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  1. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Daytonite, You are a California supervisor: please look up Title 22. I have to go to work now so don't have time to get a link, but in CA, a nurse must have documented competency for any unit s/he works on. And "A nurse is a nurse is a nurse" attitud...
  2. Yeah.:angryfire Is there no such thing as patient rights if you are old/on Medicare/on Medicaid? I am truly disgusted. nell
  3. Every union is different. There can be different contracts with different facilities that have the same union. Our union has approved our cancellation policy. Our union has negotiated for on-call pay which in most cases is 1/2 of base pay and doublet...
  4. Thanks AliRae. At least you have 5-6 hours to get something done before the next call. I don't suppose you are paid on-call time? Our policy has no set time block - they can cancel us for from 15 minutes to 12 hours at a time. Our cancelation notice ...
  5. or is this common? Our unit is staffed according to patient census and acuity, so when either of those drops, someone (sometimes multiple nurses) are cancelled. In the past, the cancellation was for the whole shift unless the nurse asked to be called...
  6. Is this upsetting to anyone else?

    Well, here's some more video: http://www.11alive.com/video/player.aspx?aid=71528&bw= Sure hope she does half as well as Mom thinks.... nell
  7. Bkat

    Gawd, how many hoops do we have to jump through. Med tests, PBDS, personality tests and BKATs....... Well, here's a little info: http://nursing.cua.edu/research/toth-BKAT-7.cfm#BKAT nell
  8. Good credit get hired at hospital?

    Hi lizzyette, The hospital I work for contracts with a company that does extensive background checks, including credit checks. I had terrible credit (divorce etc.) and was afraid I wouldn't be hired - but I was. Whew! Good luck. nell
  9. About well baby nursery...

    As with anything in nursing, there are differences from facility to facility - in fact most hospitals in my area don't have a newborn nursery - they do mother-baby couplets on maternity... We maintain a newborn nursery so that our parents have a choi...
  10. need help with code checklist/med sheet for codes

    Hi Melissa, If you PM me, I can email you our code policies. Our crash carts have modules that are filled and sealed by pharmacy or central supply with expiration dates that are monitored by us on a regular basis (I forget what is daily and what is ...
  11. Dixie, I am so sorry you are going through this, and I understand how much you love your son. I think the Narcanon and Salvation Army suggestions are probably good. My son was in a local mental facility after threats of suicide. Even though it is pa...
  12. ET tube

    Wow, I wonder what the cost issues are with unplanned extubations? - collapsed alveoli, traumatic reintubations, what else? The neobar is great - you really have to work to accidentally extubate if the correct size neobar is properly applied. Steve: ...
  13. bilimeter readings

    We have a Neo who has done research on hyperbilirubinemia and for serious phototherapy he wants blue lights and however many it takes to get a reading greater than 35 (our new lights are >35 each). We check and document the reading each shift. nel...
  14. ET tube

    mawjood, We use the Neobar: http://www.neotechproducts.com/store/detail.php?sku=NT-5&session= We used to tape something like this (scroll down): http://www.dhmc.org/webpage.cfm?site_id=2&org_id=116&morg_id=0&sec_id=0&gsec_id=3103&...
  15. Cup Feeding Strikes Again!

    so midwives don't test the infants of diabetic moms? or lgas, sgas or preemies? and how "high risk" are you talking? how do you know those babies didn't suffer any harm? where harm from low blood sugar shows up is in learning disabilities and maybe a...