dbay

dbay has 6 years experience and specializes in med/surg, tele, CCU, ICU, travel nurse.

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1. IV gtt START rate

   dbay posted a topic in Medications

   I'm looking for an app that tells us what to START certain drips at. At the last hospital I worked at the doctor would always write "start dopamine at __". Here they just write Dopamine per protocol but this place has not been able to show me what ...

2. Pulling Meds for Multiple Patients

   dbay replied to trustsupplyguy's topic in General Nursing

   I am a nurse AND a nursing instructor. I give meds EXACTLY how I was taught. I am a pro at organization and time management, and all my coworkers know it!

3. Pulling Meds for Multiple Patients

   dbay replied to trustsupplyguy's topic in General Nursing

   You are not supposed to do this. Case closed.

4. Travel Nursing and BONUSES

   dbay replied to ummwhome's topic in Travel

   You need to have your own standard to compare different travel companies because they never have all the same "wages". What I do when I am looking for a job is tell them I want to know what the most I can make in one month is if I were to forgo all ...

5. Am I crazy? Looking into traveling with husband, 2 kids, and dog.

   dbay replied to spiritdancer's topic in Travel

   I did it. I traveled with my husband and our 3 children for 2 years. He was a stay at home dad. I worked 5 shifts per wk. We did it for financial reasons and we made a lot of money. BUT it was not fun. It was very hard, but it was worth it. We ...

6. looking for good agency

   dbay replied to vein73's topic in Travel

   Emerald Health if you want to go to Calif.

7. ? About Good Pay Rates For Seattle/tacoma As Travler

   dbay replied to tmdidio27's topic in Travel

   I was a traveler for 2 years. When comparing the pay of various companies you need to compare apples to apples, oranges to oranges. My advise to you, and what I always did, was ask the company what the MAXIMUM pay is. What this means is, what will...

8. sterile or what?

   dbay posted a topic in Wound

   When I was in nursing school, we learned how to do wet to dry dressing changes and were told they absolutely must be done with sterile gloves. I did this, and I was very good about it even though I knew other nurses weren't. Then after about 3 year...

9. liability insurance

   dbay posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am new here and I think I must have posted in the wrong section last time or something. How is it possible that I can post something at say 11:00 and by 11:10 have had only 1 viewing, while someone else who posted at the same time could have 5,000 ...