How often do you get "low census" days off?

As the flu season is tapering down, it looks like our patient census is dropping. Fine by me, but now after we have worked extra hard and have done more with less over the past 3 months, we are occasionally being told not to come in due to low census

Multiple Job Offers as a New RN. How do you choose?

1 So this is my first time ever posting. I really need some help here. I have three job offers on the line. I'm a new grad and really excited about starting my career. One of the job offers is with a small satellite hospital and the other two are wi

new nurses share your best test technique

Can anyone tell me which NCLEX prep apps worked well for them? In the student section many are praised but that doesn't tell me which app is a better prep, only a new nurse could say which apps worked for them. Please share with the students that st

NYU Langone experience

For all those who have worked at NYU Langone:


Would you mind sharing what your experience was like during orientation at NYU?

Any tips for new grads starting orientation?

How is the work environment and culture at NYU?

Any survival tips (lol)?

Thank

What is a Nurses Calling?

1 Hello, I am having trouble deciding on whether or not I should be a nurse, and was hoping real nurses could give me some advice.

My whole life I've been an artist who has never been career oriented. I've only worked in retail, and after moving to

leaving nursing for a while

So, after getting fired for the third time in four years today... I have made the decision to leave the nursing field at least for a while.

For those of you who have left... how hard was it to find a job outside of the medical field? Sounds like a bre

Anyone with experience working at Baltimore VAMC Veterans Hospital

Hello all,

I curently work at the VAMC in Virginia. I'm originally from Baltimore and would like to return and work at the VA in Baltimore or Perry Point. I work on the psych unit. Does anyone have experience working at the Baltimore VA. I'm most c

Dreading bedside report with The Interrogator

1 We are transitioning to bedside report soon as "it shows an increase in both patient and nurse satisfaction"(cue management spin.) I am dreading it in general for many reasons. I think it will be awkward, that it will spawn two reports: t

NICU Single Patient Rooms

Our current unit is a 60 bed unit made up of Pods with 6 patients per pod. We are moving soon to single patient rooms. We will have two units after the move. There will be 42 single patient rooms in the new tower and the remainder will be in another

NJ BON Problem

Hello Nurses,

I am new to this forum and going through a dilemma. I am an internationally educated nurse. Last October 24, 2014 CGFNS CES approved and sent my CES report to the NJ Board of Nursing. When I applied to the NJ Board of Nursing, they keep