prinny

Um, sexy at work is only appropriate if you are a pole dancer. What you are unable to do in your off time with your "sexy" sounds like something unrelated to work. If you are that tired, you might think about changing your shift, getting more sleep, working all your days/nights in a row so you have a larger block of time off, eating healthier, getting more exercise and taking a hour to get your mani/pedi sometime during your time off--even if you are so tired you fall asleep during it.

Hi there, Couple of things. Learning when and when not to call is something you get with experience. If you are unsure, ask someone. Ask a couple of someone's if you don't like the first answer. :) Second, if they had a home med that was abx and it wasn't continued by the admitting MD, regardless of who that admitting MD was, dont' sweat it. Often admitting MD's take people off their home meds upon admission for a variety of reasons, like they are going to do IV abx, or a culture and change the abx, or something. Third, while it is usually the duty of night shift to do all that admission paperwork because they have fewer admissions than day shift and often people are employed on days specifically to complete the extensive paperwork, I'm pretty sure your institution has a policy that allows for admission pprwrk to be completed within a given time, not just your 12 hr shift. You do what you can and you move on. Lessee, I got lost...oh, right, I was talking to a doc tonight about just this sort of thing, except she was called at night about Occuvite. She was ****** that a nurse called her about a vitamin. I think she was justified in being upset. On the other had, I had a surgeon admit a pt and did not write prns for pain and nausea. So I called him at 0330 when I found out he'd neglected to do that. He might've been crabby about it, but I didn't really care. :) Bet that doesn't happen again, soon. Anyway, good luck. Don't let the yelling get you down. Laughing at them doesn't help the situation, but I find it feels better for me.

Hi there, There are several options for places to work. University Hospitals and Clinics and Boone Hospital Center, which is affiliated with Barnes Jewish-Christian. I believe the pay is comparable between the two places. No place in Missouri will pay all that well. And there is a derth of nurses in this area. Doesn't mean jobs are hard to find, it just means that a lot of folks shuffle from the U to Boone to Regional. Anyway, that median salary sounds about right. Luck to you Prinny