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travel nurse in dialysis,acutes

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  1. What's up with RNs who refuse to scrub?

    Everybody,lighten up! You don't know why another person does something until you have been there.Each hospital and situation is unique and with the nursing shortage we will be seeing more "re-engineering" with housekeeping being trained to scrub,EMT'...
  2. Anyone taken the CDN or CNN exam???

    I have CNN and took test abotu 7 yr ago-didn't pass the first time-missed by 1 point. That test was very hard. The area I didn't do well on was CAPD,so I went to work part time in CAPD. Also had a study book,which you can get from ANNA. They have a s...
  3. Need info on PD

    You will HAVE to get the details from your manager.I have done both acute and ON CALL. The main CAPD nurse did the teaching. It is much slower paced,you do have to be able to teach. As on call nurse,I had to be available 24 hr a day and be able to an...
  4. Experience with FMC?

    In a chronic dialysis unit staff:pt. ratios should be about 1:3,that is 1 staff to 3 pt-but staff includes DON,unit secretary,RN,LPN,tech,machine tech,maintenance man,re-use tech,etc. Working as an RN,you hasve to have good communication with your te...
  5. Do RNs declot temporary hemodialysis catheters?

    We can only instill medication to cause declotting. I have seena device like a very small bottle brush that is supposed to be used for stripping the inside of the catheters,but I would not think I would want that responsibilty. Dialysis catheters are...
  6. nurse/pt ratio?

    That sounds like a well-staffed unit. I worked in a chronic unit for 10 years and then traveled for 5 years and am doing a little work as and acute nurse now-that is I do the treatments in the hospitals,pt in ICU or that can't be moved out of their h...
  7. Dialysis nurses: can you recommend a good site for CEUs in dialysis?

    Try the ANNA web site-it is the American Nephrology Nurse Association. There is a meeting in Chicago in April with lots of CEUs
  8. quick question..

    Check with some travel companies. A good place to start is healthcare traveler.com. There are roughly a million companies out there. I traveled for 5 years with Nursesrx and they were very helpful with addresses of state nursing boards,etc. I don't t...
  9. non hospital approved abrevations.

    I had a friend who worked ICU nocs-used to ask for a serum porcelain level-to see if they were a crock! Than another nurse told me she was glad a certain pt had been transferred out as he was "gettin froggy" on her-said he was "fixin to croak!"
  10. Funny Names for Nurses

    Where I grew up in a small town in Illinois,the dentists were Dr. Kurt Gronner and Dr. Fillmore Ketola. I worked in Kansas with a Dr. Marvel who did hip replacements and our vetrinarian in Indiana was Dr. Bird. When I went to nursing school the head ...
  11. Expected salary for new dialysis RN-with no experience

    Dialysis nursing is definately like no other specialty. BUT you only get every other Sat off if there is enough licensed staff to cover and you only get Sun off if you are working in an out patient clinic with no acute responsibilities. Pt will get s...
  12. Got fired today

    Consider what you liked about LTC,then think about going into another area of nursing. Check with local hospitals and see what they need. Perhaps mental health or substance abuse centers would be an area you would like. They are more medically stable...
  13. Schizophrenic won't take her meds--

    There is a decanoate injection which can be given every 2 weeks if the pt is on a committal . This typically lasts 2 weeks and the opt does not have to take meds. Her Mom should talk to her psychiatrist.
  14. usa psychiatric services

    Here in the heartlland the process is a little different. A person may be admitted on a hold if he is a danger to himself or others for only 48 hr and then a hearing must be scheduled or the pt is DC'd. They can be placed on inpt or outpt commital an...
  15. How on earth...?

    If the child were diagnosed based on behavior,it could be learned behavior. How would you like to be the child of a Bipolar and a shizophrenic? There are many of those children on psych units. However,I think I babysat with a child who maybe should h...