Battling it Out with the CDPH

Hope everyone's day is going great so far and stays that way!

I recently became certified as a CNA in September of this year. I unfortunately seem to have the worst luck possible.

After passing both portions of the competency exam to become a CNA,

Anderson Hospital

Does anybody out there work for Anderson Hospital in Maryville,IL? Interviewed for an ICU position there and would just like an honest evaluation of the work environment. I'm already employed full time elsewhere and want to be sure I'm making a wis

has anyone moved across country?

Has anyone moved across country?? Say they are a nurse in Illinois and they want to move to Texas. If so, how was your hiring process?? Did you perform interviews via Skype? Was it hard to get the attention of hospitals in other states? Thanks! I relo

Changing Trachs

I've changed out many trachs successfully, but it still terrifies me to do it. Will the feeling ever go away? I know anxiety can be a good thing, but is this normal? you mean inner cannulae? I just started doing this with my new job and the best advi

Dialysis vs ICU

Hi I am torn between ICU and dialysis. I have experience in ICU 3 years and 1 yr in med surg, and m planning to apply either ICU OR dialysis. I'm interested in dialysis, and I'm going to start a family soon. I feel like dialysis gives you an extra

Filled out application lowballed salary question.

Excuse me if I posted this in the wrong area, but I just filled out an application for DaVita as a day shift dialysis nurse. I have no experience as a nurse whatsoever (I graduated from my ADN program in May 2014, passed my boards in August 2014, and

What's your dress code at work?

Are you "color-coded" like we are at my job or can any staff member wear whatever scrubs they want? At my job, we nurses must wear ceil blue while others, depending on their department, wear maroon, navy, dark green, light green, or royal b

Have you suffered a patient handling injury?

1 Many of us have experienced injuries on the floor due to patient handling. It is proven that half of all nurses complain of back injury and 1 out of 8 nurses will leave the professional early due to injury. This issue has been improved upon given t

Indiana BON

I need to know if anybody has taken hurst review for a post-grad review course to be able to take the exam for a 4th time in Indiana, I failed for the 3rd time and I have done Kaplan so don't want to again and I have read about hurst sounds great bu

How do you answer "most" and "best" questions?

I'm about to take the NCLEX and I'm freaking out. I've been answering the kaplan q trainers. and I realized. i don't know how to answer the "best" and "most" questions like this

A charge nurse is developing the assignment for