Munchkinerin

I am a rover sitter. I love recommending Rover but there are some sitters out there that are not cut out to do puppies. Set up "meet and greets" with several sitters (its free). You can use my promocode "tailwagginfun20" to get $20 off your first booking.

I live in a house on 6 acres of fenced in property. I have lots of experience with large dogs. But I would not get a large breed puppy while working 12 hour shifts. I love my dog to death, he is my baby. He is extremely well behaved now and he goes everywhere possible with me. But I hated him as a puppy. I swear there were so many times I wanted to get rid of him. I think I'll be perfectly fine without ever owning a puppy again. Your question is hard to answer for me because I always imagine people on night shift have very very strange schedules and all they do is sleep on their days off. lol. Maybe if your boyfriend lived with you, but it doesnt sound like he does. And it sounds like he doesnt exactly want the dog. I would not get a puppy and expect to leave it for 12 hours straight. I wouldn't even expect to leave a puppy home alone for someone that works 8 hour shifts. Will the puppy live? Yes. Will your puppy go insane? Yes. Will your puppy drive you insane? Yes. Is it cruel to leave a large breed puppy home alone for the majority of 12 hours? Yes. Maybe look into Rover.com. Im sure they have lots of petsitters around you, but you should find one that you would feel comfortable with before you get your dog. I would recommend either having someone come by your apartment at least a couple of times during your shift to let your dog out, etc. Or you drop your dog off at their house before your shift and pick your dog up after. This would probably fall under "boarding at sitters house" since it is overnight. I would make sure the person has experience with puppies and know how destructive they can be. Don't get me wrong, I love dogs. I love puppies. But I would not want a puppy in my house for long. You don't just want a college person who decided to sign up to rover for extra money. You want someone with experience and patience in positive reward training that will work on training your pup with you.

Well what I thought would be a phone interview was really just us scheduling to meet in person tomorrow. I have decided that when asked to "tell me about yourself" I would include that "My most recent job was as an LPN at so and so hospital. I worked there for about a year and a half- from january of 2015 to June of 2016, which is when I started the Registered Nursing Program." Hoping the interviewer will assume that that is why I left and therefor won't ask me anything else about it. If I'm asked more about it I think I'll just say something along the lines of "Honestly my boss was a great office manager but we had different views on patient care and sometimes it caused us to butt heads. After a year and a half of working there I was let go 3 days after giving my 2 week notice. Since leaving I've realized that I should have done things differently. The job was definitely a learning experience and I think I'm wiser from it and I'd like the chance to prove that to you." I should have fought the termination but honestly I was so exhausted that at the time it was sort of a relief for it to be over. Based on what I know about my boss I don't think she ever put my letter of resignation on file. I know at least one time that a patient and doctor filled out a positive evaluation of me and she was supposed to submit it and she never did. I also know that when a doctor got mad that there weren't enough people rooming patients my boss asked a co-worker of mine (who was eating in the cafeteria with her) if she could say that she was helping, even though it was just me. My boss went back and changed my co-workers clock out time to make it look like she was working. So I wouldn't be surprised if my letter of resignation isn't on file. Also, I'm not sure if I would have been successful fighting it because I did break hospital policy, which says action can be taken if late more than 2 times in one pay period. I was more than 3 minutes late twice in one pay period and then apparently (because who knows if she changed it) forgot to clock out for lunch. Missed punches count as being late. I was under the assumption that I wouldn't be able to work at that hospital for a year. I did my transitional clinical rotation at the hospital and they offered me a job. Later someone from HR called to let me know that I wasn't eligible for rehire until I worked somewhere else full time for a year. I have tried to figure out Equifax Verification Services | Instant Online Verifications to see what my status would say, but I couldn't figure it out.

