Ellie G

Ellie G

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  1. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Ellie G replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you for being willing to relocate to get a good job, and best of luck with your new career. Too cold for me in Maine. My Oklahoma raised daughter lived in downeast Maine and cried on the...

  2. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Ellie G replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    I retired last week at 63. 12 hour shifts and fighting MS did me in. Worked the last 19 years of my working life for a great facility. I will probably look into hospice or home infusion work in the...

  3. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    Ellie G replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    oh wow. I am so sorry this happened to you. You are a good nurse who intervened appropriately. We all know that the nurse before us can have a stable patient and we get one going down the tubes. There...

  4. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    Ellie G replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Is it possible that they want you to go in to discuss the actions or rather inaction of the Doctor? I might have called a rapid response sooner than you did, but policies vary from facility to...

  5. Failed out of nursing school. Do I have a fair chance of getting into another?

    Ellie G replied to Keisha2017's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    so basically what you are saying is that when people sugarcoat for you and tell you that you have nothing to worry about they are being honest and sincere, but when they tell you the truth which is...

  6. Failed out of nursing school. Do I have a fair chance of getting into another?

    Ellie G replied to Keisha2017's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    What you could do 35 years ago does not equate with the way things are now. I also go back to that time. Nursing school is EXTREMELY competitive these days. I really believe that it will be difficult...

  7. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Ellie G replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    I want to know where in the heck you live that med-surg patient load is only 3 or 4-1. Where I live it is

  8. Daylight Savings Antibiotic Adjustment??

    Ellie G replied to Nursegena1's topic in General Nursing

    You have an hour either way to give meds You could give them as usual and not be out of bounds at

  9. C-Diff

    Ellie G posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse for 25 years. 3 months ago I was put on prednisone and two days later started having diarrhea. As an experienced hospital nurse, I knew immediately what I had. Yep, the poo test...

  10. Help! Failed NCLEX five times, out of school for 9 years

    Ellie G replied to cpmom's topic in Retired Nurses

    Wouldn't dyslexia have affected nursing school too? Tests in nursing school are geared towards

  11. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Ellie G replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Amnesty I do think you're choosing bits and pieces from other's posts and getting a little defensive. It may be that right now you are scared to death so that when anyone uses a word which triggers...

  12. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Ellie G replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Make an appointment with ICU nurse manager. Be up front. State your case for them to keep your job open for you. I agree that you will not be able to start work there unless you have no work...

  13. So is there really a nursing shortage?

    Ellie G replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

    There are definitely shortages of nurses with experience especially in ICU, PACU, ER etc. New grads may have a harder time and will need to interview well and stand out from the pack. If I were an...

  14. I hurt my back at work and I think my employer is going to fire me. Need career advice.

    Ellie G replied to Amnesty's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As a long time ICU nurse, I am flabbergasted that you think ICU is going to be easier physically! Yes, you will have a preceptor but do you expect to be simply observing him/her work while you sit the...

  15. I hate nursing

    Ellie G replied to Neezy84's topic in General Nursing

    On reading your post what strikes me the most is not just your statement that you hate nursing. I don't want to give the easy answer "If you don't like it, go somewhere else" That's the easy response....

  16. Financing Nursing School - Not Sure What To Do

    Ellie G replied to rock hopper's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    So many of my co-workers have to work two jobs or tons of OT to pay their student loans. They wanted to become RN's to have a career and make more money for their families and after graduation work so...

  17. Failed out of nursing school. Do I have a fair chance of getting into another?

    Ellie G replied to Keisha2017's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I don't want you to feel bad, but at the same time, I don't want to sugarcoat things. I think you would have a hard time getting into a university nursing program. Your GPA is just average, and you...

  18. New grad and nervous about having job offer withdrawn...

    Ellie G replied to redneckrussianRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Do you have an answer yet? I have thought about you. How sad if you were to lose your job over what was essentially a good deed. Please let us

  19. Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    Ellie G replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    i gave up reading them when we started talking about who could start an IV. I was shocked when the thread kept showing up on my feed and there were 118 comments. You could say I got

  20. Working FT and PRN in different dept. at the same hospital?

    Ellie G replied to DesertSky's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe be she just wanted to see if anyone did this before she approached her hospital. People ask the Internet all kinds of things these

  21. Working FT and PRN in different dept. at the same hospital?

    Ellie G replied to DesertSky's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work full time in ICU and picked up some shifts in PACU at the same

  22. Best jobs for nurses with multiple sclerosis?

    Ellie G replied to pauladunlap's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Sorry about your husband OP. I have MS and had to leave 12 hour night ICU because it was so physically and mentally demanding. I am now a "helper" nurse. I assist with IV starts, I place PICC lines at...

  23. PICC in wrong place

    Ellie G replied to mistymae22's topic in General Nursing

    We don't suture. We use a stat lock to secure, but I only do adults at

  24. atheism religion and religious hospitals

    Ellie G replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I do have a funny story about catholic hospital though. One day, the elevator door opened and the only thing in there was a statue of St. Anthony. You can imagine my surprise. Apparently one of its...

  25. atheism religion and religious hospitals

    Ellie G replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    we must have been writing at the same