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I don't think you can *exactly* apply that term to this concept, technically speaking, but I totally see what you mean. With all the hospitals trying to get Magnet status they are hiring lots of new BSNs (including me) trying to change the culture of...

Me too ^_^ I kinda like how nursing is somewhere between blue and white collar. Light blue collar?

I recently had a confused patient who insisted that the urinal was his wife's water bottle.

Well THAT makes my blood boil. Gawd.

Bless your heart. Thank you for being that family's hero.

Not quite as bad as exploding and wasting a perfectly good bag of blood as others have done, but I disconnected a pt from the blood tubing and forgot to clamp it and poured about 30 cc of bright red saline/blood punch all over his freshly remade bed ...

Here's some recent salary info for new grads--can't tell you specifically what it would be for 21 months experience though. :) https://allnurses.com/pennsylvania-nursing/starting-salaries-for-484645-page3.html

Sad that they needed you to point this out to them, but good for you for standing up for yourself!

Yes, you were absolutely right to turn her! Good on you for looking after your mom's skin (and all her other needs so carefully). You did exactly as you should have done, and to me it doesn't sound like the movement in any way could have contributed ...

Hi. I work on a mostly-medical (plus GYN surgery) floor at Temple, where we have centralized tele so we get a good number of pts on the monitor. We also get lots of onc pts on my floor as we have all the chemo certified RNs. The 7th floor is cardiac ...

You were brave, competent, and professional. I admire you. Please take care of yourself. Hugs.

Nope, not a typo. My friend just got hired at HUP. They start pretty low compared to other hospitals, but there is a clinical ladder, and I guess when you get bumped up to Clinical Nurse II you get a pretty steep raise. Kinda nice if you are happy en...

OK I found out more... - Penn $27.25 (something like that), IDK about diff, but automatic $13 raise at 18 months - Temple $33 as of last year, automatic raise for going off orientation and yearly increase means $3-4 raise within first year, raises go...

Everything I know: - Jefferson $33.76, 10% diff for evening/nights, no weekend diff - Christiana $28.15, 15% diff for nights, 10% weekends, 20% 11p-7a - CHOP $27.50, $4 evening diff, $2.50 weekend diff, $5.50 weekend nights - Einstein $30, 10% night ...

Yikes, dude.

Girl! Hang in there! I passed in 75 questions and left feeling shell-shocked...like *** was that?? I was unsure of my answers on MOST questions, and like you I had a ton of SATA, plus questions on totally unfamiliar topics. I also had a bunch of ther...

Hello. For anyone searching for info, yes, the N2P positions are part-time, benefits eligible. I will be interviewing next week for the Aug 22, 2016 start date. I plan to ask when new nurses are eligible to transition to full time or if they have to ...

A lot of programs, including my BSN program, "pre-admit" you to their MSN program but give you a couple of years to get experience before you start the second leg of the program. I would look for something like that.

LOL. My community rotation was home hospice, and we had a bearded lady (with a DISGUSTING fungating SCC wound--her ear came *thisclose* to falling off, but that's a different story...). Her goatee was pretty robust, and all those wiry white hairs wer...

Cemented together with urine?!?! O_O -_- Egad!!!

Don't worry about it. I take anxiety & ADHD meds. School makes me nervous but I've survived and I'm graduating June 1.

LOL sorry, I thought it was weird from the second I typed it, but I was in class and trying to hurry.

Those are all great ideas! I love the panties example, I never would have thought of that.

Hey OP. Really despicable. I have a friend (who you may know, she graduated from your program last year, as did my bf) that was hired as a resident at another hospital in that network. She left really soon after starting. They were really mad and tol...

The kids are going to have questions but chances are they won't ask out loud in front of people. Maybe pass out notecards for each one to write a question and then go through them afterward. It's also good to ask them questions and gauge their unders...