PolishGirlRN

I'm in a particular situation and was wondering if anyone had faced anything similar. I have recently graduated and become licensed and was following up with professors who had agreed to write me letters of recommendation for jobs and getting nowhere...

Update: Just accepted a job with St David's in a clinic and they offered me $29.40/hr. For the St David's night shift med surg jobs I was offered about $27/hr with a small shift diff (like $2-$3) plus sign on bonus of $3,500. Austin is growing so fas...

Hi I saw that there was an old closed thread from 2008 on this topic but I would like to see if there was anybody with more recent experience who could help me decide between two job offers (yay!). I've been offered a full time Med Surg nights positi...

Oh man I hear you. It took me 4 months to get my first job after my RN with an ADN and I had to move 4 hours north. That said, after two years of experience I have moved to a new place and am job hunting again and my phone won't stop ringing! I've as...

Hi all! I'm an RN with two years MedSurg experience in a small hospital in Albany, NY and what I really want to do is move to Austin, TX. My current workplace requires 4 weeks notice upon resignation. For a variety of personal reasons, I'd also like...

**UPDATE** I've been in Austin for five days and have 3 interviews already. Guess there was no reason to worry! So excited to get back to work.

Hi I just moved to Austin with two years experience Med/Surg (heavy on the Surg) and an Associate's degree in Nursing (with a non nursing BA) and I started applying for jobs 4 days ago and already have 3 interviews! Looks like everyone is looking to ...

Thanks for your input. I will definitely be getting rid of my apartment in Albany and be sort of itinerant from August to October, bouncing between friends, family and travel accommodations before moving to Austin. I am also wondering how early I sho...

Thanks for the detailed info! I don't know much about the whole tax situation and this has given me some other things to think about. As for health insurance, I plan to get my state's ACA coverage while I'm not working (plus I will be traveling abroa...

Hi all! I'm an RN in New York State and want to relocate to Austin Texas. I saw some threads on here about Austin but they seem years old and outdated so I thought I'd ask for any advice available about the job situation there now. I've got around 2 ...

Hey friends, I recently had a pt with a medication ordered TID PRN and gave a dose of this antianxiety medication early in my shift and the pt became anxious again several hours later. As TID means three times daily, I always translated that to mean ...

Thanks! That sounds a lot like where I work now. We have one tech if we're lucky and I'm used to doing a lot of bed changes, cleaning, helping to the bathroom etc. I'm sort of a control freak that way so I love knowing all the details you can sometim...

It was 1mg of Ativan IVP and the pt was anxious again after about 4 hours. The pt was NPO and had a history of anxiety and, if I recall correctly, took something like Xanax at home. She was a new admit from the ER and I don't remember her specific di...

It was 1mg Ativan IVP. Usually we get that as q4h or q6h PRN. This was the first time I had encountered TID PRN for a med and I enquired about it with my coworkers (RNs with 30-40 years experience) and they were puzzled as well but came to the conclu...

They told us the same thing when I was in nursing school. Like the exact same trick question. Nursing school was a lot of scaremongering.

Yeah I rarely see TID PRN. When meds are ordered TID they're scheduled by pharmacy like you said Muno, morning, afternoon and night. I think he was exaggerating about the every 5 minutes part but who knows. He's the overnight hospitalist so it's not ...

THIS! OP, I get it. You sound a lot like me when I was your age (I feel so old writing this). I was prudish and socially awkward and had big dreams of going overseas, you know, somewhere in the global south where all the poor people are to 'help' th...

Ok thank you for the clarification. I always like to check if I'm not sure. Whenever we have dressing change orders that are TID they are done every 8 hours so this is what I had in mind.

Where I work we always get verbal report from other departments. When admitting orders are written for a pt a report is faxed to the floor and I take that, go to the computer and read up on my pt. This is crucial. I'll then call for report and ask ab...

WOW! And here I was grumbling about 4 12s in a row. Puts me to shame.

The hospital I work at now has a nursing school and I'm constantly shocked by how much the students are allowed to do by their senior semester. I struggled a lot in my first 6 months to a year on the job. Every skill we learned was done in a lab sett...

Thanks for your response! I'm looking for a big bustling city where it's easy to meet new people so crowds don't freak me out (actually if it was at all financially feasible, I'd move back to NYC where I got my nursing degree). Can you tell me any l...

Just curious, where are you located? New York City must be a very different beast. We did nothing on patients except personal care. We passed meds once or twice a semester. I did not do my first IV insertion or foley insertion or NGT drop or even wou...

So my story has a happy ending. I graduated and got my RN in New York City. Because of hospital shutdowns, consolidations and the push towards Magnet status, no hospital will look at you without experience. And with an ADN it's even worse. The only j...

I'm saying that the accusations were overblown. The professor I spoke to said there were death threats but there were no such things posted on the page. It is possible that someone wrote something and then deleted it before I saw anything. Like I men...