I would stay away from northwest. They pay higher but staffing is horrible! I've heard horror stories from nurses, cnas, and former patients about the dangerous staffing practices and lack of support...
Robinroo62 replied to Robinroo62's topic in Oncology
We are in the process of making warning signs (chemo precaution signs) for staff to take extra precautions and educational handouts for pts and familys regaurding safety and chemo admin. Also the...
Robinroo62 replied to Robinroo62's topic in Oncology
These Chemo Carts are out in the hallway in front of the pts room. We are not allowed to keep medications (including saline) or any sharps in them as they public could potentially get into them....
Robinroo62 replied to Isitpossible's topic in Geriatric, LTC
I work on a med surg floor and was taking care of a older patient with hallucinations. He was seeing spiders and bugs all along the walls. As I was trying to reorient him and show him nothing was...
I work on a med/surg unit where we ocassionaly administer chemotherapy. We have dedicated chemotherapy carts for outside the chemo patients rooms but they are very unorganized. I am updating these for...
I am also a 2 year old "toddler nurse". I work med-surge and on my floor we check I&O's about every 4 hrs when we take vitals. A lot of our drs will write orders to notify them if output is less...
Robinroo62 replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Medical-Surgical
Med-surg Arkansas Where I work we almost always have a 7:1 ratio on night and 6:1 on days. Charge nurse usually dosent take pts unless theres a call in. Our aids usually have about 10-11 pts apiece....
As a senior graduating from ua- fayetteville, all I can tell you about are my experiences, and those have unfortunatly not been good. I can think of 3 outstanding instructors at the ua and many not so...