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I wasn't sure which specialty to even put this in, so apologies if this is in the wrong spot. I have a job opportunity to work as a Regulatory Coordinator RN. This role works in a team with 3 other nurses and an ADA coordinator to maintain surve...

Interviewing for this job on Wednesday: Does this sound more quality or more CDI to you? Anyone here work a similar position?

Hi all. I'm wondering how you guys handle MRI with anxiolysis at your facilities. We currently have Rad RN's provide oral or IV anxiolytics, the problems we are running into are: 1) even with weight-based dosing protocols, the sedation is unpredicta...

I've been an RN for 5 years in a variety of roles, and am now working with the ultimate goal of transitioning into leadership. I would like to step into a managerial position in the next couple of years, and eventually work at director level or even...

So I have a new job at an IR department in a brand new hospital. There are 3 of us being hired, and we are the first IR nurses. We will set our own call schedules, workflow processes, and that kind of thing. I wanted to ask other IR nurses what kin...

I just got a new job that I start in 2 months, and I was told that at this job they do pattern scheduling, 12 hours, 3 weekends a month. It was a long interview and I didn't think to ask more about that. Does anyone do pattern scheduling at their f...

Exactly, so when we do know that someone is having a psych crisis, we prepare for the worst possible scenario. Every patient gets stripped down. No sharp cutlery, no aluminum cans. No clothes. Often, no they do not have that right. Involuntary p...

I'm considering a position at a hospital where the observation unit is considered part of the ER and the ER staff is required to staff it. The manager told me that I might be required to work in obs as often as once a week. I'm not super thrilled a...

I really like it. I have used both First Net and Surginet (specific components of Cerner) and found it easy to chart and understand. Of course, the only other EMR I used was that DOS-based horror Meditech, so after that almost anything looks amazing.

I'm moving to Colorado this summer and a couple of job applications have asked me what my salary is, and I'm wondering if some of the rejections are due to me asking too much. Or maybe my current rate of $45 an hour makes them think I'll ask an unrea...

I'm leaving Baycare (mobile pool has no ER jobs!) and looking to pick up work at some other ED's, but don't want to to go HCA because I like keeping my license. So, nurses who work at the FH, Bayfront, and TGH: what's the deal? How are staffing ratio...

I'm moving to Ft. Collins in June. I'm an ED nurse with 3.5 years experience and my BSN, will have my CEN by then too if it matters. 1) How is it working at UC Health Poudre Valley and other area hospitals? Anyplace to avoid, how are staffing ratios,...

I thought I wanted to work in another specialty, specifically IR and PACU. But now I have experience in both those areas and I am desperately waiting for my PACU contract to be over so I can go back to the ER. I'm so bored. ER for me, from here out.

I'm doing it. I work for a non-profit hospital so I qualify. I do the Income Based Repayment plan and submit a form every year proving that I am a full-time employee. I will be doing it for the 3rd year this fall. It's really too soon to tell if it i...

I did my RN to BSN at St. Petersburg College. It's all online, only 4 semesters, and it got the job done. It's pretty cheap, too, and SPC offers a good amount of scholarships. It's accredited and all that jazz, too.

I'd avoid HCA, but Baycare is a good hospital system. The only trauma hospital in the system is in Tampa, St. Joe's, and it's only level 2. You'd be closer to Morton Plant, which is high acuity but no trauma. I make almost 30 an hour with only 3 year...

I'd try to work for Baycare. I worked HCA as a new grad, and work for Baycare now, and there is a large difference in support and administration's priorities. Frankly put, HCA does not staff appropriately. Baycare is by far the better company, imo. T...

I wanted to add that working night shift is your best bet. It's hard on your body but the nurses on nights (in my experience at this hospital) were friendlier, less drama, less cliques. Also, day shift on the floors when you're understaffed and hav...

It's a pretty ****** hospital. I used to work on 4d (ortho) and floated to 3 and while I worked with a ton of great nurses, they were consistently understaffed, especially with cnas. What floor were you offered? The ED is dangerous; I would not work...

At my ER, every nurse has 5 patients and a partner, that partner is either a patient care tech, emt ,or paramedic. They all basically do the same things (toileting/bed changes/EKG, labs), but paramedics can place IVs (no giving meds though). I do n...

So, I have a bachelor's degree in a non-medical field from years ago, and an ADN in Nursing. My hospital is requiring all ADN nurses to achieve their BSN in the next few years, but it seems foolish to me to get a second bachelor's when I could just g...

I do it. I worked there as an MA for seven years before I became an RN, and support abortion rights as an important and natural part of women's health care. I either assist the doctor during the procedure, or work recovery after. Nursing wise, it's t...

Hi, I'm considering traveling as an ER nurse starting sometime in the end of 2015. Where I currently live and work it is absolutely necessary to have a car and my current one is a piece of crap. It probably won't make it til 2015, so I'm looking to...

I'm a new nurse who graduated last December and started working at the end of April at a hospital. This was the only place I got an interview despite sending out hundreds of applications, and I was very fortunate that the director of my floor was int...