marygirl

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1. Gastric Bypass: trading one set of problems for another?

   marygirl replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   I think that for every person you know that lost weight effectively with exercise and not dieting, there might be at least a thousand that it doesn't work for. I was one of the "healthiest" >300 pound women that you might ever meet, aerobically f...

2. nursing float pool

   marygirl replied to ddc22's topic in General Nursing

   I work the "float pool" but at my hospital it is called "the resource team". RN's are paid $2 extra an hour to work one cluster, $3 to work two clusters and $4 to work three or more clusters. Right now I am working med-surg and tele clusters and am...

3. The Doctor said WHAT?

   marygirl replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

   My parents are retired. My mom was a postal carrier and my dad was a millwright and I have a vague impression of those jobs, not something I know well at all.

4. Ever been stalked by a patient?

   marygirl replied to marygirl's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, update, yes I'm okay. I worked the day after that happened, then had a day off and then worked Friday. The hospital I work for has 3 campuses and I work on all three. I was placed on another campus both times I have worked since the incident. ...

5. Ever been stalked by a patient?

   marygirl posted a topic in General Nursing

   New Year's day, I had a patient about my age. He asked me personal questions every time I was in the room, like if I was married, if I had kids, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary, lots of people do this. By about noon, he started coming on a lot st...

6. Ortho Floor only takes care of ortho problems?

   marygirl replied to marygirl's topic in General Nursing

   I do think that in general, hospitals are discharge happy. I admit people every day who have been home less than 3 days, one man less than 5 hours. Believe it or not, he also had a PE and was discharged off of the Pulmonary floor! Some people get ...

7. patient condition phone calls

   marygirl replied to marygirl's topic in General Nursing

   re: HIPPA, all of the local hospitals in this area assign the patient a PIN# and if the person has the PIN, they can get the information. I wish our hospital had a couple of extra policies. The one where only one person can call would be ideal, th...

8. patient condition phone calls

   marygirl posted a topic in General Nursing

   Here is my biggest pet peeve as a nurse: patient condition phone calls. Not referring to me contacting a family to let them know their loved one's condition has changed, I am referring to the daily onslaught of calls from family members, sometimes ...

9. Charge Nurses: What sort of nurses working under you do you like/dont like?

   marygirl replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

   As a resource "float" nurse, I rarely challenge assignments. There is a mentality that I can take a heavier team or go over assigned limits due to my position and I may have more general knowledge than alot of the floor nurses especially if they ha...

10. Meal and Potty Breaks

    marygirl replied to Weeping Willow's topic in General Nursing

    There may not be a law that says a hospital has to give you a break, but the one where I work automatically docks my time in the assumption that I took a break. If I don't get a break, I used to mark it down and then tried to figure out if my pay wo...

11. Ortho Floor only takes care of ortho problems?

    marygirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone. I am a resource nurse, aka float pool. I began my career on the cardiac unit and now work 9 different areas of the hospital. The other day, I was working on the ortho floor and I began with a delightful group of patients. One patient had...

12. Nurse tracking devices

    marygirl replied to PattonD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    at our hospital most of the staff is required to wear the tracking devices. Most of the docs don't, however, but they are not employees of the hospital. The hospitalists do wear them, but they are employees. See the difference? Agency nurses and ...

13. overtime incentives

    marygirl replied to wnydapoo's topic in Arizona

    okay, correction. it is $8.00 per hour on top of the time and a half for over 40 hours. Pay in our area is not great but we do all right. My hospital is the only one in a decent driving distance that offers any incentive for extra shifts.

14. overtime incentives

    marygirl replied to wnydapoo's topic in Arizona

    I'm the $8.00 an our incentive person. I just heard through the grapevine that the hospital is considering squashing the OT incentive. I don't know quite how they'll staff the hospital. I get a call almost every day asking if I can come in to work...

15. strange request?

    marygirl replied to love2shop's topic in Ob/Gyn

    smilingblueyes, enemas during labor/before birth used to be a common practice. when I went to the hospital in labor 20 years ago, I was first told by the nurse to "show me a contraction" and when I couldn't produce one, was told to go home and retur...