alkat

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1. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

   alkat replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital has a committee of nurses who decide how to celebrate nurses week. We were given frisbees, pens, mugs, note pads on one day, but if you were scheduled off for the day, too bad, all the extras were given to secretarys, social workers, die...

2. last minute call in

   alkat posted a topic in General Nursing

   How does your facility ensure patient coverage when you have an employee or employees call in within a couple of hours or less of their scheduled time for work?

3. short staffed

   alkat posted a topic in Management

   What suggestions do you have to help cover shifts where employees have called in leaving the floor short-staffed?

4. Nurse Impersonators

   alkat replied to NancyRN's topic in General Nursing

   I thought this bulletin board was just for nurses. Who else is posting? Just wondering what backgrounds all of the viewpoints are coming from.

5. Nurse Impersonators

   alkat replied to NancyRN's topic in General Nursing

   The hospital where I work requires the nurse assisstants and nurses to wear scrubs of choice. During nurses week the nurse assisstants are given the same recognition, praise, gifts, etc. as the nurses, no nurse assisstant is left out during nurses we...

6. verbal 'scripts'

   alkat replied to NCRN's topic in Relations

   Our hospital is also requiring the nurses to use scripting. Our script also requires us to say "Is there anything I can do for you, I have the time", along with the standard introduction. We were even told that members of management would randomly p...

7. call lights

   alkat posted a topic in General Nursing

   Our facility is trying to find new ways to cut down on call light ringing. Does anyone have any suggestions you would like to share? We have nursing assistants to help the nurses answer the lights, but we still have problems getting all of the lights...

8. So, what are RN's getting PAID?

   alkat replied to malestudent-bsn's topic in Career Support

   Forgot to tell you-the hospital just increased the pay from $13.50 to $14.00 and also pays an extra $1.00 per hour for day shift bedside nursing and an extra $3.50 per hour to night shift if you do bedside nursing.

9. So, what are RN's getting PAID?

   alkat replied to malestudent-bsn's topic in Career Support

   In Jackson Tn the hospital I work at starts out at $14.00/hr. for and ADN degree. There is another hospital here that I have heard pays a little more starting out but I haven't checked it out to see if it's true. I have also heard that hospitals in M...

10. Toradol

    alkat replied to BlueBear's topic in Orthopaedic

    How many days s/p hip surgery can you use these drugs? If they are three or four days post-op. can you use them?

11. So, what are RN's getting PAID?

    alkat replied to malestudent-bsn's topic in Career Support

    I work at a hospital in Tennessee and the starting pay for a new RN here is $13.50/hour.