kateRN

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1. Change of shift report

   kateRN replied to angel333's topic in General Nursing

   We do a verbal report. I work in the ICU- there are 4 nurses assigned to each pod, and eight patients to a pod. We hear verbal report on all eight patients, and then decide amoung ourselves how to divide them up. When I first heard this method, I ...

2. Care Plans an Exercise in FUTILITY??????

   kateRN replied to Destinystar's topic in Geriatric

   Care plans are meaningless wastes of time. They don't mean anything, and their only purpose is to generate more points when JCAHO comes. :) I fill mine out everyday because we're supposed to, but they don't influence my nursing care at all. Espe...

3. Religion's Place in Nursing

   kateRN replied to CHIRN's topic in General Nursing

   Most of the time i don't believe things that billy rants and raves about either, such as the "gay, jewish bashing", but i do believe in the resurrection of Jesus. I can believe in the Son of God rising from the dead, because I believe that with God...

4. Pay Scale

   kateRN replied to Trauma's topic in CCU

   Columbus, Ohio I started out as a new grad at $17.80/hr, and after one year they did an across the board nursing wage increase, and mine came up to about $20.10/hr. I'm pretty sure this is competitive all around Columbus. Sounds like ohio/michigan ...

5. brainstorming and help needed for itchy resident, no help yet

   kateRN replied to ilovetheelderly's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds like this COUld be exzema?? I had a really bad problem with this myself about a year ago. It popped up out of no where- I now think it was due to an allergic reaction to some scented lotions I was using. But anyway, I would scratch myself r...

6. Nurse/patient ratios

   kateRN replied to caregiver11's topic in General Nursing

   Ohio I work on a cardiac stepdown tele unit.... 4-5 on days 6-7 on nights

7. Nurses and smoking

   kateRN replied to ashleyh_84's topic in General Nursing

   I think that it's not "unprofessional" for nurses/doctors to smoke, but being as informed as we are about the dangers of smoking, it seems pretty dumb to continue to smoke. Especially because we actually SEE what it does to people right in front of ...

8. How Much Experience for Charge Nurse

   kateRN replied to CarVsTree's topic in Cardiac

   It seems that on our floor they wait until a person has about one year of experience before the orient them to charge. I was oriented to charge nurse after about 14 months of working. It's kind of nice for a change of pace, and we do have support s...

9. Transporting Telemetry Patients off the unit

   kateRN replied to CV CNS CCRN's topic in Cardiac

   We actually just changed out policy. We used to have to send everyone on tele all the time for every test. Now, there is a list of criteria that states when a patient must travel with a monitor, and as long as they do not meet any of the criteria, ...

10. 1 1/2 years in and ? getting out

    kateRN replied to Liz'02RN's topic in Cardiac

    I also graduated in 2002, and began my career on a cardiac stepdown tele unit. I have had a lot of good experiences since I've started, but I'm also beginning to feel frustrated. I can definately understand why nurses get burnt out so easily. Some...