I am currently finishing up on an assigment that I took with a friend of mine. Both of us are ICU nurses. We didn't have a problem getting a job because of being a "team", we had trouble because she had traveled before and this was my first run. We a...
Fair? Lets talk fair. I put in a transfer to the ICU from my med/surg floor. Well to start with my manager offered me a day PCC position, I refused and told her I just wanted to transfer. Two days later I call HR to see if they ever got my transfer p...
Nurses get paid more. Nurses have more responsibilities Nursing is more demanding Nurses can do respiratory therapy's job Nursing is always in high demand. Don't get me wrong I love and appreciate every one of my respiratory therapist. However they...
JBizzleRN replied to 2bnurse_it's topic in Med-Surg
Nobody is ready to come out orientation. It's a scary place, but remember you have people there you can ask for help and ask questions. When in doubt call the doctor :) that's what he gets paid for! Just stick it out. :nuke:
JBizzleRN replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Med-Surg
My usual routine: 1) Make walking rounds and see if they need anything then. Also if I got a good report from the previous nurse I go ahead and do my shift assessments. If I got a crappy report I'll go check the chart and then come back to do my asse...
Oh it's not like that in every hospital I wouldn't think, just ours :) They don't use travel nurses because that's what they have the "float pool" for. But when you only have 6 nurses in the float pool trying to cover the hospital's staffing shortage...
IV teams! Oh my that would be a dream.. With our 8-9 pts we start or own IVs and we have to draw our morning labs..so needless to say we get plenty of that experience.
JBizzleRN replied to LLawsor520's topic in Med-Surg
Did you take it manually or was it with a machine? Either way if it was truly 40 that is considered a critical blood pressure...So you could have called the MD or put the dynamap on the patient set it to every 5 minutes and see if the blood pressure ...
Does it every aggravate you that someone on your unit answers the call light, and one of your patients wants to "see the nurse." You get there and they want pain medicine, or nausea medicine or a pillow or a blanket...so you have to make more trips a...
JBizzleRN replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Med-Surg
If I can just tough it out for a few more months I'll be fine. I look at it this way, if I can survive here I can probably survive at any hospital haha. And then I just think about moving off the Med/Surg floor to a telemetry floor or the ICU. All of...