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[gorbeth]

LA childrens.... and I have an AWESOME company and recruiter recommendation. Avoid the big ones like the plague. They will rip you off like no other.

Can PM you her info if you want to call and see what they have?!?

Yes please!!

[gorbeth]

I just wanted to vent about the past 4 nights at work....

Last night in PICU we were staffed for a **** night. 18 bed unit. Census of 16. 6 nurses on. So, nothing crazy... a couple 3 pt assignments. .. that's doable. One of our nurses leaves in report due a family emergency. 5 nurses for 16 patients. I take the 4 pt assignment. Our acuity should be a 1 or 2 patient ratio per nurse. . .

Then to make it better, we get two NEW ONSET DKA admissions. Fck our sweet lives. Including a 12 year old and a 10 month old. I've never seen a DKA so young.

We finally get 2 more nurses to come in. 6 nurses for 18 patients. I still have a 4 pt assignment because our MVP nurse took the two DKAs (which are normally 1:1s).

I got home 17 hrs later. I feel like my brain got kicked repeatedly last night. Hold me.

[bel316]

I just wanted to vent about the past 4 nights at work....

Last night in PICU we were staffed for a **** night. 18 bed unit. Census of 16. 6 nurses on. So, nothing crazy... a couple 3 pt assignments. .. that's doable. One of our nurses leaves in report due a family emergency. 5 nurses for 16 patients. I take the 4 pt assignment. Our acuity should be a 1 or 2 patient ratio per nurse. . .

Then to make it better, we get two NEW ONSET DKA admissions. Fck our sweet lives. Including a 12 year old and a 10 month old. I've never seen a DKA so young.

We finally get 2 more nurses to come in. 6 nurses for 18 patients. I still have a 4 pt assignment because our MVP nurse took the two DKAs (which are normally 1:1s).

I got home 17 hrs later. I feel like my brain got kicked repeatedly last night. Hold me.

shhh... no tears... only dreams now.

[DatMurse]

Money!! I'm going to having my last clinical rotation at Swedish first hill in Seattle on the oncology floor starting april. So if you're at First hill, might be working under you breh. be nice and go easy on my angus. According to all the graduates that i spoken with, swedish dishes out the most $$ and I'm hoping i can get swooped up at Sweidsh too. I had my rotation at VM last quarter, but i perfer swedish a lot more. Good breh.

I think I got it.

swedish pays like 29.80 for me.

IDK what VM pays

[gorbeth]

shhh... no tears... only dreams now.

Haha, this made me smile.

Also, I went in and worked 6 hours tonight. Double pay PLUS OT.

Going in for another 12 of double and OT tonight. Who wants to go on vacation with me because I'm going to need it after 70+ hrs of this chit this week!

[spicyprice]

Haha, this made me smile.

Also, I went in and worked 6 hours tonight. Double pay PLUS OT.

Going in for another 12 of double and OT tonight. Who wants to go on vacation with me because I'm going to need it after 70+ hrs of this chit this week!

What the heck is double and OT????


like... time and a half on your double time pay?????

[gorbeth]

What the heck is double and OT????


like... time and a half on your double time pay?????

Exactly that. If we get offered a bonus, our OT comes off of you base salary plus the bonus.

Example:

$30 base pay + $30 bonus = 60 dollars an hour, THEN 1.5x for overtime makes it 90$ an hour.

[PaC-mAn8]

Exactly that. If we get offered a bonus, our OT comes off of you base salary plus the bonus.

Example:

$30 base pay + $30 bonus = 60 dollars an hour, THEN 1.5x for overtime makes it 90$ an hour.

[DatMurse]

Haha, this made me smile.

Also, I went in and worked 6 hours tonight. Double pay PLUS OT.

Going in for another 12 of double and OT tonight. Who wants to go on vacation with me because I'm going to need it after 70+ hrs of this chit this week!

do all hospitals do this chit? doubles?

[South Side Stev]

do all hospitals do this chit? doubles?

No. its probably rare these days.

Years ago the hospital I was at ran out of pulse ox monitors for the floor, so any patient on a PCA had to go to SICU. They paid me my base + OT + 30$-45$ and hour to come in and babysit 2 floors patients on PCAs. I worked for a month straight during that shortage.

[spicyprice]

Exactly that. If we get offered a bonus, our OT comes off of you base salary plus the bonus.

Example:

$30 base pay + $30 bonus = 60 dollars an hour, THEN 1.5x for overtime makes it 90$ an hour.

Hot damn. Thats some cali pay right der. I would work straight 16s for that ****. Hope you survive it, though. It sounds like you are doing work for that $$

do all hospitals do this chit? doubles?

Ours does. When times get desperate and you have to make patient ratios you have to start adding on the incentive.

I am per diem so on weeks I have no shifts I have gone in and worked 5 straight 12s.. a little over $100/hr.... x12....x5.

[SwiftRick]

Exactly that. If we get offered a bonus, our OT comes off of you base salary plus the bonus.

