dortizjr1

Does anyone have an example of a PRN/Per diem staffing model that is working for their organization?

Hello, I have a question for Operating Circulating nurses, (or any nurse that can point me to articles), the OR I work in has the practice of having OR RN's pull local anesthetic from a pyxis in our core and then we leave that local anesthetic in th...

True More or less what my parents taught me, though I'm not Jewish.

I've been very interested in this topic, mainly because my hospital adopted a no hiring smoker/tabacco users policy several years ago. The policy actually states that new employees will be nicotine free - verified by a blood test and... our health in...

I happen to work in an ED in a community hospital in eastern Pennsylvania. I'm not too far from Philadelphia and not too close. I've had very similar experiences to what OP relates. It's not just a southern thing.

I'm a nurse in Pennsylvania and I was told many times by my instructors that nursing was a "higher calling" and that those of us who were there for a paycheck wouldn't make it through nursing school, or that we'd fail at our boards or that we'd quit ...

I hope linking isn't against the rules. I currently wear these when I work in my ED: http://www.skechers.com/style/76832/work-rockland-systemic/blk I'll rotate them out every few times with new balance cross trainers 608 v...what ever. The sketchers ...

I still consider myself new to informatics. I've been at it for a year and a half now.

Ikarus7401 thank you for your insightful comments. I moved from Emergency Nursing into Informatics and because of my clinical and I.T. background I'm labeled a Clinical Analyst. Some of my peers have clinical but no I.T. background and they are labe...

So does mine!!! The thing is part of a contract my institution has with a larger stroke center... so my ed doc will do the initial medical assessment, determine that the patient requires the attention of a Neurologist and FRANK comes into play.

I also had 0 medical experience when I started the program. Never bothered working as a nurse aid during the program either. I have a strong I.T. background and maintained that type pf work part time while attending RACC. Lack of a medical background...

I graduated from RACC's RN program in 2007. It's interesting reading that nothing has really changed. One of my sisters graduated from Alvernia with a 4 year degree in nursing around the same time. We both sat for the same exam, the NCLEX, and both p...

The hospital I work at is 30 minutes from 2 level 2 trauma centers and 1 level 1 trauma center. These three organizations are substantially bigger than the hospital where I work and they routinely go on divert. Actually it's gotten so bad that all of...

At the risk of sounding very ignorant, what is and ER tech. I have a nurse aids in my ED and they do nurse aid tasks. An ED tech sounds like a person who does more than nurse aid tasks.

Yeah but what happens when the hospital is full? I work in a small rural hospital. We total at 150 beds and we've ended up holding patients in the ED for three days. The ED i work in has 20 beds total. We resort to moving regular hospital beds out of...

Ah... me too.

Almost the same where I work. We dont' have ED techs though. The nurses do all routine splints (metal or ortho glass), the ED Docs may do more complex fractures or just punt those to the orthopedic surgeons. This week I've actually splinted several u...

How about nursing homes sending people who are hospice patients AND total DNR's to the ED because they are.... dying.

I'm new to the Nursing profession but not to the Information technology profession. My boss told me she hired me as a new grad 7 months ago partly because of my IT background and she was looking for someone to be a liaison for the department when we ...

I'm not trying to be smart here I honestly want to see what opinion is. How about an RN or an LPN that is infected with HIV? It's against federal law to ask people if they have it, but we have to submit proof of immunization against other diseases. ...

I work in a busy ED and we don't call an ethics committee. I have patients routinely leave the ED AMA or at least sign a voluntary limiting of treatment agreement. This past week I had several people go through entire cardiac workups to reveal life t...

Emergency department nurse.

Hey Glamgal, A lot of hospitals seem to start recruiting in earnest between april and may. Well thats how it's been in my area for the last three or four years. I'm in Berks county, but I found hospitals in Lebanon, Montgomery, bucks, chester and som...

I hated my first year of nursing school. I'm a career changer though and maybe it had something to do with that. I'd been a programmer analyst for 12 years and I found the terrible attitude of most of my first year instructors coupled with the unspok...

Almost every hospital needs/wants med surg nurses. I know some students that had problems getting into specialty nursing, but out of the 80 people I graduated with, 95% acquired med-surg with no problem.