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For anyone who is planning on attending a school that uses ATI, ask if they teach using ATI material. If they don't RUN don't WALK away from that school. If they tell you its only used to help you as a supplement they ARE LYING! It is impossible to p...

No. I was a new nurse and wanted to make sure. Maybe it was facility specific.

Hmmm....pharmacy told me not to mix haldol and Ativan.

So I'm on my 2nd travel assignment in a very small hospital. The unit I'm on is a psych unit. Geriatric and adolescents. There are a HUGE amount of things going on in this unit that could potentially cause a problem with my license, and in my opinion...

I've been spit on, swung at ( no connection yet LOL), been hit with bottles of shampoo/ body wash they launched at me, kicked, chased, luckily have not been hurt yet knock on wood. I try to gauge moods and try to stop the escalation before it starts.

Me too! Which is why I keep getting reported to the nursing supervisors at work. Oh well!

Why oh why is it that Drs think if you are a Psych RN you don't know anything about medical? I'm so tired of calling the MD, because a patient is going south medically, and being brushed off, because apparently Psych nurses can't recognize a medical...

Update..... back to work after 4 days off, pt was sent to ER after I left that day because the labs came back with an electrolyte imbalance. Well geesh, I tried to tell you something was off! Maybe next time you'll listen instead of letting your ego ...

Orca, I tend to go back and forth between Psych and medical when I get burned out on Psych. It helps me refresh my skills.

I graduated at 54. My first job was on a Skilled Unit at a hospital. Next position was Behavioral Health. I've found that those two areas plus Drug Addiction/ Detox and MedRehab are fairly easy to get into. It at least gets a foot in the door of a ho...

I have pictures from where I used to work. I'm a believer?

The SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR, the team you work with!!!!!! From what I've observed, night shift teams tend to be more cohesive than day shift, probably because they have more time to get to know each other. Just my opinion but I've worked both.

Hospital Skilled Unit. Loved the job, great place for a brand new nurse to start as you get to see a huge variety of things. However, I lasted only 5 months because of bullying. 1.5 years in psych, my chosen specialty but a new clinical manager kille...

The answer is yes I would to both questions. This us not high school, I'm an adult, and as such don't worry about what people say about me. Furthermore it's none of my business what they're saying. AND they have the same 1st amendment rights I do.

That's the point, where I work the way they do the schedule, I never get 4 days off in a row.

And then they make sure the 36 hrs is in 2 different shift cycles and you don't get the 4 days in a row off anyway. So tired of it!

And that will be next! It's a slippery slope. If anyone thinks that the corporations won't start monitoring what is said in the privacy of break rooms and such they need to wake up and smell the coffee. This is where our country is headed friends.

I'm going to take a slightly different position here. Are we not still in America where freedom of speech is guaranteed by the 1st amendment? As long as HIPPA is not violated, why would you let someone tell you what you can or cannot say when you are...

And meanwhile where I work they took our security because of the expense. We get 1 guard from 7p-7a, and he can't leave the security office. The hospital is in a really BAD neighborhood and there is minimal staff in the hospital at all times. We have...

The only thing this could EVER, in a million years, have to do with nursing is to report it if it is disclosed to us. In my opinion, this is a non-nursing article.

In your experience, what is the average turnaround time between applying with a travel nursing agency and being put to work? I've had agencies tell me tomorrow (of course the job magically disappeared) and 3-4 weeks. Just feeling frustrated.

I am fully signed up with 3 companies actually. 2 regular and 1 rapid response. Compact license in hand. And licensed in a non-compact state also. Just really frustrating. Thanks for the insight. I'm new to travel nursing and I'm also pretty impatien...

I have literally been in trouble for "not showing the Dr enough respect." My reply? "Respect is earned." This for a Dr that placed an 89 year old pt on a Behavioral Health unit because (his exact words), "You actually qualify for a skilled unit, but...