Nursing Time Management and Family: It's not easy.

1 Nurses have to work during the week and on weekends. Sometimes it is hard to arrange a family weekend with a schedule like this. I know I have mixed up what day of the week it is and my children get a little irritated with me especially if I wake t

Eves or Day/Night???

Im married with a 3 year old and a 7 month old and was just offered a .7 evening position and my husband is panicking about never being together as a family. He really wants me to ask for a day/night rotation so im home in the evening with the family

Status on BON says "current"?

Hi All. I just took my NCLEX RN and has been waiting for a few days for my name to pop up on the breeze site. Today, my status says "current" instead of "active" (in which i believe ppl were saying it should say). Does anybody els

Nursing Salary Survey 2014

I work at a large nonprofit hospital system in St Louis MO. My present base salary is $40/hr, which is top of scale. I work on Mother Baby Unit. I am an RN with a Diploma degree. I work full time and believe it or not, have worked 35 years for the sa

New Hanover Periop 101 program

Hello,
Anyone out there starting periop 101 @ NHRMC in May? Looking for someone to carpool with from Richlands to Wilmington.
Thanks !

Staying comfortable vs. hastening death

1 I am a new nurse and wanted to get feedback. If a patient is a DNR/Comfort measures and actively dying (say from a GI bleed, or disease process that can't be stopped for whatever reason) and becomes restless and agitated and there is prn ativan av

CPNE

2 Passed my CPNE last weekend in Albany, NY. It has been a long road. After three months of living breathing and eating CPNE I was the only student out of five to pass. What an emotional victory!

Old Grad/New Nurse

Hello All. Let me start off with my situation. I graduated about two years ago.. And finally obtained my RN license last winter. The program I graduated was an ADN program. I applied to jobs regardless of their descriptions of BSN preferred and minim

Will I get benefits if I'm hired full time?

I was just hired to work 5 days per week. Nothing was said about benefits, but, I thought that I would get them if I were hired full time. You should probably as the HR person at your job. Generally if you're full time you get benefits but none of us

Every other weekend & holidays??

Hi everyone,
I will be graduating nursing school next year, and I am trying to figure out what I want to do. I was wondering what kind of positions there are out there that I do not have to work every other weekend, and a holiday. I am a huge family