flyfarfaraway

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1. Should I SUE?

   flyfarfaraway replied to hollyday's topic in General Students

   How did you know the patient had reverted back to atrial fib

2. Nursing pay

   flyfarfaraway replied to Zooey72's topic in General Students

   I have four years experience and I work in hospice home health in Knoxville TN. I have acute care experience as well as corrections experience. I make 54000 and mileage as well. Ut is lower paying but is a fantastic hospital with many opportunities t...

3. Escorted out of the patients home.........

   flyfarfaraway replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice

   I guess it's a good thing the "marketers" at my company are all RNs and the intake coordinators are LPNs. I just recently started but it seems okay so far. We will see.

4. Maxim or MHM

   flyfarfaraway replied to LookingforChange's topic in Correctional

   I'm a traveler at a prison in NC and I make good money. I am contracted through supplemental. I bring home about 1200 a week. There's a tad bit of animosity between one of the travel nurses and the state nurses, just because there are only 2 state ...

5. Best Sick Call slips

   flyfarfaraway replied to DawnJ's topic in Correctional

   I have been having some pains in my growing. (groin) lol

6. med pass and the mar

   flyfarfaraway replied to IQ168's topic in Correctional

   We have electronic mars so it's done at the time of dispensing.

7. Public Health RN job outlook?

   flyfarfaraway replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Public/Community

   Currently looking for a public health job. I have 3+ years of hospital experience and the few jobs that are available say you must have 1 to 2 years of community health experience. BLAH

8. Discharging Patients on Holidays?

   flyfarfaraway replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

   We have a case manager that stays on our floor and if she knows that a patient may be getting discharged over the weekend she will leave instructions for the nurse, precert, paper work, who to call etc.We are also piloting an infloor pharmacy where w...

9. IV push and wearing gloves

   flyfarfaraway replied to Katniss88's topic in Medications

   We were never taught in school to wear gloves when hanging a piggyback or giving IV push.

10. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    flyfarfaraway replied to flyfarfaraway's topic in General Nursing

    Well, well. This went up fast. I'm thinking of trying the cooling towel and just shoving it down my shirt. I've had to start wearing a maternity belt which makes me even hotter. For the isolation patients, I don't have any with CMV or chicken pox...

11. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    flyfarfaraway replied to flyfarfaraway's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I thought of the whole biomed thing. I figured if I had a battery powered one without a cord it would be less of a risk. I might have to look up this cooling vest. Where would I get one of these?

12. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    flyfarfaraway replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing

    1. State you work in East Tennessee 2. Years of experience 1 year 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) hospital/pulmonary floor at university hospital 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary 19.32 Was 18 dollars when I start...

13. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    flyfarfaraway posted a topic in General Nursing

    Let me start off by saying I'm currently 31 weeks pregnant. I get so darn hot at work it's unbelievable. Especially when I get stuck in an isolation room assisting with a thoracentesis for 30 minutes in one of those plastic blue gowns, or if I'm in...

14. Judging when to suction trach

    flyfarfaraway replied to Maddy_Rose's topic in Pulmonary

    I always make sure to ask first though too, because if a person has had a trach for awhile, they know what they need as well and it gives them a bigger hand in their care to make some decisions.

15. 4 rejections and no response for 1st interview being experienced as CVOR BSN for 3yr

    flyfarfaraway replied to dlzk123's topic in Cardiac

    I'm glad you found something!