sloddesol

well dont know if this counts been in nursing since the dawn of time I make 33.00 an hour average between 85 and 90 thousand a year math doesnt add up but lots of call and overtime Scott

just like to work some where not staffed by monkeys where they respond to being educated in some other manner then flinging feces

I work in a 2 lab unit we have 4 cvt/rts and 3 RNs being the supervisor I've made sure that everyone is aware that we function as a team regardless of what letters are after your name the nurses circulate because of state laws but everyone in the lab can do everyone else's job up until 2 years ago we were a multiprocedure lab based in radiology we maintained autonomy but were able to work around the conflict of our techs versus their techs Scott

its pretty much the same all over we run two labs and the docs schedule to work around their office one reason is they don't pay our overtime were trying to convince the cardiologists to follow a radiologist model and have one invasive guy in the lab that gets all the cases that day shunted to him and if they have patients they have to cath for that personal touch just schedule on the day they're in the lab unfortunately it's not working for us it does work in the hospitals in Sacramento because they have enough volume to keep working regardless we have one cardiology group and they act like a bunch of guys sharing an office instead a true partnership as for after hours scheduling anything after 1530 goes to the call crew so we only run one room we've only been doing that for about 5 years before that when we weren't on call we were required to stay till all the scheduled cases were over on a positve note though you didn't need to worry about what you were going to do after work:(