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  1. Scheduling conflicts

    We self schedule on my unit. We do 4-week schedules at a time, we must work either a monday or a friday each week unless you work that weekend as those are our busiest days. We work every 3rd weekend and a set holiday rotation that we know 3 years i...
  2. Shared Governance

    Our monthly staff meetings our lead by our manager. She commonly mentions changes in practice that we are planning to trial for 30 days that shared governance decided on. She also updates us on safety issues, changes in the medical center as a whole...
  3. Shared Governance

    I appreciate the quick responses. Our manager directly attends our shared governance meetings and is extremely open to change, we are truly blessed. The only reason we don't currently offer multiple time slots is because we have 1 chair and 1 co-cha...
  4. Shared Governance

    We have shared governance at the medical center where I work. We have monthly hour-long shared governance meetings on our unit and then our ideas move up the chain of command to (hopefully) become practice, hence the purpose of shared governance. H...
  5. Cardiac Nursing for Dummies

    Thank you thank you!
  6. Blood Stream Infections (BSI) in your unit

    We use Curos caps on all our central lines in combo with the clear caps and ever since making the change hospital-wide we haven't had a single CLAB in over a year. :) Those Curos caps are life-changers, but they are approximately $0.25 a piece ($60 a...
  7. Cardiac Nursing for Dummies

    I'm looking for a good general cardiac nursing reference that's not too dense just to brush up on important things and know exactly what I'm talking about as I'm a newer CV Step RN. Any suggestions?
  8. Interviewing as a new grad for Cardiac/Stroke unit

    I am a new RN on a cardiac/stroke unit. My manager didn't explicitly ask me medically-based questions. Now a days in nursing interviews they tend to be able to decide on your intelligence through the way you carry yourself. They are going to ask mor...
  9. Best way to break into cardiac nursing

    If you can find a position in a Nurse Residency type program you may be able to get a start directly into cardiology. I got hired into a nurse residency program and they essentially started us as float nurses to get our feet wet. We rotated througho...
  10. EKG/Arrhythmia Interpretations

    Once hired call the education department at your facility or ask your manager if there is an EKG class available. I work in a level II trauma center and they have a WONDERFUL 4 day EKG course (that we were actually required to take to work on CV Step...
  11. Help! Cardiac Rehab Discussion

    I don't know if you're still working on this project, but if so I can give you a run down on the rehab we educate our post-CABG patients on in my unit. Starting day 1 post-op they are to walk 4 times a day on the floor. Once they get home they are to...