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Lord have mercy! I have been doing travel nursing for almost 2 years. If a recruitor is EVER rude to me, it is an immediate block. There is no way for her to sit at home while I'm at work busting my butts just for her agency to make money off of my l...

We hired a CNA as a CM/FA. Complete fail. Then we hired a car salesman, completely clueless. Then we hired a social worker with no dialysis experienced, ran the place like a resteraunt, forced to quit. Then we hired an experienced dialysis RN. Things...

Hi, travel dialysis nurse here. 1. Trainning is easy, there's a book that Davita gives you and you study from that. High school level content. I think they give you 3 tries for the test (not sure), quality of trainning is based on how organized...

Hi there! Im an acute travel dialysis nurse. In the world of dialysis we have two things, one is acute (inpatient-hospitals) and the other is chronic (outpatient-clinics). Chronic is extremely fast paced and high pt vol. Acute is often 1:1 if not 2:1...

I agree. I met a lot of clown floor nurses. I have so many stories of ridiculousness.

OK! Here to vent some frustrations! Hahah I do acute dialysis. I cover my own hospital and sometimes pick up shifts at different hospitals (same employer). In general, I picked up a shift and I specifically picked a certain hospital with this o...

You dont use a single thing from nursing school in the OR. I feel like anyone can do this job just need basic medical knowledge and a regard for safety. It's extremely overwhelming at first because it's not like what you learned in nursing school. Yo...

Oh i never applied there. I work at the University of Iowa. The only OR job i applied for and got in right away. Been working since Oct 2019, love it. I do robotic surgery, urology, and gyn.

Conflict resolution questions.

I have zero interest in being a CRNA but congrats and good luck. You earned it!

Yea, I got accepted before graduation! I applied 3 months before graduation, interviewed with 6 managers at a round table. Rock the interview because I memorized all answers and practiced before the interview. The questions were spontaneous but the p...

I am about to grad from a BSN program in two weeks. I did landed a job on a Tele unit but later turned it down for the OR. I switched because I cannot stand bedside nursing. I have been doing it as a CNA for 3 years and I know how nasty it is. I was ...

BoltRN!!! I have been following you on youtube since your days as a travel nurse. I want to congrats you on your recent career achievement. Now that's aside, some of the commentators are extremely rude. You contributed a lot to the CRNA social media ...

Here is how I break it down medsurg vs OR. No call light, no IV peeping No confused, combative, and needy patients No constant pain meds. No 15 people trying to call you on Vocera or over the phone. No family members No rude patients No calling...

Hi there, most of the nursing students in my class have 1-2 bachelor degrees. General science degrees are hard to do anything with. I myself have a bachelor in microbiology. As far as nursing, having a BS in natural sciences will have no impact on yo...

Try OR- one patient at a time (knockout in surgery), most often dont have to deal with family members, not running around on the floor trying to answer every call lights for the littlest things, no bed alarms going off, no confused or withdraw patien...

Hello nursing community, I come to you with a question and ask for your words of wisdom! I am a BSN student, I have a year left, two if I decided to go part time and have my hospital pay 1/3 of my schooling. Anyways, I have been a CNA long enough to ...

Thanks for the replies, sorry i forgot my passwords and cannot get on until now.... I spoke with an OR nurse at my hospital. She was an ICU nurse for over 10 years, she hated the floor and got burnout. She said OR was extremely easy and a lot less st...

Hello! I am a nursing student and a CNA. I had to quit my 50k/year job (same salary as a nurse in my area) as a lab tech for CNA which is like $10/hr. My program doesn't require CNA for admission but a lot of nurses told me to get some CNA experience...

In the medical world, it seems that we have this culture of respecting and catering to doctors. I often see nurses and other medical staff giving up their seats or letting docs cut in line in the cafeteria. As if it was expected. This has to change. ...

Yea I don't really know how these nurses talk to the docs but they are very nice to the CNA hence why I always stuck up for them and take their sides. Either that or some people don't have thick skin. Yes, I agree with there are too many rude people....

Very well put! I TOTALLY agree with you about standing up for yourself. Too many nurses are passive. I just learned about passiveness in my nursing class and it is VERY DAMAGING. People think that they can brush it off their shoulders but they really...

You are right JKL33, stuff like this isnt really that important. But I am just a CNA. I probably talk to a doc once per month and that is only for trying find the nurse he/she is looking for. I dont see a lot of the mistreatment or typical issues nur...