Sarah Bellum

Ditto from my now former facility. I could count on one hand the number of times in 3 years a pt had been toileted or cleaned up while in the ER. Most of them had to use the bathroom immediately on arrival to the floor or were so wet/dirty they needed a linen change and full bath. The running joke was that our ER never looked below the waist...

Thank you all for the responses. Sadly it is a moot point, I discovered my pt died over the weekend. RIP, you will be missed by many.

specifically inpt hospice. Long story short I got kind of attached to a pt over the course of several admissions in the past 9 months. Said pt was d/c'ed recently to inpt hospice, still a&o. I'd like to visit, but am wondering if there is anything I should be aware of legally, ethically, etc. before doing so. Thanks!

In Hamilton County it's superjobs.com. I used WIA money to pay for prereqs for nursing school and STNA training.

Not to sound like I'm depending the sweeping generalization from the person on the parenting forum but there are a lot of nurses who are either not knowledgeable or misinformed about breastfeeding. I've been on the receiving end of bucket loads of "information" from nurses that was based on nothing but personal opinion and myths.

I am the primary/sole wage earner in my family. My husband has been unemployed for 2 years. Even when I was working part time as a PCA I carried the health insurance for my family of 5. Talk about some tiny paychecks...

I graduated in a class of 29 last month. Only 10 of us have jobs so far, myself included thank goodness. There is definitely not a nursing shortage here in SW Ohio!

No, CNL and CNS are 2 different roles: (from the AACN website) Q: How is a Clinical Nurse Leader different from a Clinical Nurse Specialist or other advanced practice nurse? The CNL is not prepared as an advanced practice nurse (APN) as the APN is currently defined. The CNL is an advanced generalist in contrast with the specialized focus of the practice by clinical nurse specialists (CNS) and nurse practitioners. Advanced practice nurses are prepared with specialist education in a defined area of practice. The CNL and APN roles complement one another. For example, the CNL may call on the CNS to provide consultation when a specialist area of concern arises (i.e. when a patient does not respond to nursing care or therapeutics as expected). AACN, in consultation with a leading group of CNSs, has developed a document, The CNL-CNS Roles: Similarities, Differences and Complementarities. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/CNL/pdf/CNSComparisonTable.pdf

I remember names of a good number of my pts from when I was a PCA. Funny story - my son had a procedure at a small hospital several months before I started nursing school. The CRNA was very nice, he let me go back to the OR to be with my son to be with him while they put him out. All went well. Then I started nursing school, figured out that the CRNA is married to one of my professors. Fast forward almost 2 years. Son has another procedure at the same facility. Yep, got the same CRNA who actually remembered US before I had a chance to tell him that his wife is one of my profs! And I do not live in a small town, but I guess I do live in a small world. :)

IIRC it's just like the basic calculator on a desktop computer. Add, subtract, multiply, divide decimals. No fraction.capability that I can remember but you can always convert them to decimals. Good luck!

This came up during a presentation given by a local nurse recruiter at my nursing school. She said they like older new grads, life experience counts for a lot as well as already having a work history so they have a better idea about the kind of employee the person is going to be. I'm hoping she's right, I turn 41 this summer and will graduate right before that!

Just went to a resume writing seminar for new grads given by nurse recruiters at a large hospital with a great reputation, they said to include it. They also said they are using it to pick the best candidates since they are hiring so few new nurses. So maybe if it's not so hot (or you're not a new grad) leave it off.

+1 Your education is largely what you put into it. In my DE-MSN program there are students who are "skaters" and then there's the rest of us who actively look for opportunities to learn both in the classroom and at clinicals. I, for one, do not expect my education to be handed to me on a platter nor do I expect every graduate from my program to come out with the same skills and knowledge. We all have different interests as well. You will never find me working in OB but there is a large contingency of students in my program who went into nursing to become OB/women's health nurses. JMO of course.

Xavier University's program is RN to MSN: http://www.xavier.edu/msn/RN-to-MSN-Program.cfm

No. One of the services that our local WIA provides is guidance in selecting a career. My husband just had an appt. with a WIA rep for help in changing careers and he has not even applied anywhere yet. I had not been accepted to my program yet when WIA began paying for my prereqs. HTH! Good luck!