Wrench Party

Wrench Party

Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical

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About Wrench Party

Wrench Party has 3 years experience and specializes in Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgical.


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  1. Newsflash: we work in a stressful job, especially these days, and the stress spills out out sometimes. You're going to hear the same buzz in the background no matter what field you work in- I've worked in retail, restaurants, was a scientist for a ve...
  2. Conflict with Charge - 6 Month Review

    &%% this place. It sounds like you're making sound nursing judgments, you've prevented some medical errors from some dangerous coworkers, and you know how to nurse after a few years of working in a Level 1 trauma center. The ER doc doesn't even ...
  3. Be Our Guest

    Home health for sure I did decline gifts, but we will accept homemade food in the breakroom of the hospital, like cookies. No one has gotten sick that I know of. Families are much more likely to bring us store-bought foods anyway, as many of them are...
  4. racist patients

    Totally can empathize. I'm white, and sometimes gets stuck taking care of these racist idiots after they reject a nurse or aide of color. I refuse to let the aides go in the room by themselves, lest they be subject to abuse. A simple "So-and-so and ...
  5. Electronic Charting

    We have the opposite problem- everyone is so well trained to electronic charting! The providers about damn near had a meltdown when Epic went down for 4 hours on a Saturday night for its 2016 update and had to write out paper orders. If the order was...
  6. Job Market for Experienced Nurses in Denver

    What are the pay rates, differentials, union/non-union, etc. for hospitals in the Denver area? Particularly for a cardiac nurse who works the night shift? What do the wages buy me relative to the local housing market? The political and cultural shena...
  7. One place we use Vocera, another place we use the Cisco phones and Hill Rom locators. Personally I prefer the Cisco phones and GPS locators; I find it less interruptive to patient care. The intelligent HUCs will use the trackers to our advantage; the...
  8. Husband became a RN

    Eh, might be time to bury the hatchet. Now that the dust has settled and the husband has achieved end goal (a nursing job), the OP can move on and get the job she wants. I'm not sure she'd be able to jump directly to home health to the ED, but a tran...
  9. Do you still have energy to cook after a 12 hour shift?

    Cooking?? Heck no, that's what husbands are for. I usually make myself lunch for work (I work nights) and then I might make something simple like eggs when I get home in the morning. Husband will cook breakfast half the shifts I work, depends on when...
  10. Leaving Nursing for Another Career

    I WAS a lab manager and research scientist...so maybe if I I popped out some kids and wanted some mommy hours, I'd go back to academic research. If you can find a good PI to work for and field to be in, hours are very flexible and you get most major ...
  11. 5 interviews 4 job offers!

    Postpartum, if L/D is where you ultimately want to do. You'll gain some adult med surg skills in neuro/tele, but personally I don't know how applicable those skills will be to PP and L/D. We get postpartum cardiomyopathy patients on my cards floor, a...
  12. I really dislike my co-worker

    Are you full time here? Do you really like the program? Is this the only nursing school in the area? I might leave before your reputation gets dragged down with this woman's, especially if she doesn't uphold the academic standards of the school. Sou...
  13. "I work in the medical field"

    I've had quite a few nurses here and there as patients (3 Level 1 trauma centers in the area), and honestly the vast majority of them were pretty chill about letting me do my care. If they need something (more pain medicine or a drink, for example) t...
  14. Critical Thinking

    I always thought it was my complex, higher order thinking that makes my brain hurt. Last night's example: "what are nursing interventions I can use to get my lung transplant's pCO2 down without her needing to go on BiPAP/CPAP again tonight, because ...
  15. One thing i dont understand(at the nurses' station)

    Forgot to add, my bilingual coworkers NEVER speak their other languages in front of patients, always at the nurses' station amongst themselves. They have the common sense and respect to speak English with patients.