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    Anyone here management in a union facility?

    RNsRWe posted a topic in General Nursing

    Curious about something. I know the benefits of working in a union hospital for a staff RN, and am wondering about how those who work the supervisory / management end of things feel about it. Those...
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    Anyone here management in a union facility?

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, officially scared off! I was thinking that a big hospital would make a manager's job more secure than a small facility, but maybe I'm wrong. The union thing is a new variable for me, so good to...
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    Anyone here management in a union facility?

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you to you both. I'm not leaving the union for a management job in the same facility, however, but rather have never worked there before and know it to be union. I will probably know a person...
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    any US state that allows using a nursing license from a different state?

    RNsRWe replied to frankie1220's topic in General Nursing

    AH, good point. Might not have graduated from an accredited school (at least not by IL standards). Or something. Well, good
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    ED RN possibly relocating to Hudson Valley area

    RNsRWe replied to laudamia's topic in New York Nursing

    Laudamia, how did this turn out? Did you move? I'm curious because I live in the Hudson Valley Region, and know the disparity in pay between Albany and further downstate. Wondered how it worked out...
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    any US state that allows using a nursing license from a different state?

    RNsRWe replied to frankie1220's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for clarifying; I was on the right track, just missed the station :) The real benefit to the compact agreement, then, is the ability to work in another compact State for up to 30 days...
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    RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    RNsRWe replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing

    $61K for 185 days, 7 hour days (Sept-June) = $47.10/hour, which looks pretty good! And then if you choose to work in the summer at the same rate of pay, you make more than $9,870 for a six-week...
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    any US state that allows using a nursing license from a different state?

    RNsRWe replied to frankie1220's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was the whole point of compact state agreements: THOSE states would accept licenses from another "member" state only. All other...
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    Future of LPN career?

    RNsRWe replied to mrsjeff's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    There are MUCH cheaper options for both LPN and RN school programs. Please investigate carefully before making any firm
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    Big pay cut at Orlando Health, please help your fellow Nurses

    RNsRWe replied to skyflight's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Charge pay and shift diff was cut a few years ago in the hospital system I was in at the time. Everyone screamed, people threatened to leave. Reality? No one quit, because the pay wasn't better...
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    What are tasks that nurses can do with or with out a doctors order

    RNsRWe replied to mcclot1993's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm taking it you're a pre-nursing student, looking to find out what an RN does on the floor? Depends on the floor, of course, but here's off the top of my head: PICC dressings, blood draws. IV...
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    What is your Achilles heel?

    RNsRWe replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    maggots, yep they can make you toss your lunch. Had a homeless man admitted to my floor, the ER sent him up without so much as taking off his jacket/shoes; dirt was actually flaking off of him onto...
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    What is your Achilles heel?

    RNsRWe replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    ah, yes. I have found things embedded in and under fleshy parts that would make anyone "squick", lol...not urband legend, not myth, not a joke, but found an actual COOKIE under the pendulous breast...
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    What is your Achilles heel?

    RNsRWe replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    Thank heavens I no longer work a hospital floor, because the one thing that I gagged over every time was SLIMY YELLOW FUNGAL CRUD in fat folds. ECCChhhhh! You know the kind, morbidly obese patient and...
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    You know you've been a nurse too long when...

    RNsRWe replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hmmm.....you know you've been a nurse too long when you find yourself wanting to tell the annoying kid pointing to the scratch on his finger "well, we COULD remove it at the nearest knuckle, partial...
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    Part time patient sitters, hrs/wk, benefits?

    RNsRWe replied to ntao's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the hospitals I've known to use them have them strictly per-diem, as there is never a guarantee of hours/days that one will be needed. Benefits? No, because of per-diem status. Will it affect...
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    Am I going to be able to make this relationship work?

    RNsRWe replied to Jaymesz's topic in General Students

    You already know the answer, and knew it before you posed the question. Why should it matter what the opinions are of people who don't know you or your "fiance"? Do what you planned to do before you...
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    Employee Health nurse tells me MANY nurses have Hep. C....

    RNsRWe replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Isolation?? carts?? Serious overkill. As has been said, standard precautions only. So you know that Patient Bob has Hep C, ok....how about Patient Sam and Patient Dan that also have it, but you...
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    Colonscopy...won't say "never again" but..probably never again

    RNsRWe replied to Marshall1's topic in Gastroenterology

    OP, thankfully your experience is mercifully rare. Truly. My unit does 50-55 per week, on average, and I'm actually trying to remember the last time we called someone back the next day who WASN'T...
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    OMG! *I* cannot pronounce death but a paramedic can????

    RNsRWe replied to nervousnurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    OMG, I really almost never literally Laugh Out Loud, but the image of blowing up a patient's headless corpse like some kind of gothic inflatable toy got me.
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    essential oils killing super bugs?

    RNsRWe replied to anonymousstudent's topic in Patient Education

    So after seeing that the lavender-treated side was healed completely in three days, why would you not then treat the other side? Doesn't make sense that you'd hold an experiment like that on your own...
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    Every Mom, Dad, Sis, Uncle Believes They Know Better Than The Nurse...

    RNsRWe replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I refer to these people as "Web MDs". Google-educated, top of their internet class. Someone's comment on a kid's bp reminded me of one of my own: patient after endoscopy has bp of 116/64. Patient's...
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    Every Mom, Dad, Sis, Uncle Believes They Know Better Than The Nurse...

    RNsRWe replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    Hmmm, perhaps enough quantity of the former will naturally take care of the
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    OMG! *I* cannot pronounce death but a paramedic can????

    RNsRWe replied to nervousnurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    ....and this decision was probably only reached because of the recognition that it's impossible to give rescue breaths to a headless body.
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    How to verify a registry before mailing sensitive documents

    RNsRWe replied to apoppyfield's topic in General Nursing

    My alert went up when I read that you provided your SSN; I can't think of a single reason for this to be needed before they've even interviewed you. Not until you are hired and completing payroll...