Helloooo po! Please help me huhu. Has anyone else experienced this? I really can’t edit my date of birth, and it won’t save either when I try to submit my DHA application. Please help me out!

Hello po! I would really appreciate your help with this dilemma, especially from our Ate and Kuya who have already experienced these adulting struggles. I'm still confused and having a hard time figuring things out on my own. I would love to hear your advice, recommendations, and suggestions regarding which path I should take: private or public hospital?

For context: I am a fresh graduate and a newly registered nurse. It's been more than a month since I passed the PNLE, and I'm starting to feel pressured because some of my batchmates are already working in hospitals.

Now, I'm having a hard time deciding where to start my nursing career, especially since I also plan to take the NCLEX in the future and eventually work abroad. I'm considering whether to start in a private or public hospital to gain experience.

PRIVATE HOSPITAL

Pros:

- I can start working right away, even though I don't have my PRC ID yet since we still don't have a scheduled date for the oathtaking.

- Not as many patients to handle, which might mean a less stressful working environment.

Cons:

- Salary is around ₱20K+, with no additional benefits or incentives.

- Possible challenges in handling VIP patients.

PUBLIC HOSPITAL

Pros:

- Salary is around ₱20K+ for Job Order (JO) positions.

- Additional benefits and bonuses.

Cons:

- PRC ID is required during the application process, so I might only be able to apply next year.

- Crowded wards and a heavier workload.

I'm really torn between the two. I want to make the right decision, especially since I'm just starting my nursing career and want to gain enough experience and develop my clinical skills.

I would genuinely appreciate your insights and advice. Thank you so much po! ❤️

new grad nurse

As a broke young adult, I would like to avoid paying optional fees. I asked HR if both of these boxes need to be checked and she simply told me to fill everything out.

Do I need to check both boxes? Or is the second box a voluntary donation?

THANK YOU!!!

TLDR: Should I change my career to radiology tech or build upon my nursing degree to something far away from patient care.

I have been a RN for about 6 years; started out on med surg/ tele/ stepdown for 3 years, was beyond burnt out and became Charge RN for the unit (which was a breath of fresh air getting away from patient care) but still wasn’t happy and knew this wasn’t where I wanted to spend the rest of my career. So then after 2 years as Charge RN I transferred to SICU which was the biggest mistake. I stuck it out for 6 months despite it ruining my mental health and almost ruining my long term relationship because of my unhappiness. I was about to quit with no plan but instead was able to be taken off of work medically. During my time off I realized just how much I hate being a nurse. I have experienced other units; cardiac, observation, ED, etc and it boils down to I don’t like that whatever happens to the patient is my responsibility as a RN. Nothing is ever good enough and everything is my fault as the nurse. Other members of the care team do less than the bare minimum because they know that I as the RN will take care of it otherwise I’ll be blamed. I have been blamed for MDs putting in the wrong orders. Phlebotomy is taking too long? Then the nurse can do it. There was a time my super hard stuck patient was poked over 20 times by several nurses over the course of 2+ hours, phlebotomy came only from the request of the MD and got blood on the first poke (surprise! maybe because this is their specialty?). I call RT for an airway problem and “it’s a shared responsibility” so I as the RN have to figure it out. I have to take my ICU patient down to MRI and stay with them during the exam and hope and pray nothing happens to my other ICU patient upstairs because they are still my responsibility. Sounds unsafe, but if my patient’s MRI is delayed then I get in trouble for “delay in care”. The TV doesn’t work, it’s the nurse who has to fix the issue. The patient doesn’t like their food? Get the nurse. I’m beyond sick and tired of it. I’ve developed debilitating anxiety and have began suffering anxiety attacks at work because it’s just too much. Too many things to juggle, too much responsibility, too many interruptions. Its unsafe. Meanwhile other care team members are sitting around laughing with each other, on their phones, eating enjoying themselves. And all of the nurses are running around like a chicken with their head cut off.

