newfloridaRN

Do any of you mind sharing how much your base pay per hour is? I just got a new job, and I feel that my rate is less than I should be making in Pennsylvania. I mentioned my two years experience to the recruiter and she said that I would be making $...

Hi all; I'm an Emergency Room RN and trying to decide what I want to do for grad school, CRNA or CRNP. Most of the CRNA programs I've looked at require 1 year CC experience. Does anyone know if ER experience counts? I don't work in a level 1 trauma c...

Hey Everyone....You guys have been so helpful in the past that I thought I'd post yet another question! I recently re-located to a new area and I'm working in a new ER. This is only my second job as an ER nurse, as I graduated from school in 2002. ...

my least fav pt=c diff. hands down.

What makes an ER a Level 1, Level 2 trauma center, etc....?? Thanks!!

im interviewing tomorrow for a new job in an ER. i have two years previous ER experience...i'm moving to a new state as well. i was trying to compile a list of questions for my interviewer/manager. can anyone add to the list i already have? i want ...

anyone? please? its getting close to crunch time!

And the generic name for that begins with a C... Cephalexin=Keflex. Do you think that could be it??

KEFLEX (antibiotic) smells SOO terrible! Exactly like rotten eggs.

I absolutely LOVE being in triage. Even seeing 100+ patients/day BY YOURSELF. It's rough but I love it. I guess it takes a special person, lol. I wouldn't go out to triage before being an ER nurse for at least a year...at that facility. Most of it...

are you guys serious? This is scary!! At most, I have four patients. If I'm assigned to the "critical rooms" which we put most AMI's/Resp Distress pts I only have 3. If I'm in Fast Track, I have six. I cannot believe you guys have one nurse for 7-8...

Angie O Plasty-- No problem. I am a newer ER nurse (2 years) and I don't understand the constant 'struggle' between ER nurses and Floor nurses. Sometimes we don't understand where each other are coming from, but we're doing the same job. Our Manag...

I'm an ER RN.... We tend to send alot of admits up around change of shift because that's when the supervisors assign us beds. We've fought w/the sups to give us beds EARLIER so ya'll do n't have to deal w/new admits at shift change. However, when t...

Help! I am moving to PA after working here in Floida. I have 2 years experience in a 22 bed (including express care) ER. I"m looking for an ER position in a similar type ER. I am not looking for a level 1 trauma center. Anyone in Western PA have...

I went into the ER right out of school. They put me through a 16- week training program (even experienced LPN's go through this) it was a great program and I'm SOOO glad I didn't do med-surge. I wouldn't have been happy doing that!

We fax report on all patients except ICU. Sometimes I'll have a PCU or MT patient that just needs alot of explaining, and in that case I'll call report. Most of the nurses on the floors like the faxed report and when we try to call report they utter ...

First off... The issue with medicine not being equally distributed. Our pharmacy tells us that this is an old school thought and not true at all. They say that it IS evenly distributed... well, according to our pharmacy. Second... we almost NEVER g...

"barfing diarrhea" :chuckle

ORamar... are you in pittsburgh? where do you work, if you dont mind my asking? :)

Dont call it a Red or Yellow over the radio just so you think you're going to get a room. :)

I"ve been an ER RN for almost two years now. I've gotten pretty good at IV starts.. yet I still freak out with peds. I work in an ER where we don't have a separate peds ER so we see LOTS of pedi patients....Lots! I get so nervous since I have a bad ...

Sorry to play devils' advocate, but I graduated from a BSN program in December 2002 and was hired right into an ER after I graduated. I have learned more in the 2 years I've been in the ER than I think I did all of nursing school. I think now I have ...

I'm from Pittsburgh also, graduated Nursing school from Pitt in 02 and then moved down to sunny Florida... now living in Orlando....BIG CHANGE!! :) lol.

I work with people who are continual call off-ers. I dont understand it. I've worked at my facility for a year and a half, and have only called off ONCE (and I called off the day before, when I was in a car accident.) I just simply don't get it. Y...

I'm an ER RN and had a student who was about to enter a nursing program shadow me for about 4-5 hours. I was thrilled, I love teaching people. She didn't know much about how an ER runs, so I gave her a tour, and then told her to follow me, introduce...