CV_RN

45-50/hr for PCU (stepdown) and ICU in Weston, WI

I did the LVN to RN program through Excelsior College. Beware - Illinois requires 2 years experience as an RN before you can endorse and California does not accept Excelsior - they are doing a 1 on 1 basis for endorsement (i've been working on it for 8 months now). Otherwise, it's a good route to go if you're an experienced LVN/LPN. I went directly through excelsior college itself which saved me about $8,000. I went on Ebay and purchased a CD rom that had study notes for all the exams. I used the CD rom alone and passed all the exams on the first try. You can sign up for the exams directly through excelsior - I believe they're around 200 bux a test. You save about $4000 alone in textbooks. It worked for me and quite a few nurses I work with. You can also place everything on a payment plan directly with Excelsior College. Basically it's somewhere around 800 dollars enrollment fee, 200 and something per test and 1800 for the clinical. There were 7 exams when I did excelsior in 2005-2006

I started as an LVN in 2004 on a busy cardiac unit at $14.00 carrying my own patient load, starting IV's, doing IV pushes, starting and monitoring cardiac drips all on my own..........which is not far from $11.00 - only tolerated it for the experience, which was great because when I got my RN it was just initial changes behind my name!

Hey everyone, I am an RN from the US. I have a Texas LVN and RN license. I have an ADN degree from excelsior college and work as staff and charge nurse on step down CCU unit. I am interested in moving to canada but am very confused on the process. I am interested in Manitoba. Do I contact an employer and will they help get me a work visa? Do I contact travel agency and will they help me get a work visa? What if I marry a canadian, how does that affect me getting residency in Canada? I don't know if I should get work visa, or permanant residency or what? All of this is very confusing for me. Hopefully someone will have some insight for me?!?!?!?

All of our morphine PCA pumps must be infused via d5 1/2ns at 45 cc/hr per pre made PCA orders. our PCA tubing has a valve that prevents the IV fluids from backing up into the pca tubing and infusing as a bolus. I would NEVER mix a PCA pump with anything other than standard iv fluids. that's too much liability! if you can't get another access then the DR needs to change one of the drugs to PO until access can be obtained!

This is very true! I also work with many LVN's who could run circles around both ADN's and BSN's. It all depends on the person and their on the job training and education.

FYI there are more than RN's and MD's there's LVN's who some can make up to 10-20 dollars more an hour than an MA and the schooling is only 2-3 months longer, and half the cost..........seems silly to me

I am full time, was float pool (per diem) and agency before. I opted to keep my own insurance rather than take the hospitals available for full time staff. I pay 70/month for aetna PPO. to take the hospitals PPO would be about 110/mo. The hospital pays me an extra 15 bucks per pay period to opt out of their health insurance, so I just apply that towards my health insurance and basically pay 55/mo. I also carry my own liability insurance through NSO which is about 100 bucks per year

I guess it depends from state to state. When I was an LVN I took my own patient load, which was the same amount of patients as the RN's had. We usually have 3 RN's and 3 LVN's per shift. Each LVN has an RN buddy and that RN buddy will do the LVN's admission assessment if they get an admission from the ER. All other care is done by the LVN. LVN's can do IV pushes, IV piggy backs and even monitor cardiac drips (heparin, cardizem, lidocaine, etc). The only thing they need the RN for is admission assessment, put a patient in restraints if they need, spike their blood, and hang TPN or lipids if they have those ordered, that's it. LVN's are very much respected on my unit and most of our strong nurses are LVN's. LVN's can even pull chest tubes where I work

Wow some of you get really good bonuses! Where I work, our bonus shifts are 5 dolars an hour for RN 4 dollars an hour for LVN 1 dollar an hour for techs Maybe I need to come to your hospitals because I always sign up for bonus shifts! We can't float on a bonus shift but are first to be cancelled. Our bonus shifts are usually 8 hours, but sometimes you can swing more like earlier this week I noticed we were short on the schedule so I requested a bonus shift they said ok and I worked 12 hours bonus and charged, but our charge pay is only like 1.25

HOW IN THE WORLD could someone not bust out laughing while she was still talking to you with pee dripping down her leg. I just couldn't handle it myself.......I either would be frozen with my jaw open or I would have busted out laughing.......there is NO WAY! How can she return to work? You know hospitals are GOSSIP CENTRAL! That is SOOOOOOOOOO SICK! Homegirl needs to sneak back under that bridge she's from with the other trolls and graze on some more grass for fiber......... J/K that was so wrong.............but seriously YIKES it's time for a BLADDER SUSPENSION! god someone should feel sorry for her and do some pro-bono work if they can stomach the stench during the procedure................yes, we need 75 hippocleanse bars for ms. stink a dink.

CV Intermediate Unit/Stepdown CCU - guess i'm not a stereotype :)

As an LVN in texas I used to start IV's do iv pushes initiate and monitor IV drips; cardizem, lidocaine, heparin, dopamine...etc; we could also change central line dressing changes, draw blood from PICCS, flush PICCS and centrals, hang IV fluid bags, all IVPB's, IV push narcotics, IV push dig, cardizem, lidocaine, heparin, etc...only thing we couldnt do was spike a bag of blood...silly huh. I was trained in LVN school on IV therapy

Here at my hospital in Houston our CNA's draw all our lab work. They can't touch an IV unless they are CCT (critical care tech) trained by the hospital, and can only perform these functions in ICU, CCU, ER. But on the floors all the phleb is done by the CNA's via on the job training.

Yep, and I'm one of them! We are about 70% female nurses and 30% male nurses in my dept...been a nurse over 2.5 years and never once has a patient really had a problem with me as their nurse....there have been a few that wanted a female to clean them up or help them to the commode, stuff like that, b ut never have they refused a male nurse all together