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I am a new nurse educator and I am looking for creative ideas to reward nurses that successfully pass their CCRN! I know its such a huge accomplishment and I want to find a way to encourage my nurses to go for it! I know when I passed mine how proud I was of myself and I think it would have been great for my employer to recognize it in some way. If any of you have creative ideas of something I can do to make each nurse feel special and proud of themselves I would greatly appreciate it!!
Does anyone know of any programs out there where a nurse with experience can do a program within a hospital to advance her career? I want to be in a progressive ICU. Do any hospitals offer a pathway program?
Congrats to AnonRNC for winning our second caption contest! You won $100!
This was a very close contest, several very good captions were submitted. Here were a few runner up captions:
- C'mon Santa, Lets get you back to the psych ward
- Oh crap I forgot your pills.....
- I'm sorry nurse, I must've pushed the call bell by accident.
I've made just about every mistake in job hunting that I've seen mentioned - I didn't do a good job networking in school, I didn't join any student organizations or do anything "above and beyond" in volunteer work or anything like that, I didn't work as a CNA or patient care tech or anything healthcare related prior to or during nursing school, and I let too much time pass by before starting to really look for a job. I'm now starting to wonder if it's even worth it to bother.
I'm wondering if any relatively new nurses (a year or less in the field) are on the verge of quitting or did quit with no intention of getting another nursing job. I'm not talking about the, "I had a bad day..." kind of 'wanting to quit; rather I'm talking about seriously feeling like you can't take it any more.
If this is you and you're either about to quit or did quit, what lead up to wanting to end a career that you worked so hard to enter?
I know it is harder to find a job as a nurse these days, as the economy is terrible, and all that comes with that (hospitals and other agencies cutting costs, less people opting for elective procedures, etc.) but how hard is it REALLY to find a job as an RN? Much less as someone with an ADN vs. a BSN? I don't even know where to start looking for statistics, and I realise that a lot of what I have heard is anecdotal.
Yuck! Who does this? So my husband and I are on a long weekend in Taos, NM. Friday night we were at a local bar listening to a band. In walk a group of women in their mid-twenties. They appeared to have just gotten off work, as they were all wearing scrubs. They hung out at the bar for several hours, drinking, shooting pool, dancing, flirting with men. Wearing their scrubs. Yuck!
Treatment with statins, such as rosuvastatin, is associated with a modest reduction in the incidence of pneumonia, according to a study published online March 19 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
Getting a patient to use the numerical pain scale should be easy, right? Pick a number from one to ten with one being just a little bothersome and ten being the worst pain you have ever felt or imagined. Seems pretty straighforward to me.
But my patients sometimes look at me as if I've asked them to add the square roots of their children's birth dates and round to the nearest hundredth.
They stare at me and scrunch up their faces as if this is a scary pop quiz and they don't want to get it wrong. After a ten or fifteen seconds of agonizing, I get answers like, "Not quite a four and a half," or, "sort of a six," or, "somewhere between a two and a seven."
I'm a nursing instructor, and I teach my students to use sterile technique when changing dressings. However, in over twenty years of clinical teaching, I have yet to see nurses actually using sterile technique to change dressings. When I used to take care of neurosurgical patients (a long time ago) I always used sterile technique. What would be the rationale for not using sterile technique when changing postoperative dressings?
I have seen patients with Scabies, Lice, and other known really contagious bugs in regular rooms lately with NO MARKERS to warn staff members!
I was floored. Family coming in and out with sores and scabs, scratching, THIS WAS A NIGHTMARE.
Shouldn't all nurses have the authority to isolate patients?
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