Nightrn16

Nightrn16 has 2 years experience and specializes in Cardiac.

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1. Any EP Doctor Office Nurses Out There?

   Nightrn16 posted a topic in Cardiac

   Greetings! It's been a while since I posted, mainly because sometimes RL sucks. The last time I posted, I worked on a 39 Telemetry bed unit, taking care of as many as 9 patients at night plus being responsible for the LPN on my hallway. She could...

2. allnurses.com Android app is here!

   Nightrn16 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   Can this be used on a Kindle Fire? Because if it can, then I'm gonna download it. :)

3. Pay wise for RN's in office?

   Nightrn16 replied to Nightrn16's topic in Ambulatory

   20/hr .. wow .. my base pay wasn't even that when i worked in the hospital for 2 years. I started out at 17 something and when I quit 2 years later I was up to 18.50. Of course, that was my day shift pay, and i worked night shift so I did get the ...

4. Telemetry monitoring

   Nightrn16 replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

   When we do Tikosyn, or have them on a drip that would affect the HR, we tell the HUC's (the one's that watch the monitor), and they have a clipboard that when they measure each strip out, they record what the qrs interval and stuff on, and they also ...

5. What's your favorite shift and why??

   Nightrn16 replied to np_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

   I liked the 11p-7a shift. Sure the patients get cranky when you have to wake them up especially when the 3-11p RN gave a sleeping pill at 9pm, but the way i look at it, they get their vitals taken at midnight anyway, so their gonna get woken up. It ...

6. The Middle Wife

   Nightrn16 replied to santhony44's topic in Humor

   haha that's hilarious

7. Telemetry monitoring

   Nightrn16 replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

   The tele floor I worked on had a monitor tech that was trained specifically to watch the monitors .. uh .. watch the monitors. They took off doctor's orders and watched the tele's. Not the nurses. The nurses would sit for them when a break was nee...

8. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

   Nightrn16 replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Relations

   I've had a couple thanks yous that stick out in my mind. The hospital where I used to work at had papers thumb-tacked to the bulletin boards in each patients room that said "Thank you to _____" and a big space was left so they could fill in why. Well...

9. Pay wise for RN's in office?

   Nightrn16 replied to Nightrn16's topic in Ambulatory

   I'm in WV. That'd be nice if it was the same payscale, but I don't want to expect high only to get them crushed!

10. Pay wise for RN's in office?

    Nightrn16 posted a topic in Ambulatory

    I quit the hospital to move home and help my papaw out, plus it was getting too stressful and too dangerous (see my other threads about that rant lol), so tomorrow I'm going around and gonna hand out my resume to doctor's offices that may or may not ...

11. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Nightrn16 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Well I have a few, some happened to me, some did not. 1) This was told to me as well as several other orientee's. There was an aide doing post mortem care on a patient. This was evidentally an expected death because all the family was there, I'm ta...

12. Insulin drips on the floor!

    Nightrn16 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

    The floor I work on, I've taken care of insulin drips before with a 9 patient load. I work night shift (and I don't care what anyone says, no one sleeps at night) and on the telemetry floor I work on, we titrate cardiziem, heparin, nitro, dopamine, ...

13. titrating cardizem

    Nightrn16 replied to ark-two's topic in Cardiac

    I've been a nurse for almost 2 years, and while I agree a manual BP would be ideal, but when you have 9 other patients (in which the ones that aren't sick are needy) it's hard. I do try to eyeball the patient. When there is an abnormal BP, I do check...

14. titrating cardizem

    Nightrn16 replied to ark-two's topic in Cardiac

    The floor I work on, a tele floor, we hang, titrate, and manage a cardieziem drip, all while looking after normally 9 patients total. We have our HUC's watch the monitor's. It's never left unattended. Normally we tell them when we start them on a ...

15. Looking to go into cardiac nursing... can u help??

    Nightrn16 replied to Epona's topic in Cardiac

    I agree with the above poster about the needlesticks. Our hospital too uses the needless system. With the exception of putting in an IV or giving insulin, (or occasionally drawing up meds which i do away from others), I hardly ever come into contac...