Nurse Supervisor Career Guide and Counseling

Question: Nurse Supervisor Salary in washington DC metro? RN Nurse Supervisor PRN or Full time Salary in Washington D.C Metro?

Answer: PRN $50

Question: How long would it take to become a nursing supervisor?? Does that career come out of luck?? How long will I be a nurse before I become the supervisor??

Answer: Well, it's rare to step into a supervisory position as a new graduate. Almost all supervisory positions I have ever seen require anywhere from 2-5 years of regular staff nursing experience before you would be considered. And for good reason - you need to learn how nurses function, you need to learn about the team environment, etc. It would be virtually impossible to learn your role as an RN simultaneously as learning your role as a leader. You will also be better off with a BSN, and even more preferable is earning your MSN with a Leadership / Management focus, or earn an MBA. For those higher management positions most places will require some form of master's degree. A master's is at least 2 years of school above and beyond the BSN. Some other things you can do to speed the process or make yourself more appealing to employers - get involved, do volunteer work, get on different committees in your workplace such as unit councils or become a preceptor to student interns, etc. Be ambitious so that people know you really want to take on challenges and grow in your profession. Good luck!

Question: Your supervisor instructs you to purchase 240 pens and 6 staplers for the nurse's station. Pens are purchase i Your supervisor instructs you to purchase 240 pens and 6 staplers for the nurse's station. Pens are purchase in sets of 6 for $2.35 per pack. Staplers are sold in sets of 2 for 12.95. How much will purchasing these products cost?

Answer: To get 240 pens at 6 per pack, you must buy: 240/6 = 40 40 packs. At $2.35 per pack, the price for the pens is: 40 * 2.35 = 94 $94.00 6 staplers in packs of 2 means that you must buy 3 packs. At 12.95 per pack: 3 * 12.95 = 38.85 The staplers cost $38.85. The total of the two: 94 + 38.85 = 132.85 $132.85 is the total price.

Question: job desciption of a chief nurse, head nurse, nurse supervisor, staff nurse, nursing aide?

Answer: Depends on where you work as the roles you play. Nursing aide- assists the nurse with vital signs, ins and outs, assisting patients to the restroom, etc. Staff nurse- nurse who directly cares for the patients on the floor or unit, not in a supervisory role. Nurse supervisor- nurse in charge of other nurses or nurse aides, but generally their boss is a nurse as well. Head nurse-(charge nurse)- nurse in charge of a floor or unit specific to what they've been trained. They answer to the nurse supervisor on their shift.

Question: What should a nurse do if she notices wrong IV solution hung for a patient?Inform doc, supervisor?

Answer: Immediately discontinue the infusion. Notify physcian. An incidence report will have to be filled out reporting the med error. Depending on what type of IV solution it was, an antagonist may have to be given.

Question: is it legal for my direct nursing supervisor to drug test me in the state of minnesota? my girlfriend who is a registered nurse went to a year end party, had an incident with her direct supervisor, and was drug tested 2 days later by this supervisor who had something against her. It seems like a huge conflict of interest to me for any supervisor to drug test someone they are in direct contact with and i think that a drug test should be administered by an outside source. The supervisor wanted to get rid of her. She got fired a couple days later before the drug test even came back for a made up reason that she shouldnt have been fired for to begin with. When the drug test came back it was positive for a very small amount of narcotic which my girlfriend never had taken. The supervisor had to have rubbed a small amount of the narcotic in the container my girlfriend had urinated in and tainted the specimen to get back at her. Well the results of the drug test went to the minnesota state nursing board and she had her license suspended for 2 years and her carreer is ruined

Answer: WOW. That's insane. You should definitely contact the State Labor Board. I had an issue with an employer recently and they were VERY helpful! Website: http://www.doli.state.mn.us/ Main Office Phone (St. Paul): 1-800-DIAL-DLI If you go to the website, click "Contact Us" and you can find the phone number for your area. The one above will probably be the one you need, but they do have numbers for specific area outside the Twin Cities. Good luck to you, I hope your girlfriend prevails. This sounds very serious and she should definitely pursue this.

Question: Should you give your asthma action plan to supervisor? At work I gave a copy of my asthma action plan to the nurse AND my supervisor. Usually we just give emergency contact and medical info to the nurse, but do you think it was a smart thing to give it to my supervisor as well?

Answer: Yes, you should. I am a supervisor and not knowing what is going on when someone has an attack is scary! You could die because someone is uneducated about asthma

Question: What can I do when a nurse putting me down and putting up to me, yelling all day at me? I am a dental assistant and my supervisor is a nurse which is abusing me every day for so many months already by beeing abusiv, picking me up and put me down. I start taking prescribed medication for for depresion because of her. She is vulgar. Now I have no confidence in my self anymore. Can I refer to a minister of nurses? What can I do?

Answer: No the correct course is to have a talk with your employer and make a statement about it for the record. It also needs to be followed up in writing. Then if nothing is done or it continues you need to contact a union representitive. In fact i would also do that and have them mediate with your employer for you. That is one of their roles. You don;t have to suffer abuse in employement from anybody so go get it fixed.

Question: In a typical line of authority, the supervisor, charge nurse, and team leader all answer DIRECTLY to the? a. LPN b. assistant director of nursing c. assistant administrator d. head of medical services

Answer: b. assistant DON

Question: Your supervisor instructs you to purchase 240 pens and 6 staplers for the nurse's station.Pens are purchased..? in sets of 6 for $2.35 per pack. Staplers are sold in sets of 2 for 12.95. How much will purchasing these products costs?

Answer: You need 3 sets of staplers (12.95 * 3 ) plus 40 sets of pens (2.35 * 40) total = $132.85 plus sales tax