TreceRN

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1. East Washington/Idaho nurses

   TreceRN replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital in southwest Washington is not "officially" in a hiring freeze; we just don't have any openings (believe it or not!). We are affiliated with PeaceHealth, and our sister hospital in Bellingham has TONS of openings. Go figure:confused: And...

2. East Washington/Idaho nurses

   TreceRN replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in General Nursing

   Just to add my two cents for southern Washington, I live just a little ways north up the freeway from Vancouver and south of Olympia. Our community hospital is also WSNA (closed shop) and we settled our contract last year for a 21% increase spread ou...

3. Chronic Tardiness

   TreceRN replied to Tweety's topic in Professionalism

   It doesn't seem to be a problem in my hospital. Our facility DOES discipline chronic tardiness. We keep track of those that come in late on our database, but the biggest problem with that is that the charge nurse has to call our staffing office and t...

4. Clocking out on time

   TreceRN replied to bubble's topic in General Nursing

   It seems that some people have absolutely no respect for anyone else's time or needs. It's very unfortunate that your DON doesn't support you. Isn't there anyone else in your facility that shares your concern? Is there anyone above the DON in the cha...

5. Feeling weird

   TreceRN replied to Laurlaur's topic in General Nursing

   Don't worry about it. I think most nurses have been grossed out to the point of fainting, puking, or running for the door. When I was in nursing school I just about passed out in the middle of a total knee surgery when I smelled the burning flesh fro...

6. Your average day...

   TreceRN replied to RnStudentMommy's topic in Cardiac

   I started my nursing career right out of college working on a cardiology unit, then transferred to critical care. Now I am the nurse manager for the very cardiology unit I started on and I LOVE IT:D I love studying cardiac diseases, pouring over a re...

7. Are there any good hospitals to work at?

   TreceRN replied to AMV's topic in General Nursing

   It's called St. John Medical Center in Longview Washington. It's a non-for-profit, Catholic affiliated, community hospital that is part of a larger, 5-hospital system known as PeaceHealth. I'd say the rate of pay is very good compared to cost of livi...

8. Future nurse, single mom

   TreceRN replied to futurenurse66's topic in General Nursing

   I worked 6 months in general med/surg. In our hospital, the "float pool" is a group of nurses trained to "float" to various units as needed rather than being assigned to a specific unit. Our float pool staff works the med surg floors, as well as card...

9. Future nurse, single mom

   TreceRN replied to futurenurse66's topic in General Nursing

   One of the great things about the nursing profession is how flexible it is. There are so many opportunities out there today, that you can virtually pick and chose based on your needs and goals. My goal was to work in critical care, but I also had fou...

10. Are there any good hospitals to work at?

    TreceRN replied to AMV's topic in General Nursing

    'dreamon' had a wonderful list for you. The hospital I work at is great. We have good wages with step-increases and great bennies. Starting wage for a new grad is 20.04 and top wage is 30.84 plus shift differential, double-time after two hours of OT ...

11. Drawing blood

    TreceRN replied to Gampopa's topic in General Nursing

    Not proper aseptic technique, but your antecubital site will never be "sterile". I've been guilty of this myself example: when I'm trying to find a vein on one of those 80 year old ladies who've been on prednisone for 20 years, has tiny spider veins,...

12. Any advice would be appreciated

    TreceRN replied to Mytlibra's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to the profession, and please don't let those on the message board who continually profess the "horrors" of nursing scare you off. Some people seem to have an insatiable need to blame all of their professional defeats and stuggles at the fee...

13. colonoscopy saves a life

    TreceRN replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    My father nearly died from colon CA. He didn't seek medical help for his symptoms until he was so dehydrated from severe nausea that he passed out at home with a BP of 50 systolic. Surgery revealed he had what they call an "apple core" growth that ha...

14. Big Ups myself. Got my CCRN after only 6 mths of study and 1 yr of exp

    TreceRN replied to Ghetto Supersta's topic in General Nursing

    I passed on the first time after working only one year in ICU/CCU. It's a wonderful accomplishment and speaks to your dedication and commitment to professional nursing. Our ICU/CCU has over 80% CCRN staff. I've heard most hospitals run less than 25% ...

15. Overdoing VS!!

    TreceRN replied to stella123 rn's topic in General Nursing

    I think the important component that gets missed in all of this is the patient. We tend to do things because it's our "practice" that it becomes a meaningless task. Our telemetry unit standard is q4 hours times 24 hours, then qshift and PRN. In an ef...