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I'm tired of working with nurses that don't care about the patients. Very discouraging to see how nurses 20 plus years of experience end up. Please help!!!

Thanks, although I have to work lol I'm glad you are able to focus on school. Congrats on your journey NP.

Hello, I'm debating to apply for night shift in med surgical county hospital. I currently work in a detention center day shift. My goal is to start NP sept 2014, and reading allnurses most clinicals are done day shift. My job is stressful and last t...

Cajun, do you work? May I ask your GPA?. Congrats, you will excel, I'm just worried about the cost, but I know it's worth it.

Enuf- What an inspiration. I was 21 when I graduated ADN, 38 graduated BSN and will be 40 next year will start my msn.

Sinah, you are obligated to report this to the state. You can do this anonymous. It's the law, and ethical.

Don't feel bad, i quit via text, yes via text. I was working per diem at a senior care and I had poor orientation, then they started accepting patients that belong in nursing homes and expected one nurse to take care of 30 plus patients who where fal...

No they run small.

Op: let me tell you about the real rude patients lol. I work in correctional nursing and you get call from a-z foul language, on top of that they are juveniles. I try to understand their frustration but if they are hostile I informed them I will give...

Start your assignment ASAP for NR 451, not hard just the research project was time consuming.

Nr 451 rn-bsn?

If you are not sure then go agency. Why didn't you like med surg? It sounds like you are looking for a low patient ratio. Why don't you try ER it's a mixture.

I can tell you that when I first started I failed my LPN entrance exam!!!!! That gave me the drive to obtained my RN then BSN. I've been an rn for 18 years and I'm glad that I failed the LPN entrance exam. Lol bottom line yes you will be a fool to qu...

She needs to volunteer hospital or clinics to know if this is what she wants to do. Do not force her if she doesn't want to be a nurse. She can also go into biology or chemistry / public health/ health educator, genetics, nutritionist, etc

Don't beat yourself up. Most hospital have protocols of abnormal labs be called in by the lab to a RN, does your hospital have this? If so and they did not follow this write an incident report. Also during report ask if any labs pending write it in r...

Dietary aide can be passing the trays picking them up, passing the menu, cleaning the kitchen, or assisting the residents. If you are planning to go into nursing then nursing home job would be a better option for you also nursing schools want to see ...

I was fairly new working in assisted living-dementia there were two friends always together. It was dinner time and I saw them sitting upstairs I informed them it was dinner time and they are serving downstairs well Gigi responded Ruth said they ar...

What are your job hunting skills? Look internet career builder/monster/ or agency. What about usajobs which is federal employment like army/navy based also federal prison I just searched and they are hiring in Honolulu. Good luck don't give up.

Omg I've been a nurse for 14 yrs med surg float clinic correctional setting etc. but when I was hired at assisted living prn it took me forever to pass. Meds on 35 patients. Yes forever!!!! I would have to find the patients then crush medicine then t...

Yes you can give lantus insulin to a patient who is npo what was the insulin. You can hold a medicine based on judgement but you have to call md and get an official order to hold it is against the law negligence if you don't get an order. Next time ...

Mightynurse, you have to slow down. Don't trust anyone, they were probably jealous as you are creative like me lol. I have found out that people don't like when you have great ideas. Advance your degree. I was fired from a job when I was 7 months pre...

Hrsa.gov or type nurse repayment loan

Congrats Tasha, I've been following your posts. I've been thinking about Simmons FNP. Can you pm when you can.

I also called them out write an incident report and refer them to mental health so there is enough documentation of their behavior.

I'm not FNP, I'm BSN- RN I work with high risk sexual behavior teens. juvenile detention center. When we do initial screening at intake these questions are ask to all juveniles. Maybe your clinic can have a sheet with questions about substance a use...