new job clearances

Hi everyone,
I have been working at the same hospital (Pennsylvania) for the last 3 and a half years. Since I was hired I have not been required to have a new criminal record check, child abuse, and fingerprinting done. I am at starting to look for a

Not completely emptying bladder with straight cath

Hi,

I have had a patiently recently that requires straight caths. I always bladder scan prior to see if parameters are met and often the number on the bladder scan is much higher than what I actually get when I straight cath. This is a male who had

Heart attack after anesthesia

I had a patient who was needing surgery to scrape the lungs because he had empyema that wouldn't resolve with other treatments. He also needed stents and CABG. the doctors were trying to decide if it was even safe to do the surgery. They said that h

Feeling dumped on as new PRN

Not sure if this is just how this unit treats PRN staff or if it's because I'm the "new girl".
But I definitely felt dumped on last night - my first shift off orientation.
I work L&D and at the start of the shift there was only one p

No shift differential during orientation?

The hospital I'm at pays $7/hour less for all nurses in orientation. Since I started during the holidays, I found out there's no pay or extra PTO accrued during holiday weeks. Now I find out there's no shift differential either during orientation

Opinion on using the word "retarded"?

1 Hello! I took Introduction to Nursing last semester at my college. My teacher was an older women who still worked as a nurse at a local hospital. She also teaches other classes at our school. During a lecture one day, she continually used the word

Lucile Packard Panel Interview

Hi!

I'm new here. I just want to know if anyone can please help me with how does Lucile Packard conduct their Panel interview? Any idea of the questions?

I would really appreciate any help.

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meningitis A vaccine

The World Health Organization has given the go-ahead for a meningitis A vaccine to be used in infants younger than a year old in Africa. The vaccine, MenAfriVac, has been highly effective since its introduction four years ago in protecting children a

Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

Do you actually rinse out plastic bedpans?

I will always empty and rinse out bedpans that contain straight urine, but if somebody has a BM in a bedpan, I often don't empty it at all. I just throw the bedpan, stool and all, straight into the trash ca

Passing things on

I have a question for your all. How do you feel when a nurse from the previous shift passes something on to you? I work 3P-11P and there are times when something could not get done during the day shift....or maybe the nurse simply forgot to do it. I