New RN (almost) 401k and Retirement

2 Greetings.

I am a 23 year old BSN student set to graduate in Dec. As soon as I land a job, one of my biggest financial obligations will be to fully fund my 401k and start using a Roth because I have been taught that if I begin early, the money that

Nurse Liaison?

I have recently been interviewing for a Nurse Liaison position. I have experience with marketing within Hospice, as I am currently a Coordinator for one of our programs; this would be for Home Health. I can't seem to find too much information regard

Advice opinions please

Ok everyone I have an issue I would appreciate opinions. First of. My unit got shut down due to flood so unable to perform emergency procedures. So until they got it fixed we were given options to use sick day pto or help out on other floor in hospit

Orthopedic and Trauma Med Surg Unit what to expect

Hey fellow nurses,

I am graduating in May and have accepted an offer to work on the Ortho/trauma unit at a hospital and I was wondering what to expect from a split specialty work load. I am excited to get some experience before later transitioning to

Masturbation Is a Bad Habit: An Era Gone By

Lovely article. As a single mom, I learned to give baths in a jiffy. Fast and effective. I never bought a bath tub and instead sanitized the kitchen sink and bathed baby in there. Lots of it is part of my culture and perhaps 'dangerous' to some. Ne

New RN but not interested in hospital bedside nursing

Hello,
This is my first post, but I have looked up advice at allnurses for years. I am a new RN, this is my second career, and I have previous college education in other areas. I used to work in corporate environment and got into nursing to combine m

How to overcome a phobia. HELP

Hi, I am learning IV in my class right now. I think I have a really bad venephobia. As I was tying a tourniquet to prepare to make vein pop on myself. my body starts to feel weird when it comes to touching vein or seeing vein popping. Even if I see v

Office nurse who needs hospital experience.

Hi,
I have been a RN since the summer of 2011. I was having trouble finding a job in TN. My boyfriend was layed off but, soon found work in Charlotte. I moved with my then boyfriend(now husband) to NC. I took the first job that was offered to me, whi

Medication info in EMR? & other Med teaching tips!

Hello!

I recently joined a new committee in my hospital to try and improve our HCAHPS scores relating to educating patients on their medications with each med pass.

We've realized that as a lot of our nurses are new grads, the general knowledge of m

2 week notice necessary?

1 Hello all!

I just recently started this job in December, and at first I did like this job, but as weeks went on I noticed there were a lot of things that weren't right, I saw it being more about money that then actual patient health, anyways, I wa