CCL RN

CCL RN RN

Cath Lab/ ICU

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About CCL RN

CCL RN has 10 years experience as a RN and specializes in Cath Lab/ ICU.


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  1. New to Travel Nursing

    The short answer is NO If you use your parents home, you have to pay them fair market value in rent AND they need to claim that money on their taxes.
  2. Already make $42/hr. Is travel nursing worth it?

    Positions that require call will always be in demand.
  3. Cath lab vs ICU

    The cath lab makes the ICU look like a cake walk. Sometimes I dream of times without call in my old cozy ICU. For me, I'd be super bored going back
  4. Neither. No drug tests for where I work What can they do anyway? It's legal after all.
  5. Cardiac Cath Lab... What's it like??

    You don't do "caths by yourself" and you don't "stand in one place for hours" I actually work in the lab, do you? I don't stand-at all. I work. Nonstop. Sometimes through the night. 12 hours would be a dream but its more like 14-16hr shifts...if I'...
  6. Impossible New Grad market Tacoma/Lakewood Area?

    I hadn't even applied for my WA license when I was offered a position.Luckily, WA gets a temp license out PDQ. And it lasts a good while. The reg license takes a while. And it's somewhat of a pain for out of state applicants as far as fingerprintin...
  7. GI cocktail

    Yes. That's the exact purpose of the GI cocktail. It will take down any GI related pain and help differentiate the location of the pain (cardiac vs GI) It's gross. If you ever give one to your pt again, tell them to just drink it without looking or ...
  8. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    Wow. This is a mess. None of it makes any real sense.
  9. Cardiac Cath Lab... What's it like??

    There's plenty of posts on here where we talk about a typical day for a cath lab nurse...but I will just say this: it is not an appropriate place for a new nurse. You will be running the balloon pump, titrating drips, managing a crashing pt, getting ...
  10. Interview at a Seattle hospital?

    Is tacky. Also-Swedish is big. If they tag your file as someone who was hired and immediately quit, then you may have burned that bridge. Don't forget Swedish is "affiliated" with Prov too. Thats a lot of hospitals to not get hired into... This is n...
  11. Day shift or night shift - Which do you prefer? Why?

    I work cath lab...so I work all shifts.I prefer my STEMIs at 2am. The drive home is peaceful, the hospital is asleep and quiet, the lights are low...it's nice.
  12. Not true. At all... Good to hear! Thx for the update...
  13. When will being an RN stop sucking?

    Change specialities! I love my doctors, my supervisors, my team-mates, my patients and my job. Could do withouth all the call though! But I am busy, respected, and treated right. What I do, and how well I do it, can mean the difference between lif...
  14. New Grad who wants to get a job at home in Western WA

    I understand your love for Seattle. I agree with ruby slippers though. Get that first year in at mayo and then you'll be a shoe in for jobs later. All people care about is that precious one year of exp and then you're golden. The market is hard for ...
  15. seattle rn positions

    Hmm. I dunno what to tell you. I've seen plenty of jobs at the local hospitals. I applied for 3 different ones a few months ago, and got three job offers within a few weeks. (and I'm nothing special, lol) One offer came one week after application. ...