Example:

$30 base pay + $30 bonus = 60 dollars an hour, THEN 1.5x for overtime makes it 90$ an hour.

I should've done nursing school

Also love holidays. Went into the break room today and BAM! Cakes, cupcakes, cookies galore.

[gorbeth]

Our central staffing picks what the bonus will be . A lot if the time it's 10$ more and hour, but if we are super short.... the bonus can be double pay. It's cheaper to pay nurses extra than the malpractice lawsuit that's bound to happen from neglect and understaffing.

[spicyprice]

Any of you nurses/murses get pitting edema in your legs after a night shift? And I mean like real pitting. I have anywhere from 1-2+ to 3+ randomly.... feel like a pregnant lady...

[DatMurse]

Any of you nurses/murses get pitting edema in your legs after a night shift? And I mean like real pitting. I have anywhere from 1-2+ to 3+ randomly.... feel like a pregnant lady...

+1


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das it mane

[spicyprice]

+1


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das it mane

Have tried in the past but I just swell above them. Haven't tried since pitting started though...

[DatMurse]

Have tried in the past but I just swell above them. Haven't tried since pitting started though...

maybe you should try some thigh high compression stockings?

Peripheral vascular disease of peace.

[spicyprice]

maybe you should try some thigh high compression stockings?

Peripheral vascular disease of peace.

Yeah, the thigh highs are hard because I have thigh fat so they show through my scrubs (lump above the band) an the full stocking is hot as hell. They need to make a more breathable material. I already sweat like a mofo when I get in to work. Coffee+shower+workout before work...add in california summer and Im disgusting before I even really get started.

inb4 DVT.

[DatMurse]

I already sweat like a mofo when I get in to work..... Im disgusting before I even really get started.

Thats hot

[spicyprice]

Edema at its worst. CRAY.

[spicyprice]

Thats hot

Almost as hot as my cankles.....

[DatMurse]

Edema at its worst. CRAY.

holy dog****.... You see a doctor about that yet?

[spicyprice]

holy dog****.... You see a doctor about that yet?

Yep, kidneys fine, heart fine, thyroid was off but now corrected with med adjustment...... ANA high with some other makers, but started on plaquinil so hopefully fixing that. this morning it was 2+ in my shins but nothing crazy in my ankles, which makes ZERO sense.


wtf.wtf.wtf. this night shift life aint it guys..

[Joesky20]

For BSN brehs/brehettes, much debt were you guys in once you graduated? I failed chem last semester so i have to wait another year to get into the program, (had B+ and A's in all other classes.. fuk chem). Since im going to be a 5 year, i decided to minor in nutrition next year and get my diabetes certificate to add onto my bachelors in nursing degree. By the time i graduate ill be around 137k in debt..

should i just get my 2 year rn degree.. or is that much debt normal & worth it? fukfukfuk

[spicyprice]

[QUOTE=Joesky20;1339999411]For BSN brehs/brehettes, much debt were you guys in once you graduated? I failed chem last semester so i have to wait another year to get into the program, (had B+ and A's in all other classes.. fuk chem). Since im going to be a 5 year, i decided to minor in nutrition next year and get my diabetes certificate to add onto my bachelors in nursing degree. By the time i graduate ill be around 137k in debt..

should i just get my 2 year rn degree.. or is that much debt normal & worth it? fukfukfuk[/QUOTE

wtf has happened to school costs?!?

Graduated in 2004 owing 12k. 4 year degree from a very small state school with high NCLEX pass rate, applied for scholarships and grants etc, lived off campus like a pauper and worked the whole time to limit debt... parents paid for nothing.

137k is painful...

[SKIN__N__BONES]

For BSN brehs/brehettes, much debt were you guys in once you graduated? I failed chem last semester so i have to wait another year to get into the program, (had B+ and A's in all other classes.. fuk chem). Since im going to be a 5 year, i decided to minor in nutrition next year and get my diabetes certificate to add onto my bachelors in nursing degree. By the time i graduate ill be around 137k in debt..

should i just get my 2 year rn degree.. or is that much debt normal & worth it? fukfukfuk

damn man, I have about 17k from 2 year and I feel like chit about that. Are you going to a private school or something? Id consider doing 2 year than going back for bachelors while you are working. I have to knock statistics out and then I can sign up for the rn-bsn which people have told me should cost me about 10k but Ill obviously be able to pay for it while working.

[Rabbitw00t]

137k? I'm going to be honest. You dun goofed. I'm guessing private school. Most hospitals don't give two craps about your nursing school. Good luck brah.

[SwiftRick]

Edema at its worst. CRAY.

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Soon.

[Dan916]

8 hours on Obamacare website yesterday to beat the deadline, the piece of **** website didnt work due to a "glitch" and I missed deadline and still uninsured.

[spicyprice]

Soon.

There're no words for that.....

8 hours on Obamacare website yesterday to beat the deadline, the piece of **** website didnt work due to a "glitch" and I missed deadline and still uninsured.

Try asking about cash pay for stuff. I do my physical Therapy cash pay and its almost half the price of if I went through insurance.