Day Surgery Center Nurses: How do you like your job?

I'm considering changing from NICU to a day-surgery center job. I used to work adult ICU. So, I'm pretty flexible. After 22 years in the hospital, I would like to give up working weekends and holidays. I need to know:

Do you like your job and why?Ho

Most annoying reason for admission?

1 I work at a rural hospital and I feel like we admit patients for just about anything...
(Ex.- patient with COPD c/o being out of breath when walking long distances up an incline [sats are WDL otherwise and while in ER])

While I can rationalize a pa

Inspiring words to the new grad population

Hello all, I have not posted since I first was accepted into nursing school. Here's a little summary, I finished school in 2014, passed NCLEX in my first attempt 2 months later, received RN status and was on the floor one week after I passed boards.

Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

30 :angryfire Ohh I'm so irritated today. Today was one of "those" shifts...the kind you dread. I'm especially frustrated with the way patients/families treat us nurses, and the administration that encourages such behavior. There is absol

Legal Obligations of Reporting as a School Nurse

As a school nurse what are you legally required to report?

Are you required to share everything with the parents?

For example, a student has an eating disorder. Is that something you have to tell the parents or can you keep that between you and the s

Your opinion on degrees.

1 Would you please give me advice?

Do you believe it is a better decision to just get a bachelor's degree or to earn an associates, become an RN and then find a job and hopefully receive tuition assistance from the hospital to earn your bsn while w

pt stool smells like fish

where I work we have many long term pt's. Three of them ALWAYS have stools that are soft and always always smell strongly of a fishy iodine type smell. is this c diff? i had asked if it was c diff and someone said that one of them had been tested fo

Luzerne County Comm College Expressway to BSN

Hello,

Has anyone out there graduated from Luzerne County Community College in Nanticoke, PA. and completed or is already enrolled in the RN to BSN Expressway Program at Misericordia College in Dallas, PA. I would like to know what the one clinical w

RN wants to work in mental health

Hi,
I`m an Italian nurseand I work as a registered nurse in Exeter from November; but I`d like to work in mental health (eating disorders, especially). Can someone help me or give me any suggestion?

Thank you!

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1199 RN Facilities in NY

Hello, I am trying to find a listing of the 1199RN facilities in NY. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have even checked their website, but am unable to find a complete listing anywhere on the internet.
Thanks Again!