CritterLover BSN, RN

ER, ICU, Infusion, peds, informatics

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About CritterLover

CritterLover has 25 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in ER, ICU, Infusion, peds, informatics.


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  1. CritterLover

    EHRs

    Does anyone here have any experience using VersaSuite or Azalea Health as their EHR in a facility -- LTAC or other hospital? The facility I work at has been looking for a new EHR and these are two we are considering. Azalea Health has a lot of g...
  2. I do work 2 different positions but the 2nd job (casual, different employer) is in infusion therapy. My FT job is split between bedside peds (12 hrs/wk), charge (12 hrs/wk) and informatics (16 hrs/wk) and I like it that way. I truly think that to do ...
  3. What do you *like* about nursing? That will help some. I've definitely felt the way you do ... and I was an ER nurse too. I tell people all the time that the ER sucked the compassion right out of me. Which may or may not be the case for you ... but I...
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    Overcharting as new grad?

    A lot of nurses overchart. It is not limited in any way to new grads. Charting according to orders/policy is in no way overcharting. I promise that if regulators see that only a few nurses are charting the required assessments they are certainly goin...
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    PICC EXPERTS

    RA placement can potentially cause atrial ectopy in sensitive patients but it isn't very common. In infants (<1year) it can erode the lining of the RA. Many radiologists prefer RA placement as they tend to clot less. Not all facilities Xray PICCs ...
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    PICC EXPERTS

    Not a big deal at all. RA placement isn't widely accepted yet, but is becoming so (as long as the patient is over 1 year old). Many radiologists I've worked with deliberately place their lines in the RA. Without looking it up I think INS still says t...
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    Opinions on how soon to float new nurses

    New grads: 1 year New to the facility (or unit/area) but not a new grad: 6 months
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    Please help, feel trapped

    What part of the country are you in, and what is the job market like? Have you tried looking at one of the major job boards (such as indeed) and searching for corporate type nursing jobs? A lot of the big insurance companies post jobs there. The big ...
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    TPN question

    You're going to have to go by your facility policy here. There are several things that are compatible with TPN. As was stated earlier in the thread, the policy at most facilities is to run only TPN and lipids through the same lumen. At my casual job ...
  10. Out of curiosity, did anyone get a reason from the PACU nurse as to why she wasn't doing it? When I was a house supervisor I took a lot of weekend call for PACU where I worked in order to maintain my hands-on skills, and it can get busy; those nurses...
  11. I really like PACU, it isn't something I've done a lot of but have picked up shifts here and there over the course of my career. I was talking about possibly transferring there full time once, and an ICU nurse I knew outside of work asked me why I wo...
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    New Grad RN Infusion Center Nursing

    They might do evenings to accommodate parents' work schedules but overnight would be a little unusual in the OP world.
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    New Grad RN Infusion Center Nursing

    Well an overnight position at an infusion center is odd. Are they still outpatients? Or is this an inpatient unit that deals with infusions? Either way it should be fine as long as you aren't working alone.
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    New Grad RN Infusion Center Nursing

    As long as you won't be working alone I think it would be OK. Pediatric infusion centers see kids with a lot of interesting conditions/diseases. If peds is where you want to be, it should be an OK start. Not quite the well rounded experience you'd ge...
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    Terminated the third week into my orientation

    One of your questions was about putting this on your resume or not, and you've gotten a few responses that mention both resume and applications. Leave it off your resume. Put in on any application. The are not the same. A resume is a marketing docume...