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No, new grads definitely do not make 100K starting off at MGH, more like high 50's.

Oh my god, the maggot story, I would just die! I get ton's of homeless substance abuse pts on my floor and I am just dreading that day when I have a similiar experiece! Traches, the other night I just had a pt aspirate tube feeds and it shot out of ...

Hi there, Hi arch sufferer here, and I cannot wear Dansko's, my legs are killing me by the end of the shift! I wear Calzuro's and they are the BEST! Relatively cheap, they'll run around 60$/pair, and they are so worth it! I put a gel inset in mine b...

Well, she did thankfully have a port, however we needed to get blood cultures....hmmm....tricky. The PCA ended up getting the BP on her forarm since her legs were so swollen, she has cancer through and through..so sad.

Alright, another question, not to do with PICC's but arms and BP's, and lab draws. Patient has a bilateral masectomy...where do I do all of the above? And she has EXTREME 3+ BLE edema!! :uhoh21:

Hi there! New grad in MA..major teaching hospital..27.75/hr with $7 nights, $5 for evenings, and $4 for weekends. Always time and a half for holidays. I take about $4,440 BEFORE taxes and my rent is pretty steep so it makes it about even. And I alre...

Yep, the residents and fellows I call by their first name and there has never been a problem. The Attending however is a different story and they always get the title of Dr. When I first started working as a RN I used to call the residents Dr. howeve...

Hi there! So for my pinning, we all wore "dressy" attire, meaning no jeans or sneakers obviously..and no cleavage! We did NOT want to wear our ugly white uniforms on our day to shine! We as a class chose a professor to speak and also nominated a cla...

Gosh! After reading this post, I really feel so lucky and guilty! We have a fairly large table, two computers, phone,it's seperate from the bathroom, you have to swipe your badge to get in the breakroom, heck even the doctors can't get in there! We h...

I am not hard to please either, but nothing work related in the breakroom. Recently we had a huge poster up from a new skin cleanser we were switching to, and as I am eating my lunch I get to look at nothing but bed sores, fungal rashes, and just bro...

I just can't believe it, absloutely speechless....such a dissapointment from all members of the news cast. The woman are pathetic, and the jerk of a guy who said that all nurses are ugly. America makes me so sad sometimes......

To the SON of the demented Italian man who punched me in the side of the head to which his response was "OH you must get that all the time huh?" "Actually NO I don't, jerk, let me punch you in the head and see how you like it." TO the granddaughter ...

Hi there! I live in Boston, and walk about 15 mins to get to work. Boston is such a walking city, it's great! They do have the "T", a subway system that goes through the city and to the surrounding neighborhoods which is cheap and mostly reliable, ho...

6 patients during the day!! Yikes!! I work at a major teaching hospital in Boston on a general medical unit, we typically have 3-4 during the day, with a tech sometimes. Mostly I do all of my own CNA work, meaning get my own vitals, ADL's, lab draws,...

Well, the fact that they are building another brand new building for 2011 likely has something to do with it. The hiring freeze is set until July I think. And yes, there is a nursing shortage, but I think it's for experienced nurses, not new grads. ...

Calzuro's!!!! I LOVE THEM!! I have wide feet, tried Dansko's which KILLED my feet, back, knees, hips..ect. Wore sneakers for a while, and then stummbled upon Calzuro's after a recommendation from a co-worker, the best investment I have ever made! The...

years in nursing: less than a year, however 5 as a cna institution type: major level one trauma center, ~900 beds. 5 important things most to least: patient to nurse ratio, supportive mangagment, teamwork amongest each other, pay and benefits, and ca...

I completely agree with everyone else. Regardless of what the patient has, whether it's VRE, MRSA, C-Diff, or the Flu we only put other patient's with that same bacteria in that other bed, otherwise the room is closed. C-Diff as someone mentioned req...

I graduated last May and started applying by the end of January to every major hospital in the metro area, and called about 100 times to my top choices. Finally, 1 day after graduation I was offered a after having 3 different interviews for the same ...

Evilolive07....did you get hired right out of school and if so where?

Hi there, I did all of my clinicals at Baystate Medical Center when I was in nursing school. It's a level 1 trauma center (meaning they get the worst of the worst in Western MA) with all major surgeries medical procedures occuring there. I would say ...

The other week I was watching Grey's Anatomy, a family member came up to George and said "My father STILL has NOT received his medications!" George then proceeded to go and TAKE the chart away from the nurse and give the patient's meds....:angryfire ...

HAHA! This is great! Yes, I too fall guilty to assessing veins, lately I've been counting respirations of strangers on the subways, guess I thought I would switch it up a bit! I constantly am staring at people's skin, especially the BLE of obese peop...

Yes, I always feel super guilty when I call out, and it take a lot of courage for me to do so.

If I am sick fever or not, and I sound miserable, and feel miserable, I am not coming in. Luckly my floor has GREAT staffing so it wouldn't be a huge disaster if I called in. Patient's especially the elderly DO NOT want you in their room if you're si...