New2CVICU

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1. What part of the country uses RNFA's

   New2CVICU replied to MisterArnold's topic in Operating Room

   Virginia uses RNFA's.

2. Tolerance not Ignorance.

   New2CVICU posted a topic in General Nursing

   I walked to the front of the unit this morning and saw another nurse drawing blood without wearing gloves and just shook my head... again. I reached the front desk in time to see the secretary finish a phone call and hang up. She proceeded to tell...

3. Ready to be freaked out!

   New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

   Please excuse my misspelling of insult(ed).

4. Ready to be freaked out!

   New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

   Shezam, You are being far less polite with me than I was in any of my conversations with the orientee. I feel the tone of your letter is hostile. Does that make me resentful. Again, No. Do you like that I am saying this, probably not. But we ar...

5. Ready to be freaked out!

   New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

   Why do you all insist that she was learning under duress or that she was being lambasted with questions? Part of the problem was that she felt I was taking too long with our discussions on ways to treat the patient. Thereby taking her away from pat...

6. Racial discrimination in Nursing....

   New2CVICU replied to Barbie38's topic in General Nursing

   Getting back to the original post. I worked agency in a hospital were I was the odd (wo)man out. Except for 1 nurse who was from India all the others were Phillipino. I worked my tail off with what I thought were the crappy assignments. "So what...

7. Ready to be freaked out!

   New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

   I guess it's all in perception. Although I am suprised to see that these responses have been less than supportive I am suprised to see how harsh some of them have been. You all have an opinion on how or how not the situation should have been handled...

8. Ready to be freaked out!

   New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

   Actually, yes we all had a nice sit down and that's when those three points came out that I mentioned. How else would I know?

9. Ready to be freaked out!

   New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

   I started the day by asking the nurse what her comfort level was with different aspects of recovery. I asked her if she would be open to suggetion and taking direction in those areas. She said she would be. I used gentle reminders and was met with...

10. Ready to be freaked out!

    New2CVICU posted a topic in General Nursing

    While orienting a 20 yr veteran with a CCRN on her badge I asked the following situations happened: (she had been in orientation approx. 10 days with other staff) 1. Monitor set up incorrectly. 2. Bed plug in was getting more priority th...

11. moving to Sarasota...in phone triage..age 56....any suggestions

    New2CVICU replied to Su360's topic in Florida

    I did a travel assignment at Sarasota Memorial. I love it there too. Doctor's Hodpital is also in Sarasota. I don't know anything about it though. Bradenton is about 40 minutes away. They have two hospitals there. No state tax. Plenty of sunsh...

12. CVICU open visitation

    New2CVICU replied to chaosRN's topic in CCU

    In my CVIVU we have expanded our visitation from 30 minutes to 1 hour four times a day. The only "open" visitation is for clergy.

13. CCRN Review

    New2CVICU replied to ratchit's topic in MICU

    I found her website at http://www.greatnurses.com. Good luck!

14. Some things make NO sense!

    New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

    Well actually she did ask me if I wanted her to write an order for a chest x-ray which is already on the pre-printed DOS (day of surgery orders) for the next a.m. And she told me to leave my cordis in for transfer to step-down. Well it gets pulled ...

15. Some things make NO sense!

    New2CVICU replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

    I will get together with the other nurses and put together a plan of action. I also did not mean to offend any LPN's out there. My biggest gripe is that she has no idea what we do. I have worked with LPN's in CV recovery that have way more experie...