graceomalleyRN

graceomalleyRN RN

Triage, MedSurg, MomBaby, Peds, HH

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About graceomalleyRN

graceomalleyRN has 14 years experience as a RN and specializes in Triage, MedSurg, MomBaby, Peds, HH.


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  1. Agism as New Psych NP?

  2. Agism as New Psych NP?

    Thank you for sharing your experience.
  3. Agism as New Psych NP?

    Hello, I am seriously considering starting a 36 month Psych NP program at the age of 54. My projected retirement age is 67. Additionally, if my current employer goes belly up, I would end up going full time and finish sooner. My questi...
  4. HealthOne hospitals-What are they like

    Swedish is a great atmosphere. Unfortunately, Health One pays their RNs considerably less per hour than the Exempla or Centura hospital systems or DH. However, they have an excellent benefits package. I worked at Swedish briefly after leaving an Exem...
  5. Salary for home healthcare nursing

    I start with a hospital system-based Home Health company as an RN next week. Training is $30.67 an hour, $.50 per mile reimbursement (but you go on a waiting list to get a company issued Nissan Rogue). Once off orientation, the current pay structure ...
  6. Nursing listed as 4th on a list of fun jobs.

    Unfortunately, I was reading this while sipping my morning java and burnt the soft palate of my mouth.
  7. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    To my CNAs: I'm getting ready to hang blood on Patient A. Patient B has a bed full of poop and needs to have a bed change. Sorry to drag you away from Facebook or YouTube. Please don't argue with me, roll your eyes or pout. It's unbecoming. This is y...
  8. straight A student, but positive i failed!

    Congratulations! I actually said a choice four letter word OUT LOUD and they record and videotape you after the first ELEVEN were SATA. I, too, would've bet my home on the belief I'd failed after the machine shut off after the 75th question. I cried...
  9. Real or Fake friendly smile.

    To the OP: Your post really sounds as if you are NOT defensive, almost painfully so. My gut reaction here is that it has something to do with your language. That opinion was reinforced when I read when they fired you they mentioned that your second l...
  10. Looking for Advice-New Grad, 8 patients?

    Eight patients, even at night?? On our Med-Surge floor we complain if we have five.
  11. But what if I just don't LIKE it?

    You sound like me. If I had known before nursing school that I would end up working Med-Surge upon graduation, I never would have applied. Had less than zero interest in this kind of nursing. At all. However, new grad jobs being scarce I felt gratefu...
  12. IVPB Zofran?

    The dosage is fine (per Epocrates and Micromedex), it's just given more frequently than recommended (which is q8hr). Since she's in end stage cancer and vomiting uncontrollably, the dosing should be appropriate if that's what is required to keep her ...
  13. Only 5 units of insulin per injection site??

    Most of my patients are diabetic and I've never heard of this. I'd ask your instructor, who should probably in turn speak with the facility's educator. This RN sounds as if she needs to be educated.
  14. shorter time, bigger debt...smaller debt, longer time

    About 6 months ago, my hospital let go of all of our LPNs. No one was grandfathered, nothing. It was something like a 3 or 4 week warning. All those who were LPNs could stay on as CNA's if they wished. One of them was 2 years from retirement and a gr...
  15. very general question...

    What she said. I can't tell you how many times I've received a patient from ED and in report I was told the patient had a foley but "low urine output." I get the patient, fiddle with the tubing and put it behind and, lo and behold! An extra 200 ml of...