Butternut

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

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 case?

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

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 against him? Or can they just settle out of court before it came down to all that?

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 court or will his lawyers drag nursing down with him? What are the statistics on something like this? All info appreciated.

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 the signs! If we can put them out for one I think it should definitely be there for the AIDs too!!! What's the difference? I just don't get it! Universal/Standard precautions we use BUT that little extra that comes with the carts outside the room is helpful!

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 giving any that fast and if they had, it had been many years ago. I ran it at 200 cc/hr and stayed with the pt for over thirty minutes. Lungs remained clear. BP improved. So actually it ran in in an hour and forty minutes. She had been seeping slowly from a previous above knee amputation incision/infection/open areas. He is taking her back to surgery "tonight or tomorrow". The stump looked discolored to me and she has MRSA in it. Diabetic. Thanks for your input.

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 childish, because it is!!! I am just sick of it!

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. Nights find things too but just takes care of things and goes on.

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 came out of it, back to normal again? While tongue is in mouth, it deviates to left. While tongue is out of mouth, it deviates to the right. ????? Dopplers ok, MRI ok, CATs ok, grips strong, pupils equal and reactive, blood work ok.

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

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 people more susceptable to getting it and more articles call it "recurring." When you are caring for these patients are you gowning up or just gloving? I read in one article that the spores are still alive even in the room and on equipment, AFTER dismissal, for months, if not properly killed with bleach! Scares me! What if one of our family members get it or what if we get it from caring for the infected patient? Once a carrier, always a carrier or do they ever really cure someone? The general public need to know about these super-bugs now and how they are contracted, the terrible symptoms of chronic, watery stools of C-Diff and what if anything alleviates the problem. Discussion welcome!

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

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 are who have not been there as many years. Does your HR count the LPN time and if so, how much? If they only count the RN years, and there are many making more per hour, but yet the older RN is, and has, trained these higher wage nurses. What to do, if they won't increase the pay? Any suggestions?

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

Does your hospital provide a pension plan for you? Not a 403b or TDA, but a Pension plan.

Good luck!

What can you tell me about Acute Rehab nursing on the night shift? How does it differ from the usual busy floor routine? Any info appreciated.

Are all hospitals now putting MRSA patients in with other patients? Are all hospitals now putting MRSA patients in with other MRSA patients? We used to put the MRSA patient in a private room. Has this changed everywhere? If I were a patient, I would refuse to be in with an MRSA patient. This practice does not seem right to me! Can you direct me to any sites concerning this problem?

We're using a pump but I wondered if I could just use regular pump tubing in the pump for the FFP instead of using blood tubing in the pump for FFP.

Can regular pump tubing be used for infusion of FFP or is Blood tubing required? I have been told both ways from several Critical Care nurses.

Please list all tips and helps for starting to do Assist/Relief Charge. Have been a nurse for years but not "Charge". Please help.

How do you completely computer chart and take care of patients at the same time? Does it get any easier when you have a computer program that has soooo many forms to open up, fill out and file? It scares me that something will happen.

What are the duties of state surveyors? How does one find openings for this job? Thanks.

Where do you get yours from, online?