LatinaRN

thank you for the input guys. fortunately, i am not looking to work ot. i want a travel company that i can trust while i am on assignment and i want to enjoy the places that i go to. ot would be nice, but it's not something that i do on a regular basis. too much work and no play don't mix well with me.

hello everyone!! i have narrowed down all my travel nursing company research to these two companies. has anyone had any travel assignments with any of these companies? if you have, please write about your experience. give me the good, the bad and the ugly.

hi! i am looking forward to starting a new traveling career too. nc is waaaaaay to conservative to for (i am from nj) and so living in nc has been a big change. any advice for a first time traveler like me? i start in a few months. my first job will be in nj.

should we have more distinctive titles? will this give our profession more respect? i think that the way we are portrayed in the media has alot to do with the way the public percieves us. i can't watch er because the doctors do more nursing care on that show than the actual nurses! or the pink song that calls a nurse a "little *****." or the way that nurses are portrayed as sexual in white fish net stockings and a tight nursing uniform and cap. we should raise hell everytime that we are portrayed in a demeaning and disrespectful way by the media and maybe then they will get the picture. the public is bombarded by these images of a nurse. as far as having adn, bsn, phd, by your name, let me tell you this. when i started a new job at the hospital that i currently work in, i asked that bsn be added behind my name. by the way the id printer behaved you would have thought that i did not earn this degree but wanted it printed on my badge. she called the director of nursing to see if this was "allowed." long story short, bsn is behind my name on my badge. i wonder if a doctor would have gotten the same hassle to have phd behind their name. we should be proud of our educational achievements whether its an adn, bsn, msn, phd, crna, crnp. we are all educated professionals.

a person that ends a freindship that easily, was never a friend to begin with. she ended the friendship now over this....sooner or later she would have ended it over something stupid. be glad that its over now and you didn't invest too much time being her friend.

thank you for your questions. they are important ones and one i will bring up to my nurse manager.....when are we to address this with the families? sometimes codes are unpredictable and unexpected. the person designated to explain the code is the nursing supervisor. their way of "crowd control" is to allow two family members during the code. this was never done at our hospital and it will be interesting to see how it actually plays out when it happens.

I am looking at Surgical or Trauma ICU. Let me know if you know anything about these at UMDNJ.

i am relocating to newark, nj and i have narrowed down the hospitals that i would like to work in to umdnj and clara mass in belleville. i have heard good things about clara mass but i know of no one who has worked at umdnj. any information that you can provide would be tons of help. give me the good, the bad and the ugly.

break out the whites!!!!! i am 26 and i have been an icu nurse for 3 years. i do not find the whites to be "impractical." they are professional and the patients like that they can identify us more readily. if nurses went back to the all white uniform that would be great, but if hospitals are mandating this...they should pay for it.

1. three years 2. icu 3. nc 4. bsn 5. yes, i think that nurses should have a uniform just for them. in my hospital cnas, housekeeping, radiology techs,dieticians, etc. wear scrubs. you can't tell that someone is a nurse unless you are close enough to read their id badge. 6. i don't think that we should go back to white caps because that would not be practical today with all the men that we have in nursing. (thank god!) working around too much estrogen can get old. but i do think that the uniforms should be white. we should look immaculately clean and professional.

my hospital is considering allowing this to be policy during a code. if the family wishes to be present during the code, a limit of 2 will be allowed and there will be someone with them explaining everything that is going on during the code. staff is grumbling over this, but studies show that the family member actually benefits from watching the code. what has been your experience?

i work nights in an icu. one night, an empty patient room had the light on. i went in the room and turned off the light. before i reached the room's door the light came back on! i screamed and ran out of the room. nurses that have worked in that icu for several years said that this happens occasionally in that same room! :stone

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