mikebike

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1. Pay Scale

   mikebike replied to Trauma's topic in CCU

   I started working in Tuscaloosa, AL as a new graduate RN BSN a little over a year ago in a cardiac surgical unit. My starting pay was 15.00 an hour with 2.00 evening and 2.50 night shift differential. We had a hospital wide RN raise about 4 months af...

2. Hemodynamic leveling

   mikebike replied to mattcastens's topic in Cardiac

   After reading about using a laser to level hemodynamics, I went and bought a pen style red laser light at office depot and started using it on my unit. All the other nurses thought it was cool and I had a good time playing some practical jokes on the...

3. pt. nurse ratio and ages of your cabg's

   mikebike replied to ABLONGLEYRN's topic in Cardiac

   I work on an 8 bed cardiac surgical stepdown and 4 bed cardiac surgical ICU unit. On our cardiac surgical stepdown, we have the same pt populations you mentioned. If the stepdown is full, one RN has 4 pts along with an LPN assisting with 2 of each of...

4. orientation for CABG nurse

   mikebike replied to Sonya G's topic in CCU

   I started working on a cardiac surgical unit a month after graduating from nursing school. After going through a little over a month of general nursing and critical care nursing orientation, I spent about 3 1/2 months orientating on the cardiac surgi...