RickyRescueRN BSN, RN

RickyRescueRN has 28 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in ICU, Trauma, CCT,Emergency, Flight, OR Nursing.

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   HIPAA Violation?

   RickyRescueRN replied to IreneTouTheou's topic in HIPAA

   No you did not commit a HIPPA violation as your co worker was not a patient there; you did not ask what treatment they were undergoing and most importantly , you did not look them up in your EMR which is trackable .
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   Absent Nurse Manager/Perianesthsia Director

   RickyRescueRN replied to CoffeeScrubsAndRubberGloves's topic in PACU

   If you and your colleagues are that demoralized and sick and tired of being worked to the bone with zero support from your manager and upper administration, then vote with your feet and walk! Plenty of other nursing jobs out there that will do better...
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   HCA Healthcare staRN new grad program April 2024 Regional Medical Center of San Jose

   RickyRescueRN replied to babynurs's topic in Job Hunt

   This hospital is cutting their Trauma Program (will no longer be a Trauma center) in addition to cutting their STEMI and Stroke programs as well. No longer a STEMI or Stroke receiving center. Given that all this is happening by the end of August this...
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   help! Australia nurse to Nevada, OB requirement

   RickyRescueRN replied to vivi123's topic in General Nursing

   I was just reading another post on this where it stated that Australian trained RNs are generally short on didactic and clinical hours for Maternal Health / OB and pediatrics and that is a huge disadvantage for obtaining a license in many states. I h...
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   Am I getting into nursing for the right reason?

   RickyRescueRN replied to ZombieMedic123's topic in Men

   As a nurse with 32yrs experience who has worked in ICU, ER/Trauma , Flight nursing for 19yrs and now the OR, Do Not pursue nursing if your heart is not in it. Right now the drop out rate for new grads is 48% within the first 2 years of graduating . I...
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   Precepting in the OR

   RickyRescueRN replied to hl111's topic in Operating Room

   If you have concerns are you escalating these to your dept clinical educator as well as to the service line manager ? They need to be aware of the issues from your evaluation of the preceptee. Do you do daily written and in person evaluations with yo...
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   OR Circulating nurses. What is your call schedule like?

   RickyRescueRN replied to CAM3111's topic in Operating Room

   If you're not at a Union (CBA) hospital , then technically the hospital can do what they like in terms of scheduling you and mandating call. I agree with Rose Queen in that larger academic hospitals have dedicated teams for all /most service lines an...
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   Q re: scrub nurses/tech call

   RickyRescueRN replied to blytheny's topic in Operating Room

   At my hospital , nurses are required to be trained to scrub and to scrub the days that they are assigned . As far as scrub call is concerned, nurses primarily sign up for Circ call and typically, if mandatory call is needed, then it is assigned to th...
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   New grad cath lab?

   RickyRescueRN replied to saraclark62's topic in Critical

   I've never heard of new grads even being offered positions in Cath Lab/ IR labs. A New grad will struggle to nurse the med/surg patients initially alone on the floor ; it is beyond thought that one could enter the Interventional platform with essenti...
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    New Grad in ICU

    RickyRescueRN replied to wmarty8008's topic in Critical

    Many of the larger university hospitals have New grad residencies which last 10month to a year. I would recommend seeing if you can arrange a job shadow at the place you would like to work after you graduate. It definitely helps that you have done cl...
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    Australian nurse wanting to work in America

    RickyRescueRN replied to Aussienurse123's topic in Immigration

    If you check the states Board of Registered Nursing website, it will clearly state what is required for nurses who did their training internationally who are seeking registration / licensing in that particular state.
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    On call

    RickyRescueRN replied to Nurse deba's topic in Operating Room

    In the Bay Area ( Northern CA) here and everyone here wants to work extra as the Call back/ Overtime pay is insanely high so if a staff member who is on call, calls out, a text message goes out to everyone in the service line to offer them the call a...
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    Nurse Patient Ratio in Emergency Department

    RickyRescueRN replied to wheatbread's topic in Emergency

    Title 22 in Californias Labor code requires that ERs are staffed 1RN : 4 patients maximum and the ratio is dependent on acuity so if a patient is critically ill then its usually 1 RN to 1 patient or 1 RN to 2 patients at maximum. Trauma patients are ...
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    OR Orientation Length

    RickyRescueRN replied to th1011's topic in Operating Room

    Academic Hospital & Level 1 Trauma and Referral facility . ORs currently do no take any new grad/ inexperienced nurses and have not done so ever. Experienced (Outside of OR) orientation is anything from 6-12 months and includes scrub an...
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    On call pay, called in rate, etc

    RickyRescueRN replied to CHIRN08's topic in Operating Room

    Bay Area , Northern California here. In House Union hospital. Academic Hospital. Base Call rate is 50% of your regular base pay (($40-60/hr) then if you are activated it switches to Time and half for the entire time you are in house/clocked in. We do...