dianadRN

Shocks me how many patients dont have reliable friends and family to stay with them, especially when they are bent out of shape a million different ways. Also, hate calling it a "call bell" makes me feel like a maid or farm animal lol

I'm an RN working in a peds clinic right now and I'm only making $25 an hour which is the highest offered pay there. Their range is $20-$25 and I come with ten years of experience. The hospital I'll be working for when it opens next year is only going to pay $27.50, and again I'm someone with ten years of experience. Low pay is unfortunately just the nature of the beast right now so I'd say start where you can and work your way up. The "charge nurse" at my clinic is actually an MA so it honestly makes no sense why she is in charge of the one LPN and four other RNs. In a clinic the rules dont apply like normal and you could take credit for being a charge on your resume.

I was an LPN for 4 years before becoming an RN and before i went back to school i worked in a clinic. I seriously got SO fed up with the MDs asking me to "ask a nurse" to do something. How freaking rude-I WAS A NURSE. Was then, am now. Proud to say that I am a NURSE of almost 10 years, just as any LPN or RN should be. But yeah, the stigma is real and it sucks. The woman who I credit the most for shaping me into the nurse I am today is an amazing LPN.

So I would say do Emily Griffith or something like that for LPN. You could work 3 12's, certainly, but not at a hospital. I don't know of any hospitals in Colorado who still have LPNs. I went on to get my BSN and I now have my MSN underway. I have been doing Med Surg for 2 years now. All that started thanks to Concorde.

I think I might have ya beat...we have one surgeon who is a notorious ******* who works at my hospital and constantly complains about the hospital. Per his request, the nurses are to round with him in the morning for continuity. The first time I ever go to round with him, he sees me walking behind him and slams the door shut right in my face. I proceeded into the room because I am just following his orders and he glares at me. During these rounds, with the patient and her family all in the room he went ahead and said "The nursing staff here is completely incompitent and they have failed you. Any hospital bill you get should be on them. This is a ****** organization and the nursing staff here doesn't know how to do to their jobs." The reason why he said this? Because the patient had to have their discharge cancelled due to a critically low Potassium. Day shift left staples in her abdomen because the order read "Remove prior to discharge" and they wanted me to clairfy, since the initial discharge had been postponed and he smugly said "What? Like staples need to come out 5 minutes before discharge?!" And I said "No, but the order was on their shift and they were not sure. So I'll take care of that." And after he wrote a note in the patient's chart: "Plan: Take out staples AS ORDERED YESTERDAY. Discharge patient home AS ORDERED YESTERDAY."

it's going well! I am in the final week of my third course, there are two assignments and three DQs which I am finding challenging to get done, but overall it is going ok! After this class ends I will have 8 to go.

Denver, Colorado New grad ADN RN Dermatology Clinic 5 years as LPN 24/hour no weekends or holidays

I'd say that'd be more than competitive where I live in Denver, Colorado. New grads are getting $21-23/hr and our state is packed, cost of living has sky rocketed. My sister who has been a Med Surg RN for 4 years makes the same $27 base at the hospital here.

I've spoken to several travel nurses in NYC and have been told that the bar is set VERY high. From what I've heard, just getting a license to transfer takes a very long time, and the hospitals are really particular about candidates. Good luck though, maybe do try working locally for a year before trying to transfer.

Hi!! It's seeming alive! At the very least I'm here and I'm just a couple of classes ahead of you. I got a 99% in my first course and so far have 99% in the second, so I hope I can keep it up! Don't be nervous :)

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totally agree with this statement.

Thank you! Hopefully so.

Where I live (Denver, Colorado) the nursing market is so heavily saturated that it is more than just a struggle for new grads. I started as an LPN five years ago and went into the clinic setting because the hospitals here haven't hired LPNs for a very long time. I became an ADN RN at the beginning of this year, and hospitals automatically reject my application. They say "BSN preferred", however I apply for jobs and the VERY next day I log in to read "No longer under consideration". Are you sure you even considered me though?? I am currently enrolled in BSN coursework and will be done with that early next year and so far I'd say my BSN program hasn't made me a better nurse. After all these months I only just got a job in another clinic because the hospitals won't even look at an ADN who is even in school for her BSN. My sister became an ADN only a couple of years prior to me and had no problem getting into the hospital, so that's kind of an indicator to me of how quickly things have changed.

I am at the end of my first course at GCU and other than the CLC project it has been smooth sailing. I typically try to hammer out all of my assignments and DQs as soon as I am provided with the syllabus so that way I don't find myself procrastinating and feeling stressed out. Is the stats class difficult? And do the CLC groups stay the same for the entire program?