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This sounds unnecessary to say, but don't design it so the only entry to the bathroom is via the bedroom. I stayed in an apartment with my husband for one contract that was set up like this. I worked nights, he worked days. It was not ideal. If it's an area that gets snow, please provide a shovel and salt, or set up for someone to shovel/salt the relevant areas for your renters.

Flatiron! And like Trixie said, I don't have any complaints. It is truly a side hustle for me given the hour limitations, but I'm expecting to make it my primary gig once baby comes in August (if I can afford to go per diem at the hospital anyway). But the more you work, the more modules you are accredited for, and the greater chance you have of there being work for you to do.

To echo Trixie, you aren't interpreting the information (for example, coming up with the stage), just collecting and organizing it. Where I work, there's set parameters you follow, so it's really just working within those. It's pretty straightforward (or at least, as straightforward as the chart is). I don't have much to compare this to as it's my only abstracting job, but my interview was more about them getting to know my oncology experience, so they knew what charts I was competent to review. Unless you know they are looking for specific experience (liquid vs solid tumors or something), I would focus on how you have experience with a wide variety of diagnoses. Good luck!

How are you reporting her? Just verbally to the manager? This is a safety issue. I would write an actual incident report using whatever your hospital's system is with every occurrence, as well as email the nurse manager. I would also get the nightshift house supervisor involved. She needs to be sent home if she cannot do her job, and if you do not have the authority to do that, your house sup should. Yes, that means there will be shifts where her patients will be given to other nurses until this is resolved. Be prepared to not be popular for that, but this is hurting everybody already.

Are you even allowed to transfer? In my experience, transfers tend to only be allowed after 1 year of employment. That may not be the case in your health system, but I bet it's in your contract or somewhere as an HR policy if you look it up.

I call off for my mental health more often than I call off for my physical health.

I respect this is your opinion, but I implore others, especially younger people, to consider another way. Literally any other way, if you can. My generation is crippled with debt and I hate to see it happen to anyone.

We ran out of male urinals. I didn't even know we had female urinals until we had nothing else to use. It was a pretty innocuous shortage though LOL.

Yogi, I gotta ask - why are you trying to get your DNP? You make such a great argument not to

I paid about 68k in total in school loans. I owed about 15k from my first degree, 5k was interest accrued before payoff, and the difference was from my second-degree BSN program. I don't think I'll ever get a graduate degree if I have to take loans out to obtain it, but I also don't have career aspirations that require it. Maybe someday after the mortgage is paid off I'll feel differently, but I doubt it.

I once flew from FL to PA and back in a day to get fingerprinted in-state because that is what a health system required. I've had to get two PPD's in quick succession and gotten flu shots earlier than I thought was reasonable. I didn't understand the logic behind these things, but I wanted those contracts. If there is a hard line on a requirement, they know they can get someone who will meet it. If that's the case, it's up to you to play by their rules or be open to other opportunities. Of course it's your right to do what you feel is best for yourself, but nobody is required to give you a job.

An old coworker of mine had to have emergency surgery when the hospital was full, so she was placed in one of our VIP suites! The pictures looked similar to the Penn suites - multiple rooms, balcony, kitchen, etc. The balcony with the call bell button stood out to me for some reason LOL. Our ortho guys were the go-to for the local professional sports teams, which is who typically stayed there. But if you needed chemo, you didn't get the suite, because the nurses there weren't chemo trained. So, if you had cancer, you were still on the regular unit, and our manager would handpick nurses for VIPs, but you still had your full assignment. I personally cared for a very wealthy man who was VIP. His family was given a double room, and there was a line I could call 24/7 if they needed anything, and administrators checked on him constantly. Food was brought in from restaurants all over the city that the hospital paid for. The patient and family were totally out of touch with what was appropriate for staff to do; the wife wanted me to do a full massage, or get a physical therapist for a massage, in the middle of the night. I guess I should have called the special liaison and gotten them a masseuse, but I couldn't rationalize waking up another human being at 2am for that request. Maybe that's why I didn't take care of him after that shift LOL. Other VIPs (relative of a professional athlete, relative of a politician who had Secret Service protection) we had received special treatment, but not nearly as much as that guy. I never found out what made him so much more elite than the others, but I assume he gave the hospital a lot of money.

I'd love to hear how it goes. I had tried to reach out and apply with them a couple years ago, but I couldn't get any follow up from them at the time. Also, if your handle is in fact your real name, you probably want to change it.

Thanks for the specifics!

My first job we only had phlebotomy overnight for daily labs, which were drawn at 0200. Any other peripheral labs were done by techs or nurses, and central line pulls were nurses only. Everywhere I have worked since has had 24/7 phlebotomy for all peripheral sticks. Where I work now, the floors don't stock the supplies to draw labs peripherally, so I don't pursue it unless it's stat or I have the time to make phone calls and wait for the supplies to be sent to me.