors daily. The previous nurse for this shift was suspended for 3 months due to a pt having a temp which she called the doctor about, this patient died the next morning at 8 am and she was suspended. It seems everything is dumped on the evening nurse. I still can't figure out why she was suspended when the night nurse was just as responsible. I am scared for my license and feel like getting out of nursing altogether until the market opens back up. Would it be better to take a non nursing position right now or should i just try to stick it out? I requested the weekend night shift over two months ago but cannot find anyone to take my full time position right now. Any experience and advice would be appreciated. Maybe i am not cut out to be a nurse. One example I arrived at work last night to find a new resident. No orders, no face sheet, I didn't even know who his doctor was and to top it off he was going through dt's they didn't understand why i was upset considering i did have the verbal report from the nurse at the hospital where he was discharged. Maybe i am just crazy. Help!

what is the pay for new graduates in joplin missouri thinking of moving there and working at St Johns any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

I am a new grad and will be starting at North Kansas City hospital soon. I have a pre employment physical coming up and i am not a young women. I know there will be a drug test which i am not concerned with but really dread the physical. can someone tell me what to expect? Do they do a complete physical and do you have to put on one of those lovely gowns. ha ha. I don't really have any health problems except for high cholesterol but am not sure how much i can lift at this point by myself. Anyone able to ease my fears. I know it is crazy but i hate going to the doctor and am only comfortable with my own physician who is a woman. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

You can do it! I went back to school at 40 too. Had not been in school for 20 years and didn't even have a high school diploma. I was determined and got every ACT and GED book I could find and wound up with a GED score which provided me with a scholarship and an ACT of 28 which also led to a scholarship. You would be surprised what determination and hard work will do for you. I will graduate magna cume laude on December 13th, not because I am smart but because I was determined and worked hard. Us old folks are good at those things! Nursing school is hard but I believe you can do it and as long as you believe it too it will happen. Hang in there and study hard.:)

Thank you so much for the encouragement. I am so glad that it is normal to feel this way. I am reevaluating myself and going back next week with a different strategy. I will not give up. I will follow this dream to the end. mpccrn: you do put into perspective and your right! Thank you all so much for your support.:loveya:

I am in my last semester and feel like I have never taken a nursing class in my life most of the time. I fight with the computer every day at clinical and feel like I forget as much as I remember sometimes. I am so scared maybe I am not meant to be a nurse at all. I really want to do a good job but feel lost most days. My skills aren't bad, but I just can't seem to make it all come together. Just needed to vent. Think I will have myself a good cry and pray I figure this out and have not made a huge mistake.

I keep seeing these threads comparing one nurse to another and am continually amazed at how easily we all fall into this same old argument. It is very easy to see why nursing will never unite. I guess I am wasting my time going through the BSN program and should have taken the shorter route and became an LPN. This is very frustrating to everyone involved and i wonder why we keep playing who's better. I am almost embarassed to admit i am in a BSN program as everyone always degrades the program and acts as if we are not fit to be nurses. I believe we get the same clinical time it is just spread out more. Please lets all respect each other and appreciate each others roles in the field.

Thank you so much. I am writing scenarios which involve math problems for ninth and tenth graders to show them how math is used in the medical fields. This is a campaign to interest H.S. students to join the team.

I am a nursing student who is writing a scenario for HS students which deals with math problems. The only thing i can think of right now from my one visit to the OR is the weighing of the surgical sponges in the OR to determine blood loss. Can anyone tell me how this is done. Is there a formula? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Remember the ABC's and think about assessments Airway- ausculate breathing- use of accessory ms, rate depth circulation- cap refill you get the idea. I am a third semester student and there is hope it does begin to get easier and before long they come easier as you develop a new way of thinking

i cant see how contacting icu or radiology would be an answer without more info on the emergency or orders given by MD. feel like maybe the notifying family and then documentation but not sure if this is right. Thanks for any help

this question is on an nclex review for lpn but has no answers only grades the test so no way to tell if you got it right. just trying to figure out how to answer this one. does not specify type of emergency just that one occurred and asks the next step after notifying physician. not sure here where they are going without knowing the nature of the emergency sorry have seen these questions posted before just trying to get help answering this one.

how would you answer this question? an emergency situation has occurred after calling the doctor what would be the next step A) notify the family B) Document C) notify icu of a possible admit D) notify radiology. I think notify family first but really do not know for sure. Any help with this question would be appreciated

I think that race may not be the only thing which determines if you get good or poor healthcare in this country. While race undoubtedly plays a role in the quality of healthcare recieved, being poor and underinsured is porbably the biggest reason that heathcare is far from adequate for blacks. I too have been called racist. Reason i refused the advances of a black man. No amount of reason, the fact that i was married with four children, would presuade the individual that it was not because i am racist. I believe each race has its own share of individuals who are ready to use any defense mechanism handy to convince themselves that they have been wronged when they don't get what they want. this is not a matter of race but of personal dysfunction.

This is exactly why nurses are not treated seriously and the medical profession is able to control the wages and limit the autonomy of nurses. If we can't even make mature choices when dealing with other nurses who would expect us to make them with our patients. We know better but we still do it. We have done this to ourselves. We do not stick together we rely on petty backstabing and resort to the antics of adolescents when dealing with each other. I myself currently am working on my bachelors degree and would have to disagree about the management being the most important thing we don't even delve into this until the last semester. We are taught the same as ADN"s and are required to do clinicals the same as everyone else. It really makes me wonder about the poeple who become nurses when i visit this site. We are suppose to be compassionate and caring people and yet backbite our own. It is no wonder there is a shortage of nurses and that we have been kept in our places by the medical community. we will never be seen as professionals as long as we are pitted against each other and continue to remain divided. I really don't care if you are a ADN or BSN we are all nurses or working on becoming a nurse and face the same obstacles and difficulties. This site while useful depresses me when i realize how many people in the profession are petty and vindictive and just waiting to make someone else feel less worthy. What does that mean for the patients who are being taken care of by these nurses? Perhaps we really don't want to know.

sorry i double posted.