samaritan

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1. Why Education over Administration?

   samaritan replied to Maureen Bonatch MSN's topic in Educators

   Staff development helps you keep in touch with patient care. It gives you an oppurtunity to keep your hands on skills on. The money is good...not as good as administration or bedside nursing, but better than nursing school teaching. The stress leve...

2. Is Indiana RN allowed to give Ketamine for procedural sedation ??

   samaritan posted a topic in Emergency

   This question is directed to all Indiana RN's. Does anyone know if RN's in IN are allowed to administer Ketamine IV/IM for procedural sedation? What is your hospital policy?

3. Bkat

   samaritan replied to sockov's topic in MICU

   I dont know the exact site, but if you do a google search for BKAT, you will find the site. The test is copyrighted and you have to purchase it from the website. Samaritan

4. CPR after rigor mortis

   samaritan replied to HealinghandsRN's topic in Geriatric

   Please bring to your Nurse educators attention regarding the current ACLS guideline, it clearly states that CPR should not be started if rigor mortis is present.

5. Substandard Healthcare d/t high Patient to nurse ratios

   samaritan replied to shandy84's topic in General Nursing

   Your experience is awful, but really I am not shocked. This almost sounds like the story of the MedSurg unit and ICU at our hospital. Managers are frequently staffing the floor and so is the Director of Patient services. New hires are being hired,...

6. Any Advice??

   samaritan replied to sme_nurse's topic in CCU

   Yes, I agree..Be prepared to learn a lot...may it be brushing up on the theory, or attending classes or seminars, reading articles, self learning packets etc. I used to work ICU and I hated to look dumb, so if I see something that I dont understand,...

7. Charge Nurses

   samaritan replied to NeuroNP's topic in CCU

   I work in a 12 bed ICU/PCU. Our charge nurse staffs like regular nurse, but she makes decisions regarding admission placements etc. She gets on day every 2 weeks to do her PI, schedules, etc(if census is not high and if she does not have to help wi...