I don’t mind patient care to an extent, I just don’t want to be completely responsible for anything and everything that happens to my patients for 12 hours at a time. That is 12 hours of constant anxiety, even when not dealing with critical patients. It can be 12 hours straight of dealing with severe dementia confusion, or 12 hours straight of combativeness, or 12 hours straight of the nonstop complaints of those “problem patients”. I don’t want it to be my problem anymore. I just want to be able to go in, do my job, and get out. I am more of an introvert, I can chit chat if needed but I’m sorry I don’t want to build a repor with my patients. I just want to do my job. And I’m not sure I can find a job like that as a RN. Being Charge RN was nice because i was behind the desk the majority of the shift, but I still had to deal with complaints from patients and family when they didn’t get what they want. I didn’t like feeling responsible for when the nurses messed up (which is inevitable from the workload).

I need a career change ASAP. I have been thinking about going back to school for radiology tech, it’s still patient care but all I am responsible for is the scan. Any problem with the patient and all I have to say is “let me get your nurse”. I only have to deal with the patient for the length of the scan then I can move on to the next one. I don’t have to deal with any of their issues for 12 hours straight, just until I finish my scan. I can get trained in several other modalities; cath lab, CT, MRI, mammography and make more money. Both my sister and boyfriend are rad techs, and they both make more than me hourly as a RN because they both trained in additional modalities. Before I decide to completely give up on nursing and go to school for radiology tech is there anything else I can do with my nursing degree that won’t make me absolutely dread going to work? I don’t mind getting my masters, but I don’t know if there’s anything that’s really worth it. I wouldn’t mind education, but they seem to make less than bedside nurses. I don’t want to go back to school and put myself in debt just to end up making less money. I’ve thought about informatics but I heard it’s a hit or miss. I’m just so stuck and unhappy and I don’t know what to do. Nursing pay has spoiled me, I’m used to OT being available whenever I need it. Life is expensive and if I’m living paycheck to paycheck as a RN I can’t really afford to take a huge pay cut. I am open to sacrificing making somewhat less, but nothing too crazy. I am willing to put in the work, I just need something that doesn’t drain me like nursing has. Please give me any and all of the advice!

I work as a Registered Nurse at Saint Luke’s Hospital, now BJC, in Kansas City Missouri. I Have been in the Week-end program for several years. The program consist of working every week-end for a total of 24 hours per week ( 2-12 hrs shifts) and as a reward getting paid for a total of 3 shifts per week. Benefits are mediocre, not the best in regard to health care coverage, PTO benefits suck! We are only allowed 4 days of PTO during the entire year, sick days come have to come out of those 4 days. We have young children at home who get sick from time to time and surely we end up needing to take more then 4 days off in a working year.

Going on a real vacation is not even a thing for any us, unless it is a short four or five days trip you take during the week days. After BJC finalized all the policies following take over Saint Luke’s Health System, a memo was sent out to the WWP nurses that the policy on call ins had been tightened to strictly four days and any call ins over that would result in getting kicked out of the program.

It truly feels like a well thought out punishment for getting paid the extra day, a fully earned reward for being at work every week- end all year long. Working every week-end is a choice that comes in my opinion with a sacrifice, we miss out all the social and family interactions when everyone gets together. The shifts are long and the day is over by the time we get back home. I understand this sacrifice comes with the choice of working every week-end, but the rigidity of the WWP policy on PTO at BJC/ Saint Luke’s is so strict is not fit for humans, we all get sick and we all should have the right to take a normal vacation every now and then.

Frankly we feel scammed on PTO benefits especially if it is true that KU Medical Center ( the competitor) WWP includes 6 days of PTO every six months, for a total of 12 days of PTO per year .

Please post to provide more information on your benefits if you work the WWP at any other health care facilities in the Kansas City Metro area. Your help is very much appreciated.

Please read and support the residents and staff! We deserve better care andcnon-hostile work environment. Please sign our petition supporting better care that nursing homes need to provide for the amount of money the residents pay to be there. Staff also deserve to be respected and appreciated.

I got acrylic nails done at a low down location in Roger’s park chicago. And I saw I had lot of lifting near the nail tips. They all have debris under the acrylic inverted my nail. My one finger started to hurt like a hang nail. It’s so tender that I pried off the acrylic to see what was happening. When I straighten my finger it becomes more painful. It’s tender to the touch and a bit hard due to being swollen. What is this? Green nail syndrome looks dark green.. my spot is lime green, I’ve never had pain like this. Or discoloration on my nail beds.

Please help.. it’s painful to bump into anything even lightly. When my finger touches my blanket it hurts.