NewYorkerGirl

I am frustrated with my hospital. We have a shortage of aides, and no wonder because they have a hard, backbreaking job for measly pay. As a result, sometimes when we nurses show up to work, we're made to work as aides. No notice, just here: you're a...

Ugh! I have to vent! My university makes me buy these way overpriced scrubs! They charge $49.00 for a top, $49.00 for bottoms, tax and over $12 to ship! One uniform costs $119!!!!!! I am so outraged! Not to mention they feel like cardboard so I can'...

Does anyone know how long it takes for WA to post your license after NCLEX? I called, and they have everything they need except NCLEX, which I took today. Merci beaucoup!

Hello, I will graduate (BSN) this August, and will apply at Seattle Children's or Evergreen for the pediatric nurse residency. I'm also interested in UW, but I'm not sure if they have a pediatric residency. Has anyone been through the program? Can an...

Hi, I'm working on the golden year of acute care experience right now. I'm hoping to move to Maine in December and looking for my final home. I'm tired of the rat-race and want to live somewhere laid back. I'm also thinking about travel nursing, and ...

Hey Everyone, I don't see a thread for 2015 yet, so I thought I'd start one. I'm just beginning the application process, and the clinical narrative is killing me. I precepted in trauma at a trauma center, so it was get them in, get them out: usually ...

Well finally, Joint Commission did something to help nurses out. Our Docs are lazy, too, and don't want to touch a computer. It's good to hear JC frowns on this.

Pick TN: no income taxes. Visit NC on your off days.

It depends. In one hospital, I spent a lot of clincals in school in neuro and loved it. It was a lot of seizure/Parkinson's/neuro trauma injuries, etc. Very interesting. At my current hospital, neuro is the dumping ground for any and all of the alte...

I don't feel guilty calling out because if the floor can't find someone to cover for me, they'll close the floor 6 patients earlier than they usually would. No biggie.

I have also heard great things about Lakeland Regional.

So what you're saying in this article is... shy introverts stand no chance. Got it.

Simple: they want nurses to quit before they are around very long to demand high salaries and better working conditions. The same thing is happening in many fields of work. Employers want young, cheap workers who can't quit because they are saddled w...

I had a professor in nursing school who said working oncology nursing at a cancer center was slow-paced. I have no oncology experience, so I don't know personally.

Stupid. Hospitals in my area are offering double-pay and triple-pay on high census days. No contract. No rules. What is it with the damn contracts these days? You can't just work and get paid anymore. There's always some cockamamie crap to deal with...

Also, learn WHO to call. I never bother calling Dr. IDontCare for pain medication. I will wait until that doc goes home and call the on-call provider.

I didn't see any attitude whatsoever in my last profession, public school teaching. A profession full of women, by the way, so I know the NETY attitude ain't from being female.

Hi. New nurse here. My population is mostly geriatric, occasionally I get a young adult or middle aged patient. I've noticed I want to chart hypo bowels on all the elderly because I barely hear anything. It is very different from what I hear in the 3...

I know that. But I still don't want to do it for 12 hours a day. It's not what I signed up for. Time to enroll in NP school I guess, even sooner than I thought.

Funny, this is MY pet peeve. If you run a 1000 bag at 1000 (ours don't have an extra 50), then the line runs dry and I have to disconnect, prime it again and reconnect. This is a waste of time and also an infection control issue. I always put my 1000...

Woo-hoo! I wondered which states were the other 18, and found this: AANP - State Practice Environment SOOOO disappointed in my home state of NY!

Seemed really tight to me. I sent my resume almost everywhere last fall in Seattle and Spokane. Only had one interview with Franciscan in Federal Way, but already had another job by then so didn't take it. It's not a job I want, though, I took it in ...

There's not much I can add that hasn't already been said. I'm in one of the better hospitals in FL, and it's still rough. Pt ratios are too much, dangerously so, because no one cares about acuity levels. On paper, 6 patients max isn't bad in MS, unti...

THANK YOU! I quit public school teaching for nursing. People can't believe it when they hear that: why give up weekends/holidays/summers off and such an easy job? Because the workload in teaching is unimaginable. Now I'm paid a few hundred dollars a ...

How can you guys afford to live there? I considered working in VT, but the cost of living scared me off.