tookdaddy

tookdaddy specializes in CVICU, SICU, PCU, ER.

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1. What is the market like in Las Vegas

   tookdaddy replied to Keko89's topic in Nevada

   I am considering a travel ICU position at Desert Springs...have you heard anything good or bad? I'm at Renown in Reno right now in the CVICU getting off a 6 month assignment.

2. Help! Need new agency for NV

   tookdaddy replied to tifftaff81's topic in Travel

   Michelle - what was Desert Springs like? I am considering a position that was offered to me there...I will be in ICU, though. Anything you can tell me would be great!

3. Nurses create the demand! Quit accepting low paying contracts

   tookdaddy replied to Nomad5150's topic in Travel

   If you work in Arkansas, your starting pay today (2011) would still be just $17.75 hourly. Arkansas is a state with little nursing fraternity, it seems. Positive change will only come with a unified nursing voice and all of us sticking with each ot...

4. Nurses create the demand! Quit accepting low paying contracts

   tookdaddy replied to Nomad5150's topic in Travel

   I was extended on this assignment, already, but the hospital I am at only allows nurses to travel for 6 continuous months, so I have to switch. What is everyone else getting for overtime? I just didn't feel like it was right for me to get less in ove...

5. Nurses create the demand! Quit accepting low paying contracts

   tookdaddy replied to Nomad5150's topic in Travel

   I'm about to take my second assignment....I'm trying to figure out if I was "had" on the first. I don't really like my recruiter with RN Network. Have you heard anything about them being sheisty? My base was $18/hour plus $2600/month housing stipend ...

6. patient/nurse ratios in Nevada (Reno)?

   tookdaddy replied to hatingthewaiting's topic in Nevada

   Apparently I don't have enough posts to PM yet....is there another way we can get in touch? I'm fairly new to the forum.

7. patient/nurse ratios in Nevada (Reno)?

   tookdaddy replied to hatingthewaiting's topic in Nevada

   Reno1978 - I'm thinking about taking my first long-distance travel assignment in SICU at Renown, but I will be taking my family, and I guess I'm just looking for some kind of reassurance that it isn't an awful place to work. I've read some good and s...

8. SICU at Renown in Reno - is my recruiter hiding something?

   tookdaddy posted a topic in Nevada

   I am looking at taking a travel position at Renown in Reno, but I have read good and bad things. I am an SICU nurse and will be moving my wife and two baby daughters with me, so I don't want to make a huge mistake that I will regret if the facility i...

9. moving from Charlotte, NC to Tulsa, OK?

   tookdaddy replied to whatnext's topic in Oklahoma

   I am considering taking a travel job at Hillcrest in the ER. Does anyone have any experiences with Hillcrest (particularly ER) they can share? I did a short stint in ICU at Muskogee Regional and it was AWFUL. I do not want that to happen again!

10. Inappropriate ICU admissions

    tookdaddy replied to sunnycalifRN's topic in MICU

    I work in SICU and get lots of overflow. We constantly take floor patients that require "baby-sitting" or just plain overflow. We also get all of the pediatric overflow because MICU RNs don't have to carry PALS at my hospital. I think this ICU dum...

11. What is the highest temp you have seen?

    tookdaddy replied to momthenRN's topic in MICU

    And as far as how long you can survive with a high temp... It depends on your health and metabolic status before the disease process set in. Some people are able to compensate better/longer than others. I have seen super high temps last for days, a...

12. Talking to Physicians

    tookdaddy replied to cluv2nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I do this really cool "jumping into my pants" thing where both legs go in at once. But anyway..... Rarely do I start out by asking the doctor for something. I usually tell them what assessments are concerning me, and then I tell them what I think ...

13. better staffing better care

    tookdaddy replied to makes needs known's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses have options for where they work. Let your manager know this. If nothing changes, find a place to work where you can enjoy what you are doing. -Evan RN

14. RN salaries In Tampa, FL??

    tookdaddy replied to Student_Michelle's topic in General Nursing

    One of my friends graduated from nursing school in August 2009. He has still not found a job as an RN in California. He has applied to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, you name it. He has even been turned down for CNA jobs. They attribute this ...

15. Sketchy propofol dosing

    tookdaddy replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    Sounds like you were being a good RN and looking at your patient instead of fixating on the monitor. Also, your pulse ox monitor is reading only the saturation of that one finger that your probe is on. An MD can almost always talk you into feeling f...