palkie

palkie specializes in Trauma/ Burns/Surgical ICU/some Neuro/ER.

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1. Soliant Health Care Staffing?

   palkie replied to simplysusan's topic in Travel

   Hi Susan! I am currently working with a recruiter at Soliant Health Care. I HAVE NOT YET SIGNED WITH THIS COMPANY MYSELF!! BUT... A longtime co-worker of mine who has been traveling for several years gave me her recruiter name with Soliant - actuall...

2. Contract tips

   palkie replied to suzanne4's topic in Travel

   Beg very politely to disagree - the federal government publishes per diem rates in all areas of the US. And the "per diem" rate I'm speaking of is for the amount allowed by the US Government/IRS PER DAY (or per diem) for lodging, meals, and incidenta...

3. What's "CVVH" in the ICU??

   palkie replied to tutored's topic in General Nursing

   original post: if any of the four kind rns who responded to my plea for help and info yesterday - thanks again! today went well, though i felt a lump in my throat when i first went in and saw the cvvh machine with a huge double-lumen line coming out ...

4. Critical Care University

   palkie replied to arv's topic in Emergency

   arv- first, let me say that i completely, totally disagree with the whole idea of "gotta have med-surg before icu or er" baloney. i've heard it for years - since i was in school, and i'm sorry to everyone who's for it, but poo, poo, poo, on that!!! i...

5. Types of Nursing Career Specialties

   palkie replied to Mona Mona's topic in Career Support

   In response to: I have a question. I have a bachelors in healthcare administration and I am going back to school for my adn is this wise or should I do a BSN? Can I get any management positions with an adn and my bachelors in healthcare administratio...

6. Types of Nursing Career Specialties

   palkie replied to Mona Mona's topic in Career Support

   Hi and good luck to all you students out there! I've worked in icus for 15 years. Started in surgical, moved to trauma/burn when they opened one. I loved it, still do, but there were some changes, i'm getting older, so i've gone back to school. Here'...

7. AA need to become BSN in 2008

   palkie replied to kitkatcitcat's topic in ADN/BSN

   no way. really. now i am an adn/rn and darned proud of it. i worked in high-acuity icus for 15 years. now - because i am old and tired - and because they finally came up with a real bridge program for rn to msn, i've gone back to school for my msn-e...

8. What's "CVVH" in the ICU??

   palkie replied to tutored's topic in General Nursing

   most nurses in our hospital still call this cvvhd - continuous veno-venous hemodialysis, because that is what the older machines were called. depending on where you work and the speed at which they upgrade their technology, you may actually be using ...