brainsarecool RN

brainsarecool has 6 years experience as a RN and specializes in Med-Surg.

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1. What specialties or jobs are easier than a med-surg nurse?

   brainsarecool replied to medapop's topic in General Nursing

   I'm late to this post but for anyone else who comes here looking for specialties besides the craziness of med-surg, this thread had some good advice:

2. Weekend/Holiday pay for travel RNs?

   brainsarecool posted a topic in Travel

   Hey ya'll - do you get any incentive pay for weekends or holidays as a traveler? I talked with one agency that said they don't do extra pay for weekends and thought that was strange, but I have no clue what's normal. Thanks in advance!

3. Traveling without EMR experience?

   brainsarecool posted a topic in Travel

   Hi friends, I am so eager to travel. I have enough RN experience. *However*, I only have experience with the EMR at the Veterans Affairs hospitals. Has anyone traveled to a hospital that uses a different EMR than what they're trained on? Do you get a...

4. Do nurses on Med-Surg/Tele have to work in the tele room?

   brainsarecool replied to brainsarecool's topic in Med-Surg

   Mrs. D, thank you so much! I had no idea how this worked since my current role is my first job out of nursing school. Yes on our floor there are two nurses that sit in a room all day ?and watch the tele monitors for the whole hospital (some ppl on di...

5. Do nurses on Med-Surg/Tele have to work in the tele room?

   brainsarecool posted a topic in Med-Surg

   I currently work on a Med-Surg / Tele floor at a VA and here we're lightly trained in the tele room but there are nurses who *only* work in the tele room reading the monitors/remote tele boxes, so I've never spent a shift in there on my own. I'd like...

6. Suggestions for ways an unemployed new grad nurse can volunteer medical services to help out during the Covid-19?

   brainsarecool replied to short cake's topic in COVID

   Try checking with your county health department. Ours is setting up drive through testing and looking for volunteers with or without medical experience to handle patient flow. So sorry you haven't found a job yet. It will come, and once you get your ...

7. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

   brainsarecool replied to IRN2011's topic in COVID

   I was also exposed to a patient who wound up testing positive. Came in with SOB and cough, a couple hours later developed a fever of 102. I'm not on the covid unit, and they won't give us masks. No protocol for checking my temp, and still no mask, ex...

8. Emory ABSN Fall 2016

   brainsarecool replied to bizcocho's topic in School Programs

   Yes - it's very expensive! On par with private schools with big names though, I think. I talked to the financial aid person there and she said on average, each student receives about 40,000 in aid. I should have asked if that was in the form of aid y...

9. Emory ABSN Fall 2016

   brainsarecool replied to bizcocho's topic in School Programs

   @sav768 it was about 10 days

10. Emory ABSN Fall 2016

    brainsarecool replied to bizcocho's topic in School Programs

    Hey guys! I got an acceptance letter today to the ABSN program. I applied Oct 15. They also asked me for test scores and I sent my SAT scores from 10 years ago because that's all I had! Does anyone know when we have to make a decision by? And does a...

11. NYC accelerated programs - confused about admissions tests!

    brainsarecool posted a topic in School Programs

    Hi allnurses friends! Longtime forum reader, first-time poster. I'm planning on applying to accelerated nursing programs in the NYC area for the summer or fall of 2016 class. I'm looking at the public schools -- SUNY downstate, Hunter and Lehman, Sto...