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  1. Please help my mother out! (Florida or Texas)

    carachel2 replied to rosskoss's topic in Texas Nursing

    I can only speak for Ft.Worth. The rates here aren't too much different than the Tampa rates. If she worked PRN she could possibly secure about 32.00/hour...but that is without benefits, PTO,etc. And...

  2. To all the NP students: how many hours a week do you work?

    carachel2 replied to christvs's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I think the answers are going to vary depending on if they are the primary breadwinner in the house and if they have children. I have a child, I am not the primary breadwinner and I take one or two...

  3. Work, classes and clinicals? How to do it all....

    carachel2 replied to lannisz's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I completely disagree. I would NEVER sacrifice the time with my little girl. You don't get it back. I could make my life hell for those two years and POOF turn around and she is 9......and I missed 7...

  4. How many years does it take?

    carachel2 replied to 12breakfree's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The costs vary widely. Here in Texas one 3 hr graduate class is about 1300.00 per semester plus about 150-250.00 a semester in books and supplies. If you go full time (3 classes per semester) you can...

  5. Thinking of going back to school for my masters...questions!

    carachel2 replied to TexasPediRN's topic in Texas Nursing

    I go to UT Arlington. They are very flexible and allow students to take a full course load, 2 at a time or just one a time. If you take one at a time it will take you four years pretty much. Two at a...

  6. Baylor Hospital vs. Childrens Medical Center

    carachel2 replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in Texas Nursing

    I sent you a

  7. Baylor Hospital vs. Childrens Medical Center

    carachel2 replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in Texas Nursing

    BUMC pays differently than their satellite hospitals. Shift diff at some of their satellite locations can be as much as 6.00/hr for weekend diff. Does that help some ? I wouldn't be scared to...

  8. BSN -ER focus??

    carachel2 replied to Firemedic7's topic in Emergency

    I don't know about an E.R. specialty, but a lot of BSN programs have pretty intensive summer electives. I took an ER/trauma elective when I was a Sr. nursing student and was required to spend about...

  9. Work, classes and clinicals? How to do it all....

    carachel2 replied to lannisz's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I work "very" part-time and take one or two classes at a time. When the class has a lot of clinicals, I try to take just one at a time. When I was younger and had no family I would have gone all out....

  10. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    I would never stop in the middle of a code to take my lunch break. But the gazillion level 4 and level 5's with their colds, STD's and sore throats can SURELY wait while I eat for 30 minutes. I just...

  11. Is grad school better or worse than undergrad

    carachel2 replied to nrs06's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Hmmm...hard to say. A lot of us are just at a different season in life and the balances are for different things. I really don't care about my social life, it is all about time for my family, myself...

  12. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    Somehow you have confused taking a 20-30 minute lunch break with sitting on your dupa and eating bon bons ???!!! GMAB. I would SO much rather my nurse sit and EAT and be refreshed to take care of me...

  13. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    SING IT SISTER ! To heck with all the sign-on bonuses, I think there would be a MASS exodus to jobs like this that promised to take care of their nurses, respect them JUST A BIT and provide this kind...

  14. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    I would also ask YOU which RN you would want taking care of you if you were a complicated ICU patient on a vent, with multiple drips, etc. Would you want the nurse who was able to sit down and eat...

  15. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    Somewhere along the way in this discussion you seemed to confuse me with someone you know in real life maybe ? I NEVER EVER wrote that I wanted breaks. I want a FREAKING LUNCH break. I never have and...

  16. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    Well then you are totally contradicting yourself. You cannot provide quality AND safe patient care working short consistently day in and day out and you most certainly cannot keep YOURSELF healthy....

  17. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    This is another LIE management would have you believe. We are discussing this on another board. The nurses ARE out there, but a HUGE % have chosen to leave the bedside because of conditions like we...

  18. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    I think all of us work in very busy E.R.'s. I think if upper level management were forced to not take lunches and work the SAME way they work the E.R. staff, then things would change. I disagree that...

  19. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    I totally disagree. I've worked in places where the management GETS that an ER needs flexible staffing. Management that understands you don't send people home at 10 a.m. just because the morning has...

  20. slave labor

    carachel2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    The beauty of being an RN is there is ALWAYS a choice in what you do. If you feel you are in an unsafe position LEAVE. I will never understand nurses who stay for years and years and complain and...

  21. Given the Texas Nursing Shortage-What is being done to attreact nurses?

    carachel2 replied to yvette7719's topic in Texas Nursing

    Yeah, but it is a marketplace shortage and not a REAL shortage. I would bet their is an adequate number of actual RN's out there...either out of the workplace due to the conditions described above or...

  22. Given the Texas Nursing Shortage-What is being done to attreact nurses?

    carachel2 replied to yvette7719's topic in Texas Nursing

    Call me the lone dissenter, but I disagree that there is a nursing shortage. The problem is that hospitals are so concerned about their bottom line that they habitually understaff all of the units...

  23. carachel2.......question for you!

    carachel2 replied to blue bag nurse's topic in Camp

    Yeah, they don't want the idiots to know that they banned me.

  24. carachel2.......question for you!

    carachel2 replied to blue bag nurse's topic in Camp

    Yep..that is me ! Funny that you found me. I was BANNED from *that place* for daring to put a little blunt (yet nice) honesty in some of my posts. :angryfire Pretty much a bunch of idiots rule the...

  25. Camp suggestions in NY MA or NH

    carachel2 replied to MelissaJaneRN's topic in Camp

    Just a heads up....5 years is VERY young and having you AT the camp with her could very well make it harder on both of you. PM me if you want to talk more. I was a camp nurse last year with my (not...