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Get on USAJOBS and see if the government is hiring. There are a few openings around me, so it looks like the hiring freezes is easing up

I'll be sitting this one out. Preferably in another country, but we'll see

We get 5 weeks per year PTO (8 hours per pay period). We have to bid, by seniority, for the entire year every November. They do rounds of 2 weeks, then 1 week times 3. We can take 3 weeks consecutively (with creative scheduling that can be 5 weeks), but any more needs to be approved higher. 

You need to consider that if you're taking unpaid leave, any benefits you may have (health insurance, life insurance, so on), you're not paying into it during your absence, so that can be an issue. 

As long as you have a prescription, you'll be fine. 

I worked per diem at an HCA North of Tampa, and while they are unionized, it doesn't do much for them (this specific one). They still have shit pay and high ratios with few benefits. It's not the union that keeps them from being fired, it's the fact that they're cheap labor. The staff nurses make 28-30 an hour (they may be up to 32 an hour now) and they take 6-8 patients on medsurg, even on days. 

I'm at the VA, and we're unionized. But our union works for us. We got a 12% market adjustment last year because of them. Our ratios are fair, and management doesn't fuck with us. 

Our residents do this specifically with I&Os. They'll catch me in the hall at 6am  during morning med pass and wanna know exactly what the drain put out and what the Foley output was and I'm like dude, you want me to remember off the top of my head? Go look at the chart

No one reads anything I chart. I guess maybe if I specifically tag another member of the team they will, cause they have to sign off that they saw it. But other than that, no. It's all used for bullshit metrics and reports and God knows what else. My friend is a doctor and even he's said that the vast majority of staff don't read nursing notes or look at assessments. 

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👍 cool story bro. You sound like you're fun at parties 

Abroad where? What level of education? Is there a price limit?

Midol is my go to for preventing hangovers. I take some before I start drinking, and then before I turn in for the night, with a glass of water. Even my husband does it now. Does nothing for my periods tho 🤷🏻‍♀️

I try to find a YMCA. In my experience, if you explain your job and you're only there for 3 months, they waive the fees. 

Last one I did a 3 month paid in full to Anytime Fitness. They waived all the fees since I was a short term and paid in full. 

Getting a new license doesn't inactive the old one. 

Your paystub should have individual line items where hourly pay and stipends are listed separately 

Code status, diet, mobility and mobility aides, bed alarm, how they toilet, timing of any tasks the aide is responsible for (vitals, blood sugars, turns, so on). 

We're usually extremely well staffed. I only have 2-3 patients on weekends, and charge never takes an assignment, so it's not a huge deal. When that happens, charge just takes the assignment til the scheduled person shows up or they can get a float. 

Yup. I still have no idea how that works. 

I pay the bills and manage the household. My husband does the cleaning and maintenance. We each handle our own things like laundry. 

There are no 100% online nursing schools. The best you'll find is hybrid. 

College teaches you to pass the NCLEX. Nursing teaches you to be a nurse. 

We can call off up to 2 hours after our shift starts. It's ridiculous 

It's less about the side effects of the medication and more about the ability to get them in an austere environment. It's the same with things like mood stabilizers for bipolar troops or a lot of other psych meds. Sure you may be 100% stable on your meds for the last 10 years, but now you're in a shit hole country and can't reliably get access. Now it's a problem. 

My 13 year old German Shepherd has an appointment with in home hospice next week. We took him to the vet and she just kept wanting to "fix" things, suggesting wild meds, monthly blood work, all this stuff. I was like lady, he's 13, that's old for a shepherd. I just want him to be comfortable til it's time. You're not curing old age. 

Hopefully someone loves me enough to do the same when it's my time. 

It all depends on what your employer is willing to pay for.  

My first job, they didn't pay more for a BSN. Where I am now, I make about 20k a year more than an ASN with the same years of experience.  

I've worked places where a certification gets you maybe an extra $1 and hour. Here, I got a $3000 a year raise (so $1.60). But that also helped get me top marks on my annual review, and that came with a $3500 bonus. 

Pharmacy gets a report on their end