gardendigger

I doubt it. You'll never know until you try. What's to loose?? If they still offer you the job, I'd forget about the rehab place and don't fret about ethics. They weren't honest with you. Dream job? Or nightmare job?

I'm working on the ADN-MSN bridge program. The video proctoring is no big-deal, really. They have you turn the camera around 360 degrees to see the environment. Anything with writing needs covered up, so I keep a small linen cloth draped over the side of my bulletin board that I tack up. They give you a WGU version of a "Do Not Disturb" card to put on your front door. I close my pets up in another room. Of course the phone needs to be quiet and out of sight. They provide you with a white board and pen for doing problems, writing things on,etc. You can see your proctor. Once you get permission to start, it's not like this constant eagle eye on you -- they're sitting at a desk also. I just send out a group text to anyone I think may be contacting me or stopping by and let them know I'm about to embark on a test .

I see how it rubbed you wrong, in more ways than one. I myself wouldn't go around/above her and report it; there's no need to die over every molehill. Rather, assert yourself, and either in the next meeting or in a unit email, request that disinfectant wipes be placed in the bathroom so that when a person goes into to use the restroom and toilet seat isn't in their position of choice or it's covered with "hover spray", the wipes are there to clean it if need be and to position the seat.

A young nurse I know that works in a rural community hospital went into work for her night shift on a med-surg floor. Much to her surprise, her manager decided to "let her handle"the 5 patients by herself. Two of the patients were confused and required bed alarms. I work in a large hospital, and it's just written in stone that a nurse is never staffed solitary,period, even if there's just one PACU patient waiting for a bed. This is out of safety concerns for both the patient and nurses. I just was dumbfounded. I'm wondering if there's something here that needs reported, or have I been working in Nirvana? By the way, she just accepted a new position at a different hospital this morning.

Some of the certifications require job experience before you can test.

ADN,finally, in 1987 after 7 years of trying to get my stuff together. Worked as a nurse aide before that. Currently working on ADN-MSN/education bridge program.

To document "purulent", not "*****". If she wouldn't have taught that, I most likely would have charted that second word at some point without even noticing.

Agree. I have never seen this term used since I was in school. But let me tell you, once I developed mittelschmerz, beer, bratwurst and sauerkraut and polka fests just were not as fun if I was mid-cycle!

I don't have a particular answer, but just want to encourage you that I get the feeling that with 15 years of experience you're far more of an expert than you realize! Also, you've became 15 years older,not younger;). I suspect you'll find getting off of night-shift like a vitamin B-12 shot. With your heart for the elderly and diverse populations, and passion for teaching, I think the suggestion of public health nursing sounded like a great fit for you. Whatever you choose, pat yourself on the back for taking care of YOU now and move forward.

I've worked "central"mid-west and the mid-South, for the majority of my career, and I was vigorously shaking my head "NO.NO.NO", when I read your post. As our colleague in Canada posted, the winter season respiratory viruses and resultant pneumonias just have a domino effect. After working many years in cardiac services I had learned to mentally prepare and "saddle up" for the post-holiday onslaught of very intensely-ill patients, also. And, the couple of years I worked in recovery room my eyes were opened up to the end-of-the-year-I've-paid-my-deductible-let's-get-this-procedure-done-while-we-can phenomenon -- very busy!! I can't imagine the Northeast being different, just worse. Anyone?

One of the major urban hospitals there is offering a recruitment and retention bonus right now.

Thanks for the suggestions. We will look into them. The RRT nurse here carries the RRT equipment and supplies with them the entire day as we provide many services besides RRT calls (challenging IV starts, resource calls, MEWS f/u, etc.), so hand-held will not work.

I work at a large, urban hospital as a designated rapid response team nurse. It is 1/3 mile from one end of the hospital to the other . We will soon be performing I-stats as indicated on our calls. Our challenge is creating a way to carry the i-stat that both protects the machine and is also ergonomically safe. Has anyone already figured this out? The manufacturer doesn't make a carrying case. Anything on wheels wouldn't be appropriate for us,either.