kayaknurse

kayaknurse has 14 years experience and specializes in CVSICU, ICU, CCU.

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1. Where Is The Worst place to work in Florida?

   kayaknurse replied to MsMorningGlory's topic in Florida

   Hi nedanurse - Tampa General is a level 1 trauma center. We have 9 (I think) ICU's and I've heard good things about our trauma unit - maybe 18 beds or so. We're a teaching hospital so you'll have lots of residents to deal with. Across the bay an...

2. Florida Roll Call ......

   kayaknurse replied to RNPATL's topic in Florida

   Hi Indy - Arcadia is a long way from anywhere! I think there's some sort of hospital out that way as someone I knew took a job out there - but that was a long time ago and I can't remember specifics. Unions down here are slim to none. HCA/Columbia...

3. Florida Roll Call ......

   kayaknurse replied to RNPATL's topic in Florida

   Hi IndyRN, In Sarasota, I believe there are only two hospitals: Sarasota Memorial is city-owned, pretty large, with a good heart program. I've heard "it's a rough place to work," but that was years ago, and I've never worked there so I don't know. Wh...

4. RRTs Placing Art Lines

   kayaknurse replied to Cik's topic in CCU

   Good for you! With your background, you bring so much to our profession - welcome!

5. Question Please! Icu Nurses

   kayaknurse replied to l.rae's topic in MICU

   I've not heard of this as a policy or a standard. What I have seen done, however, in some hospitals, is the maintenance of a "code bed." We keep at least one bed (and hopefully a nurse!) free among all our ICU's, so if someone codes they have a pla...

6. RRTs Placing Art Lines

   kayaknurse replied to Cik's topic in CCU

   I think it's more hospital-policy. In the community hospitals I've worked, RT's do a-lines, and they also intubate. At Tampa General (big teaching hospital), they do neither - it's up to Anesthesia. Also at the smaller hospitals, the decision on w...

7. Florida Roll Call ......

   kayaknurse replied to RNPATL's topic in Florida

   Hello RNPATL and other posters, Brenda (RN) here, from Tampa and Tampa General (CVSICU). I often think about NC and the beautiful mountains - have family in GA and TN and get up that way a few times a year. Last trip to NC was for whitewater kayaki...

8. Where Is The Worst place to work in Florida?

   kayaknurse replied to MsMorningGlory's topic in Florida

   I agree with Nursjaded - HCA hospitals are bad - scary bad. The last one I worked at (Blake, in Bradenton) was pushing for 3:1 patient/nurse ratio, in CVSICU. On the other extreme, however, I've been at Tampa General now for over two years - great...