guardwife

guardwife has 14 years experience.

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1. Military Wives in Nursing

   guardwife replied to mypixiedust's topic in General Nursing

   I hear you sister!!!. I have been a nurse for 14 years and married for almost 12. Four hospitals and stint of school nursing and home care and four differant states my salary has been all over the place. I swear I get initially passed up for position...

2. Any nurses with myasthenia gravis?

   guardwife replied to iwasanurse's topic in General Nursing

   One of my good girlfriendshas MG. She currently posts on ablog with good info about disease and her progression and treatments. Please PM if you want the address!!

3. I am in deep.......someone please pm me for details.

   guardwife replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

   You can PM if you want :)

4. Roll Call for Skills Days

   guardwife replied to guardwife's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the input. The last skills day that was put on the Pedi CNS was painful it had 18 stations and took 4 hrs to get through. I am trying to narrow things down and hit upon 6-12 items and hopefully focus on one topic per month. Or I want t...

5. Roll Call for Skills Days

   guardwife posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone. II am a hospital based educator for a small community based hospital. I am interested in learning about skills days that your facilties might have. How many skills days per year or what type of skills are needed? ex chest tubes defi...

6. Skills Days

   guardwife posted a topic in Educators

   What does your unit/hospital require for skills days? I am looking for info to revamp ours. Can you include types of skills and how many times a year? Thanks

7. What do use to mix IM injections?

   guardwife posted a topic in NICU

   Fours years ago I worked for a large Children's Hospital for about seven years. When we had to do IM antibiotic injections we would mix the med with lidocaine. For the past few years I have been working at a small community based hospital in a differ...

8. What do use to mix IM injections?

   guardwife posted a topic in PICU

   Fours years ago I worked for a large Children's Hospital for about seven years. When we had to do IM antibiotic injections we would mix the med with lidocaine. For the past few years I have been working at a small community based hospital in a differ...

9. Pedi Rapid Respone Team

   guardwife posted a topic in Pediatric

   I work on a OB unit which recently added the pediatric unit to it. The hospital is really growing and there is talk of starting a Pedi RRT. Just want to gather some ideas. Here is some info regarding our hospital. Currently we deliver about 1000 bab...

10. Pediatric Rapid Response Team in a Community Based Hospital

    guardwife posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work on a OB unit which recently added the pediatric unit to it. The hospital is really growing and there is talk of starting a Pedi RRT. Just want to gather some ideas. Here is some info regarding our hospital. Currently we deliver about 100...

11. mileage issue/home health issues

    guardwife replied to icare4icu's topic in Home Health

    I am on my second HH job. My first job managment was awful but we were always reimbursed at the IRS rate. My second emplyer does not reimburse at that rate. Currently I am getting $.44/ mile. This is in New England too where gas is so high. My...

12. Sickest you have ever been, and still expected to work.

    guardwife replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    As a new grad I had worked for 18 months without ever calling in. I was so sick with the flu and called in at 11 pm the night before. The night shift started calling me back at 5:30 am to see if I was really sick because they did not want to bother...

13. Hospitals that drug-test employees

    guardwife replied to stuRN6's topic in New Hampshire

    Wentworth Douglass Hosptial

14. Destruction at work: What have YOU broken?

    guardwife replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    When I was working in a step down MICU we had a heard time getting an IV started on a pt who was using a "Kin-Air" bed. The ones that have fine particles of sand being blown by air to keep the patient from getting bed sores . . . A resident starte...

15. "I Come Into Work Sick! Why Can't You?"

    guardwife replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    I remember getting so sick during my first year as a RN on a Pulmonary Care Unit. Luckily I worked 12 hr shifts and had enough days to get on my feet. The only one time that I called in sick in 14 months, I called in 8 hrs before my shift was going...