Should I fly to California

I am currently working in southern Utah in a trauma II, 30 bed ER (3 years). The wages here are terrible, barely $20 per hour. I am looking at possibly flying into the Sacramento area where a new grad friend of mine started at more than $40 per hour

Sports Nursing: MLB NFL NHL NBA

Do any of the professional sports organizations hire nurses to be part of their medical staff? I know most professional sports teams have a comprehensive medical staff including doctors and trainers.... do any of the organizations employ nurses on th

2015 Fall ADN-GTCC

1 Hello! Tomorrow is the deadline for Fall semester applications! I am anxiously awaiting the news, as I'm sure you all are. I just wanted to hear from you all, and curious to know what your final point amount was. I wish you all the best of luck, h

I'm afraid of committing to nursing.

Any advice would be wonderful!

I've recently excepted the fact that I feel nursing might be for me. I love the thought of working to nurse patients to health, helping families, working hard and being busy and not sitting all day. I love how I felt

Best Charting Class online

Does anyone have any recomends for the best charting class online. Particular to women's health, OB, Gyn, labor and delivery?
Thanks in advance.

ICU Nurse Considering Ambulatory Care

I have been in critical care for 15 years and I really enjoy it. However, my current employer which is excellent does not use lift teams so many of the nurses are injured lifting and rotating very heavy patients. When I joined the employer 5 years ag

CNA/patient ratios and Help me keep the RNs happy!

Can anyone tell me what they think a good CNA/patient ratio would be on the 1900-0700 shift on a post-op floor? I'm worried that I suck, because I just had one of the worst shifts I've ever had as the only CNA with 23 patients (nurse/patient ratio

Do you think too many people are jumping into nursing?

I see more and more people in my senior class going into college programs for nursing, half of which have no idea what nurses actually do. I myself am going into nursing but I am also enrolled in a cna program at my highschool which prepares us for h

Nurses with Medical Marijuana Cards.

2 A new topic for you all to consider; is it legal in your facility for nurses to have medical marijuana cards and of course that use them. Anyone have experience with a nurse testing positive and not fired? Our facility has a zero tolerance for narco

New grad-still wondering when to hold certain meds!

I'm a new grad working on a med-surg/telemetry unit. I've been taken off orientation and have been working on my own for about a month. When a new patient is admitted, a formal med sheet is not printed out for them and there is generally a hand wri