wildwood

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1. On-Call Pay

   wildwood replied to nellie_nurse812's topic in Operating Room

   In our OR, we get $40.00 per day for weekday call, and $50.00 per day for weekend or holiday call. We have guaranteed 40 hr/week, so we get to go home early when we finish, and we get the next day off after call .

2. In One Sentence; if you weren't a nurse, you'd be a ________

   wildwood replied to OCCHCanada's topic in General Nursing

   If I were not a nurse, I'd like to be a mortician. Sometimes I think it would be easier to work with dead people than deal with some of the stuff we get in the OR.

3. Ultrascopes

   wildwood replied to Medic2005's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I bought one (paid $89.00 for it), and when I tried to use it, I couldn't hear a THING! I got several other nurses to check it out, and nobody liked it. I took it back. Littman is still my stethoscope of choice!

4. Access to medications during Callbacks

   wildwood replied to ckalston's topic in Operating Room

   Hi! Congratulations on your first post. I love being able to hear from OR nurses far away. We used to use that system of having "keys" that were supposedly hidden, but everybody who worked in the OR or PACU had to know how to get them. ...

5. Nurses, Would you go into nursing if you had to do it all over again?

   wildwood replied to 4everpeace's topic in General Nursing

   As bad as things get sometimes, I know I love my job, and I would still want to be a nurse. Sometimes I wish I had been born 10 years earlier (I am almost 48), because things were a lot better then than they are now. If I could just do my ...

6. BPH and Catheters

   wildwood replied to boxermom's topic in Urology

   A site to try is http://urology.jhu.edu/diseases/index.html from Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute. I work in urology (surgery) and use this site for information often. Hope it helps

7. Sick Leave

   wildwood replied to Jan B's topic in Orthopaedic

   Our time off is lumped together in "Paid Time Off"; this includes vacation, holidays, sick days, etc. You accrue time dependent on your hours worked and length of service to the hospital. The problem is that you are allowed only 3 unscheduled absenc...

8. Wrote Dr. Phil yesterday....

   wildwood replied to live4today's topic in General Nursing

   I don't understand this post. What do you have a problem with about getting more focus on the nursing shortage? I didn't take it as an attempt for personal gratification. I agree that Oprah may be more receptive to the issue. DR. PHIL seems to lik...

9. Nurses and smoking

   wildwood replied to ashleyh_84's topic in General Nursing

   I used to smoke - quit about 10 years ago. One horrible and very sad (true story) was a real eye-opener. A urologist I used to work with always told his bladder CA patients to stop smoking, because of the link of smoking and bladder cancer. Many w...

10. Recovery of OR patients in CCU

    wildwood replied to gooser's topic in CRNA

    Hi, Cliff, I know what you mean about the new people not having a clue about the nightmare of 10 days of call! Hopefully, they never will. When I first started in the OR (about 16 years ago), we only had 4 nurses taking call. I got 3 m...

11. Recovery of OR patients in CCU

    wildwood replied to gooser's topic in CRNA

    The anesthesiology department should be in an uproar over this! You are absolutely right about the standard of care. Our PACU nurses that take call get the same benefits that the OR nurses do. We get overtime prevented by scheduling the call team o...

12. recreational drug use

    wildwood replied to shannon8282's topic in General Students

    be careful what you do, even off duty! one of the best nurses i know got caught having used an illegal drug - off duty- when we had a random drug screen for missing narcotics. even though she had nothing to do with it, it has been a nightmare f...

13. State Hospitals

    wildwood replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in General Nursing

    My husband worked for Broughton Hosp. (a state psychiatric facility) for 30 years and retired full benefits, full pay, insurance, etc. . There are many different units to choose from, from young people to the criminally insane. You always can go tal...

14. Retirement

    wildwood replied to education's topic in General Nursing

    Retirement will depend on you - where you decide to work (benefits, 401K, your age, etc). I guess it would be best to investigate different agencies or educational institutions where you are interested in teaching and find out whether they provide a...

15. is rudeness a prereq.?

    wildwood replied to luv-my-dal's topic in General Nursing

    Be assertive! It is rude to ignore anyone, even if you aren't able to talk right then. As a common courtesy, the least the other nurses could do if they are busy is acknowledge that they heard what you said. Say something like, "Hey, I guess you ...