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Just happy that is illegal for an employer to ask in my state. If you want to you can, but not mandatory.

Marcus uniforms or Walmart

This actually pretty common in smaller hospitals. One hospital I worked at had a playroom, never used though for that. It did store toys so we could bring some in their room. We also had a treatment room for spinal taps and other invasive procedures. But we usually never used it for that. Just mord storage. Guess it depends on what you will use.

Been doing ped for 13 years, worked in many aspects of it. I NEVER EVER wanted to do peds or Picu. It is where I ended up. Mainly because working as a new grad in an adult floor having 17 acutely ill diabetic, renal pt with an LPN wasn't working. Peds seemed the safest route with staffing and acutity. I didn't mind working with adults, just thought the staffing was unsafe. Point is as a student you may think you want one thing, end up in another. As for opening question it is getting flooded in Chicago area

I posted about this about 6 months ago. I was amazed how hard people were saying the test was. I was told "I had it easier," I took it back in 1999. And people fail it because they struggle with English. So you're going to be a nurse in the US and you don't know English well enough to pass a test, and my sympathy is non existent. That makes me a bad person? Seriously strike 3 and you are out. That should be around the board for every state IMHO. Anyway, just wondering where you all were when I was getting my head ripped off for being so mean last Spring?

Worked a PCt that has had her RN for 18 months before she found a job

I wonder how many jobs would have been saved if they didn't waste money on Magnet.

I find if interesting that people say housekeepjng does not do patient care. I have worked at many hospitals were housekeepers have to know CPR. If giving CPR isn't patient care, then what is?

Thank you Thank you Thank you. I hate it when people try to use hot coffee logic when they have no clue of the true damage it caused. Could you imagine ehst could have happened if she actually drank. Imagine what it would have done to her esophagus.

The 2 hour gap is not safe, like others suggest. The transposing of numbers can be corrected if your glucometer reading is transported to your EMR? I know what I have used in the past automatically loads into the chart when it is down loaded.

Can I quote you can I quote you? I love it:confused:

I wished it was only twice:yes:

Why do people have to impress people or be showy to people about what they do for a living? That is how it is pretentious. I am happy to be a nurse, but the only people I brag about it, is the State Trooper when I am getting stopped for speeding. I do that in hopes of not getting a ticket. It works 50% of the time.

I personally would stand up in class and loudly state you are paying x much money to learn how to be a nurse, and not about their sex life (even if there conversation had nothing to do with sex). Then I would ask the teacher loudly if she could stop this constant interruption from these talkers so you could hear the lecture. And Oh Yes I would too. Guarantee things would change.

I personally think it is insulting to have a RN plate when someone has not obtained it. I also think it is pretentious to have an RN plate.

I am sorry, but if nurses have to clean rooms the housekeepers should be able to apply tape on a bandaid

Yeah that is what I said, unfortunately for my 12 yr old daughter, kept complaining her hip hurt, I ignored her and told her to stop whining and continue running, she was in track and field.I made her run on a broken "chipped" hip for 3 weeks. We ended up in PT for the summer. Who would of thought a healthy teenager with no history of trauma would have a broken hip?

Say you are an experienced nurse and you just started a new job, and you hate it. I mean really hate it. You know this will never work out, and your in orientation. How do you tell your manager that this is not working and that you think it would be best to leave. Say it is not the hospital, just your department? You would like to stay with in the hospital system, but try a different unit? Have you ever quit during orientation? Did they put you on a no hire list? Do you feel bad about leaving?

The pain is that we have to scan the meds all within a minute of each other, so I scan 1 med give it, wait a minute scan another med give it. When you have several it is a waste of time. They do it to maximise billing.

Scary

I just been working in the adult ER for a few weeks. I work in a bad area of town, and we see lots of OD and ETOH abuse. The ED is 16 beds and we will have 4-6 tied up a nightly for OD and drunks. I am curious how many do you typically see a night, how many beds do you have? Do you find this a typical census in the ER.

Always used diapers with no problem

Can I have that Intravenously?

Not really sure why they would even care?