Butternut

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1. VA-Hospital Nurses

   Butternut replied to IndyMitchell's topic in Indiana Nursing

   How does the pay scale go, at the VA? Average wage for RN with

2. Worksheets--do you keep?

   Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

   The papers that you used during your shift, with your notes on it, do you keep them? Is it dangerous to keep them? Or do you feel that if something happens the worksheet will jog your memory, just in...

3. Patient suing surgeon

   Butternut replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

   The mistake must have begun in the OR and pleas to the surgeon went unheeded, for

4. What liability coverage do you carry?

   Butternut replied to nursecass's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   My question is: if the patient is suing the doctor only, will his malpractice lawyers bring down the nurses with him? If they are just suing the doctor, won't the nurses be brought in to testify...

5. Patient suing surgeon

   Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

   It is definite that the pt is suing her surgeon. She and family were happy/satisfied with nursing care, they said. They are not suing the hospital. Surgeon made mistakes BUT will he settle out of...

6. Precaution Carts

   Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

   If we are putting them outside the MRSA rooms, why aren't we putting them outside AIDS rooms???? I know about the stigma of AIDS. Confidentiality is important to both! We do not put diagnosis on...

7. Transfusion too fast?

   Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

   What is the quickest you have run in a unit of packed RBCs? The doctor ordered a unit to be given over an hour's time. This scared me. I called Critical Care and they said they didn't remember...

8. Nit-picking between shifts

   Butternut replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

   It is strife between Day nurse's aides and Night nurse's aides. But one on particular, on Days, seems always trying to find "bad" things to tattle about, whether accurate, or not. It may sound...

9. Nit-picking between shifts

   Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

   How to break this problem? Days insinuate that Nights have less knowledge. Making drama. Telling stories trying to make another shift look bad. Always hunting for things to get night shift on....

10. Deviated Tongue

    Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever seen anyone with deviated tongue that showed no signs of stroke, scans negative and no tremors? Lots of unilateral neck and head pain. Have you seen anyone who had deviated tongue that...

11. Psoriasis

    Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone seen good results for a cure of this terrible heartache of a

12. C-Diff

    Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

    Are you seeing a lot of C-Diff? There has been so much lately, it seems. Not knowing a whole lot about it and researching it online, some articles say "no cure" others read antibiotics are making...

13. LPN to RN wages

    Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

    What are they starting out at, if they were an LPN for maybe three

14. New hires with higher base wage.

    Butternut posted a topic in General Nursing

    Let's say an LPN works for many years, goes to school, earns BSN, has much experience in many areas, as a nurse. Great evaluations, too. Is an RN for years and still is not making what other nurses...

15. Smelly Co-Worker

    Butternut replied to Bipley's topic in General Nursing

    Could she be one of those people that are just too afraid to go to a