TakeTwoAspirin

TakeTwoAspirin MSN, RN, APRN

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  1. Staffing policies relating to call

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to sstatzer's topic in Operating Room

    In our system, everyone is required to sign up for the requisite number of calls for the period once the list goes up. Only once this has been done can people take over other people's call, but the...

  2. Best Stethoscope

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to BostonRN13's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I too have a Littman 3200 electronic and can second traumaRUs "You can hear

  3. Salary Discussion with Potential Employer

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to jr2915sn's topic in General Nursing

    You should also consider benefits as part of your evaluation. Are they paying a higher proportion for your healthcare and/or other benefits? Is it a closer commute so that you will be saving time...

  4. New job question

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to QbanRn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Sounds like bait and switch. I find it very suspicious that they didn't discuss this with you from the start. To just spring it on you verbally seems odd to me. I would be very

  5. CRNA job stress vs NP job stress

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to signorpops's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have spent over 10 years in the OR and wouldn't want the job of CRNA for love nor money. All jobs are stressful, and all jobs have an overwhelming amount of responsibility. However, there are few...

  6. My NP job search--Cue the crickets and tumble weeds rolling by..

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to BostonRN13's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Assuming you did well at your clinical sites, check back with your preceptors and see of they can

  7. Multiple jobs

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to poohrn33's topic in General Nursing

    I like the variety of three jobs. I like having the money from three jobs. I like having other options if one place seems to be heck bent on getting me PO'd - I'll go away for a while and see how...

  8. How many of you both circulate AND scrub?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Nolander's topic in Operating Room

    LandD, That drives me nuts when the scrub (be it nurse or tech) calls for a count then throws off 4 out of the 5 laps they have on the field!!!! Agrrrr!! I too used to be a tech and I have to say it...

  9. Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to DidiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but it looks, at least from my understanding, as if they are talking primarily about cleaning the rooms in the OR and peri-operative areas. As a peri-op nurse,...

  10. Have I done all my research?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to neon puppy's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Be careful in planning how you take your pre-requisite courses. Many programs will want you to have certain courses within a specific number of years i.e., must have taken A&P I and II within 3...

  11. Friend tells me she is diverting

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Flennigan's topic in General Nursing

    There are no good alternatives. Unless she is willing to be "owned" by this punk for the rest of her life she needs to turn him in to the authorities. This is going to end badly sooner or later, it...

  12. question to current nurses

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to malenurse69's topic in General Students

    "Fundamentals Success: A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking" by Patricia Nugent & Barbara Vitale. Gives a lot of multiple-choice questions along with rationales for how to...

  13. NP: Still a nurse?

    TakeTwoAspirin posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I recently had to re-certify in ACLS and during the introductions a fellow ACLS student stated that she was a NP. During the course of the day she made several references to "when she was a nurse"....

  14. NP: Still a nurse?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to TakeTwoAspirin's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Wow, just

  15. NP: Still a nurse?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to TakeTwoAspirin's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There's the thing, she was clearly not a new grad. I think that is partly why it bothered me so much. I think if it had have been a newbie I would have just blown it off but this was clearly a very...

  16. How many of you both circulate AND scrub?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Nolander's topic in Operating Room

    I scrub, circulate and first assist. I would guess that at the facility I (mostly) work at almost 40% of the nurses at least scrub if not FA on occasion. How often we scrub really depends on how the...

  17. NP: Still a nurse?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to TakeTwoAspirin's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yeah, I get the whole licensing thing (I'm graduating from an APN program in a few of months), but this was more of an emotional detachment she wanted to establish - like she didn't want to be...

  18. Waking up in the OR

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Kidrn911's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not the one that used the word scalpel, the OP did and I'm not overestimating (or underestimating) anything just responding to the description provided by the OP. Having raised two kids of my...

  19. Waking up in the OR

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Kidrn911's topic in General Nursing

    While there are cases where people have woken up during surgery, I don't think it was the case with your daughter. If she is describing seeing scalpels I think this was probably a dream she was...

  20. Extra clinical hours?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to SlyFoxRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My program will allow you to do as many as you like (during semester only r/t insurance) but they won't allow you to accumulate them "officially" beyond what is assigned for the semester. You have to...

  21. Do you have friends and family that don't understand your nursing career?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm not saying that he shouldn't be supportive of his mom and sister. Everyone is correct, techs do a great job and are an integral part of the team (heck, I was one myself). However, I do object to...

  22. Do you have friends and family that don't understand your nursing career?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to Hellostudentnurssee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This whole situation sounds really toxic to me and I feel bad that you feel you have to tolerate such poor behavior on their

  23. what is "money losers" of a community hospital?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to treeye's topic in General Nursing

    Money loser = ED. You can't turn a patient down in the ED and everyone has to go through triage and be evaluated/stabilized, regardless of their ability to pay. Money maker = OR. Other than for...

  24. When do you become CPR certified?

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to gentlerain's topic in General Nursing

    If I recall correctly, I had to be CPR certified before starting my clinical rotations in nursing school and had to pay for it myself. I don't think they are going to let you near patients without it...

  25. Fired!

    TakeTwoAspirin replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    If this were me, I would have let the union fight for me to get my job back if only to get my personnel record cleared of being dismissed. At least then I could have resigned rather than have that on...