Radnurse54

Radnurse54 has 33 years experience and specializes in Emergency Department/Radiology.

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1. What's considered sedation?

   Radnurse54 replied to Julie186's topic in Radiology

   We use versed and fentanyl as well the dosing of course is dependant on the procedure and patient. Protocol for sedation always requires monitoring of bp, pulse, resp and p02, in some area end tidal...

2. What's considered sedation?

   Radnurse54 replied to Julie186's topic in Radiology

   Sedation standards and policies in my experience are administered by the anesthesiology department. This is the first place you should start. Also, I am suprised that your department doesnt have a...

3. Questions for Rad nurses!

   Radnurse54 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in Radiology

   I was an ER nurse for 28 years before becoming the only and first Radiology Nurse at the hospital I was working at, at that time. I learned a lot, the staff in radiology learned a lot about nursing as...

4. Chewing Gum

   Radnurse54 replied to Otessa's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   At my sister's hospital in Texas...the health depart..came onto units and wrote tickets with fines for staff chewing gum.... ?????confused since when does the health department give fines on hospital...

5. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

   Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

   The part that may be missing from those above who are asking why choose nursing: I have been a nurse for 41 years when I became a nurse the options for women in careers was less varied than today,...

6. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

   Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

   I am of the same opinion, about pushing out those of us with long time experience for no other reason that they dont want to have to pay us. Here is the problem with that thinking, eventually there...

7. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

   Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

   I do not believe the word "rediculous" was used to refer to people who think they are in nursing as a calling. I may be a little wrong here but it seems some projecting is going on here (also a psych...

8. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

   Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

   MariposaLPN, again you have misunderstood. I am not upset, you have as much right to your idealistic views as anyone else, and I have the right to my experience and loss of idealism, after years of...

9. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

   Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

   I think you misunderstood, that this is my opinion, it is not required that you approve or agree. This is a site about sharing our opinions and experiences and points of

10. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

    Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

    I am confused about the comment that what we do is a calling. Let me be clear I am not a nun. This is a career, NOT a calling, thats just an excuse to make nurses feel bad for asking what would be...

11. A calling to help others but give me a good paycheck

    Radnurse54 replied to runningcrazy's topic in General Nursing

    Try being 61, and a nurse for 41 years, and not getting a raise for 5 years, because I am topped out. However, those new coming in still keep receiving raises...pretty soon we will be making the same....

12. Set up for cases

    Radnurse54 replied to staceyp413's topic in Radiology

    I work in a teaching hospital with 3 IR suites and CT/US body rooms. At this time in the IR suites, which are only used for IR procedures, the techs set up the table and prep the patient just as the...

13. Nurse with Disdain

    Radnurse54 replied to StuckInTheMiddle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not ED either, think again. As an ED nurse for 28 years I assure you that though it is easy to become jaded and disgusted by the abuse and misuse of the system by patients and their irresponsible...

14. Nurse with Disdain

    Radnurse54 replied to StuckInTheMiddle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh right, send him to administration...so we can have yet one more, disconnected, disinterested beauracratic administrator to oversee the care of sick people, from whom they are totally detached. I...

15. Nurse with Disdain

    Radnurse54 replied to StuckInTheMiddle's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There appears to be one thing missing in all these posts. The problem my friend in fact might not be the job, but that you have an unrealistic expectation and seem to be egocentric in your search for...