AllyRN82 MSN, APRN

To everyone who did not hear back from Medical City- consider it a blessing. After being a nurse for 5 years, and venturing out of Medical City, I can say I did most of my learning from other hospitals. They are crotchety old nurses with crotchety ol...

I'm not exactly sure where to post this, but I am a traveler, so I thought it'd be appropriate here. It doesn't relate to travel nursing specifically, so I understand if it gets moved. I had a pt with several complications from a spinal surgery a fe...

I'm hardcore nights, also. Ever since I was a kid, I'd be awake into the wee hours of the morning. When I started working nights 7 years ago, after many years of being forced to function during the day, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I'm at m...

That's about the extent of all my orientations, and they keep getting shorter and less informative. It's imperative to have more experience.

I thought I'd be able to pick a location and just go, but that's been difficult. I seem to luck out each time, and get my chosen location, but it was especially difficult this past time (~September). I wanted east coast, specifically Boston, but noth...

I contacted the Massachusetts board of nursing directly. They transferred me to the appropriate people, and I was informed to send in my misspelled license and they would correct it. After exactly 21 days (that's the amount of time they say it will t...

My best friend I am traveling with has 1.5 years ICU experience in a level I hospital and 4 years in med-surg. I have 5 years in ICU at level I and II hospitals. We are trying to find assignments together and that's been difficult solely because of h...

I'm a traveler looking to begin my 3rd assignment. With my last assignment, I got someone to cover my last shift for a steroid epidural I needed to pretty emergently get for my back. My shift was covered, have it all in writing from the nurse who was...

I got two written references from that assignment and I have several from my current assignment. So it's not even worth the battle? On one hand, I'm thinking, 'fight it', but on the other, I'm thinking I really don't care to ever work for HCA or Para...

Thank you for the info! Massachusetts board of nursing severely botched my name, didn't see it until my license came in the mail. This is delaying my assignment in MA, so looks like I'll be trying for it in the Spring! Thanks to the idget who misspel...

This sounds like an awful situation. I know what it's like to work in that type of environment, and it's not right. I wish I knew a way out of it for you, and for when I get in situations like this. I tried to get an assignment in DC and was actually...

Hi LaurenBlair, I am looking for an assignment in Boston, will be my 3rd assignment, and I'm finding the same type of pay rates. I was surprised with Boston, as I've made far more at my other assignments, but Boston's so great, I think I may accept....

Most travel agencies I spoke with before deciding to work with the one I am with say it is a requirement to have 1-2 years of experience in the field you are looking to travel in.

i know some of us have received our letters so i was wondering who else i will be making this journey with for the next 2 years. my name is allison shaffer and it's nice to meet you. i know we will all be close because it's a small group. it would ...

Hello all! I am a new nursing student. Well, I actually just got accepted and I will begin in January. Anyway, the point of this post was to ask if there are any dangerous side effects of Lasix. I have an elderly friend who has been prescribed Lasi...

Thank you so much to the crew at the allnurses.com booth this year! You guys were so kind and helpful! It was so nice to see some of the people I read posts from daily! Keep up the awesome work. Isn't this weather WONDERFUL in New Orleans? Back to ...

:ancong!: yang rn!!! i know i'm about a week late, but i'm still proud like it was today :d:d i can't wait to read all of your exciting stories from er even if i read them a month later :chuckle

congratulations yang on your internship!!!!!!!!!!!! :yeah: i don't live too far from where you'll work... missb08- if you have melton as a choice for first semester, choose her as number one. she's such an amazing, supportive, intelligent person. i h...

Jaxia - you will do so well on NCLEX! Lecture in 4th semester is nothing like the NCLEX...lecture in none of the semesters is nothing like the NCLEX...don't worry about it. I've been there and it really was not worth my worry

:yeah:congratulations jaxia!! i'll be waiting to hear how your interview goes, yang. i'm sure you'll go where you need to be it's so exciting hearing about everyone's success! i like to get that excitement for nursing going again after the day-in-...

I hope everyone is doing well! I'm so glad to see everyone moving on and almost at graduation!!!! yin yang- I saw that you have an interview at MCD next week in the ER. That's very exciting! I work up in the ICU just one floor above the ER in the sa...

Congratulations DreamBelieveSucceed!!!! I hope you are having fun doing some celebrating!!! :yeah::yeah:

OH NO!!!! PBDS is horrible!!!!!!!!! Uuugh....yeah- study for it now...I wish I would have known to study for it. They just sprung it on us...

WAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The nursing world just got one amazing nurse! :yeah::bow::w00t::w00t::nmbrn::nmbrn::hpygrp::urck:

SECOND 16 hour shift, Katie? No way!!!! Wow!!!!! I'd love to see that paycheck