MB-mom.RN

MB-mom.RN has 7 years experience and specializes in ICU.

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1. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

   MB-mom.RN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

   work in ICU @ hospital in KY, in the city. $26.86 base + $3.70 nightshift diff + a wkend diff for my wkend position... I was an LPN 2yrs in nsg home, 2yrs RN in nursing home, 3 years on the floor before coming to ICU. NO increase in pay from floor ...

2. Charting Bloopers

   MB-mom.RN replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   dr. *** (neurologist) walks in on night shift (very strange) in a cowboy hat and sees a patient. writes in the notes "disagree with radiology interpretation, patient has holes in head". the patient had no neuro/head problems and nothing on the ct r...

3. Pill falls on pt gown...is it safe to give?

   MB-mom.RN replied to sle1191's topic in Safety

   that's the difference between the "RIGHT" way to do things and the "REAL" way to do things!

4. What are the main things you can get written up for ?

   MB-mom.RN replied to Aongroup1990's topic in Safety

   who polishes their shoes??! lol

5. HELP!! No charge nurse, no supervisor and OUTRAGEOUS ratios!!

   MB-mom.RN replied to ncrn4806's topic in Safety

   we have 5 on our telemetry unit, often flexing up to 6... and 4 often flexing to 5 on our telemetry/intermediate teams!

6. Bed down close to the floor for safety

   MB-mom.RN replied to Alnitak7's topic in Safety

   i think the problem is with all the different "low" beds... at the ltc facility i worked at we had low beds that literally sat on the floor and we'd put down fall mats.. in the hospital our "low" beds are higher than a foot from the floor.

7. What critical vital signs would institute a rapid response

   MB-mom.RN replied to uniquegifts1's topic in Safety

   yea you def cant go by the numbers, i work on a stroke unit where high bp's are good bp's... we call for sbp >220

8. Insulin order

   MB-mom.RN replied to newbiern22's topic in Safety

   we recently changed our policy, now the AM nurses get the accuchecks because a dayshift nurse happened to recheck a bs before she gave a large amt of insulin for a high sugar and the bs was back down to normal and didnt require insulin. that 2 hour ...

9. New job: "Don't worry about following the MAR" & other scary stuff

   MB-mom.RN replied to kak85's topic in Safety

   -you will absolutely need to pass all the night meds at once for the most part, esp being on a unit w/ demented patients, i was lucky if i could get some of them to take meds ONE time a night, def wouldnt of gotten them to take meds THREE times... be...

10. Something my clinical instructor said...

    MB-mom.RN replied to Dnap22's topic in General Students

    it's fine to hang NS @ 10ml/hr without an order, it keeps the line patent. our icu's run carrier fluids (thats what we call it) @ 30ml/hr to keep the central lines patent and its just easier on us to do that when the pt has multiple iv abts. if you ...