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I did the health informatics program at Univ. Of South Florida. I worked in clinical informatics for two hospital systems. I now work for a well-known health tech company. The health informatics education helped me because I learned other perspective...

I have found that salaries vary depending on what industry you work in. Hospitals pay less and generally employ more nurse informaticists. Medical device companies and tech companies tend to pay more (starting salaries around 110K). They also tend to...

I did my MSHI through the University of South Florida. It is completely on-line, and I had the opportunity to learn a lot from other students in the program that came from different backgrounds (physicians, pharmacists, RTs, etc.).

I would walk away very fast and refuse it based on - 1. It is outside my scope of practice (I am not trained to handle Level 4 biosafety hazards) and 2. I do not have the adequate PPE to do the job thus putting my family and others at risk of me gett...

I just read this article and it's obvious the nurses working in Africa have had significant training on how to put on and remove PPE. The Australian nurse describes how it takes 5 minutes to remove PPE after being sprayed down. I don't think this was...

These hospitals are not ready. Again Ebola is a Level 4 Biosafety hazard and those who deal with it have specific training before handling it. Why are government officials denying the virulence of the virus? I will refuse to handle any patient that m...

My problem with the Ebola issue is that we are told to don contact/droplet PPE and place the patient in a negative pressure room. At least that is how it is where I work. So, we are talking about a level 4 biosafety hazard which is handled in a level...

I'm an ED nurse and we pretty much only hire our techs or EMTs/medics/respiratory therapists that we know. It seems to be easier for them to transition to the ED nurse role. Also, it's a risk to hire someone we don't know because alot of people aren'...

I'm pretty much in the same boat. I went to bag a patient 2 days ago with no gloves on and I'm allergic to what the mask is made of. I looked down and my hand was one big hive that went up to my upper arm. The doc yelled for someone else to bag and t...

I've had 2 C/S. My OB placed the foley both times in the OR after I had a spinal. I didn't care who saw me, so privacy wasn't an issue. I just wanted baby out.

I do not understand why some nurses are so harsh and uncompassionate. Women get pregnant - it is temporary. They sometimes need temporary accomodations. Nursing is my 2nd career. I worked previously in a male-dominated field and I must say those men ...

Yes, you run the blood in as fast as possible. I've had more than 1 unit of blood running in with pressure bags at the same time in patients that are bleeding out (AAAs, GI bleeds, ruptured ectopics, traumas, etc.) If the pt is coding or just at the ...

I find this the most annoying question when I'm working. I don't know, but it just bothers me. "So how do you like nursing?" If you think about it, I don't ask my accountant while he/she is filling out my tax return "So, how do you like accounting?"...

I work in an ER and do not tolerate verbal abuse from anyone - staff, patient, patient's family. He's 18. His mother does not need to be there with him. If she's causing more problems, I would ask her to leave. He might have started to act more appro...

I also have a stutter. When I have started new jobs, I will hear people talk about it or make stupid comments. I always make it a point to pull them aside and explain to them why I talk the way I do (I had birth trauma and was not expected to walk, t...

So, who is going to be liable if a mother can't afford to have a baby in the nursery and something happens to that baby? When I had my 2nd baby, I was told to send my baby to the nursery if I was tired. I am a nurse at the same hospital I delivered. ...

I had C/S with both my kids. I breastfed them both. I took Percocet 1-2 tabs q4h with both CS along with Motrin 600mg q6h and weaned myself off of them over about 10 days. Percocet is used in postpartum breastfeeding mothers alot.

So, I am tired of the student nurses that come through our unit saying "Well, nurses make alot of money." I like to gently explain to them that we don't in the following way: I make $27 an hour. I have 4 or 5 patients with varying acuities (I work in...

I am referring to wages, not total salary. I don't know a single person that gives their total salary when asked how much they make. And looking it as $6.75/hr/patient is just another way to look at $27 an hour when breaking the wage down on a differ...

So, I went to a new doctor today based on some excellent reviews I read on him. I glanced at the tag of the young lady that roomed me and I thought it said RN. Then I met the doctor and he explained that he does not use MAs in his office due to thei...

I am pregnant with my 2nd and currently working in a busy ER. I plan to breastfeed/pump and return to work when baby is around 8 weeks. I am nervous about not being able to pump (I have only worked about a year in this ER and from other nurses, I h...

We have a dedicated security team including a K9 team. They will restraint combative patients with an order. Most of them are ex-military and alot of time the combative ones will calm down just by having them presence. The dogs are a great deterren...

Try Capital University. They have a school of nursing and it's just outside of Columbus.

Love, love, love our medics. If they are trained and competent in a skill, they are allowed to do it in our ER - thus they can do EJs, chest tube insertion, and intubate if it becomes necessary. They are a valuable resource. They cannot triage, di...

I used to work on a 30 bed trach floor....all trachs all the time :-) Clean technique is used in the home setting and caregivers will use clean technique in the hospital setting as well (it is not reasonable to expect a caregiver to use a new suctio...