Moetess

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1. nursing salaries

   Moetess replied to natbrat's topic in General Nursing

   It's true some scab nurses are making up to $5000 a week, plus hotel and meals. I'm currently on my 10th day of a strike in Wash.D.C. Fortunately our union is very strong, we had over 95% of our 1200 nurses walk out! Washington Teachers Assoc. and AN...

2. nurses on strike

   Moetess posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am currently on strike for better working conditions and higher pay. The Hospital I work for offers nurses up to $5000 a week, hotel and meals. Apparently the Hospital has hired 500-600 "replacement workers", and I wanted to know what other nurses ...

3. Charge Nurses

   Moetess replied to LRichardson's topic in MICU

   I'm from Wash D.C. and our charge nurses always take a patient, plus cover the acute care tech. Resource nurse is rotated amongst the "senior staff", any nurse after 6 months on our unit. As for extra pay,our hospital has a union, so everyone makes t...

4. Mixing surgical and burn patients

   Moetess posted a topic in Cardiac

   Our unit has changed into a combination Burn and Surgical ICU. I wanted to know how they handle their infection control problems, especially VRE and MRSA.