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starbin BSN, RN

Nephro, ICU, LTC and counting

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starbin is a BSN, RN and specializes in Nephro, ICU, LTC and counting.


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  1. Is there any screening process to determine the risk level like high risk, medium risk and average risk? Or everybody gets a standard treatment? I wonder if it is common to do pre-op screening for DVT (like venous doppler ) on people with a history o...
  2. Thank you so much Proppy. That helps alot.
  3. I am doing a paper on prevention of DVT following joint surgery. I would very much like to hear from the ortho nurses on what policy their facility has in place to prevent DVT after Knee or Hip surgery.
  4. Fresenius as an employer?

    Fresenius as such is not a bad company to work for. They have good benefits and other programs. The experience varies depending on who you work with. And manager plays the big role, followed by your co-workers. I am a charge nurse with fresenius for ...
  5. Go away...is not generally true!

    Yeah. If you go to a place where everybody has one leg, you should also learn to walk with one leg.................otherwise you may find that you aren't welcome in that society..........Not respecting others and expecting to be treated with respect ...
  6. Go away...is not generally true!

    No offence to anybody but I have experienced that too. They even give the report in native language. We had english only policy but the DON, supervisors and the nurse managers were the first ones to break it.
  7. Go away...is not generally true!

    I am not sure which point you didn't get. In a nutshell, I was trying to say - there wouldn't be so many nurses and other employees from foreign country in one work place had this land not welcomed foreign nurses. I am not a native English speaker,...
  8. Go away...is not generally true!

    I happened to be in the break room of a Nursing home during their lunch hours two days in a row last week. Here is my observation: There were four large round tables with six to eight chairs around them. In one table there were a group of spanish spe...
  9. Interesting facts on legal immigration

    It is unfortunate that your sister didn't get visa. The officials need to be convinced that you will come back to your country after visiting the US. Probably she wasn't able to convince them strongly enough for them to believe that she was really go...
  10. More unemployment news

    Just spoke to two research nurses in a hospital who learned a week ago that their employer couldn't afford them anymore. There was an interview on the local news channel few days ago. A nurse practitioner who was working in th county hospital for mor...
  11. Agree with what you said-------- million percent.
  12. No doubt foreign nurses are hard-working. But I don't like the justification for tolerating exploitation. This is one reason, I think, the nursing organizations should be careful about endorsing the idea of importing foreign nurses. I am a foreign ed...
  13. Awake and alert? The same?

    I agree with the PP about the meaning of awake. If you aren't sleeping- you are awake. Alert doesn't always mean that you have to be oriented. Awareness of time, place and person may be categorized as oriented to TPP. "Alert" to me is actively respo...
  14. They have spoken..

  15. Fresenius starting pay

    Based on experience ranges from 27 to 32 dollars. If you do acutes, you will get more.