Keshet

Keshet specializes in Cardiology currently.

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1. the difference between perdiem and casual employee?

   Keshet replied to coffee4metech's topic in General Nursing

   You do have to be careful to define exactly what they mean. One hospital where I applied had both PRN and Per Diem positions. As it turned out, the PRN positions required a minimum of 6 shifts per month and paid a great differential although they d...

2. Watch your meds CLOSELY! (long)

   Keshet replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

   I once had both of my two prescriptions refilled at the same time, one was synthroid and one was benicar. When I got home, the meds were in the wrong bottles. It took a minute even for me to realize it because I had just started taking the benicar....

3. Sign-on Bonus contract terms

   Keshet replied to Keshet's topic in General Nursing

   Well, yes, they did show taxes of over $3000 deducted on the first check, which also had 12 hours of work, so it would be hard to separate the work tax from the bonus tax. The replacement check they gave me for the work hours only did not have any t...

4. Sign-on Bonus contract terms

   Keshet replied to Keshet's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the responses so far! That confirms for me that turning it down (and giving it back when they gave it to me anyway!) was the right thing to do. The HR guy tried to tell me that "all hospitals" do it this way! I didn't think so!

5. Sign-on Bonus contract terms

   Keshet posted a topic in General Nursing

   I would be interested in hearing the contract terms other hospitals offer on sign-on bonuses, after my own recent (bad) experience with one. I recently accepted a full time position in this hospital. At the time of interview, offer, and acceptance, ...

6. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   Keshet replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   When you are on vacation to a dude ranch in another state, never say, "Hey, guys, want to see my cool horse trick?", and then get on a horse, head him straight for a tree at high speed, and then grab the tree trunk with your left arm while giving you...

7. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   Keshet replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   Never use det cord as a fuse to light your illegal New Year's eve fireworks. But IF you do, don't wrap it around your wrist a few times before you light it. Don't get drunk, get in the shower with a knife and screwdriver and try to remove the screws...

8. Stupid Nurse Trick... Don't try this at home... or work!

   Keshet replied to TXRN02's topic in Humor

   Speaking of clumsy! I was once prepping a lady for a cardiac cath, and while shaving her, got the bed a little wet. So, she got up to go to the bathroom, while I went to get new bedding. I came back in the room (it was a double, separated by a cur...

9. Ever give yourself a flu shot before?

   Keshet replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, I too have done it twice, when I was working night shift! The hospital provided the vaccine but nobody at night to administer it! We just had to sign it out for ourselves. Both times I did it in the deltoid, using a big mirror in the bathroom. J...

10. What do you have in there??

    Keshet replied to cardiac.cure03's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you guys have lockers? I don't carry anything back and forth between home and work unless absolutely necessary. I even keep my shoes in my locker. Pocket stuff? Clipboard? Reference books? It all stays in the hospital. Maybe I'm just parano...

11. How To Say No

    Keshet replied to EyesForward's topic in General Nursing

    I went to a nursing seminar once , and one of the breakout groups was on managing stress. The seminar leader, Nancy Suazo, suggested using what she called the "broken record technique" when someone is hounding you to work. The conversation would go...

12. Don't apply here anymore or what??

    Keshet replied to shortstuff31117's topic in General Nursing

    I had that happen to me once, a place I had worked for over 10 years. TI called the ER manager who I had worked for before, but he was no longer in charge of ER, and they were in transition looking for a new manager. So I went to HR through the "no...

13. Your top three coping strategies

    Keshet replied to Elisheva's topic in General Nursing

    Dear Medic2ERNurse2B, Thanks for your post. I was a paramedic before I became an RN too. Paramedics often feel underappreciated, I know, not necessarily from the patients, but from other medical staff in the ER. To them, you are the one who brings th...