sasha1224

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1. Shift differentials?

   sasha1224 replied to aachavez's topic in General Nursing

   Ours is 15% for nights 7p-7a.(we only have12hour shifts). Time and a half for holidays(8 holidays a year). RNsRWe mentioned the difference in pay with night shifters taking PTO. The hospital I am at did pay the shift diff on PTO but changed that po...

2. charge pay

   sasha1224 replied to suhlir's topic in General Nursing

   1. how much extra do charge nurses make at your facility? permanent charges make more but not sure how much, a fill-in charge is 1.00/hr 1. if they also have an assignment. generally not on either shift, but if short will have 1-3. if hospital is t...

3. Should I have turned the LVN in?

   sasha1224 replied to PlasticsRN's topic in General Nursing

   Is it a compact state? Maybe they are licensed in a different compact state?

4. Select Specialty Hospital work environment

   sasha1224 replied to tyjane7's topic in General Nursing

   I worked for one and while it wasn't the worst place I worked it wasn't the best either. As for a Long Term Acute Care Hospital, it was far better than the other one I worked for. As for patients, it was almost all bedridden, total care type patients...

5. Affairs between staff members spouses

   sasha1224 replied to pielęgniarka's topic in General Nursing

   Had a situation like this one placed I worked. A husband and wife were both supervisors, then the husband started and affair with a floor nurse. Word got around quickly. He moved in with the nurse. Thing was this situation went on for a long time bef...

6. What color scrubs do you wear?

   sasha1224 replied to healthstar's topic in General Nursing

   One place I worked RNs wore royal blue, could coordinate a print top to the royal blue pants. One was all RNs wore navy blue and the next maroon. Currently, I work at a place that doesn't have a policy on color, so we get quite some variations. Perso...

7. Discouraged...VENT...ADVICE?

   sasha1224 replied to RUN_RN's topic in General Nursing

   You might see if your area has LTACHs, Kindred is a big company that has LTACHs throughout. These are Long Term Acute Care Hospitals and take complex patients. It's not a nursing home. These places do ten to have high turnover but their not really th...

8. Incident report for infiltrated vein?

   sasha1224 replied to 09NewGrad's topic in General Nursing

   To the OP: I have worked some places that do IRs for IV infiltrates but they were for tracking not disciplinary action. The key is to monitor the site and DOCUMENT. This saved a co-worker of mine. She had checked a peripheral site in the hand that ha...

9. State surveyors here again...and being super picky...

   sasha1224 replied to IowaLPN's topic in Geriatric

   My facility is getting hammered by state. is it totally unjustified. No. For us, if the administration would discipline or fire that ones making that mistakes, we would do ok. But alas, this doesn't happen. Now while many of the marked have been cou...

10. PO liquid potassium vs. PO tablet potassium??

    sasha1224 replied to sherlee's topic in Safety

    I maybe could see this if the pill being used is the Extended Release type. Could that be what they meant?

11. Would highly appreciate a feedback of my FNP personal statement

    sasha1224 replied to NikkynurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    i am applying for admission to the msn program, family nurse practitioner concentration because i desire a career which provides advanced nursing care to individuals and to the community at large. my bachelor of science degree in nursing provided the...

12. Frustrated preceptor

    sasha1224 replied to OncRN612's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa....scary! A couple things come to mind. One is to document skills she claims she doesn't have(as you mentioned bed baths, bedside commodes), and document the errors she has made(changing drip rates, lying about giving meds and who knows what els...

13. Recent grad, orientation issues - advice request

    sasha1224 replied to murphyle's topic in Emergency

    I would agree with LunahRN and state to the educator that your had a better connection(rapport) with the alternate preceptor. This may be enough to get to work with the preceptor who you click with better without enraging the first preceptor. If you ...

14. M.R.S.A or mersa?

    sasha1224 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the time Mersa, sometimes MRSA. American. Practiced two regions, Midwest and Southwest. It seems I heard Mersa more in MW and MRSA more SW. May be from higher ratios of foreign nurses. Ireland and Australia have chimed in, was curious about t...

15. respecting ones faith at work...the fine line

    sasha1224 replied to sasha2lady's topic in General Nursing

    When I read your post it got me thinking....I currently work in a fairly diverse cultural area(largely hispanic and tribal groups) but I realized that I have not encountered some of the diverse groups that I had in my home state. In my home city, I e...