NurseDimples

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1. Only one nurse scheduled overnight - What is your facilty backup plan?

   NurseDimples replied to pjsmom's topic in General Nursing

   I am a night nurse that works alone overnight. I like my job. I'm good at it. After months of being promised additional staff w/o result, I'm quitting. Quitting for a job that pays less money. WHY?...

2. Is spending $80,000 on a private ABSN school a waste

   NurseDimples replied to Big_Mike's topic in General Students

   Y.E.S.

3. Is it true, that if you don't like being a CNA, you won't like being a nurse?

   NurseDimples replied to tmurph704's topic in General Students

   No. I was a CNA for two weeks. Hated it. Gave me no indication of how I would come to love the job. Both jobs you work hard but I never worked as hard in my life as I did those two weeks as a CNA....

4. Rules for Per Diems

   NurseDimples replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I would have to agree. Keeping a large psych unit well staffed is difficult to do without the help of PRN nurses. For to long I have seen prn nurses hold on to PRN jobs to keep their foot in the...

5. Smoke free psych hospitals

   NurseDimples replied to kiwipsychnurse's topic in Psychiatric

   The hospital I work in now was smoke free years ago. We had special vents in Smoke Rooms and the staff who smoked would take them on a smoke break every few hours as long as their behavior was...