Postpartum RN

You can definitely email or stop by and speak with the manager and let them know your interest. Ask if you can float there as a break nurse, that way you get your foot in a little and get to know the staff. Good luck!

About $22 every 2 weeks, (per paycheck). This includes medical and dental for myself, 2 kids and a husband, vision for myself, and life insurance for all 4 of us with different amounts. No deductible. Copays for doctors visits are $10

In my opinion the problem could be that English is her second language. It is obvious from her/his posts that grammar and semantics are a struggle. I have worked with foreign educated RNs who are very smart and have great critical thinking skills, but DO NOT have very good language skills. So maybe this may be the problem here. Nclex questions are difficult and tricky. OP I recommend doing a review with someone in person who can evaluate what your issue is. If you don't want to/can't spend the money to hire someone, do you perhaps have any nursing friends that can quiz you and see what your understanding of the nclex questions is? Taking an ESL class would probably help.

I wouldn't threaten with a lawyer as was suggested earlier. I don't believe that is appropriate for you as an RN. I would do what the previous poster said though, document and fax it to the nursing home, call the DON and let them know. Some RNs can cut diabetic pts nails, however sometimes if too difficult then it has to be done by the podiatrist who comes to the nursing home. If you can't seem to get results I would let the pts family know and they can bring it up with the nursing home.

I would take the hospital job. For this reason, you will already be in the system and it will be easier to transfer as an internal employee to labor and delivery. You will be able to meet more people and network inside a hospital than in home care. In home care you will be pretty secluded.

Take the icu job. It is obviously where your heart is. You will be unhappy with the other job since you are having doubts right now! In my experience, signing a 3 year contract is not a great sign. Usually they do that if they cannot retain nurses, for whatever reason. Like you said you already know the people and the way that unit works and you like it. If I were you I would take the icu job. Most places will extend your orientation if you ask for it if you feel like you are not ready

I think you should stop worrying about how you won't learn anything on night shift (you will). Just wait until you start, then come back and update us. Night shift does all the same things that day shift does, except less or non discharges, and less pts. Wing taken off floor for testing. Otherwise it's all the same nursing. You will be surprised by how many pts do not sleep at night, I would say more pts are awake than asleep. They don't just stop being sick for the night! As far as assessments and meds, yep all done on nocs too. Who told you nights doesn't have to do this work??

I'm so sorry Farawyn. Hugs!

I am so sorry for your loss. (((Hugs))) How cruel and mean of this person to do this to you. I would never cover another shift for her again if she did that to me. She had the balls to ask you to work for her on THE DAY of your brothers MEMORIAL service??? And she tried to guilt you into it by texting you her symptoms and vital signs?? Crazy..I would have said "NO", I would not apologize at all, AND, I would try very hard to make her feel guilty for trying to make me cover for her on the day of said brothers memorial service!!! She has no conscience or heart. I'm so sorry she is doing this to you. If you don't stand up for yourself, it will continue. Often those of us who are very nice and try our hardest to please people, are the ones who get trampled on. I am glad you didn't cover for her that day. Also I agree with the others, it is not your fault you got sick and not your fault your brother died, and how dare they make you feel bad about that?? If it were me I would be looking for another job to get out of that toxic environment

Although I love these and they make me laugh, I do wonder how do these doctors get away with this kind of charting? Does it fly? Or does someone audit them and they get Into trouble?

I really like reading your posts, all you school nurses. I am often shocked by the reasons students come to see you guys...even getting pads/tampons? Hmm...free right? It's just all so...I guess "different" to me.. When I was in school, I never visited the nurse, not even once in all of those 12 years! I probably didn't even know there was a school nurse until I got into high school?....

What is a high spinal?

Lol I always give my husband a hard time for not looking. Sometimes when he's I'll or his stomach hurts I ask him about his stool and he says "huh?? I don't look I don't know!" And then I tell him to look next time and tell me, and he says ew I'm not gonna look. I do always look, always have and always will. Guess I was meant to be a nurse :)