NephroBSN

NephroBSN BSN, RN

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  1. 30 day notice???

    NephroBSN replied to johnson0424's topic in Nurse Management

    The major dialysis company I worked for before traveling gives 5 WEEKS vacation the first year. When I left I gave 2 weeks notice to the day. It also depends if the OP works in an "at will state".....

  2. Need help developing hospital wide policy, procedures & protocols

    NephroBSN replied to globalnurse's topic in Nurse Management

    Aren't SA hospitals held to JCAHO standards or the Canadia standards? If you've been to SA and worked there wouldn't their P&P's be a good resourse. As an aside, and not to change the subject, is...

  3. Interested in travel nursing

    NephroBSN replied to wrxgal's topic in Travel

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  4. strike in MA

    NephroBSN replied to RockieSis's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Are you in Boston proper? Because I've heard many travel nurses living out side the city because of the parking issues. I think they might have been talking about parking at their apartment complexes...

  5. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm glad you put allergy in " ".. It was a joke in the original post in another thread.. First of all I knew the nurse who was starting my IV Secondly I told her THREE times I didn't want lido....

  6. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    NOW HEAR THIS I could tell "them" but it seems that they've decided every PIV requires LIDO... And I did tell her twice. I had to get her attention somehow Allergic seems to perk up some ears. She...

  7. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Haven't you been paying

  8. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    BUT.............IF one is allergic to it. It has a greater potential to kill

  9. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Actually, lidocaine allergy was never intended to be the topic of this

  10. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Ok you come right on down to the local Dialysis unit. We'll let you put in 15's any day you want to. And when you use lidocaine as a local topical anesthetic and ruin the only life line a little 40k...

  11. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just don't wear your tag in the wrong

  12. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    In recalling the incident further she also said she liked using lido so she "could dig" if she needed to.. Now this was one RN to another. I know what digging is and what it entails. Imagine what...

  13. PA vs. RN

    NephroBSN replied to malika's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing and medicine are two different areas. Most of the time a PA still has to work directly under an MD. They have to have their charts reviewed etc. An NP can hang out his/her shingle so to speak....

  14. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Well bless my pee picking heart.. As Richard Pryor used to say "When I go into the woods to pick out my switch for you to beat me with I hope it meets with your

  15. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm amazed you don't know the answer.. LIDOCAINE is a prescription drug.. The Red Cross has no MD or CRNA present to prescribe

  16. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Well the next time I have a patient "request" lido I'll give ya'll a call. OMG I'm a poet and don't know

  17. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I DO know what banter is. The other poster seems to know in only in context of their own posts. That was my

  18. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    But you did use the word scut.. Freudian slip???????? And a two-fer.. Wow for someone who wasn't gonna dig anymore.....Oh

  19. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Isn't one of the requirements for attending CRNA school one year of critical care nursing? Do critical care nurses not look at labs, etc as you so carefully explained. If that is the case then NO I...

  20. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I never said it was.. I said it was a joke for this board...... So if it quacks like a duck and it waddles like a duck it might not be a duck????????????????? BTW I always ask for an

  21. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    But you do chide them that you "had to do their job or was work" You are trying to bait me it seems . You took this thread and brought up something I said in jest, even using " " to denote that fact,...

  22. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I wasn't joking with her. I was protecting myself.. It was a JOKE here............ And giving juniors extra work and treating them as inferior doesn't seem fall under my definition of joking

  23. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I put allergy in " " do you know what that signifies.. Sorta like your JOKE about the juniors. Right?????????????? Do you understand that a Registered Nurse was gonna give me a medicine I didnt'...

  24. Lidocaine prior to IV start?

    NephroBSN replied to WVUturtle514's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    A JOKE>> You can joke but others can't...Interesting

  25. For physiology studs only..

    NephroBSN replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Nothing in your mind... And I do hate lidocaine. I didn't have to tell you why. I hate it because it causes anxiety. It's the chicken and the egg syndrome. I don't know which came first the fear of...