BMW10

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1. Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

   BMW10 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

   Interesting discussion...but as with any insurance it's better to have and not need than need and not have! If you've done no wrong NO ONE gives a rip whether or not you have insurance--they're coming after you, that is their right. And if you haven'...

2. Failed the NCLEX-RN for the 5th time!

   BMW10 replied to ZeldaJane's topic in NCLEX

   Sorry, but in the real world you will be expected to be correct 100% of the time. I carried a 4-point, passed NCLEX with flying colors, worked for several decades before making "an error" that cost me my job, my career, my dignity, my life. If you ...

3. Hurley or Mclaren Hospital??

   BMW10 replied to mlcRN's topic in Michigan

   Have you made your choice? You've likely already had your interviews so which impressed you most? Did you look at Genesys?

4. Basic question about counting

   BMW10 replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

   Bottomline, POLICY dictates where, what, why, when, and how you count. Period. In our case CSR/Sterile Services set up our 'system' of counting instruments so it became more of an inventory-management tool than safety issue...with less than positiv...

5. Nursing at Baker College...

   BMW10 replied to cgallagher's topic in Michigan

   Not certain what is so great and wonderful about Baker (isn't it a rather new program?), but I agree with Typhanie---get in as many pre-reqs as you can at Baker, keep your GPA at or near 4.0, then transfer to another, at minimum a BSN program, for yo...

6. Lake Havasu Regional . . .

   BMW10 replied to TripRN's topic in Arizona

   Few if any from Havasu seem to post here but if they did I'm sure everyone would say, "Good Luck and welcome aboard!" No unit at HRMC is more in need of help than the E.R.---which is also perhaps why there is such a turnover of staff, especially sinc...

7. computerized charting in the O.R.

   BMW10 replied to mikethern's topic in Operating Room

   I hear ya', Tracy. We, too, started with just entering specimens and looking up labs. But Pathology refused to come on board (still had to submit full documentation with each specimen) and the lab could send results only to the patient's floor so we ...

8. Question about nurse and Surgical tech

   BMW10 replied to cherryclassic's topic in Operating Room

   To Mary54, the sales person who wants to know more about the O.R.: Check out AORN's certification program for sales reps. Indeed, many O.R.'s require you to present credentials that prove you've taken the AORN course AND kept up to date on area O.R...

9. Sacred cows

   BMW10 replied to mikethern's topic in Operating Room

   In our O.R. we resolved the conflict of when it was okay to drop the mask during a procedure by requiring ALL masks up at ALL times in the room, case ongoing or not. Droplets remain air-borne 30-45 minutes...plenty of time to turn the room over into...

10. Wrong COUNTS....

    BMW10 replied to RNOTODAY's topic in Operating Room

    It's not the 'incorrect' counts that cause a problem, rarely do they go unresolved. It's the uninvestigated 'correct' counts that slip through the cracks and come back to haunt us FOREVER! The sponges never found are the ones no one had to search f...

11. Is your surgery dept. anything like this?

    BMW10 replied to RNMommy2's topic in Operating Room

    You go, girl! Tough decision, I know, but you won't regret moving on and starting afresh. And now that you're out of there please consider reporting the incident if for no other reason than to CYA! What's to loose?

12. how long can you be out of OR nursing and then come back

    BMW10 replied to ajaxgirl's topic in Operating Room

    I think you should try to keep your feet wet, if only one weekend each month. Experience, while helpful, does not mean much if it is not recent and current. Too, even if you meet the required CEU's your certification will be suspended once you rema...

13. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    BMW10 replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, dear. I must be older than even bratt1. I recall bargaining up from an offered $1.25 to $1.29! an hour back when our stockings were cotton or silk and the hospital laundered and stiffly starched our uniforms so we wouldn't wear them on the stre...

14. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    BMW10 replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    And you're older yet if you remember saving those I.V. bottles (well, not the blood bottles just those from the D5W or NS) for tube feedings which the kitchen whipped up. Baxter used to have a screw 'top' and bigger tubing with a roller-adjust. It ...

15. U Of M of Flint Nursing Program

    BMW10 replied to starnik14's topic in Michigan

    I agree, there seems little difference amongst the programs since they all use the same hospitals for clinicals. But Mott is the most affordable and USED to allow you to apply before you actually complete your prereq's so you don't have to languish i...