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  1. What are the best hospitals in NJ? (in terms of conditions,insurance and payment)

    sayitgirl replied to portal18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    What is the cost of living

  2. What are the best hospitals in NJ? (in terms of conditions,insurance and payment)

    sayitgirl replied to portal18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

  3. Drexel's online RN-BSN-MSN program

    sayitgirl replied to sayitgirl's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I tried Drexel and I decided that it was not for me. There was too much of an inconsisitancy with the instructors. I am trying Univ of Wiscon this fall. It is completely online with no virtual...

  4. Drexel's online RN-BSN-MSN program

    sayitgirl posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Has anyone got info on Drexel's online program for nursing? How is it? I live in New Jersey and I want to do an online program that has a masters program and Drexel sounds good. Sometimes things are...

  5. What are the best hospitals in NJ? (in terms of conditions,insurance and payment)

    sayitgirl replied to portal18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    I'd like to know

  6. What are the best hospitals in NJ? (in terms of conditions,insurance and payment)

    sayitgirl replied to portal18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    saint barnabas healthsystem consists of 7 hospitals and 9 nursing homes. they are scattered from central to north jersey.you can transfer to any of the facilites and not loose any senority or...

  7. nails

    sayitgirl replied to iluvmynavyman's topic in General Nursing

    MRSA and other communicable disease are brought in from the hospital,I have never seen it acquired in the LTC setting. Nurses in hospitals have more direct care than LTC, I think that is why the nail...

  8. nails

    sayitgirl replied to iluvmynavyman's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone wears gloves, bacteria and other organisms have been known to go through them also. That's why we have to wash our hands after taking them off. I am one of those people too that frequent hand...

  9. African American Nurses in NICU

    sayitgirl replied to Rosepink's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    "just AA but other races as well, asian, latino," That's unusual, there is a high percentage of Asian nurses in California, Texas and northern Jersey. The only low percentage of minority nurses is...

  10. African American Nurses in NICU

    sayitgirl replied to Rosepink's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Like you said in your quote "one who just graduated and will soon be an RN" that is just one RN. Hospitals do not hire in mass LPNs because of the Nurse Practice Act. And because of the nurse educator...

  11. What are the best hospitals in NJ? (in terms of conditions,insurance and payment)

    sayitgirl replied to portal18's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    saint barnabas healthcare system is the best bet, benefits are better than state workers and includes a large system; seven hospitals, nine nursing homes, hospice, home health care and need I say...

  12. African American Nurses in NICU

    sayitgirl replied to Rosepink's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hi :welcome: I am an AA nurse. I have been a nurse for thirteen years, three as a RN. There are limited RNs in Southern NJ. Yet I have only seen one in ICU in the area that I live in, she is a friend...

  13. What makes you nervous about or irritated with a new grad or orientee?

    sayitgirl replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I have been in the nursing field for thirteen years now, and one thing that I have seen that each nurse is an individual. What is easily learned by one may take longer for another and so on. I have...

  14. RN to BSN online

    sayitgirl replied to mona b RN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Darlonna I took an online Statistic course at http://www.atlantic.edu a community college in south jersey. The class was not bad, I think you will agree. I took it on site two years before in the...

  15. writing up another LPN for med error

    sayitgirl replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    FYI, we have been told repeatedly by our mgmt that whomever finds it reports it. My shift supervisor has much more important things to do than write up my errors If your facility delegates RN...

  16. writing up another LPN for med error

    sayitgirl replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    When you get your RN I guarantee you that you will look at things differently. I was an LPN for ten years, I thought at that time that I was there to police everyone;nursing assistants, other LPNs,...

  17. will dwi conviction effect my getting liscense?

    sayitgirl replied to boots0890's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    The nursing board will do nothing but give you the run around on the phone...if you can get them to answer the

  18. will dwi conviction effect my getting liscense?

    sayitgirl replied to boots0890's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Yes it will affect you. There is a section on the license form that will ask if you have ever been arrested and you have to be honest because it will come out on the fingerprints that you have to get...

  19. Nurse Manager is a Bully

    sayitgirl replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    There's probably a lot of things you are leaving out about your story, I would just leave. They are digging a hole for you to fall in. Some nurses are vindictive enough to report things to the nursing...

  20. Resigned Nurse Manager position today...

    sayitgirl replied to MrsStraty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I have worked at this facility for the past six months and seen three unit managers come and go. They have asked me a couple of times to consider changing from charge nurse on evenings to the...

  21. Nurse Manager is a Bully

    sayitgirl replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Why not just meet with the manager and DON and discuss the issue? "I honestly did not see an order for a dressing change for this particular patient, " You have a valid point. If you leave you will...

  22. checking MAR

    sayitgirl replied to Fancy Face's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    So, How long does it take to do YOUR med pass?

  23. writing up another LPN for med error

    sayitgirl replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    When you follow a person in a shift you are going to notice things like that, especially if you work on the same cart day after day. You know your meds and cart like the back of your hand. There are...

  24. writing up another LPN for med error

    sayitgirl replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    I think that you should have taken the box of unopened meds and a copy of the signed MAR to the supervisor and let her handle it from there. It is her responsibility. If after that you felt that it...

  25. RN to BSN online

    sayitgirl replied to mona b RN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The best online program that I have researched is the Unversity Of Wisconsin at Green Bay: http://www.uwgb.edu/nursing/ the only science they require is chemistry. This is unusal because every...