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healingtouchRN

Cardiac/Vascular & Healing Touch

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  1. Being Charge

    healingtouchRN replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a charge RN for years & it doesn't get easier in the days of less staff, less experienced people to work with & I often take the harder assignments, else I'll be in there anyway...

  2. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    healingtouchRN replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    thanks for all you

  3. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    healingtouchRN replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    Lilgirl, what part of Alabama are you in? I am in the capitol city. Have a great nurses

  4. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    healingtouchRN replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    wish every unit had one! my massage therapist said to me just last nite, "a warm blanket is the best thing & a cold blanket is the

  5. Nurses who are also Reiki Practitioners?

    healingtouchRN replied to Anaclaire's topic in Holistic

    Healing touch is a different program than that of Theraeutic Touch. Dr. D. Kreiger & Dora Kunz birthed the TT in the 1970's. Healing Touch's founder Janet Mentgen, studied with Dr Kreiger, but...

  6. Nurses who are also Reiki Practitioners?

    healingtouchRN replied to Anaclaire's topic in Holistic

    I am a CHTP as well as a RN, BSN. I am currently working as a CCU charge nurse at night, & have a Part time private practice in Healing Touch & Health Education/Holistic nursing. I am...

  7. New grad unsure of new postition in CTICU

    healingtouchRN replied to Gordo's topic in MICU, SICU

    Gordo, cheer up, every nurse goes thru this some time when they are acclaimating to the job. Give yourself a year! Jeez, you can't know it all. I have been at this stuff for 14 years & I am...

  8. Nursing as a customer service profession?

    healingtouchRN replied to EmeraldNYL's topic in General Nursing

    One must remember that the clients/patients have a right (most of the time) to choose where they do business, & if they PERCEIVE poor service, they will tell their friends & family not to come...

  9. Holistic Nursing Education

    healingtouchRN replied to Shanti's topic in Holistic

    I live in Alabama, where Clayton College is in Birmingham, but I cannot attend there because my lovely state does not recognize naturopathic healers! This state is very controlled by the AMA, ya...

  10. Holistic Nursing Education

    healingtouchRN replied to Shanti's topic in Holistic

    Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN has a MSN in Holistic Nursing. I met two ladies who are completing this program this month. They were very well rounded nurses with great hopes for thier...

  11. Cansema and B17 are helping with cancer...

    healingtouchRN replied to wenron's topic in Holistic

    You should consider the the leaders in the alternative world such as Dr Andrew Weil, Dr Deepak Chopra, Dr Herbert Bensen (I studied under him @ Harvard) among many others. I get a magazine called...

  12. Floating

    healingtouchRN replied to Patricia116's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    we do have one nice thing about floating, after 5 successive pulls/floats we get $50 bonus, plus whatever overtime is accrued & if its to a critical needs area (the units NOBODY wants to work on...

  13. What Freaks You Out?

    healingtouchRN replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I can't stand ortho stuff either, crunching bones give me the willies, so I am a cardiac nurse. When I did ER, I couldn't stand runny baby doodie, & GI Bleeds, or c-diff. Staph aureous &...

  14. What Freaks You Out?

    healingtouchRN replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I can't stand ortho stuff either, crunching bones give me the willies, so I am a cardiac nurse. When I did ER, I couldn't stand runny baby doodie, & GI Bleeds, or c-diff. Staph aureous &...

  15. Nurse to patient ratios

    healingtouchRN replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

    our tele unit outside of my CCU takes between 5-7 each. One or two RN's the rest LPN's. I really feel for them because it is at time unsafe. I try to keep an open line of communicaiton with them...

  16. Floating

    healingtouchRN replied to Patricia116's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    This is what my CCU does with the sticky issue of floating. We have a Float rotation that allows the date & where they went be placed into a log, kept with our schedule. That way it's even who...

  17. IABP certification

    healingtouchRN replied to WNCrn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    one might try orienting in the CV Lab where they are placed or in the CVICU where they have them about as often as CCU. We have both dept's & our nurses have some of the same troubles. Just make...

  18. Ever leave work crying?

    healingtouchRN replied to New CCU RN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Yup, more times than I want to remember in my 14 years in critical care. I find that a support breakfast after my night shift (7p-7a) is best, that way I am taking this home to my family who does not...

  19. Heparin and Nitro Compatability

    healingtouchRN replied to RNCENCCRNNREMTP's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    The question about Heprarin/Nitro comp. is ongoing since I finished school in 1989, I have done both ER & CCU. This is what we do, if ya can get a 2nd site or 3rd site (as needed with t-PA) well...