lovetoride

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1. From ER RN to School RN...is there anyone out there?

   lovetoride replied to ERRNDeans's topic in School

   These posts make me hopeful that maybe school nursing may be a path I should follow. I have had my BSN for 19yrs. I worked most of my career as a med/surg nurse. I have been doing hospital case management for about a year now. I made the switch fo...

2. If healthcare reform resulted in salary caps of $40k for nurses would you stay?

   lovetoride replied to keithjones's topic in General Nursing

   no way. I make more than that working 24 hrs a week. I'd switch careers!

3. Resume Dilema?

   lovetoride replied to cn2007rn's topic in Med-Surg

   I would mention that you miss the medical side of nursing :) do NOT say you had any reservations or panic attacks. They don't need to know that.

4. Surgical nurse questions!

   lovetoride replied to oldiebutgoodie's topic in Med-Surg

   #1.. no I would not have taken down the dressing 5 hours later. I don't see this much, but when I have I've changed the dressing in the am with a bunch of fluffs just placed over the drain sites and the inc line, and held in place with that tight su...

5. Epidural & post-op pain management

   lovetoride replied to Jemma's topic in Med-Surg

   an epidural for a hyst and a sling? That's a little much. We do pca or im/po depending on the doc. I've never seen and epi with a hyst. That's strange that anesth. would ever offer that!

6. Irrigating foley catheter

   lovetoride replied to nursenatalie's topic in Med-Surg

   we use ns for our turps and hand irrigate with bottles of ns. Never thought about it being warmed. Pt's have the bladder spasms with or w/o irrigation.

7. Post-op care of pt's with epidural

   lovetoride replied to nbnurse95's topic in Med-Surg

   Our epidura pt's are part of our pt load also. more frequent vs in the beginning, q1 hr checks the first 12 hrs. They have standing orders for decrease RR, itch, nausea and supplemental meds such as toradol or nubain. ALL our epi pts have to have ...

8. I really want a job in field case management! Help!

   lovetoride replied to Sunflower3's topic in Case Management

   I have tried to put in for a part-time position where I work, but a per-diem got it right away since they had experience :/ That's the problem, when a part-time finally opened up there is a per diem waiting in the wings :/

9. I really want a job in field case management! Help!

   lovetoride replied to Sunflower3's topic in Case Management

   I'm in the same boat. I really want to get away from bedside nurisng, and most weekends and holidays. It's so frustrating. I need to do part-time though since I have small kids.

10. Restricting Nurse Access to Electronic Records

    lovetoride replied to LilacRN's topic in Informatics

    We use meditech, have for a very long time. We are in the process of initiating POM in some areas now. We also have limited access on the floors. Some have the access if the are a charge nurse. We have to document on the pt before they leave,or go...

11. Nat'l Data Base of Nursing Quality Indicators

    lovetoride replied to willie03's topic in General Nursing

    We did this last year. Our hospital is also on the "magnet journey"

12. PCA Pump Settings

    lovetoride replied to Scoobiedoo's topic in General Nursing

    Oh,and you can set it for a continuous dose and patient controlled dose also. We hardley ever use the continuous dose feature at our hospital.

13. PCA Pump Settings

    lovetoride replied to Scoobiedoo's topic in General Nursing

    10/10/80 would mean 10mg dose when the button is pressed given in one dose, the second 10 is the mimimum amt of time allowed between doses and 80 is the max dose allowed in a 4 hr time limit.

14. UNIVAL quesion

    lovetoride posted a topic in Quality Improvement

    Hi, I am new to this site and have a question... I posted this on the general discussion forum also since It seems as if this area does not get as much traffic... I applied for a site reviewer postion, got an email back and plan on calling to talk wi...

15. UNIVAL..know anything about them?

    lovetoride posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I am new to this site and have a question... I applied for a site reviewer postion, got an email back and plan on calling to talk with them further, but I am wondering if they are a good company to work for. Does anyone here know of UNIVAL ? Ever...