Pualehuanani

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1. Nurses wearing flowers?

   Pualehuanani replied to nursejllrn's topic in Hawaii

   I have to defend Windward Nurse here. She is right on the mark when she talks about what is going on in the Islands. I looked at her old posts and I have to agree with her. I know she is not from here but she certainly understandes the problems he...

2. Can't seem to get a break...

   Pualehuanani replied to Jo Dirt's topic in MICU

   I agree that it would be best to first get a position in a hospital and get some basic hospital experience. Work on your basic skills and while you are doing that take some courses that would help you be a more attractive candidate for the ICU. An ...

3. Talk story on all kine nursing in da islands

   Pualehuanani replied to malamarn06's topic in Hawaii

   I tried to edit but the edit button has disappeared from my posts so I guess the best I can do is apologize again. Sorry!! I sincerely wish I could remove some of the harshness I now see in some of my posts. I ranted a little bit where it was unca...

4. Talk story on all kine nursing in da islands

   Pualehuanani replied to malamarn06's topic in Hawaii

   LOL, I will try to work on my aloha! I looked at my posts and I am sorry to say that I agree that I might have appeared a little unwelcoming. I apologize. :imbar I think I am going to do some editing. :loveya:

5. Questions about Unions

   Pualehuanani replied to northshore08's topic in Hawaii

   Thank you for being understanding, NS! I had a chance to look at some of your posts and enjoyed many of them. I can see that you have lots of experience. There are differences in the hospitals here of course and just living here and knowing people ...

6. Questions about Unions

   Pualehuanani replied to northshore08's topic in Hawaii

   Kahuku serves its purpose as a stabilization unit and it does its job well. Near-drownings, MI's, traumas---they are all shipped to Queens but Kahuku does a great job stabilizing them for transport. Wahiawa does the same. Pali Momi is not very diff...

7. Talk story on all kine nursing in da islands

   Pualehuanani replied to malamarn06's topic in Hawaii

   I have to say, and no insult intended, that I wish more of our "resource people" were local. Many of our local nurses have gone elsewhere for more money and sadly, the mainland nurses, althought they mean well and in general they are okay, are no su...

8. Questions about Unions

   Pualehuanani replied to northshore08's topic in Hawaii

   I think Pali Momi is a very vital hospital on this island but they are very low level. They ship anything of consequence out to other hospitals, especially Queens. I don't know about that "fastest growing" stuffs but they are certainly the "fastest...

9. Kahu Malama???

   Pualehuanani replied to nurse_misty's topic in Hawaii

   Pali Momi is VERY small,I think only a hundred beds or so, and I don't know if they use all that many agency nurses. So I don't know if your experience at PM would reflect the experience of island nurses as a whole but thank you for your input, Nort...

10. Kahu Malama???

    Pualehuanani replied to nurse_misty's topic in Hawaii

    I have heard that they are not all that good. They get contracts for very low level stuff----flu shots at Long's, etcetera.

11. NICU jobs in Hawaii

    Pualehuanani replied to 1dragnet's topic in Hawaii

    Kapiolani Women's and Children has the best NICU in the islands. I work at Queens and we send our NICU babies to Kap. There are no decent NICU's on the neighbor islands but there are general nurseries on all islands, of course. You will be welcomed...

12. Talk story on all kine nursing in da islands

    Pualehuanani replied to malamarn06's topic in Hawaii

    I have to say that if someone wants to relocate to Oahu and is a new graduate nurse they should get at least two years experience wherever they are and THEN move to Oahu. We have so many new grads here that it is becoming dangerous. Cocky new grads,...

13. Questions about Unions

    Pualehuanani replied to northshore08's topic in Hawaii

    Hi Northshore. Once you have been forced to do mandatory overtime repeatedly you might appreciate the HNA. If it were not for the HNA we would still be making $20/hr and working mandatory overtime, sixteen hour shifts and expected to be back after ...

14. Hna???

    Pualehuanani replied to mo-mo's topic in Hawaii

    HNA is not the greatest as far as unions go, according to my mainland friends who are familiar with unions. But without HNA we would have NOTHING, in my opinion. We have much better pay than the hospitals would have been willing to give us without ...

15. Is it just me?

    Pualehuanani replied to pRNss808's topic in Hawaii

    I don't know about that "freeze." It really seems that Queens is hiring ONLY new grads. Everyone sees it as a money saving move. The new grads do not reach the job rate pay level until they have been here for two years I think so it is a budget sm...