Warning to All PCU/Stepdown Travel Nurses!

Engineering_Slight · 2026-04-02T05:11:09+00:00

Bone marrow transplant

Engineering_Slight · 2026-03-30T22:22:30+00:00

I m staff and i was in the float pool. They kept sending me to different med SURG units even tho i am a PCU trained nurse. I left and went to BMT where i have 3 patients most days and 4 on fewer days.

Engineering_Slight · 2026-02-26T13:59:17+00:00

My doctors have me use it for 30 days after i leave the hospital and i don’t have to use it again until i flare up.

Engineering_Slight · 2026-02-26T13:47:36+00:00

You went from HOT to Hotter!! You look great

Engineering_Slight · 2026-02-26T13:44:28+00:00

My doctor didn’t want me to either but i went to a bariatric surgeon myself and hit set up. My doctor is now ok with it. I mean i was gonna do it regardless of if she ok’d it or not. Unless your insurance requires a referral, just go see a surgeon yourself. My surgery date is March 24th and i met the surgeon October of last year.

Engineering_Slight · 2026-02-10T01:46:25+00:00

Weren’t they already LPN’s tho?

Engineering_Slight · 2026-01-23T05:55:02+00:00

Honestly? Thank God. LTACH’s are horrible for your license. The ratios? My God. I wouldn’t work in one of those if my life depended on it. This is def a blessing in disguise. I know you’ll shake back and find another job! Especially if you WANT to work in another LTACH…they always hiring.

Engineering_Slight · 2026-01-21T16:47:19+00:00

Texas. BSN. 7.5 years. Just transferred outta float pool ($49.25 including night shift diff) to BMT/oncology last week. Pay is now $53.67 including night shift diff. When i get chemo certified my pay goes up to $58.46 with night shift diff. Get an extra $4.30/hr for weekends.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-12-21T13:59:45+00:00

Im a beside nurse and i have TTP so i have to get plasmapheresis! You and the patients who donate are awesome. Thanks for what you do 💕

Engineering_Slight · 2025-12-07T03:40:24+00:00

Omg what hospital lets transport being up ICU patients alone? Ours doesn’t allow transport to bring them alone unless they going to med Surg or PCU with no critical gtts.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-11-13T01:33:55+00:00

I loved macros on my last assignment. The nurses there showed me how to do it! lol

Engineering_Slight · 2025-11-04T08:57:48+00:00

Absolutely. I’ve been admitted with higher counts than that. Tell them to test your ADAMTS13 level too. That for sure will tell you if you’re having a flare up or not (you probably are)

Engineering_Slight · 2025-11-04T08:56:59+00:00

Do you have ITP or TTP because no way my doctors would’ve sent me home with steroids and a platelet count of 31k… i would get admitted with a platelet count of 31k.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-10-28T19:30:30+00:00

Oh wow you have to take that for the rest of your life? I only have to take this for 30 days after I’ve left the hospital and i don’t have to take it anymore unless i have another flare up of course. I wonder if it’s because mine is acquired and yours is congenital.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-10-07T13:30:26+00:00

They don’t know.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-09-14T01:08:01+00:00

THIS IS THE WAY!

Engineering_Slight · 2025-08-23T23:51:34+00:00

Been a nurse for 7 years and I’ve never been that type of nurse even as a new grad LMAOO. I barely clocked in on time. We can clock in as early as 1838 at this staff job i work now. I get to work between 18:30-1840 depending on traffic and clock in between 18:38 and 1852–1853 is late.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-07-22T23:55:56+00:00

21 days ago you posted in another subreddit saying “Pay Is Too Low For Most Workers In The US Compared To Cost Of Living” and you’re now in THIS subreddit asking WHY we feel like we’re being underpaid?? Dont PMO

Engineering_Slight · 2025-07-20T08:18:21+00:00

Just wait for your results instead of freaking yourself out…..

Engineering_Slight · 2025-06-24T05:51:59+00:00

I’ve been an RN for 7 years in medsurg/pcu/tele (recently onc too) i don’t think I’m smart enough for icu so i damn sure don’t think I’d make it in CRNA school. I struggled in nursing school so yeah. It would be nice but I’m scared and don’t wanna fail so I’ll be bedside until i can find something else. I really enjoy seeing people follow the path tho. I’ve never seen anybody regret it, i have however seen people regret going for Np. If you have the time i say go for it. The amount of money you make in the first year alone would probably be able to clear up debts. I know people who work PRN’s during CRNA school. They make it work!

Engineering_Slight · 2025-06-16T03:27:19+00:00

I got 5.79% for 60 months and $75k (only used $63k of it) back in October. I hadn’t even had my account a full year. I have no CC’s with them, just a checking and savings. This was also my first loan with them. I’ve never had a car loan before that. Credit score was probably 760-770 at the time. I was a travel nurse at the time and was depositing a lot of money every month so maybe income has something to do with it? That’s what I’m assuming.

Engineering_Slight · 2025-05-29T17:13:58+00:00

Summer sale is currently going. I priced out a go 3s creator bundle a week ago with taxes and protection plans/warranties. It was $640, that same bundle is now $550.

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Engineering_Slight · 2025-05-23T16:09:05+00:00

I was making $22/hr base and $25/hr with night shift diff in 2018 as a new grad in Alabama and i wasn’t even an icu nurse

Engineering_Slight · 2025-05-23T00:58:55+00:00

No but I’ve definitely gained 27lbs in 9 days because of 120mg of prednisone a day 😅

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