DawnRN

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1. What are your patient/staff ratios, how much overtime are you doing?

   DawnRN replied to rncountry's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a 12-17 bed ICU and our ratios vary anywhere from 1:1 (CABG recovery, IABP, ICP, Peds, CVVHC etc) to 1:3 (stable tele's, angio's, medicals etc) we do have some occasions when we are running with alot of high acuity patients that we will st...

2. agency nurses

   DawnRN replied to seasonednurse's topic in General Nursing

   Hi ! I work a .7 FTE in the ICU of my local hospital, and when we recently went to 12 hr shifts, I also picked up agency. I also work for Favorite Nurses, and there is never a shortage of hours available within a 2 hour radius of my home. The wage...

3. organ donors??

   DawnRN replied to hollykate's topic in General Nursing

   I work in Oregon and we have the same mandatory request policy as Washington ( belive this is a policy of Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank, our transplant facilitators for OR, WA, ID & AK). The facility I work at has a 100% compliance rate and ...

4. nursing salaries

   DawnRN replied to natbrat's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated in 1997 and at that time starting salaries in Corvallis, OR were $19.25/hr + 5% eve diff, 9% noc diff, and an addl 5% weekend on top of your others. I currently work in a fast paced 12 bed mixed ICU and make $20.75/hr plus diff. the sa...