If you enjoyed the critical care aspect of your ICU jobs you might look into CRNA school. Yes, it's more school (debt) but with the added benefit of more autonomy of practice, better pay, and less a-holes to put up with, depending on what surgeon you...
I disagree. Every one has to make the decision that is right for them. My choice to wait for the vaccine correlated with my actual ability to GET the vaccine. I was not going to be at the head of the line for this vaccine, but I was undecided on whet...
Not working, NOT feeling guilty. In fact, training to get my CDL (Commercial Driver's License) so I don't have to take another nursing job until it is 'safe' to do so. Feel sorry for all y'all that just got out of nursing school and feel obligated to...
Absolutely get the money together to buy one of those masks. I bought one last Summer, after seeing them in use by surgical assistants in the OR. In the OR we still have to put another mask OVER them because the vent flap allows our exhaled air to bl...
"Extreme circumstances" don't appear on a schedule....I'm scheduled to get robbed today, so I think I'll carry my gun today. Likewise, carrying a gun is not an innoculation against criminal behaviour. Accuracy and judgement aren't conferred by osmosi...
The level of transport is not the issue. The receiving nurse did not get report prior to the patient being dumped on the floor. What if all nurses are responding to an emergency on the floor at the time the patient is put in a room? What if the cover...
I hope you realize that this is textbook definition of abandonment. If the transfering nurse allowed this to happen, and, some harm came to the patient on the floor, the nurse would have to answer Board of Nursing charges, NOT administration. They tr...
11blade replied to ctsurgeryscrubrn's topic in Operating Room
I would never have been a fan of this policy, until I worked at a Level 1 Trauma hospital last Summer. They built the 'new' ICU in a different building...a full quarter mile away from the OR!! Moving some of those patients with anesthesia trying to v...
11blade replied to Interstellar95's topic in Operating Room
The equipment used in those cases will be surgeon dependant. You should be looking at the case posting, surgeon and equipment list. If the preference cards are crap, which most are, make your own notes as you do cases with each surgeon. Note the post...
The wake up call most nurses have gotten (as if they didn't ALREADY know) is that management will sacrafice as many FTE's as it takes to preserve their own bonuses. The marching orders from the pointy headed ones in finance will be to push the envelo...
They can't even come up with a reliable annual flu vaccine, and that flu is much less severe than this. We aren't even at peak in a few cities in the U.S. and the numbers are astounding. I've been following the reports out of China since mid January,...