AMBER ICURN

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1. Equal Pay

   AMBER ICURN replied to NoCarolinaRN's topic in General Nursing

   our hospital just gave the icu nurses an across the board raise also. this was done for a couple of reasons... we are required to maintain more certifications than other departments (bls,acls,pals, tncc), we are also required to be dual licenced and ...

2. Rapid Response Team and Families

   AMBER ICURN replied to Grumpy's Girl's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital started this and it has been going really well. We as nurses were all worried it would be a problem. We were worried the families would use it if there call light wasn't answered quick enough (and as one of the rapid responders I was e...

3. Pa None Smoking!

   AMBER ICURN replied to LisaG21's topic in General Nursing

   "I think the key difference is that asbestos and lead are things that are completly hidden and you would be exposed to without your consent. If you want to have a beer and or dinner and dont want to be exposed to smoke then you can easily choose an e...

4. Tell Me Why??? Frustrated

   AMBER ICURN replied to johnson0424's topic in Emergency

   Hi, I'm an ICU nurse and just want to make a couple of comments. Please don't be discouraged and give up trying to get into the ED. I had a varied amount of experience in multiple areas when I went into ICU. so it can be done. Right now hospitals are...

5. Anyone else have a Unit Council??

   AMBER ICURN replied to sockov's topic in General Nursing

   Hi I work ICU also and we have ICU governance. It's very new for us and is still in it's babyhood sorta speak. We are getting some things accomplished though. It seems like as we get one issued ironed out something new comes up though. We just put ou...

6. diluting I.V lasix

   AMBER ICURN replied to ADN2003's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, this is my first response to a thread. We don't dilute lasix IVP we give up to 100mg. But it does have to be pushed slowly like 10mg per minute or it can cause hearing loss. I can see where places would do the diluting though because of that. I a...