How do you break the barrier of online applications? I have submitted 3 online applications with telephone follow-ups, but hit a brick wall when I ask to speak to a recruiter or HRM. Standard response is applications are processed online and did is not apart of the application process to speak with a live [...]

I am a new RN, with a bachelors in nursing from India. I have only one year of clinical experience in India. Recently, I passed the RN exam in the U.S., and I got a job in a well established hospital. Now i am orienting, and I’m wondering whether there are any courses or programs in med-surg [...]

I’m a school nurse; I left the ER behind: the stress, the shift work, the adrenaline. Now I work in an exclusive private boarding school in the European Alps. Naturally, like most affluent kids, they don’t know how lucky they are. One of the students told me the other day she wants to be a nurse. [...]

I was “let go” after 8 weeks of orientation of my position on the oncology med-surg unit b/c I “wasn’t the right fit” and b/c I was “trying to be too good of a nurse,” meaning that I was trying to provide holistic care to all my patients, despite being inundated with numerous tasks. This supposedly [...]

After being off for a few days, I went back to work at my cover-all ICU. I had the typical two, vented patients, who were very much fluff and turns. Around 9 pm on my first night back a twenty-something-year-old male from the ER arrives. The ER nurse gave our nurse report, stating the patient was [...]

I just cannot believe that dental hygienists make the same amount as nurses . Cannot believe it. We have SO much immense responsibility. Nurses monitor and often save peoples lives…. We get sued and physically / verbally abused on countless occasions… We deal with peoples emotional issues, death and dying….Physical stress, emotional stress. SERIOUSLY! Why did [...]

Has anyone taken the phsycological & polygraph test in Texas. My husband has a 1st degree felony and the Texas board of nurses asked for these requirments in order to take the test be become registered. Does anyone know what they ask or even if you actually get to take the test? Jessica

I was doing my maternity rotation and a classmate and I had a pt that only spoke a little bit of English and there was a “huge” language barrier. She was asking us “How will I know when my baby is getting enough milk?” I responded with: “Well, you will know if he has [...]

I was explaining to a patient in for etoh how to call in her breakfast for the next morning to which she replied… “Ok…is your bar still open? I need a shot.”