MsBruiser

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1. Nclex-RN and License

   MsBruiser replied to magnolia44's topic in Arizona Nursing

   I always got by with printing out out a copy and using

2. TUBA CITY, AZ HOSPITAL--need info/advice!!

   MsBruiser replied to Shannon--NotSherman's topic in Arizona Nursing

   No direct experience in that hospital. I am more familiar with Phoenix Indian Hospital - which sucks. A lot. Challenging population (all that you mention above) with a horrible bureacracy layered into...

3. Possible to break Rn Residency contract

   MsBruiser replied to blueeyedboxer's topic in General Nursing

   Your salary is a mere rounding error for one day's revenue. Just

4. Possible to break Rn Residency contract

   MsBruiser replied to blueeyedboxer's topic in General Nursing

   Just quit. They have nothing to come after you for other than a $50.00 drug test. Small

5. Nursing Judgment Vs Surveys

   MsBruiser replied to Bailey_lou's topic in General Nursing

   I think you need a new

6. $600 an hr to fill a shift?

   MsBruiser replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   Oh. Wow. CV surgeons doing heart transplants do not make that where I work. Take that one with a grain of

7. Advice, tips, comments for a soon to be nurse

   MsBruiser replied to jennifermae24's topic in General Nursing

   Well. I once programmed an IV pump wrong and dumped an entire bag of medicine into a patient in 10 minutes. In an ICU. Thank god it was 100 ml of insulin and not Levophed. The patient could have died....

8. Struggling New Grad...

   MsBruiser replied to ohsosarah20's topic in General Nursing

   You should be terrified as a new nurse doing home health. But that is water under the bridge - where you are is where you are. Some advice: 1) Use your common sense - always. If something doesn't look...

9. $600 an hr to fill a shift?

   MsBruiser replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know what to make of this post. I have 8 years experience and make more than that as a nurse working an overtime

10. Return to Nursing with No Experience

    MsBruiser replied to JCIrvin12's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain. I flipped in and out of clinical and more business-type jobs for the health system where I work. In fact, I took a $20,000 pay cut going back to clinical work, though overtime has...

11. confused.. Non-conducted PAC vs Type II AV block?

    MsBruiser replied to nooneelse's topic in Cardiac

    Good question and good

12. Vtach

    MsBruiser replied to mugs's topic in Cardiac

    Cardiac device nurse here. I will give you a simple answer. Generally, anything less than 10 beats does not really get my attention. That is a very simple rule of thumb. The most important way to look...

13. EP Nurses

    MsBruiser replied to SMYSJanie's topic in Cardiac

    I am a cardiac device nurse. I took me until I was 44 to find my dream job. Better late then never, huh? EP is like learning a foreign language - very complex and abstract. I love knowing that I work...

14. Question about ICD/pacemaker

    MsBruiser replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Beyond programmed ATP therapies, a skilled pacemaker RN or Electrophysiologist can do manual overdrive pacing. It is pretty nerve racking and I always carry a calculator in my pocket so I can do rapid...

15. Pacemaker interrogation

    MsBruiser replied to spdaydream's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I am a cardiac device RN. First, you have to work at a facility that has cardiac device nurses. These places are kind of few and far between. I live in the 6th biggest city in the US (metro area of...