Miss.LeoRN

Clearly the clinic could handle the case, which is why the patient was being sent to the ER. And there are plenty of people who wait for rides to go to the ER rather than take an ambulance simple because ambulance rides are expensive and a lot of ins...

Our hospital has a collaborative meeting so to speak. I work on a cardiac pcu floor. It's much too difficult to get nurses at the bedside at the exact time the doctor makes his rounds. Virtually impossible, even though a lot of nurses will be on the ...

Whether a place will hire you pending your exam is gonna be a combination of state And facility policies. It took 8 months for me to receive my ATT, and yes, after the first month I was continually caning trying to get ahold of someone to figure out...

I thought all needles had a safety switch or guard on it you're supposed to activate once it's used? I am only asking because I've never come across a needle or used one that didn't have this feature, and that would require recapping after having use...

You sound just like a new grad. Welcome to being a new grad. You'll mess up. You'll forget things in the charting system. You'll slow your preceptor down. You'll have your hand held. Don't take that personally. You're supposed to. You'll forget how t...

Before you go getting your hopes up or making that decision you might wanna see if insurance places even hire nurses with no bedside / experience.

When I was in school i split the cost with several classmates and we shared an account. Very glad I did rather than pay the whole thing. Some of the videos are really good. And info is good. There's a lot of pdfs that are useful. However somewhere al...

Unless you were charged as an adult, juvenile records can be sealed (contrary to belief you need to get the record sealed yourself it doesn't magically happen when you turn 18). Call your local courthouse or parole board. I don't see how one minor in...

I worked a an ltc/rehab for a bit and one unit had two carts. Sometimes the narcs would overflow and have to be put in the opposite cart. However, the nurse responsible for that cart was responsible for those narcs. I would have to sign them out with...

One aspect of this I haven't seen questioned is... prn what? Pen doesn't just mean " I get it when I ask for it". There's usually a stipulation added to prn, like prn bid, prn tide, prn Q4, prn Q8.... Even prn per loose stool up to # of doses. When ...

Can anyone help me out with finding a RN to BSN program without a practicum or clinical requirement? Or at least a program where you don't have to set up your own practicum/clinical, or lets you use your current employer? It seems like the majority ...

We had to have our student ID on the table next to us when we took our exams.

You know those horror stories the professors tell you at the end of the year before you graduate, the ones where people have issues dealing with their BoN? Applications get lost, something get's delayed or it just falls through into limbo somewhere a...

One thing people forget about the "magical" idea of counselling is that the other party has to want to go to counselling. Not only that, they have to be willing to put forth and effort of understanding and compromise, and they need to be willing to u...

It's amazing to me that some of the nurses on here can't identify an abusive relationship. I mean, you see no red flags here at all? None? We're supposed to be advocates for women in situations such as these. We're supposed to be able to identify ri...

I somehow find it very hard to believe that it is less expensive to relocate to India, for what.. 2 years? Longer? learn, live, and experience another culture, go to school in a completely foreign setting, and then go through the process of relocatin...

Here is how it would work in my facility. First,if a portable tank was used during the day and a concentrated at night it would be night shifts responsiblity to assure the tank was full for the AM. It would be the responsibility of evening shift (w...

Just a couple thoughts... Do you have so much free time that you can sit around and just watch what the other nurses are doing? You stalk them into patient rooms to monitor what they are doing? Or is it because you didn't *see* them specifically do ...

This is a terrible, terrible story, but the fault is with your co-worker. He should have been able to identify that the dose was wrong. Even if he missed the decimal, he should have paused and gone "wait... am I really supposed to give this much?" Su...

I work in an LTC/Sub-acute Rehab facility. Each unit has 2 vitals machines with a standard automatic bp monitor, and a manual bp cuff on it. The CNA's like to confiscate (even to the point of hiding) the vitals machines, which makes it difficult for ...

No one is going to hire you to sit at home and babysit your BF. Especially when you have no training whatsoever. Even if you had homehealth training, and worked for a company that you contacted and hired to provide someone to care for him, it still w...

As far as I am aware there are no rules other than what the facility sets for policy. I'd call and complain. Or inquire. Your father said he isn't getting his showers regularly. What's going on? What is their policy? That's all you need. You (or you...

Have you talked to your family? Maybe get their thoughts? It would really really suck for you to uproot yourself from a great opportunity when your family very well may rather work around it to help support you through it.

Write your own. Seriously.

For South Jersey I was recently hired at a LTC/Sub Acute Rehab facility at $30 an hour.