moodwaffle

moodwaffle has 2 years experience and specializes in Oncology.

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1. Excited about video skills fair

   moodwaffle posted a topic in Educators

   I've been working on a video skills fair for our NACs (for a 200 bed hospital). It's basically a powerpoint with professional quality audio dubbing put into DVD format, 35 minutes long. The goal of the project was to create a generally informative,...

2. RN educator role/ assistant-manager

   moodwaffle replied to moodwaffle's topic in Management

   Thanks for the replies. How many hours a week do your educators work? JJGRN's description sounds pretty much was we do, but 10 hours a week.

3. RN educator role/ assistant-manager

   moodwaffle posted a topic in Management

   the 220 bed community hospital that I work for has "Nurse Educators" for each department (for the last 4 years or so). These educators, which I am new to, are not all BSN, none have Masters. Our roles are not well defined. Some of us have more aut...

4. Northwest University: A review for prospective students

   moodwaffle posted a topic in Washington

   I'm a graduate of Northwest University (NW)and thought I'd post a thread on my experience for perspective students. NW offers a BSN degree (two Christian bible classes are required, which can be taken in the summer in a 13 week concentrated course). ...

5. Male surgical nurse?

   moodwaffle replied to uRabbit's topic in Med-Surg

   Dude, No sexism where I'm at (Washington State). If anything, the foreign female docs get all nervous around us male nurses for some reason, but other than that... if you can put up with drama and gossip all day long, welcome to nursing!

6. Charge Nurses

   moodwaffle replied to Maycee's topic in Med-Surg

   We have a "Core Coordinator" (CC), which is the same thing as a charge nurse so I'm told. Our med-surg/onc floor is usually staffed 5/4 (34 beds). On weekdays 7 to 3, we staff a core-coordinator, who does not take patients. The CC primary roles: flo...

7. transforming our staff report: need input

   moodwaffle posted a topic in Med-Surg

   A "two-unit floor": med-surg on one side 19 beds, and oncology on the other with 15 beds (it's a hallway floor layout, not podded) Currently our report is as follows: 1: Look at the staffing board to see what side of the floor you'r assigned. The br...