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    Acute vs Subacute rehabilitation

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in General Specialties

    Hi All I am currently working on a medical surgical floor in a hospital but before that I worked in a Long Term Care Facility, considered to be subacute care. I see job postings for Inpatient...
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    First Time Parents Asked For A Different Nurse

    2ndchance85 replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the other posters to not take this personally because unfortunately no matter how attentive you are to a patient/family sometimes it is never enough because they can be toxic and...
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    Med passes and technical skills- I'm asking for advice not just to gripe

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    I moved to an acute care setting and it present different challenges but not 20 patients! The most I have now is 10 with a LPN to help me. I can't believe I dealt with so many patients before! I've...
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    Med passes and technical skills- I'm asking for advice not just to gripe

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Hi All I know this subject can be redundant and for everything else that is going on with a pandemic I feel like it's out of place, but I'm going to post this anyway! I will reach my 1 year...
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    How to effectively delegate in nursing on a unit

    2ndchance85 replied to starlitex1280's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for sharing this post @starlitex1280! I have been a registered nurse for over a year and struggle with delegation as well. I am soft spoken and really struggle; especially since a lot of the...
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    Keep on getting passed on after interviews

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    This post is more directed towards nurse managers or people who hire nurses: I currently work in a long term care facility and am trying to transition into an acute care role. I currently just had an...
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    Keep on getting passed on after interviews

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I've honestly never done a mock interview with a friend who is a nurse, that's a good idea.....the door closes pretty tightly after an interview though with managers here, at least the places I've...
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    Med passes and technical skills- I'm asking for advice not just to gripe

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    I think the major difference between a hospital and a long term care facility is the nurse to patient ratio- I work in a long term care facility which is nicer than most, and the nurse to patient...
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    Med passes and technical skills- I'm asking for advice not just to gripe

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Thanks for the tip about asking for an alternative way to give a med and volunteering to do a task to gain experience, I will try both. If I know the patients I can arrange my med pass on how...
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    Day to day tasks of dialysis nurse

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hi All! I am currently working as a nurse in a Subacute care facility (long term and short term) and although I like some things about it I find the nurse to"resident" ratio is too much for me to...
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    First job as a new grad nurse in a staffing agency

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi All I'm due to graduate in early December with my BSN and the school I'm going to is telling me I shouldn't have a problem taking the NCLEX in late January.....hopefully all goes well and I pass...
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    First job as a new grad nurse in a staffing agency

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I probably just needed to hear someone confirm it.
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    Getting a feel for patient care....

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in General Students

    Hi everyone I'm an adult student (I'm in my thirties), I work full time and am taking my sciences to try to get into an accelerated BSN program. I also volunteer two times a week. While volunteering...
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    Getting a feel for patient care....

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in General Students

    Hi Vertical Horizon Thanks for your input. Do you mind me asking what you did in the medical field? I work in a hospital but not with patients, I worked for a bit in a Dr's office but not much besides...
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    Volunteering before going/applying for nursing school

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in General Students

    Hi all I've been going back and forth for the past year or so about going back to nursing school and have finally gotten myself together and am volunteering and taking some science courses (I'm going...
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    Volunteering before going/applying for nursing school

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in General Students

    I'd love to get the phlebotomy certification and try to get a job doing that. I actually already took a course in EKG but never took the exam. If I was in less of a time crunch I'd probably take that...
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    Attempting Accelerated Degree again

    2ndchance85 posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hi I wanted to create a post requesting anyone's opinion about accelerated nursing degrees. It is somewhat unique because I actually attempted to do an accelerated program about 7 years back and did...
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    Attempting Accelerated Degree again

    2ndchance85 replied to 2ndchance85's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Thanks for your feedback! I think I'm going to try for Associates degrees because the sciences are less (and some are even taken during the program). I've heard of that before, but I've heard...