Mavrick BSN, RN

15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU

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    Can you become a PACU nurse w/o experience

    Mavrick replied to Samt9's topic in PACU

    Have you thought about
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    Can you become a PACU nurse w/o experience

    Mavrick replied to Samt9's topic in PACU

    Why would you want to go into PACU without any experience? I work in a fairly busy PACU with both inpatient and outpatient surgeries. Nurses here work very independently relying on superior...
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    Switching to health science

    Mavrick replied to sabrina17's topic in General Students

    Quote from sabrina17 I'm a sophomore and I'm just not happy with my nursing school. I'm so excited to be a nurse, but I feel like the program I'm in is killing that. After having a major breakdown...
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    Police Holds

    Mavrick replied to ICURN3020's topic in General Nursing

    I work in PACU so our police holds are usually pretty banged up and don't need much "guarding" but the officers will cuff 'em to the bed anyway. This one fine officer, having done a splendid job of...
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    O2 sat monitor question

    Mavrick replied to createun's topic in General Nursing

    Number one answer is: Clinically assess your patient. Treat your patient not the monitor. I totally agree with above posters. Try to improve circulation because that is what the probe is looking...
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    Displaying credentials

    Mavrick replied to jetMA96's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Wow! Nice little round up of nursing credentials and how to correctly display them. I saw an interesting display of chest puffing in my nursing journal. An opinion/article was written by Big Dog,...
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    nova flexi pen left with lid

    Mavrick replied to aniepat's topic in General Nursing

    Punctuation? (Pun
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    ALERT: Nonsterile IV saline sent to facilities

    Mavrick replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is a total cluster! These bags are WAY too similar to the real deal to be distributed for any kind of use. One bag is labeled Practi 0.9% Sodium Chloride then states Contents: Sterile Distilled...
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    Relocating to Seattle Area in Early 2015

    Mavrick replied to KansasNurse14's topic in Washington Nursing

    If you haven't already gone there this is a link to the SEIU contract for Swedish Medical Center. Most the other hospitals are similar. Wage rates are on page 31. Mostly depends on years RN...
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    EVANGELISM IN WARD

    Mavrick replied to Oyinz24's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    The quote above is a very nice way to say No, NO, a THOUSAND TIMES NO. My own thoughts are .... keep your predatory religious practices to the little cross around your neck. Let others ask before you...
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    Nursing Student Question

    Mavrick replied to arp898's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    A few years ago a Kansas City nursing student posted a picture of a patient's placenta on her Facebook page. No identifying information was in the picture but the nurse was almost ejected from the...
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    Night Shift Dulls your brain

    Mavrick replied to Emergent's topic in Health, Stress Management

    This is totally unexplainable to any normal person but my previous job was two 12 hr 6:00pm to 06:30am shifts on Thursday and Friday and a 12 hr shift 9am to 9:30pm on Tuesdays EVERY WEEK. I loved it...
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    Advice for the first year of Nursing

    Mavrick replied to SandandSandwiches's topic in Nursing Career

    Wow! What a great article. I'm an old fart and was curious to see how new nurses are doing. Times have changed but people are essentially the same. Using caution when making co-workers your friend...
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    Salary vs per hour for floor nurses

    Mavrick replied to embradsmom's topic in Nursing Career

    Doesn't make sense to anyone but management. What is the chance you will ever leave early to compensate for staying late? **NEVER** You can't abandon a patient. You can't leave because you have...
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    things said wrong that drive you crazy

    Mavrick replied to SDALPN's topic in Private Duty

    Halter moniter instead of Holter Monitor Guaic instead of
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    Common nicknames for hospital items.

    Mavrick replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    OMG, I couldn't sleep thinking of all the "nicknames" we use. Tonsil sucker - Yankauer suction Nose hose - NG tube Bunny boots - foam heel protectors Bunny suit - disposable white jumpsuit used for...
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    Help!!! Caught btw rock and hard place--Instructor sending students home early...

    Mavrick replied to meatballgirl's topic in General Students

    Well I am extremely proud of you for speaking up even if it were anonymously. It is very difficult to be a lone voice when the others around you are content to be complicit in the deception. But you...
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    I feel like everybody hates being a nurse!!!

    Mavrick replied to hershdawg's topic in General Nursing

    OOOBoy! I was thinking about writing something along the lines of hating nursing but I THOUGHT my angel of mercy halo might get a ding in it. It's been hard living up to the image of nursing. I was...
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    ICU nurse moving from CA to WA has many questions

    Mavrick replied to jensfbay's topic in Washington Nursing

    Swedish Medical Center in Seattle is the "Big Dog" here is their current RN contract http://www.seiu1199nw.org/files/2012/05/smc-rn-contract-2011-2015.pdf Wage rates on page 31. All the hospitals are...
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    CRNA or NP?

    Mavrick replied to heavensent88_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you feel the need to choose either one? How will having an advanced degree help
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    How do you do your call schedule

    Mavrick replied to mugwump's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work in a PACU with 5 other RN's and we share over 650 hours of call a month. We have a call request book that we sign up for 3 months in advancd with 2 first choice and 2 second choice dates....