Kowden

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1. Nurses with disabilities

   Kowden replied to bestblondRN's topic in Disabilities

   Let me tell you about my experience: I was an RN working on a Cardiac step-down 30-bed unit. I was one of the 4 RN's staffed for the floor. We had no aides and had to do everything ourselves, only helping eachother. We had pre/post CABG pts., pre...

2. Staffing a telemetry unit

   Kowden replied to ShayRN's topic in Cardiac

   I worked on a Tele floor which was considered to be our "step down unit" cardiac ICU. We had 30 monitored patients with 4 RN's. The RN in charge had to take 2 patients plus charge duties. We didn't have a monitor tech, so the charge RN had to do t...