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I hear you sister!!!. I have been a nurse for 14 years and married for almost 12. Four hospitals and stint of school nursing and home care and four differant states my salary has been all over the place. I swear I get initially passed up for positions ie charge, resource nurse beacuse they know my hubby's in the military. Until recently I have always had to take prn positions due to weekend hours and hubby's deployments or potential of deployments. With having no family around it is hard. To keep my spirits up I take a lot of continuing ed while he is gone, it helps fill the void. I am active in the professional nursing societies and I also take on tasks that other staff nurses don't want to do. Like revising computer systems, streamlining work stations and revising patient ed sheets. By doing these things and being known as the "good worker bee" more opportunities tend to open up and people see me more as a resource. Luckily hubby is in the guard now so things are easier with less of a potential of moving around, although I swear the deplyment rate is still up. The current hospital that I was hired into has a policy of lateral pay incentives upon hire. ex when I started instead of starting at the new grad level, they brought me in as an RN11 on the clinical ladder and gave me the pay of a current RN11 who has been emplyed there for 10 years ( it is capped out at that). I was very thankful for that. I am counting down the days until hubby gets out only about 6 to go!!. I am extremely patrtiotic and proud but I want my time to shine and feel fulfilled and not be in his shadow any more. You can PM if you want to. I completely nderstand what you are going through!!

One of my good girlfriendshas MG. She currently posts on ablog with good info about disease and her progression and treatments. Please PM if you want the address!!

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Thanks for the input. The last skills day that was put on the Pedi CNS was painful it had 18 stations and took 4 hrs to get through. I am trying to narrow things down and hit upon 6-12 items and hopefully focus on one topic per month. Or I want to hook onto Adult M/S skills days and add pedi specfic info to each station. What do you think?

Hey everyone. II am a hospital based educator for a small community based hospital. I am interested in learning about skills days that your facilties might have. How many skills days per year or what type of skills are needed? ex chest tubes defib etc.

What does your unit/hospital require for skills days? I am looking for info to revamp ours. Can you include types of skills and how many times a year? Thanks

Fours years ago I worked for a large Children's Hospital for about seven years. When we had to do IM antibiotic injections we would mix the med with lidocaine. For the past few years I have been working at a small community based hospital in a differant area of the country on a PP WB Nursury. Very rarely do we have to administer IM antibiotics and pharmamcy usually premixes all the meds, but on occasion we do and mix with lidocaine. The very small pedi floor combined with us and the other day I saw large vials of bacteriostatic normal saline on the floor, which sent up red flags everywhere. The current Nurses brought it over from their last unit because they feel it is gentler than lidocaine for IM inj. I am just nervous for the fact that we are a combined unit and the chance for a mistake especailly in the nursery is huge. Just wanted to see what people are using to mix their IM injections and do you have any policies. Thanks I also posted this on Pedi and PICU threads

Fours years ago I worked for a large Children's Hospital for about seven years. When we had to do IM antibiotic injections we would mix the med with lidocaine. For the past few years I have been working at a small community based hospital in a differant area of the country on a PP WB Nursury. Very rarely do we have to administer IM antibiotics and pharmamcy usually premixes all the meds, but on occasion we do and mix with lidocaine. The very small pedi floor combined with us and the other day I saw large vials of bacteriostatic normal saline on the floor, which sent up red flags everywhere. The current Nurses brought it over from their last unit because they feel it is gentler than lidocaine for IM inj. I am just nervous for the fact that we are a combined unit and the chance for a mistake especailly in the nursery is huge. Just wanted to see what people are using to mix their IM injections and do you have any policies. Thanks I already posted this on the pedi thread, just trying to cover bases.

I work on a OB unit which recently added the pediatric unit to it. The hospital is really growing and there is talk of starting a Pedi RRT. Just want to gather some ideas. Here is some info regarding our hospital. Currently we deliver about 1000 babies a year, have a busy RSV season, anything big gets transferred out to a large teaching hospital. Anesethia, peds are on 30 minute on call. My questions are, Who comprises your team, Pedi or ER RN, RT hospitlist etc? Training requirements etc. Thanks

I work on a OB unit which recently added the pediatric unit to it. The hospital is really growing and there is talk of starting a Pedi RRT. Just want to gather some ideas. Here is some info regarding our hospital. Currently we deliver about 1000 babies a year, have a busy RSV season, anything big gets transferred out to a large teaching hospital. Anesethia, peds are on 30 minute on call. My questions are, Who comprises your team, Pedi or ER RN, RT hospitlist etc? Training requirements etc. Thanks

I am on my second HH job. My first job managment was awful but we were always reimbursed at the IRS rate. My second emplyer does not reimburse at that rate. Currently I am getting $.44/ mile. This is in New England too where gas is so high. My question is how can HH companies decide what to reimburse. And no I can not claim this on my taxes.

As a new grad I had worked for 18 months without ever calling in. I was so sick with the flu and called in at 11 pm the night before. The night shift started calling me back at 5:30 am to see if I was really sick because they did not want to bother anyone else/:no:

Wentworth Douglass Hosptial

When I was working in a step down MICU we had a heard time getting an IV started on a pt who was using a "Kin-Air" bed. The ones that have fine particles of sand being blown by air to keep the patient from getting bed sores . . . A resident started the IV but stuck the IV cannula in the bed so he wouldn't stick anybody then he pulled it out and put in the sharps box after. Then the sand started to shoot from the bed. The patietn was alert enough to know and yelled for help. The cardiac monitor, bed, lights everything was coated in a fine dust. What a mess

I remember getting so sick during my first year as a RN on a Pulmonary Care Unit. Luckily I worked 12 hr shifts and had enough days to get on my feet. The only one time that I called in sick in 14 months, I called in 8 hrs before my shift was going to start after spending the night in the bathroom. I got a call one hour from the charge nurse before my shift to see if I was "really sick". I was steamed !!