NYnurseatheart

NYnurseatheart specializes in Peds, Tele, ICU, ER, Orthopedics, Psych,.

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1. need major advice

   NYnurseatheart replied to luv2's topic in Travel

   Someone else posted mostly the same thing. Do some research and call these companies. I can from personal experience say stay away from American mobile, they take advantage of newbies to travel (I was one of those once upon a time), but the other c...

2. Nurse Traveling

   NYnurseatheart replied to monkago2009's topic in Travel

   I have been a traveler on and off for years, I do not recommend any American Mobile company (from personal experience). Research would be a smart move, but I can recommend Fastaff. If there is a specific hospital you are interested in, try calling ...

3. Bassett Medical Center

   NYnurseatheart replied to deepa37's topic in New York

   Hello, I was recently considering a travel position there and discovered housing is almost nonexistent out there(besides vacation rentals which were outrageous). I will be interested in seeing any responses.

4. Seasoned Nurses Looking To Tattle?

   NYnurseatheart replied to PCnurse88's topic in Professionalism

   Hi SionainnRN, Maybe I missed something, but I thought the OP clarified in her second post in this thread that she was giving report to the nurse receiving the patient, so in that case, the nurse had every right to peruse the notes. I agree that nur...

5. Anyone been to Montefiore in Bronx, Ny?

   NYnurseatheart replied to HarleyNrs's topic in Travel

   Hello, I recently accepted a travel assignment at Montefiore in the ED, and I sense transportation might be an issue (at the Einstein campus). Is there anyone here currently at Montefiore, or has been there recently and can give me the scoop?

6. Seasoned Nurses Looking To Tattle?

   NYnurseatheart replied to PCnurse88's topic in Professionalism

   Hi Rinskins, Reading your post reminded me of recent incident I had recently with a nurse who is new to the ED. Granted she is not a new nurse (the ED requires 1year of acute care experience as a minimum requirement), but still pretty inexperienced i...

7. Best Phoenix Hospitals to Work For?

   NYnurseatheart replied to linloo89's topic in Arizona

   Hi Ziggy, I too am looking at the job market in the Phoenix area, but am not likely to move there for another 9 months or so. I don't know what the wages are for someone of my experience (20 years of hospital nursing, in many specialties, last 4 yea...

8. Treating pain in ER

   NYnurseatheart replied to Butterfly0328's topic in Emergency

   Hello OP, As a nurse for almost 20 years now, and currently working in the ER, I can sympathize with what you went thru in the ER recently. So many doc's are "gun shy" as I see it, because they are afraid of overmedicating, or whatever. Then again,...

9. Question About Albuterol Atrovent Neb. Tx

   NYnurseatheart replied to fnkEchkn's topic in General Nursing

   The albuterol treatment via nebulizer is okay every hour (if necessary), however you should not be giving the Atrovent that frequently. If you have to give more than 4 treatments in a row each hour, I would be phoning the physician.

10. Bronx Lebanon (Thanks in advance)!!!

    NYnurseatheart replied to ErRnDiva's topic in New York

    From what I remember, it was any color top, and white bottoms (ugh, took me 10 years of nursing before I was finally able to wear any color scrubs). As a traveler, we only had to look presentable (they didn't care so much about us following the regu...

11. Bronx Lebanon (Thanks in advance)!!!

    NYnurseatheart replied to ErRnDiva's topic in New York

    hello, i used to work there as a traveler, in the edip unit. i have no idea what the regular staff salary is, but i can tell you the er is the typically crazy nyc (bronx especially) er, people/patients everywhere. they will have 3 stretchers in a b...

12. Should I tell my NM or not???

    NYnurseatheart replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    I can answer some of these questions. First the dose of dilaudid was 1 mg, and the nausea med was zofran 4 mg (both in the same syringe and slammed in). The patient's initial VS were 110's/60's, and HR 60's. The patient was familiar to the charge ...

13. Should I tell my NM or not???

    NYnurseatheart replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks Leslie. I think there must be a way to bring this issue to light without singling out the charge nurse in this incident. I think that there are way too many newer/less experienced nurses in our ER who will witness this behavior and consider ...

14. Should I tell my NM or not???

    NYnurseatheart replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    The patient was seen by a PA initially. It wasn't until she became extremely hypotensive that everything jumped into high gear (stat portable US, rapid infuser, Levophed, Surgeons called in, etc). As soon as we had her ready and stable enough to tra...

15. Should I tell my NM or not???

    NYnurseatheart replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

    It might very well be that I end up saying nothing and simply take this away as a learning experience. However, as I think I mentioned in my original post, I did go in to talk with the patient immediately after the first hypotensive reading (80's/50...