PMFB-RN RN

burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response

Member

  • Content

    5,351

  • Visitors

    76,435

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    684

All Content by PMFB-RN

  1. PMFB-RN

    Does anyone work as Rapid Response?

    PMFB-RN replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

    That's HILARIOUS!!!!!! In my facility a rookie move like that would have earned the nurse about a year of good natured
  2. PMFB-RN

    Does anyone work as Rapid Response?

    PMFB-RN replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, just one RRT RN on at a time. Its a full time position and we don't do anything else. We have respiratory therapists on call for RRTs, but only we call them if needed. The only time I call them...
  3. PMFB-RN

    New Grad in ICU feeling terrible...,

    PMFB-RN replied to janelicurn's topic in MICU, SICU

    I wonder if this is because you are a VA nurse. In my experience the VA doesn't provide a comprehensive training program for new grads. Where I work new grads go through a 9 month critical care nurses...
  4. PMFB-RN

    RN to CRNA - which road?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheBlackDogWaits's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I would like to point out that this information is wrong. I got this information directly from the AANA's website where is says
  5. PMFB-RN

    Your Starting Salary?

    PMFB-RN replied to x_factor's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know where STL area is. But you can indeed be well paid as an RN. But you have to choose where you live and work, and what kind of work you do carefully. New grads start at about $32/hour...
  6. PMFB-RN

    **HELP!! ICU RN Working PRN in LTC??

    PMFB-RN replied to Spoiled1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Interesting. In my long nursing career I have never heard anyone say that nurses in nursing homes are not real nurses. I was under the impression that, since they often have to deal with things...
  7. PMFB-RN

    **HELP!! ICU RN Working PRN in LTC??

    PMFB-RN replied to Spoiled1's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The OP in no way hinted or indicated that she didn't think working in a nursing home was a real job. Not even a suggestion of that and I am totally mystified as to how you could have misunderstood her...
  8. PMFB-RN

    BSN not helpful

    PMFB-RN replied to guest974915's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Oh I think requiring RNs to go back and obtain a BSN ALMOST fulfills it's desired outcome. That is punishing those who had the unmitigated gall to practice nursing with "only" an ADN or BSN. I...
  9. PMFB-RN

    BSN not helpful

    PMFB-RN replied to guest974915's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I disagree that earning a BSN has anything to do with producing well-rounded people with broad world views. If that were really the case then the ADN or diploma RN who already hold a bachelors degree...
  10. PMFB-RN

    MD to NP

    PMFB-RN replied to Malenurse1235954's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There are already MD to RN
  11. PMFB-RN

    Is the RN--->BSN push a clever way to get older nurses out of the way

    PMFB-RN replied to Nola009's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I don't buy it. Here is why. If moving towards an all BSN nursing workforce was REALLY about better outcomes then nursing would have done what every other healthy profession did when they increased...
  12. PMFB-RN

    Make >$100K As An RN? Here Is One Way

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Go to this link and observe that most of the RNs are making >$100K/year, some much more. These are California Department of Corrections RNs. State worker salary database | The Sacramento
  13. PMFB-RN

    Make >$100K As An RN? Here Is One Way

    PMFB-RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Note that the Department of Corrections has facilities all over the sate. Their website mentions premium pay for those working in several
  14. PMFB-RN

    Are Nurses First Responders?

    PMFB-RN replied to ScrubADub12's topic in General Nursing

    You are so severely misinformed I don't even know where to
  15. PMFB-RN

    Are Nurses First Responders?

    PMFB-RN replied to ScrubADub12's topic in General Nursing

    Hmm, not quite. Our hospital is on a 100 acre campus and includes non hospital buildings like class rooms and offices and transitional living units for rehab. When I respond to a chest pain or trauma...
  16. PMFB-RN

    Funny Things Patients Say

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So the other night I was called to assess an unresponsive patient on our locked psych unit. I arrived to find him to look perfectly fine and have perfect vital signs. We checked and he wasn't...
  17. PMFB-RN

    RN-BSN SCAM

    PMFB-RN replied to elpnla's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Holding a BSN and possessing basic knowledge of EBP and leadership training are unrelated to each
  18. PMFB-RN

    Reactions to being a NP

    PMFB-RN replied to orangepink's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    That is bring NP salary UP to that of an experienced RN. None of my friends who became NPs made more money. They did get better
  19. PMFB-RN

    Lpn & asn are are being phased out.

    PMFB-RN replied to shermainenevels's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    No, the best thing nurses can do to ensure higher wages is to organize into strong, politically active unions. The supply of nurse graduates can be turned on and off like a faucet and is subject to...
  20. PMFB-RN

    EpiPens....who knew?

    PMFB-RN replied to roser13's topic in Patient Medications

    When I asked my primary care provider for an Rx for epi pens to keep in my wilderness first aid kit, he just gave me several of the vials & syringes, the same ones we use in the hospital. After he...
  21. PMFB-RN

    Will paramedic be useful for ICU job?

    PMFB-RN replied to BradS's topic in Critical Care

    To the OP. The answer is
  22. PMFB-RN

    Will paramedic be useful for ICU job?

    PMFB-RN replied to BradS's topic in Critical Care

    In SOME designated trauma centers the ER nurses, like the ER docs, have nothing to do with trauma. The trauma team is activated and the RN on the team is an SICU, or trauma ICU RN and the ER nurse is...
  23. PMFB-RN

    $600 an hr to fill a shift?

    PMFB-RN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    And yet another crazy issues has been brought to a discussion full of them. It's unbelievably messed up that a mere PA would have an $1,800 (assume the 3rd "0" was a typo) a month student loan...
  24. PMFB-RN

    What is the Registered Nurse Patient Ratio at your hospital?

    PMFB-RN replied to LinenP's topic in General Nursing

    That is crazy! Do you have a union? Do you, as a professional RN, feel this is safe staffing
  25. PMFB-RN

    What is the Registered Nurse Patient Ratio at your hospital?

    PMFB-RN replied to LinenP's topic in General Nursing

    Publicly owned community teach hospital in the upper Midwest/ ICUs, (SICU, MICU & PICU) - 1 to 1 or 2 to 1 depending on acuity Never more. Step down 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 depending on acuity. Med surg...