USAstudent

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1. Does your supervisor give a crap?

   USAstudent replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

   I missed my favorite uncle's funeral because my supervisor(at a former job-don't work at that h#** hole anymore) would not give me the day off- I came in right after finding out he died and to tell them I need the day off for a funeral (four days in ...

2. Policy on patient leaving AMA with IV in place

   USAstudent replied to trainer2070's topic in General Nursing

   I had a patient leave her third floor room with IV and chest tube in place (she clamped it off and unhooked it from pluravac first)-she was at the end of the hall and left during evening shift change. Police were called and found her drinking ETOH a ...

3. getting rid of an air bubble in an IV line

   USAstudent replied to Implacable's topic in Safety

   I've been told by several of my ER docs at work that it takes over 10ml of air to actually cause any problems. Not that it isn't good practice to remove as much as possible, I always do. I take a needle without a syringe on it and stick it in one of...

4. University of South Alabama

   USAstudent replied to Cinqly's topic in Alabama

   I went to USA nursing school for undergraduate only, so sorry I don't have a lot of info on their graduate programs. I know a lot of it is online, obviously, you still have to do clinicals on site, but I think almost all of the classroom stuff is onl...

5. University of South Alabama

   USAstudent replied to Cinqly's topic in Alabama

   I went to USA nursing school for undergraduate only, so sorry I don't have a lot of info on their graduate programs. I know a lot of it is online, obviously, you still have to do clinicals on site, but I think almost all of the classroom stuff is onl...

6. Mobile Nursing

   USAstudent replied to anodell's topic in Alabama

   I work at USA Medical Center and love it! I make apprx $22/hr (plus diff) for almost 2yrs experience. Cost of living is very affordable compared to most metro areas, although it has been increasing a lot lately (we have had several major companies mo...

7. Moving to Alabama

   USAstudent replied to moffist's topic in Alabama

   Welcome to Alabama! I work in Mobile AL as a RN at the local University hospital. Starting pay here for a new graduate is approx. $19-20/hr, I have 1.5 years ex. and make about $22/hr base (plus differentials). I personally love working at a teachin...

8. Precepting?

   USAstudent replied to gdelrosa's topic in General Nursing

   I've been a RN for slightly over a year now. My 1st job on a tele/cardiac floor I had 2weeks of classroom orientation and 5weeks of floor orientation. This was pretty set in stone for that hospital-nobody got extended even if they needed it because t...

9. Can you push Diprovan ?

   USAstudent replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

   I live and work in Alabama. RN cannot push Diprivan, only titrate gtt....must be CRNA or MD.

10. Bling on the job?

    USAstudent replied to Haunted's topic in General Nursing

    I wear my wedding band and engagement ring (with smallish stone) to work everyday. I just don't feel right without them nor am I comfortable taking them off freqently. I've never had problems with torn gloves or scratching patient, although I'm sure ...

11. Is this common knowledge that I missed?

    USAstudent replied to USAstudent's topic in CCU

    Yeah, nobody at work suggested that I did something incorrectly. My charge nurse was very supportive-(30 years of telemetry experience and she said it never would have crossed her mind when she was giving the two together-said she'd never seen it act...

12. How did you pay for college?

    USAstudent replied to nurse2btracy's topic in General Nursing

    Just an FYI about private student loans-My husband took out about $12000 of these when he was right out of high school and not thinking about having to pay them back. The interest rates on most of them were variable, which means now they're 8.5-9.2% ...

13. Is this common knowledge that I missed?

    USAstudent replied to USAstudent's topic in CCU

    Thanks for all the info! I know that a nurse should know if the medications they are giving interact and what to look for. But realisticly, if a patient is on ten medications, at least a couple will probably have some interaction on the books. How do...

14. Is this common knowledge that I missed?

    USAstudent posted a topic in CCU

    I work on a busy telemetry unit. I just graduated last July, so I've been working about 7 months now. Just wondering if anyone had heard of something similar to what happened to one of my patients the other day, I was shocked. I admited a 70 yo lady-...

15. Moving to another state

    USAstudent replied to aqualunni's topic in General Nursing

    About 15 states participate in a licence compact agreement, where you can practice in any of those states as long as you have a license in one of them. However, I don't think CA is one of them. Look at https://www.ncsbn.org/158.htm I think that is an...