IRN2011 ASN, BSN

IRN2011 has 9 years experience as a ASN, BSN and specializes in CCU, CRRT.

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1. Being forced to give corporate access to my medical records?!

   IRN2011 replied to IRN2011's topic in General Nursing

   update to the thread: I talked to my director yesterday and reiterated again to her that I did not request to not float to covid unit, it was my charge nurse and her deciding that for me.. and that I have no issues floating to covid. I have a h...

2. Being forced to give corporate access to my medical records?!

   IRN2011 replied to IRN2011's topic in General Nursing

   Completely agree.. and to be honest I don't mind if those seeking to be exempt from taking care of covid patients all together be screened for a valid reason as to why.. since if we are wearing proper PPE we should be well protected. The issue I hav...

3. Being forced to give corporate access to my medical records?!

   IRN2011 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone, So I've been floating between my main unit in CCU/CVICU and our covid ICU with no issues since the pandemic hit last Feb. Last month my heartrate started going erratic and turns out I was in thyroid storm (history of thyroid CA s/...

4. What is a reasonable nurse: patient ratio in ICU?

   IRN2011 replied to Kitiger's topic in COVID

   agency hands down is making more at my hospital. they just started hiring Crisis RN's down here in florida and posted 120/hr for ICU and 100/hr for medsurg... meanwhile us staff nurses are averaging around 28-33/hr with no incentives for picking up ...

5. What is a reasonable nurse: patient ratio in ICU?

   IRN2011 replied to Kitiger's topic in COVID

   Currently at my hospital we have a typical 1:2 with the occasional 1:3 ratios for ICU's. If a patient is a fresh hypothermia, is rotoproned, CRRT, or IABP/impella than they are 1:1 unless we are severely short, but they would go out of their way to ...

6. Employee treatment after exposure

   IRN2011 replied to Ele_123's topic in COVID

   sadly this is par for the course. I've been exposed multiple times responding to rapid responses on covid-negative units for patients in respiratory distress and emergent intubated with no n95's available for staff only to find out that they were no...

7. The road not taken. my RN midlife crisis.

   IRN2011 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone, Sorry if this message is in the wrong place on this subforum, or if it is a little long. I haven't really posted here or been active on the forums in a while. I've been in the middle of what feels like a mid-life crisis and I'm truthf...

8. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

   IRN2011 replied to IRN2011's topic in COVID

   So an update to this story. luckily I've been asymptomatic for 13 days now since the exposure - still going to work. I've talked with employee health which is having me log down my temperature twice a day. As long as I don't develop a fever over 1...

9. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

   IRN2011 replied to IRN2011's topic in COVID

   Two nurses at my hospital have been placed on suspension for saying they are refusing the assignment before shift change until masks are delivered to the unit to ensure they have a mask for their shift

10. Exposed to patient positive with coronavirus

    IRN2011 posted a topic in COVID

    I was taking care of a patient who I admitted as a R/O caronavirus. The patient was admitted In respiratory distress and started on bipap. The patient became acutely confused and started tearing off his bipap. At the time, we were out of masks as ...

11. Director mandating and threatening to change clockout times

    IRN2011 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all, Recently my hospital went through a director carousel of some sorts. A few of the directors left(forced out) after we brought in a new CNO, being replaced from current directors on other units. My director was one of those that was moved...

12. Toxic floor morale

    IRN2011 replied to IRN2011's topic in General Nursing

    my contract is a 3 year contract with an 8K signing bonus. They put all new-hires in a 'class' which lasted for 3 weeks that was pretty much an orientation to the hospital with rotating speakers from different departments and drug manufacturers comi...

13. Toxic floor morale

    IRN2011 replied to IRN2011's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately Florida does not have any laws for PTO nor for mandatory OT, from what I've researched administration can make their own policy and change it at anytime without notice.

14. Toxic floor morale

    IRN2011 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey all, I've been in the medical field for the past 6 years as various professions (paramedic, nurse extern, nurse) but have only recently started working as an RN about a year ago. Per my contract we gain 4.4 hours of PTO bi-weekly and work 3 shif...