Coleebee

Coleebee

Cardiac, Nephrology, Emergency Medicine

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Coleebee specializes in Cardiac, Nephrology, Emergency Medicine.


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  1. On-Call Duties in Acute HD

    ^^ that
  2. It varies by company and region as to how many nurses are there in the clinic. In my area with a certain large main provider 20 or less patients you have 1 RN, the other large provider has 2 RN's with 20. In general I think Acutes is less stressful ...
  3. Unable to take fluid without cramping????

    ^^ that
  4. Oh to the OP, in my Chronics clinic, I was the only RN for 17 patients, and often had to take a 4 patient assignment on top of that (as I said bad clinic). It is apple and oranges trying to compare Acutes and Chronics. Westiluv described it beautiful...
  5. When I worked Chronics I had a bad clinic :-( , bad management, bad techs and so on, but I do long for the more stable hours. I hate the On Call, I hate not sleeping well those nights and afraid of missing a phone call. I will probably make my way ba...
  6. Interview on Monday in LTC

    Yeah, but to be a DON you most often have to have LTC experience. I can't lose my shirt to wait for that experience :-(
  7. I have worked in Chronics and currently work in Acutes. In my opinion they are 2 completely different animals. In Acutes you are the Dialysis Nurse, you don't have people around to help you with Dialysis. You are it. I found my years of PCU/ICU/Cath ...
  8. Interview on Monday in LTC

    I was really bummed. There is no way that I can take that kind of pay cut, I wouldn't be able to pay my bills. I expected a maybe a dollar less, but not $4. (My hospital doesn't pay a lot and I live in a city that regardless of what people think, has...
  9. Interview on Monday in LTC

    Interview went really well! However the pay is significantly lower than I was expecting. I live in a "low pay state" but what they offered me was new graduate RN pay. I know money isn't everything, and I really love gerontology, however I cannot quit...
  10. Interview on Monday in LTC

    I have an interview at a non for profit Continuous Care Retirement home on Monday for a RN in the Skilled Nursing area (they are affiliated with the Presbyterain Church). To make a very long story short, I have been in Acute Care since I became a RN...
  11. Burn out at Davita

    I burned out quick at DaVita Chronics. I hated it, loved my patients...hated everything else. You are not alone. Management was a joke, and more and more expectations were piled on me. I had little or no help and my manager (also an RN) was a waste o...
  12. How to get out of dialysis nursing?

    I have been doing Dialysis now for 2 years, it is time for a change of scenery. It does not matter if it is for outpatient or acutes. I am ready to run screaming! I love my patients, but the "suits" aka process people are making it impossible to take...
  13. Acute Care to LTC

    Hello all first time posting in the specialty. I've been healthcare for a long time, it all started years ago as a firefighter paramedic. I've been RN for three years. I actually got my RN after working an assisted living facility as a Med Tech and ...
  14. Rn moving to fl from nyc after 26 years

    @OP, The best advice I can give you is to do your research. There are few unions here and no mandatory staffing ratios (hospitals set them). I have worked in a hospital on a PCU that I have taken 6 patients regularly (on days) moved to another hospi...
  15. Rn moving to fl from nyc after 26 years

    Base pay for an RN with no hospital experience in my neck of the woods is $20-23 an hour. A friend of mine works in Boca Raton and she started out at $24.