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  1. PICU Nurses

    biscuit_007 posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Any PICU nurses out here? Where do you work? How is your staffing? How many RN openings are on your unit? How do you like where you work? Let's try to get a dialogue going about PICU

  2. PICU Nurses

    biscuit_007 replied to biscuit_007's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Well I have moved. I now work in a 6 bed picu in temple texas. We have 3 intensivists a great staff and loads of patients. We are affiliated with texas A&M medical school. GO

  3. How do you deal with a patient slapping you?

    biscuit_007 replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

    I love this idea. I would have never thought of it myself since i rarely deal with violent patients in PICU but use any and all resources available to you and you will be

  4. PICU Nurses

    biscuit_007 replied to biscuit_007's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I work in a PICU in Lafayette Louisiana. We are small, like 6 beds, but we can only take 4 patients most days due to staffing. We are very understaffed, I am the only night shift nurse and i do 5 12...

  5. Benefits vs no benefits. I have a ? for ya.

    biscuit_007 replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    A place where i used to work did offer a discount of sorts to its employees. When you needed service at the hospital and you insurance paid 80 percent, if you had insurance through the hospital, they...

  6. Floating of ICU RNs

    biscuit_007 replied to braveheart's topic in MICU, SICU

    amen!!!! I work in a PICU and nobody wants to float here when we get busy! I float at times to NICU, PEDS, or NURSERY but none of them float here unless their jod is in jeopardy. And then, I get to...

  7. What or who was your inspiration for becoming a nurse?

    biscuit_007 replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have always been a nurse. When i was a little boy my father was in nursing school and i learned to read sitting on his lap while he would read out loud his textbooks. The first book i read on my own...

  8. Cross-training

    biscuit_007 replied to Claire RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am a PICU nurse that happens to enjoy taking care if adult ICU patients every once in a while. I am changing jobs, hospitals, and even states to go to a jobs that encourages cross training. I feel...

  9. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    biscuit_007 replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    Believe it or not we got some pretty good stuff this year, as compared to most years anyway. We got a cheap insulated lunch bag that is destined to fall apart quickly. While we all thought that was it...

  10. verbal 'scripts'

    biscuit_007 replied to NCRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Recently at my FORMER job the administration implemented "scripts". It went over like a lead balloon. As employees were leaving the inservise you could clearly hear the comments and grumblings among...