zipporah

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About zipporah

kids are grown, husband retired, I am still learning

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  1. Travel Nursing-Need Input

    I figured this out myself recently by picking 2 travel companies and comparing their benefits. Some travel companies have more assignments than others and so many travelers sign on for more than one. But you have to start somewhere. So pick a plac...
  2. seeking input from critical care nurses

    ER and ICU are quite different but both exciting. I am an ICU nurse working in CVICU and enjoy the detail that I have on my patients. My job is a job of detail. The ER has a more cursory establish the problem and stabilize and ship. Sometimes a p...
  3. Taxed vs Non- Taxed Hourly Wage

    I am traveling locally now and so took my stipend as wage because it isn't "free" to me now, I live in my home. I pay tax on that stipend while I am at home. And I pay more tax when it is a stipend than when it is part of my wage. If you can legal...
  4. agency usually gets paid more because you are starting with no orientation, you just hit the floor and go and you will be cut if they can cut you. Then comes travelers who have their shifts guarenteed, get some orientation and are on contract for 13 ...
  5. wanting to travel but not quit where I'm at?

    I met a number of travelers who worked "the season " (nov-april) in florida and then returned to their northern homes and worked the rest of the year at their former places of employment. The key is to be a good employee I guess. I couldn't get a l...
  6. i wanna go to hawaii ......yAY!!!

    RNERHOUSESUPERVISOR..can I ask you about your assignment? I haven't heard good things about travel in Hawaii. I hear poor wages, shifts not guarenteed, travelers not accepted and dumped on...this was form an Er nurse...I am ICU/CVICU but I've done ...
  7. Taking first travel assignment

    you'll be ok, noone knows everything. If you assist others they will assist you so just be a good team player. Look for other travelers too because there seems to be a kinship. I have over 20 years of experience and probably had similar feelings when...
  8. Alaska

    Where are you mama bear? I am looking for reports from other places in alaska than anchorage....
  9. Brugada syndrome??

    I am thinking that Brugada syndrome indicates a Left anterior desending coronary(LAD) artery lesion implicated in sudden cardiac death, it is indicated on an EKG as ST depression? or elevation? in leads V1 and V2 it seems to me....I have read about ...
  10. Alaska

    I have alaska on my list too, are there jobs there in other places but anchorage? I work ICU or CVICU, any reports?
  11. Returning wasted blood to a line?

    It is a shame to transfuse our patients to replace phlebotomized losses. There are risks to transfusion that are dose dependent and involve morbidity and mortality. The presence of lines doubles the blood loss that ICU patients experience. There i...
  12. Lesson Plans Teaching Plans

    I have had some interest in content for CNAs also. There was an excellent article in an AJN inthe last year I believe on dehydration in older adults. Having left my educatiom position I gave it to the reigning educater who promised to work it into ...
  13. Florida pay

    I got 34.50 in naples for cardiac surgery recovery but I know that is high for florida.
  14. new mexico pay

    So Greywolf, DO you get overtime on that last shift? Your contracts are renewed every 2 months? If you find your ownhousing, does your rate of pay go up? Are you working nights? Is it common in NM to have 48 hour week contracts? Appreciate you...
  15. $23/hr to travel?

    I worked in florida last year in Naples in cardiac surgery. They needed nurses and so the travel company was offering a good wage. (34.50) It was an idyllic place to be in many ways and I remember it fondly. The florida weather and beaches are beli...