MsBruiser replied to Shannon--NotSherman's topic in Arizona
No direct experience in that hospital. I am more familiar with Phoenix Indian Hospital - which sucks. A lot. Challenging population (all that you mention above) with a horrible bureacracy layered into that milieu. Also, they are offering extensive re...
MsBruiser replied to jennifermae24's topic in General Nursing
Well. I once programmed an IV pump wrong and dumped an entire bag of medicine into a patient in 10 minutes. In an ICU. Thank god it was 100 ml of insulin and not Levophed. The patient could have died. I felt so awful I wanted to kill myself. It happe...
You should be terrified as a new nurse doing home health. But that is water under the bridge - where you are is where you are. Some advice: 1) Use your common sense - always. If something doesn't look right - wound, med, patient symptom - it isn't. E...
I feel your pain. I flipped in and out of clinical and more business-type jobs for the health system where I work. In fact, I took a $20,000 pay cut going back to clinical work, though overtime has more than made up for that. Believe it or not, I wo...
Cardiac device nurse here. I will give you a simple answer. Generally, anything less than 10 beats does not really get my attention. That is a very simple rule of thumb. The most important way to look at this is by looking at the patient's clinical h...
I am a cardiac device nurse. I took me until I was 44 to find my dream job. Better late then never, huh? EP is like learning a foreign language - very complex and abstract. I love knowing that I work with some of the best and brightest people in my f...
Beyond programmed ATP therapies, a skilled pacemaker RN or Electrophysiologist can do manual overdrive pacing. It is pretty nerve racking and I always carry a calculator in my pocket so I can do rapid VT cycle length calculations. There is always the...
I am a cardiac device RN. First, you have to work at a facility that has cardiac device nurses. These places are kind of few and far between. I live in the 6th biggest city in the US (metro area of 3.5 million people) and we are the only hospital wit...