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  1. Reputable Agencies for a new travel nurse

    meandragonbrett replied to GoNightingale's topic in Travel

  2. how is travel nursing pay set up?

    meandragonbrett replied to tvm4315's topic in Travel

    What company are you with? Sounds like an AMN company since you have an interview with Kaiser. Just be prepared to float and float frequently as a traveler at Kaiser. Floating is a way of doing...

  3. What meds would this PACU test cover?

    meandragonbrett replied to BluegrassRN's topic in PACU

    Specific to PACU: Propofol, Ketamine, Midazolam, Lorazepam, the inhalation anesthetics, Fentanyl, Dilaudid, Demerol, Decadrom, Zofran, Promethazine, Droperidol, Haldol, Benadryl, Metoprolol,...

  4. First Travel Offer

    meandragonbrett replied to adpnurse's topic in Travel

    I wouldn't get out of bed for $627 per

  5. Recommendations for FL travel companies? horror stories??

    meandragonbrett replied to maverick87's topic in Travel

    There is more to traveling and being a nurse than just the hourly rate. The entire compensation is found out when you sit down and calculate it out. Most of us are making 40-50 an hour but you are...

  6. What's your facility's policy? new PIV tubing to new CVL

    meandragonbrett replied to ANB RN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    No. We do not do

  7. Pay Package Evaluation!

    meandragonbrett replied to TravelCCRN's topic in Travel

  8. Who are PCTs accountable to?

    meandragonbrett replied to StephanieZie's topic in General Nursing

    Unlicensed assists e personnel practice under the delegation of the RN in the hospital setting. While I might not ask you to bathe 201, it is still the RN responsibility to ensure that gets completed...

  9. advice needed ED travel nursing in Bay Area

    meandragonbrett replied to germsjackson's topic in Travel

    You need more experience to easily secure a travel contract here. It's not impossible...but you're competing with a LOT of experienced nurses who have a lot of travel experience as

  10. UCSD strike

    meandragonbrett replied to roma4204's topic in California Nursing

    I'm not familiar with any news about UC nurses planning to strike. Sutter has a strike starting on this coming Friday. Also, there is a potential strike coming up at Stanford pending the result of...

  11. California Union Salary Ranking Questions...

    meandragonbrett replied to thisismeRN's topic in California Nursing

    It's not really difficult. You just have to fill the papers out and then wait for

  12. Southern California Take Home Pay???

    meandragonbrett replied to sweettart1786's topic in Travel

    ICU. It was an AMN

  13. noting orders..... who is licensed to do this?

    meandragonbrett replied to eyknough's topic in General Nursing

    Noting an order means "I've seen it, I've taken the correct actions". It's on the MAR, you drew the labs, you called speech, etc. I think you are thinking entirely too far into what signing off a...

  14. California Union Salary Ranking Questions...

    meandragonbrett replied to thisismeRN's topic in California Nursing

  15. California Union Salary Ranking Questions...

    meandragonbrett replied to thisismeRN's topic in California Nursing

    You will likely go in as a II wherever you start. To get to III and IV you participate in the clinical ladder. Pretty much everybody pays well in the area and you can anticipate to make $55-60/hr as...

  16. Sutter of Calif. does it again...

    meandragonbrett replied to Mindful's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It looks as though sutter Eden is a go for the

  17. Got fired for changing fluid rate

    meandragonbrett replied to lolakbolak's topic in General Nursing

    Something does not add up with the story we have been

  18. It really annoys me when nurses say they are going to go to med school...

    meandragonbrett replied to megank5183's topic in General Nursing

  19. Definition of Hemodynamically unstable...

    meandragonbrett replied to FenRN's topic in MICU, SICU

  20. Southern California Take Home Pay???

    meandragonbrett replied to sweettart1786's topic in Travel

    I made $27.50/hr first 8 and 1.5x last four, $245 weekly in per Diem, and $2500 monthly for housing stipend. This was in San Diego. Which is a fairly good wage for San Diego travel

  21. Lovenox same day post-op?

    meandragonbrett replied to nursefisch's topic in Patient Medications

    We routinely give subq heparin in Preop holding to abdominal cases. Our pharmacological vte prophylaxis is generally started immediately postop unless they have an

  22. surgeon found the colon Evisceration before me

    meandragonbrett replied to SNB1014's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing you did. Not to worry. It just happens. Did she have an abdominal binder on? She probably should have. It sounds based on the way that you describe that she was still open down the fascia...

  23. Southern California Take Home Pay???

    meandragonbrett replied to sweettart1786's topic in Travel

  24. co worker sharing her concerns

    meandragonbrett replied to beeble's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You said your peace to your management team and it's now a non-issue. It was a blip in the day to day operations of a unit. Don't hold the grudge, be the bigger person, and let this fall into the...

  25. Definition of Hemodynamically unstable...

    meandragonbrett replied to FenRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Instability would be anybody who is requiring frequent interventions to maintain HR, BP, or oxygenation. Multiple vasoactive gtts that are requiring titrations more frequently than q30-60minutes would...