sistrmoon

sistrmoon BSN, RN

Inpatient Oncology/Public Health

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  1. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    1: State you work in: NY, Capital region 2. Years of experience: 6 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) : med/surg Onc , large teaching medical center 4. Hourly Pay...
  2. How often do you study/read up?

    If I have time during a shift, I will research some. If not, I will on my own time. I learn something every time I work! I don't think that will ever
  3. And I do understand the ED is slammed but when a patient gets to the floor at 0230 and had an antibiotic due at 2200 that wasn't hung, has an unstageable pressure ulcer and Gtube not mentioned in...
  4. Ribavirin exposure

  5. Going back to work after 12 weeks of Maternity Leave

    The first time I was on maternity leave, they rolled out a whole new computerized documentation system I got to come back to. So, I did feel a bit clueless but did get back into the swing of things...
  6. Oncology nursing experiences

    I've been in Oncology for 6 years. Do you have any specific questions? I find it to be an amazing patient population. The majority of my patients are leukemics. I find it to be challenging dealing...
  7. A couple of the new nurses on my floor aren't being required to work any of the major winter holidays. This is causing "unrest amongst the ranks" as you might imagine. One is being groomed to be a...
  8. One of these favorites has now asked me to work his/her New Year's Eve shift.
  9. I was about to post about this. I was wondering what happens if a State of Emergency is declared because that is expected with the snowstorm that started in my area this morning(and I'm scheduled for...
  10. Being the mom and the nurse you want to be.....

    I work weekend nights so when my babies are little little, Daddy cares for them while mommy sleeps after a shift. He brings them to me to nurse. When they are 1 or so, they go to one day of daycare a...
  11. Being the mom and the nurse you want to be.....

    I work weekend nights and take care of my boys during the week. I think it's the best of both
  12. Female cathing

    I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this as a trend. I get called in a lot to help with female catherization, and I've noticed a lot of nurses go right for the clitoral hood! Now there are...
  13. We have to count all home meds on admission with 2 nurses, label each bottle with name of med, count, date, time and initials and lock them in the cabinet. Fair enough, but it's not just narcs but...
  14. Female cathing

    In nursing school, they always had us do caths and IVs on the pregnant women because it was supposed to be
  15. Counting ALL home meds on admission

  16. Counting ALL home meds on admission

    No, we have a home med reconciliation tool for that and people will often bring in lists. They aren't supposed to bring in the actual meds but they inevitably
  17. Counting ALL home meds on admission

  18. Counting ALL home meds on admission

    It's a med surg Onc floor. And no, after we count them they are confiscated and locked in our narc cabinet. They can't take the home med unless we have an order that states they can do so and we've...
  19. Answer Your Phones! Love, Tele.

    We have an emergency tele line. Regular "lead off" and low battery calls go to the main line but when the emergency line rings, I've never seen it go more than 2-3 rings without being
  20. Female cathing

    OMG, monkeybug! They didn't get a freaking urine return and just sent the patient on like all was good?! What a
  21. Passing things on