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Well i find it terribly stressful, is tough and expensive to find daycare for the hours i work where i live, almost makes it not worth the while of going to work when you add in the cost of parking etc. I have been saying for years that an onsite d...

At our hospital for a twelve hour shift we get 45minutes paid and 45 minutes unpaid as per the union contract. 15minutes coffee , 30min lunch and 15 minute mid afternoon , 30 minute supper. The afternoon break never a consideration so lumped into a ...

Well i would have to vote for Ottawa of course since i live here, it is a great city, big enough to have lots to do, but small enough to get from one end to the next in 30-40minutes without traffic. Crime rate has been getting worse over the years, ...

i have been doing the twelve hour shifts as well with two kids. the daycare is a big big issue. we only have one overnight place in the city, that charges $8/hour per child so what would be the point of sending them? and for the dayshift , pickup ...

Oh likely the one that pulls her foley out fully inflated just for fun, ouchie!! Or watches till after the nurse rounds at night, then takes off out the front door most likely headed for a mall!! tammy 66

we have started something similar, calculating the creatinine clearance, and holding metformin for 48hours post procedure. it is still doc dependant if they want the hydration orders or not with the bicarb infusions. some just still go for the muco...

This is just so funny, if there are any of you cardiac girls that have not seen this enjoy!! Even if you are not cardiac nurse, is still worth a look.

I wish that patients that can walk outside to have a smoke, would not ring me for a glass of juice!! tammy 66

By the way minusing a spouse makes it even more difficult!!!

Only $4000 a month, hmmm... impossible for most of us to put aside into savings. Wow, but good for you if you make that much that you can do that and still have fun too. I obviously work in the wrong country?

Well said cardiac!!! That 60 hour workweek for 8 years sounds like the fast track to burnout by 30, not retirement. You are only planning on 2days off a week? Plan on one of those for sleeping because you are going to be exhausted. Think you wil...

Common drugs just for tele, probably all the blockers, beta and calcium channels, ace inhibitors, dig, amiodarone, milrinone, heart failure drugs in general, potassium, magnesium, calcium drips, many more I imagine but those are the ones that come to...

I think the big deal is that he is rude is it not??

Definately would not have gotten it for him , taking into account his rudeness, otherwise wouldn't have minded. Probably would have added though that it was still in the backroom, unpoured beside his jar of happy pills which he obviously hadn't tak...

I really need nothing BUT... a night out with good friends would be great. Oh, and for my kids to be happy. Well maybe a pool heater too so summer can last just a wee bit longer up here.

:balloons::balloons::balloons: Happy Birthday Daytonite!!!! :balloons::balloons::balloons: tammy 66

I would absolutely hand it in to HR in person just to make sure the right people got it. Guess I don't completely trust fax machines, or managers for that matter! Take a copy for yourself as well just in case. Don't want any miscommunications foll...

Your ventricular rate will only be regular in A-flutter if your flutter rate is constant , ie 4:1 , 3:1 etc., that is 4 flutter waves to every one ventricular complex.(or 3 or whatever the ratio is) If the f-waves are conducting at different ratios...

By contract our schedule has to be out by now. Is my year to work Christmas, but again lucked out, am working christmas eve days and boxing day night, and New years off. Is not so bad, I don't think as not travelling too far out of town for dinner.

Great thread Zoe, I must be the odd man out. I sleep great, night time, daytime. Have never had to use gravol, benadryl or anything. I can drink coffee all day long and does not bother me to go to sleep. Tea on the other hand makes me travel to ...

I would disagree not for myself personally because I have preceptored and enjoyed it, BUT there are nurses who don't do well in the student/preceptor role. They either don't have the personality for it, and by that I mean the patience it takes to an...

Doing three nights in a row, 12 hour ones of course. Thankfully I am in my bed when I do pass out, but has been close a few times at red lights!

I would really have to agree with Sarasota, I cannot stand being called maam at the grocery store, OMG, am I like 100 years old?? Pretty sure I am only turning 41 this year. When I went down to New York to shop last month, all the girls and I thoug...

I also work in a telemetry unit, and I work only nightshift. 2hours later than your shift is way too much time. Unless your patient needs transferring to a critical area at the time of shift change etc then you shouldn't have to spend more than 15 ...

Thanks for all the posts, makes me want to run out and get one!! NOT!!