Nightrn16

Nightrn16 has 2 years experience and specializes in Cardiac.

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1. Any EP Doctor Office Nurses Out There?

   Nightrn16 posted a topic in Cardiac

   Greetings! It's been a while since I posted, mainly because sometimes RL sucks. The last time I posted, I worked on a 39 Telemetry bed unit, taking care of as many as 9 patients at night plus being...

2. Pay wise for RN's in office?

   Nightrn16 replied to Nightrn16's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   20/hr .. wow .. my base pay wasn't even that when i worked in the hospital for 2 years. I started out at 17 something and when I quit 2 years later I was up to 18.50. Of course, that was my day...

3. Telemetry monitoring

   Nightrn16 replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

   When we do Tikosyn, or have them on a drip that would affect the HR, we tell the HUC's (the one's that watch the monitor), and they have a clipboard that when they measure each strip out, they record...

4. What's your favorite shift and why??

   Nightrn16 replied to np_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

   I liked the 11p-7a shift. Sure the patients get cranky when you have to wake them up especially when the 3-11p RN gave a sleeping pill at 9pm, but the way i look at it, they get their vitals taken at...

5. The Middle Wife

   Nightrn16 replied to santhony44's topic in Nursing Humor

   haha that's

6. Telemetry monitoring

   Nightrn16 replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

   The tele floor I worked on had a monitor tech that was trained specifically to watch the monitors .. uh .. watch the monitors. They took off doctor's orders and watched the tele's. Not the nurses....

7. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

   Nightrn16 replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I've had a couple thanks yous that stick out in my mind. The hospital where I used to work at had papers thumb-tacked to the bulletin boards in each patients room that said "Thank you to _____" and a...

8. Pay wise for RN's in office?

   Nightrn16 replied to Nightrn16's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   I'm in WV. That'd be nice if it was the same payscale, but I don't want to expect high only to get them

9. Pay wise for RN's in office?

   Nightrn16 posted a topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

   I quit the hospital to move home and help my papaw out, plus it was getting too stressful and too dangerous (see my other threads about that rant lol), so tomorrow I'm going around and gonna hand out...

10. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Nightrn16 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Well I have a few, some happened to me, some did not. 1) This was told to me as well as several other orientee's. There was an aide doing post mortem care on a patient. This was evidentally an...

11. Insulin drips on the floor!

    Nightrn16 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

    The floor I work on, I've taken care of insulin drips before with a 9 patient load. I work night shift (and I don't care what anyone says, no one sleeps at night) and on the telemetry floor I work...

12. titrating cardizem

    Nightrn16 replied to ark-two's topic in Cardiac

    I've been a nurse for almost 2 years, and while I agree a manual BP would be ideal, but when you have 9 other patients (in which the ones that aren't sick are needy) it's hard. I do try to eyeball the...

13. titrating cardizem

    Nightrn16 replied to ark-two's topic in Cardiac

    The floor I work on, a tele floor, we hang, titrate, and manage a cardieziem drip, all while looking after normally 9 patients total. We have our HUC's watch the monitor's. It's never left...

14. Looking to go into cardiac nursing... can u help??

    Nightrn16 replied to Epona's topic in Cardiac

    I agree with the above poster about the needlesticks. Our hospital too uses the needless system. With the exception of putting in an IV or giving insulin, (or occasionally drawing up meds which i do...

15. So confused about the job I want.

    Nightrn16 replied to Nightrn16's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Well, I really do want out of the hosptial. I'm dreading it. My migraines have started coming back and last week while tugging on a patient (I should have known better to tug on), I think I pulled...