Nightshade202

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1. CNA - priorities need checking? Or is it the field?

   Nightshade202 replied to Nightshade202's topic in Stress 101

   I am not the only aide on the unit (There’s three, all with the same amount of patients, but I know we’re all just about in the same boat. I was talking with another aide earlier and she spoke of wanting to quit. I overheard that they’ve recently cut...

2. CNA - priorities need checking? Or is it the field?

   Nightshade202 posted a topic in Stress 101

   I am a CNA at my local hospital. I have been just so overwhelmed lately, and I just have to know - am I doing something wrong? Or is this just not for me? I work on the cardiac/ step down unit, so our patients are usually semi to high acuity, three q...

3. Are UK nurses underpaid and overworked?

   Nightshade202 replied to Unreliable's topic in UK

   Well, that most certainly has endeared me to the UK. Mom works at the hospital and has 2 days a month off, and it accumulative. So if she used none for a year, she would get maximum of five weeks of payed leave. Two weeks worth of payed sick leave, c...

4. US NP moving to England

   Nightshade202 replied to danceluver's topic in UK

   I was looking at going to college in the UK, and they didn't accept international students. Their nursing programs were divided into specialities, such as peds, mental, and adult, which the US courses just teach a little of everything? It must be rea...

5. Hawaii - land of unfriendly nursing job opportunities for new grads

   Nightshade202 replied to TheGoodRN2015's topic in Hawaii

   What I've seen most people doing is taking an aide or tech job somewhere to get their name in the system and apply and reapply for new grad programs. Nursing in Hawaii is hard. It's certainly biased, both in the who you know department and the what r...