I currently worked in a mixed ICU in Washington state. My husband and I are planning on relocating to New Hampshire to be closer to family - but not too close. I am very interest in Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. Would you please give...
Hi Kimmie. I have not been on allnurses in awhile and didn't see your post. I moved to NH in December and love it. I am not working yet but have a phone interview with DHMC tomorrow and had an interview at a small hospital in the area today. Funny, I...
I found that my best interviews were when I went in with the attitude of interviewing the employer rather than them interviewing me. It sounds llke you have some solid skills and are aware of your capabilities. I would ask them questions about staffi...
Becster replied to icunurse1955's topic in Critical
Sounds very unsafe. I work in a 21 bed CCU. When we have tele patients that are waiting for transfer (sometimes this can take days) to the floor we sill staff 1:2 with rare exception. 2 or 3 tele patients can be really demanding of your time especial...
Becster replied to WVStarFish's topic in Medications
You might confirm exactly what kind of feeding tube it is and where in the GI tract it is....as someone mentioned in an earlier post, Ecotrin is coated so that it doesn't dissolve until it gets to the intestine. If the distal end of the tube is in th...
Soffy, don't be so hard on yourself. You've been at it 5 whole weeks, did you really think that you would be an expert by now? The first year is the hardest. I am a very confident person, but I found myself praying every morning for the first 6 month...
I think that there is a big difference between different pronounciations d/t regional differences and people just plain making a new word up. O2 stats is a good example of someone just not getting what they are trying to say. Sats is short for satura...
That's great that you are so considerate of pharmacy. You should speak with your manager about getting an IV drug book for your med room. I have seen nurses draw some med from the line and test it with a dose for the IVP for precipitate, but there a...
HAHA! I worked in medical records in a facility that used Meditech prior to becoming an RN. The chart was printed after D/C and was more cumbersome to read than you would ever believe. It prints every question you are asked even if you don't answer t...
I believe that what is actually being described is total care nursing rather than primary care. I currently work for a facility that does total care and although I believe in the model, it is not working for us right now. We have no aides on our uni...
I feel your pain. Things happen. What matters is that you were able to remedy the situation and that you had that much empathy for his discomfort. It's tough to be everything. We have no aides where I work. I am constantly stressing because a patient...
Dear God. How petty have things become. Sometimes I think that I was treated more like a professional before I went back and got my nursing degree! "Susie did this, Johnny did that." I don't give a Sam Hill what anyone else does as long as it doesn't...
It's part of some program called A.I.D.E.T. We went throught the training a couple of years ago. Most of it is a duh. I always ask my pts if I can help them in any way before I leave the room, it might save me an early trip back to their room. I neve...
I haven't seen too many perm-caths that needed that much intervention. I have had a couple of ESRD pts that bled like crazy after a line placement or sugery, but they probably had some underlying liver disease. Makes me wonder if there's an issue wit...
I work on a Med-Renal unit. We take 3-4 patients during the day, 4 eves, and 5 at night. On days and eves, the charge nurse does not take patients but at night, the charge takes 4. I am one of the few that works 12 hour shifts, so I typically have 4 ...
Becster replied to owensmommy's topic in Medications
I share owensmommy's frustration. We recently went to computerized documentation. I am on a renal unit where we give tons of insulin. We used to be able to have someone document on paper at the time of checking insulin - easy. Now we have to show som...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11099241 I work on a med-renal unit. We do not place PICC's in CRF patients d/t the risk of scarring the veins and causing them to lose the option to place a fistula at a later date. Infection is a concern in any pa...