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Just wanted to let you know that I agree - your new certification is most definitely something to flaunt on your resume. I would want to do the same.

If you treat your patients/residents the way you just treated lumbarpain, Jessie, you're not as great a nurse as you seem to think you are.

Congratulations! You hung in there and now the reward!!!

I thought we were supposed to be the patients' advocate. If the patient can't understand the nurse, then the nurse better start writing things down or get a translator to follow her around. Good grief, I'd complain, too. I think I'd get more tired of...

I hope you exhibit more compassion for your patients than you do for your sister-in-law.

I need some advice. I have two job offers, very similar: same # of hours, benefits, etc., except one pays $1 more per hour. That extra pay is significant to me due to my current situation. I think I would prefer the lower salaried job more just becau...

Hello, everyone. Just to update you on my decision to ask for more $, what I actually decided to do was to accept the job offer at the higher salaried facility. As it turned out, (these are both nursing homes) the place with the lower salary wanted m...

Great points!!! Thank you for your insight. For some reason I thought it might be "unprofessional" to ask for a higher salary. . . I don't feel guilty anymore. I'll let everyone know how it comes out.

I've been working med/surg as a new nurse for four months and was pretty much asked yesterday to resign or they'd resign me. They (my preceptor and also my supervisor) just didn't feel I was where I should be after four months -- they said I should b...

I can't thank you enough for your belief in me. I've applied to another hospital in this area; however, the person in charge there knows I was a new-grad starting at this first hospital. I enclosed an explanation of why I discontinued the preceptorsh...

Did you have to do meds and charting for all 66 patients? How did you manage? I'm looking for suggestions since I'll be starting ltc in a week or so.

If possible get your LPN and work as one a day or two a week while completing your RN. Great experience and will make RN working easier!

In Wyoming nursing homes are always looking for LPN's.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write. When I talked to my supervisor last she stated there was no time left for me to get caught up to where they thought I should be. It was very clear they didn't want me there. I suggested another unit,or ...

Thanks, Eric, for moving my message into a more appropriate place. I'm still learning how to navigate here...!

Thank you, Healthy RN, for your input. Yes, they talked to me twice before this last time. I was open ears and assured them that I am always looking for ways to do things better, and their suggestions were good ones and I left the meetings excited to...

Thank you for your advice. Yes, at the beginning I had trouble prioritizing, managing my time, etc., Everything was so new and overwhelming. I felt I was progressing, but not as fast as the other new hires, that's true. But I had no prior nursing exp...

THANK YOU so much for your reply. My sympathy goes to you - I know the disappointment and anguish of a husband finding someone new. When did you get your nursing degree? Was it right out of high school? Thanks again -- Kitty-Beth

I'm kinda new to this nursing stuff - are you saying that the hospitals in Boston don't hire ADN's now, only BSN? I'm entering an ADN program this fall and thought most hospitals accepted ADN...duh...

Thank you for that quote. Some people think it was really "courageous" for me to start nursing school at age 50, but I knew there was no way I was going to support myself and my younger children working at a convenience store. After 25 years of marri...