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Dear Nurse Beth, Do I need to get my first nursing job in a hospital if I know that I want to go into community health and work outside of the hospital?

There are so many things about this position that I hate. Med/surg tele at a small independent Hospital, I literally feel like I'm just winging it through my orientation with little to no guidance. Helping carry 5 pts with high CD acuity

Do you find that patients assume you are inexperienced or unskilled as opposed to nurses that have worked in a hospital? Do you feel "less than" a nurse that has worked in a hospital, or do you feel you missed out on something pertinent?

Telemetry issue.. In my hospital we now use safe and sound. I am seeing an increasing number of issues with it, but there are three main issues that I have noticed. I work in ICU. First, there is no way to cancel an alarm for more than two minut...

Even if I were capable of working ER, I wouldn't work here. Hospital responds to reports patient died in ER lobby waiting to be seen

It seems talks about staffing ratios are taking the nation by storm. One group of nurses at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is taking matters into their own hands. BeaumontNurses.org is a 100 nurse-strong group which has launched a drive to ...

My hospital has discharged patients to home as late as 11:00 pm. This includes patients who have a 1 hour drive to get home. At a friend's hospital, they have discharged to home as late as midnight. These are not situations where the patient is stati...

Yea yea I know it's a pretty dumb question but I have no idea what is the difference. Just need to cure my curiosity

Hi, I just accepted my first job as an FNP in a hospital setting. I'll be rounding on all patients in the hospital that will be on my service. Is there a specific personal malpractice insurance I should have? Certain criteria it should meet? I basica...

Hi everyone. I want to get some advice. I got hired as a new grad RN at a Surgical/Transplant/Step-down telemetry unit and on my 2nd week of orientation. Prior to getting this job, I worked as a nurse aide at the same hospital for a few years and as ...

I thought I was giving up on nursing, but now I have 2 easy nursing gigs. I'm doing a little home infusion. I am also doing a part-time occupational health nurse gig at a construction site for a data center. That consists mainly of watching Youtube...

Have you ever considered that nursing excellence allows physicians to provide compassionate, patient-centered care? A recent study conducted by Press Ganey revealed that comprehensive nursing practice in high-performing hospitals creates high patient...

I’m looking for ways to improve our organization and efficiency in a trauma room situation. We get mix up in roles, people running for supplies, general chaos, and such a crowded room that people can’t get to the patient. How do you avoid chaos in yo...

Shortly after 4pm on Monday, May 6th, nurses, physical therapists, and paramedics at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio went on strike. The group of workers, represented by the United Auto Workers Union was unable to reach an agr...

Management have decided to use nurses and techs as transporters. They said we are short staffed in ED . So they want us to work in 6 hr blocks (7-1, 1-7) and transport pts up from the ED to the floor. Not just to our home unit but to two other units...

I got a letter in the mail today from a law office that represents the hospital I no longer work for (Stopped working there over a year ago). The estate of a deceased patient is filing a lawsuit against the hospital, and I apparently cared for them a...

Hi. I am a senior nursing student. I will be graduating this upcoming May. I currently work at a hospital as a tech but have been thinking about putting my notice in due to the burnout and feeling of being overwhelmed with the business, acuity, and C...

Hello All, I am set to start a new job this coming Monday at a teaching hospital. This is my first time working in a real hospital setting. I currently work in a rehab hospital but we rarely have critically ill patients. At the new job I f...

Any advice appreciated. I started working at the hospital as a nurse 2 months ago; prior to that I worked as a CNA. I work on a med-surg tele floor. My current patient ratio is 7 to 1, with the nurse taking full responsibility of 1 patient (so n...

I'm PRN and have been on call because of low census. I know we have COVID and r/o COVID patients; I'm actually "assigned" to the COVID floor, but because of my status + elective surgeries canceled + people avoiding the hospital, our census is low. I...

Current events have made me wonder: What's it like to work on a VIP unit? I'm not looking for celebrity/VIP gossip here, and of course no one should compromise security protocols, but has anyone done it? It it, like 1:1 nursing no matter the patient'...

During the first round of COVID, we had a particularly sad in hospital outbreak involving patients on our cancer floor. It's unclear the exact etiology, but it appears that an asymptomatic positive patient was admitted to that floor and required a si...

Download allnurses Magazine Dear Dilemma, Congrats on your job offer! It’s natural to have concerns when changing jobs. Eight-hour shifts will fly by for you since you’re used to working 12’s. It will take a while to get used to working Monday throu...

So a bunch of employees at Thedacare in Wisconsin got a better offer at another hospital - Ascension. The employees asked Thedacare if they would match the offer and were told no, so they went to Ascension. Then Thedacare decided they didn't like th...

I'm sure like everyone else, my hospital is dealing with staffing shortages unlike anything we've seen before. We are about a 200 bed hospital and according to our union we are just over 400 nurses across the hospital and a few outpatient facilities....