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I am a newly licensed RN and have a phone interview tomorrow. My last job was as an LPN at an outpatient clinic of a large hospital and I was fired after working there about a year and a half. When applying for jobs at the other large hospital in my city I left all "reasons for leaving"'s blank in my employment history. I am worried about what to say if they ask my reason for leaving my last job. Do I straight up say that I was fired? Or do I say it's because I was starting RN school? What if they then ask me about me being fired?? -My manager and I really butted heads. She had only been a manager a few months before I started working there. Before this she was a check in staff at a different location. She had no clinical experience yet tried to tell me how to care for my patients. There were times I was uncomfortable with this, and we would have disagreements. Despite this we did get along overall. There was all new staff (clerical and clinical) working there when I first started (this should have been a warning sign to me). The manager would pick a staff member to blame as to why the clinic was running poorly until that staff member would leave (either voluntarily or involuntarily). Eventually I was the only staff member left in a pool of brand new staff. Things that could be in my file... -At my 6 month eval I was put on probation for not being an effective lead nurse in the clinic. This was the first time I was ever told that I was expected to be the lead nurse. Out of the four staff members that got their eval the same week, 3 of us got put on probation. Our manager had been on maternity leave for a month so her manager is the one that put us on probation (even though she never saw me working). -I was taken off of probation at my 1 year eval by my manager. Things were going good. -I was written up for not effectively working during a day that I was covering phone triage due to the phone triage nurse being out. This was something I had only done a couple of times and I was not properly trained on it. Despite this, I completed everything I was asked to. I even had email proof of this. -I disputed this write up and climbed the ladder all the way up to the president of the hospital. He essentially didn't listen to a thing I said and his reasoning for siding with my manager was because "your boss was hired because somebody thought she was capable and qualified to do her job" (even though the same person that hired her also hired me because they thought I was capable of doing my job). -A couple weeks after the dispute I turned in my 2 weeks notice because I was started Registered Nursing School, I was SO glad I was about to be free of this exhausting job. Then I was fired- three days after submitting my 2 weeks. The reason was for being late/missing punches (they count as they same thing). I apparently didn't clock out for lunch, even though I did clock in. I could have been suspended, but I was fired instead. Anyways. What do I say?? I know I can't talk badly about my manager. Do I just say that I chose to leave in order to go to school full time? Since I was ultimately fired for being late do I say that I didn't have a reliable car and I lived 40 minutes ago? Do I say that my previous boss and I had different views on patient care and I was ultimately fired 3 days after giving my two weeks? Help???

I thought my NCLEX RN exam was scheduled for today but apparently it was yesterday. I am so disappointed in myself. According to the NCSBN a missed exam will result in an incident report which will be viewable by my board of nursing/regulatory body. What does that mean? Does that mean that once I get my license anyone who searches for my license can see it? Will potential future employers be able to see it?

Hey guys! So I am in RN school now. I am an LPN bridge student. I took an IV course right after I graduated from my LPN program in 2014. So I have no experience with IV's besides a 20 hour course that I literally remember nothing about. Being a bridge student, I wasn't able to learn IV's with the general RN students in my program now. We are now well into Med Surg 2 and I am still lost on IV's because I haven't had anyone explain them to me. My clinical instructor doesn't have time. So I am going to go to open lab to work on it this afternoon and tomorrow however the instructors in open lab really don't have the time to work with me like I need. I was wondering if there's any good websites or videos you know of to help me so that I can get a pretty good idea prior to going into lab and I can just ask for help in specific areas that I need. I have seen the mosby nursing videos but they really arent that helpful. It's not the starting an IV that I am worried about (I have done plenty of blood draws as an LPN), its EVERYTHING else. Like hanging a new bag, secondary, piggyback, push, bolus, central line care, priming tubing, retrograde priming... you know the stuff you do on EVERY patient. Any help before going to lab would be SO appreciated!!

I'm sorry your charge nurse reacted that way to you, it's not right. I work at an amazing hospital and I know people who have gotten rewarded for a med error. Not the fact that they made one of course, but that they reported it and kind of like a "congrats, you didn't kill that patient and now you are one of the safest nurses at this hospital". Our nurse educators show a great amount of support to new nurses. She has always said that the one time she was in the hospital she prayed for either a new nurse, or the nurse that just made med error because she knows they are going to check check check! When you go talk to them let them know exactly how you felt so they know you will make sure you never make that same mistake again. Go in with a plan as to how you will prevent this in the future. Make them see that you felt awful, learned from your mistake, and will do everything in your power to never make this mistake again. If you have never heard of the Sebastian Ferrero case you should look it up, it happened at my hospital. It's a sad unfortunate story but in a way it is the best thing that's ever happened to our hospital. We now how have an entire children's hospital and children fly in from all around the world. Also, the nurse that gave the arginine is still an employee at the hospital. Don't be discouraged, you'll be a better nurse for it.