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  1. PLEASE HELP! fired/demoted RN still on orientation

    FloatRN19 replied to jrobbin44's topic in General Nursing

    I'm slightly confused. By tech sitter do you mean that you'd be a task nurse where you can still check/pass meds etc, or do they mean you'd lose access to everything, become a tech and get paid as...

  2. Nursing students not happy to hear about how tough it is to get started as a nurse

    FloatRN19 replied to dnsonthego's topic in General Nursing

    Tell them to be proactive and finding a job is hard regardless of the current climate of nursing jobs being in shortage or surplus. They need to get the idea out of there head that they have an area...

  3. Lowest turnover specialty

    FloatRN19 replied to guest769224's topic in General Nursing

    Lowest turn over pediatric triage nurse. Had a buddy who worked it overnight and would get one or two calls a night. If you like getting paid to do nothing thsts your gig . Highest I'd say would be...

  4. Code Blue Systems

    FloatRN19 replied to WillowNMe's topic in General Nursing

    In room button that automatically goes overhead and pages. Also the call light tree on the rook lights up in a rainbow and two screens at both ends of the unit have the room number pop up just so...

  5. Would you file a complaint?

    FloatRN19 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I always look for a manager's card or email address whenever I'm in the hospital etc with friends and family. Good or bad I always give feedback. Generally it's positive

  6. probably a very basic med question.....

    FloatRN19 replied to onthemark's topic in Patient Medications

    In school I was taught to use a needle to prick the package and the gel cap and extract it that way. I haven't ever done it that way after actually getting my liscense. We always have docs around at...

  7. Float Nursing

    FloatRN19 replied to CJ2blpn2017's topic in General Nursing

    I can't remember, I want to say 2-4 weeks. Once you're off orientation there is still the possibility that you'd float to the icu to take their lower acuity patients if they are short

  8. Career Counseling for Nurses??

    FloatRN19 replied to kitti419's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe try and find a float pool/resource team job at your current facility or others in town. It will help expose you to some areas you might not have considered. Do that for a year or two and then...

  9. Not Hiring New Grads in ER's

    FloatRN19 replied to cel589's topic in Emergency

    I wouldn't say you're completely wrong, a lot of new grads do need to start in the more General care areas. But there is a percentage that are built for critical areas, just off the top of my head...

  10. job market denver, colorado

    FloatRN19 replied to aishaisanurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have several friends who after graduation moved to Denver for work, one even precepted out there. And that's coming from

  11. whats for lunch

    FloatRN19 replied to mvm2's topic in General Nursing

    An almond cashew flax seed kind bar and a cliff bar. Eat the kind bar for a snack and cliff for my lunch. Do that if I'm too busy to eat. If I'm not subway is open till 3am at my

  12. Float Nursing

    FloatRN19 replied to CJ2blpn2017's topic in General Nursing

    Of course. I can explain it for two hospitals actually. At the hospital I worked at you get 4 weeks on each unit with your assigned float pool orienter. (progressive, ortho/joint/ms and ms/oncology)....

  13. Specialty Poll for male nurses

    FloatRN19 replied to DatMurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm still in my first year of nursing, work as a float nurse. Float between icu, cardiac, progressive, ortho/trauma and

  14. Mens nursing shoes?

    FloatRN19 replied to BumbleBuddy's topic in Men in Nursing

    I buy running shoes like food I guess. i rotate between shoes depending on which night of the week it is. night one is mizuno waverider 17 night two pearl Izumi em tri n1 night three brooks pureflow...

  15. Not Hiring New Grads in ER's

    FloatRN19 replied to cel589's topic in Emergency

    If you love the ED might as well go the smaller route than to try and go from a floor nurse to an ED nurse. I know when I interviewed in an ED that if I had had any ED experience they would have hired...

  16. Float Nursing

    FloatRN19 replied to CJ2blpn2017's topic in General Nursing

    Kind of fun seeing people say new grads can't float. So Im a new grad this year and I started as a float nurse. I can agree that I'm not the normal new grad, I worked as a float aide at one hospital...

  17. Didn't follow through and caused med error

    FloatRN19 replied to Fishingaround's topic in General Nursing

    I skimmed for the most part but one thing I didnt see(skimmed) was next time you're forced to take lunch, make sure to tell them the last time each patient got something prn. If it would be easier...

  18. Chosen as an alternate for nursing school

    FloatRN19 replied to jillian06's topic in General Students

    Plenty of people do. The nursing school I attended has five campuses. I got Wait listed on the campus of my choice (mainly because of some information that was not relayed to me until after I...

  19. Do you titrate drips?

    FloatRN19 replied to LittleRedOwl's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital titration is encouraged as well as just shutting off the gtt to see if they can tolerate being off of it. At least that's how I've been taught, practiced and haven't been reprimanded...