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Ours is 15% for nights 7p-7a.(we only have12hour shifts). Time and a half for holidays(8 holidays a year). RNsRWe mentioned the difference in pay with night shifters taking PTO. The hospital I am at did pay the shift diff on PTO but changed that po...

1. how much extra do charge nurses make at your facility? permanent charges make more but not sure how much, a fill-in charge is 1.00/hr 1. if they also have an assignment. generally not on either shift, but if short will have 1-3. if hospital is t...

Is it a compact state? Maybe they are licensed in a different compact state?

I worked for one and while it wasn't the worst place I worked it wasn't the best either. As for a Long Term Acute Care Hospital, it was far better than the other one I worked for. As for patients, it was almost all bedridden, total care type patients...

Had a situation like this one placed I worked. A husband and wife were both supervisors, then the husband started and affair with a floor nurse. Word got around quickly. He moved in with the nurse. Thing was this situation went on for a long time bef...

One place I worked RNs wore royal blue, could coordinate a print top to the royal blue pants. One was all RNs wore navy blue and the next maroon. Currently, I work at a place that doesn't have a policy on color, so we get quite some variations. Perso...

You might see if your area has LTACHs, Kindred is a big company that has LTACHs throughout. These are Long Term Acute Care Hospitals and take complex patients. It's not a nursing home. These places do ten to have high turnover but their not really th...

To the OP: I have worked some places that do IRs for IV infiltrates but they were for tracking not disciplinary action. The key is to monitor the site and DOCUMENT. This saved a co-worker of mine. She had checked a peripheral site in the hand that ha...

My facility is getting hammered by state. is it totally unjustified. No. For us, if the administration would discipline or fire that ones making that mistakes, we would do ok. But alas, this doesn't happen. Now while many of the marked have been cou...

I maybe could see this if the pill being used is the Extended Release type. Could that be what they meant?

i am applying for admission to the msn program, family nurse practitioner concentration because i desire a career which provides advanced nursing care to individuals and to the community at large. my bachelor of science degree in nursing provided the...

Whoa....scary! A couple things come to mind. One is to document skills she claims she doesn't have(as you mentioned bed baths, bedside commodes), and document the errors she has made(changing drip rates, lying about giving meds and who knows what els...

I would agree with LunahRN and state to the educator that your had a better connection(rapport) with the alternate preceptor. This may be enough to get to work with the preceptor who you click with better without enraging the first preceptor. If you ...

Most of the time Mersa, sometimes MRSA. American. Practiced two regions, Midwest and Southwest. It seems I heard Mersa more in MW and MRSA more SW. May be from higher ratios of foreign nurses. Ireland and Australia have chimed in, was curious about t...

When I read your post it got me thinking....I currently work in a fairly diverse cultural area(largely hispanic and tribal groups) but I realized that I have not encountered some of the diverse groups that I had in my home state. In my home city, I e...

One possible solution is to stagger the start times of the nurses and the techs. I don't think this would add to cost. For example, techs could start at 630(am or pm), be done with their report and be on the floor while nurses(starting at 7 am or pm)...

I had a similar problem when I was applying for a travel contract because my most recent experience when applying was in a LTACH ICU. Even though it is acute care, because it has that Long Term in there, I wasn't considered to have recent hospital ex...

My current employer pretty much fires for any "ding" on a persons license. And will not hire anyone with a"ding". Other places I have worked at were not this stringent. Doesn't help that my current employer is under fire from the state.....

One hospital I worked at used an acuity tool that had us fill out a questionnaire each shift. It would then assign the patient as a 1:1, 1:2, etc. This was translated as if the nurse had a 1:2, they could only have one other patient. One LTACH I work...

OMG please don't let my administration see this one. They would definitely do this. Unfortunately, one of our state surveys was about answering call lites. Pt's claiming it would be up 30-1hour before a response. So now we have to do call lite audits...

Actually, most of my almost 20 years has been some type of ICU environment. Last year, I moved across the country and took a travel contract in my new city. The one that I was able to secure was a cardiac tele floor a 1 to 6 ratio. I was dreading it ...

The acute care hospitals I have worked at("regular hospitals") don't give any credit for LPN years of experience. The nurse could be an LPN for many years but when that person gets their RN, they start over at the beginning of the RN scale. For some ...

It sounds like this was a good learning experience. Good teamwork in a code is key and as others suggested, be available , observe, run for supplies, offer to do compressions, support the family, whatever seems needed. This is great learning and will...

Most places I have worked require staff to submit to HR/DON when lunch wasn't able to be taken. Otherwise it is deducted automatically. My current place scrutinzes people who state no lunch and requires approval for getting paid for no lunch.

JayPee08 it sounds like you have a game plan in place. If you re having year to wait for the RN program, but can get started right away in LVN programm then that sounds like a plan.At least you are getting started in the process, and you have alread ...