cannie

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1. What's the difference?????

   cannie replied to VickyRN's topic in Cardiac

   Healingtouch We don't use levophed very much but see a lot of dopamine and dobutamine. The 2mcg renal dose of dopa dosen't seem to really have any effects on renal output and perfusion. Most often it's a small blood preassure increase that I've n...

2. Nurse to patient ratios

   cannie replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

   I work on a 45 bed CCU. We take acute and r/o MI's, 24hr post OH (lately we've been getting them just over 16 hrs though), cardiac caths with lines pulled by us, run all drips except levo, and trauma patients not sick enough for our ICU. Of course we...

3. Pay Scale

   cannie replied to Trauma's topic in CCU

   I live south of Seattle and commute to a CCU. Not sure what new grads are making but most of us are $18-22/hr base and we're all required to have ACLS and yearly CE's. We're union and just won a pay increase. Cost of living is high here. Gal of gas i...

4. Increasing Work Place Violence

   cannie replied to debbyed's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital recently called a mtg to announce a lucrative contract they had just picked up with the Dept. of Corrections. Needless to say not many of us were thrilled no matter how "lucrative" it may be. We are now expected to provide care for inmat...

5. How do you deal with lazy co-workers?

   cannie replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with fergus. Call the person out, preferably with witnesses. Try to teach by example. If you have the time volunteer to do something for another nurse, frequently. If all else fails go to the cafeteria. Get one of those small packs of salt an...

6. New Nurses Poorly Educated

   cannie replied to Huganurse's topic in General Nursing

   It astounded me to hear of how the training is going now. I've been out for 7 yrs (and going back this yr) and feel that I had excellent hands on training. We had a checklist of procedures to do before we could graduate i.e. 3 IV's, 2 foley's, 1 NG e...

7. Shortage solution

   cannie posted a topic in Safety

   More than a decade ago I gave birth to a stillborn 28 wk baby girl. Her twin, my son, was blue on delivery. I was 17, alone and terrified. This tiny thing came out of me and he wasn't moving. I asked my nurse, "Is he going to make it?". Her reply, "I...

8. Is it just me or all nurses??

   cannie replied to laurasc's topic in General Nursing

   You're not alone. Some nurses know when to seek treatment but I tend to minimize my ailments. Three years ago I had a HA for days that wouldn't go away and got progressively worse. Our insurance was bad so I tried to self treat. Finally, my husband f...

9. tears of anger and betrayal......

   cannie replied to sammy26's topic in General Nursing

   sammy, It gave me chills to read exactly what I've been feeling. I have only been in the profession for 6 years and have posted my most recent experience under "Floored by unemployment". I have just recently started feeling that I CAN"T save everyone...

10. Floored by unemployment during shortage

    cannie posted a topic in General Nursing

    A year ago I took a job at a nursing home. Three months after starting the facility was placed on stop placement by the state. Several employees were arrested for outright abuse. They progressively went down hill and a mass exodus ensued. I chose to ...