carrie13

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carrie13 has 9 years experience.


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  1. Hi everyone - I work for a small community hospital (non-profit, non-union). We had a staff meeting today where a new hospital-wide vacation policy was introduced. This policy does not cover "prime-time" summer vacation (Memorial-Labor day). It on...
  2. New Grad - Is HH nursing difficult to get out of?

    I've worked for the past 8 years part-time in an acute setting (telemetry/PCU) and the past 3 years part-time in homecare. Like others have mentioned there are skills that you perfect in homecare which you do not get as much exposure to in the hospi...
  3. Applying for GI Endoscopy job, back troubles

    I work per diem at two ambulatory endoscopy centers. Both require patients to be able to walk in and out of the facility on their own. Occassionally we will have a patient that requires a wheelchair ride to the car but minimal lifting in terms of p...
  4. floating

    My tele unit has regular tele beds and 6 PCU beds. The PCU trained nurses will occasionally have to float to the ICU but if you are not PCU trained they will not float you.
  5. patient ratio

    My unit has 25 tele beds and 6 PCU beds. Tele is a 4:1 ratio with 2 aides and 1-2 secretaries. PCU is a 3:1 ratio with 1 aide and no secretary although the tele secretary will help out if she has time. The PCU nurses also watch the monitors. Ther...
  6. Day shift nurses needed...WHAT??!!

    I've worked all shifts at my hospital. I started out 3p-11p and really liked the work of the shift - fast paced with lots of admissions and discharges. But I had no life outside of work - all of my friends work a normal M-F day shift and I was miss...
  7. Telemetry Staffing Ratios

    Type of Hospital: community Type of Unit: cardiac telemetry, occasional surgical tele overflow from another unit. Number of beds:25 telemetry - divided into 2 wings (12 pts and 13pts per wing) and 6 PCU beds Number of patients each RN has:usually 4 p...
  8. Best Holiday Gift Given by Your Hospital

    We don't get holiday gifts at my hospital. For nurses week we got dinner served and candy delivered to our breakroom.
  9. Really freaking out

    Where are you located OctoberBride? My unit just hired a slew of new grads over the summer.
  10. Is this overtime at your facility?

    At my hospital anything over 40 hours per week or over what you are hired to work in a 24 hour period is overtime. So if you are hired for 8-hour shifts and work a 12-hour shift you would get 4 hours of overtime for the extra 4 hours worked. So in ...
  11. Survey: New Grad Pay

    I'm in a small non-profit hospital in the suburbs of Boston. I make $25.50/hr. Evening differential is 12.5% and an additional 10% on weekends.
  12. tele nurses

    I'm on a cardiac tele floor. day and evening shift is 4 patients, rarely 5 if we are short. Night shift is 6 patients. We have aides that cover 12 patients.
  13. Nurse patient ratio

    I work on a cardiac floor - we have 4 patients per nurse on days/evenings. On nights each nurse has 6 patients.
  14. How much is your pay?

    I make $24.75 base with a 12.5% differential for evenings and an additional 10% differential for weekends...so about $27.80/hr during the week and $30.32 on weekends. That is for a community hospital outside of Boston. I have about 6months experien...
  15. Lots of reactions to the flu vax this year

    I felt tired and had a temp around 101 for a couple days after my flu shot this year.