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 goin...

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 t...

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 be...

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...

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 hospit...

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,...

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 :)

Met my current boyfriend (dating a year and four months now) on OkCupid and he is such a catch! Handsome, gentleman, has a degree and career in IT...our schedules are crazy and we wouldn't have met otherwise.

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 ver...

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 procrastinatin...

Nurse: "I am SO SORRY, I thought there was fecal matter stuck to your leg and it was actually a mole!" Patient: "I want a new nurse!!"

I don't actually think you have a fever, but since you've spent the morning chewing out the entire team, let me get a set of your vitals to pacify you.

Ambuhate: Your post-op patient is able to ambulate but absolutely hates getting out of bed.

-Keep your distance from the overly aggitated patient! -Not peeing for 12 hours could literally land you in a world of hurt. -Your CNAs will only be as good to you as you are to them, so follow the golden rule! -Doctors are HUMANS TOO, don't be afra...

Patient who had foley removed 4 hours ago has less than 100mLs post-void residual.

That they've fallen out of bed or off of the toilet!

"Ok sweetie, be a brave girl and take a biiiig breath in for me"

Well, reading all of this sure makes me glad that I am 26 and done with the agony of nursing school and trying to pass NCLEX! I have been dating my current guy since I was in my second semester of nursing school and he was going for his IT degree and...

Who has the time for that in nursing school?! I know one girl in my program hated me and tried to talk behind my back to one of my friends who was friends with everyone, but I remained civil with her throughout the program. I'm pretty sure the only p...

I'm thinking people are wanting to get into this career because the fallacy about the nursing shortage, and to a lot of people it seems as though nurses make a lot of money. It is extremly competitive to get into a BSN program where I live in Colorad...