NurseLKY

NurseLKY has 5 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg.

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1. (!!!) From Accounting to Nursing: I'm in Louisville, KY and Need Your Advice (!!!)

   NurseLKY replied to SweetLadyJ's topic in Kentucky

   UL will give you $5000 yr plus money for books. For every 5000 they give you, you owe them a year. If you don't then you just have to pay it back. I reccommend that you have a liitle experience as a CNA. It really helped me. And don't worry ther...

2. licnse renewal

   NurseLKY replied to bradleyshanetaylor's topic in Kentucky

   RN's and LPN's all have to renew their license before oct 31 every year. It cost $50 a year. If you go to the state board of nursing website they have all the info you need. We renew online.

3. Kentucky Gn!! Need Help!

   NurseLKY replied to Mercy83's topic in Kentucky

   I believe they have a 2 week hospital orientation. Then each unit/floor has an orientaton and they vary in lengths (4-6 weeks). If you need more they will help you out. We just wont throw you out there. If you work in critical care there is addit...

4. Kentucky Gn!! Need Help!

   NurseLKY replied to Mercy83's topic in Kentucky

   I work at UL . I have been there for 7 years and love it. I think the starting pay is around $20.00. Besides pay you need to look at benefits. We have 4different types of insurance, short and long term disabilitiy, employee matched 403b, flex and ...

5. Willing to give a CA girl the scoop on good hospitals in KY

   NurseLKY replied to Mirasol's topic in Kentucky

   I live in Louisville, the biggest city in Ky. There are multiple hospitals in the area including a teaching/trauma hospital, childrens, and 3 that have L&D. You can live 30 min from downtown and have land. Louisville has shopping, sports, and...

6. any advice on shoes?

   NurseLKY replied to graciev's topic in General Nursing

   I love my crocs. Better than Dansko. But beware my hospital will not let us wear the ones with holes. Infection control.

7. Help!

   NurseLKY replied to cheryn's topic in Kentucky

   Were I work the shift dif is 3p-11p 12%, 11p-7a 15% (of your base pay). We do not have a weekend diff or any WOW programs. Also my hospital pays bonus for any extra time $5 extra hour on weekdays and $10 extra hour on weekends

8. Delegation on NCLEX

   NurseLKY posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am currently a LPN, getting ready to graduate with an ADN. We just took our first HESI. There were a lot of questions regarding "you are the charge nurse what patient would you give a new grad RN or LPN" etc then they list different patients with...

9. Sexual assaults within hospitals...

   NurseLKY replied to NMAguiar's topic in General Nursing

   A few months ago there was a case in the hospital i work at in which a vistior befriended another visitor on the surgery waiting area, managed to get in in the stairwell and raped her. He told her a lot of info on who he was visiting and the eventu...

10. needleless needles

    NurseLKY replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    We just started using the Vanish Point Insuilin Syringes. Nobody likes them you have to retract the needle while it is still in the arm of the patient, so they get the full dose. It is hard reading small doses because of the bubble and that little ...

11. professional upgrade, change our title from nurse to ?

    NurseLKY replied to MICU RN's topic in General Nursing

    GLORIFIED WAITRESS

12. flocks of white birds clogging our hallways

    NurseLKY replied to eak16's topic in General Nursing

    On my unit we have a very nice doctors area with computers, fax , phones and reference books. Then why do they have to sit in the nurses station and use our phones and computers. There are some days we can't answer the other lines on our main phone...

13. Your most amazing wounds and gore!!!! Anyone care to share?

    NurseLKY replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in Wound

    Alright I got a story for you. We got a pt that was having sinus headaches for awhile. Well he came to the hospital when his skin around his sinus's was becoming an open sore. Well within days of being admitted his whole face was being eaten away....

14. 9-11 in Trauma 1 ER

    NurseLKY replied to flowerchild's topic in General Nursing

    I had a bad experence at a hospital after my sister had sinus surgery. She got up to her room about 11:00 am. Her nurse came in assessed her and took her vital signs. Then we saw no one for 3 hours. I know at my hospital any pre-op gets vitals ta...

15. Throw away your sterile gloves

    NurseLKY replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    Our wound nurse says the same thing. The wound is not clean so there is no need for sterile gloves. She never uses them. I haven't seen anyone die from an infection.