Jacobero

Does it bother you? The sister of my SIL is in nursing school, graduating soon (I think) but since she started taking nursing courses, the entire family- including this girl talk like she is a nurse. It drives me insane. Yes, you are in nursing schoo...

I recently transferred from a med/surg floor to the NICU, and found out that now that I'm in the Dept of Women's and Childrens, that my shift differnetials are reduced by 10%. When I was working med/surg I would get 20% of my base rate for evening di...

No, that wouldn't be it, we don't have different hospitals. We have different departments, for example, Dept of Medicine, Dept of Women's and Children, Dept of Surg At least I'm not the only one that thinks this is odd. My hospital has done a few sk...

Dutchgirl... Those are my thoughts exactly! I

I'm glad to hear this, as a nurse with nearly two years of adult med/surg vent expirience, it's disheartening to hear that some think that having that expirieince is a barrier to being successful in the NICU. As for the original poster, I wish that I...

Yes, I was a tech at a hopsital while I was in nursing school. I feel that it helped reinforce some of the knowledge learned in school, gave me practical expirience with patients (how to deal with them!), and I would help out in any way I could, so I...

I look at it this way...the womb is pretty dark and quiet...sounds are muffled, and the predominant sound the baby in utero hears is mom's heartbeat, blood and bowel sounds. The more we can re-create that setting for a baby who really is supposed to ...

I'm not a super new nurse, but after nearly two years in med-surg I finally felt comfortable enough to take a job in the NICU (levelIII) in my hospital. the issue is that I'm having some major anxiety. There are days when I'm incredibly excited and t...

Well, after a couple more days I'm feeling a little bit better. Next week I start my "real" orientation - I had been between my old unit and the NICU doing a few days on both. I have the hang of doing an assessment and vitals and getting the hang of ...

Ok, I've been working in the NICU all of two weeks and I'm shocked that this is allowed to happen. This wouldn't have been permitted on my dirty-old med surg floor...for many reasons - infection, narcotics. I'd try to bring this up the chain of comm...

I replied that niether parents alcoholic, however, my mother is from an alcoholic family, and later (after I left home) developed some dependency issues. Some could argue that my father is dependant on alcohol, because he does have one beer a day on ...

We have an hour each way. I do try to combine as much as I can, like if someone is perscribed a multivitamin and the nurse before me puts it at 4pm, I might go ahead and give it with the 6 pm's as long as there is no contraindication. Or I'd just ch...

I never timed myself, but we do walking report, and that helps a little to get a first time visual on a patient. Then, while giving 8 am meds, I listen to lungs, check how much o2 they are on (I work on an adult pulmonary) or do the vent check quick...

Thanks for adding the Ellis and Samaritan programs...I forgot about those!

I never give out my phone number. Then again, I don't think that I've ever been asked. I'm not that nice of a nurse! :) Seriously, although it hasn't come up, there are those on my unit who do have social/personal contact with pts/pts familes and I'm...

See, that's what I've been saying on my unit since I got there!!! When I'm working on the adult pulmonary unit, people are wickedly paranoid about giving anti-hypertensives when the BP is borderline (like SBP 95-99 and asymptomatic!). It's just frus...

Thanks for your perspective. I'm in for another day tomorrow and am definately keeping my ear to the ground as far as how the group interacts with each other. The unit that I'm leaving actually is really great from a interpersonal perspective; very s...

I usually see for SBP Alot depends on the person, and what else is going on in the clinical picture. If there are no parameters set by the MD, and I take the BP befoe giving and it's borderline, I'll call and ask for parameters, that way it's clear ...

If you can find someone to watch the kiddos on weekends, definatly find a weekend track/premium job. I have been doing weekend track since Oct ( I have three, 7, 5 and 2) and it has been a godsend. The only reason I'm taking something else is because...

Actually, no...I currently am transitioning from pulmonary/med-surg to the NICU. I go by nursing nurse because when I registerd for this site, I was breastfeeding my daughter (we nursed for 2 years), and it's kind of a silly joke in our family that ...

Well...it's small. I did my clinicals there while in nursing school, so maybe I'm not the most reliable person to talk about it. I didn't like it much, but they do have computer charting and have had it for a LONG time, so there's prolly not alot of...

There are a few nursing schools in Albany: hudson valley community college in troy (SUNY so not badly priced), Maria in albany (expensive), Russell Sage (4 year private, expensive). I went to Columbia Greene in Hudson (SUNY 2 year, cheap!) and liked ...

When I started at St. Peter's a year and half ago, they gave me $20.10. I beleive that it is now $20.67 or some other wierd number like that. We just did a "market adjustment" so everyone's pay went up a little bit over the summer.

Albany Med is not unionized, but many in Capital District are not. I know that Ellis in Schenectady is. Parking: employees part off site during the day, and take a shuttle in. Plan for 10-15 min on your commute time. There is a parking garage for vis...

1:8??? Right now, on the med/pulm floor I work on, during the day it's 1:4 or 1:5. Unit secretary, 1 RT (we have up to 8 vents plus HFNC and other respiratory stuff). At night, it's 1:7 or 1:8 with an RT. The tech's have about the same patient ratio ...