nord11

nord11

ICU/CCU, Med-Surg, ER, Home-Health, Corr

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  1. Eagle Pass

    nord11 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    Does anyone work (or have worked) at Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center? I can find out about the town/community, but I want to know about the hospital. Can anybody

  2. Alamogordo

    nord11 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone work there or have any info? Thinking of moving this summer and just looking around. Thanks for any replies ahead of

  3. Roswell

    nord11 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone worked (or work currently at) Eastern New Mexico Medical Center (Roswell, NM)? Good or bad about the

  4. Roswell

    nord11 replied to nord11's topic in General Nursing

    Big delay on getting back to this post. Ended up going to West Texas. Thanks for the

  5. Average number of patients for RNs in Montana?

    nord11 replied to vicky3269's topic in General Nursing

    Where I am, if administration had there way - we nurses would get paid less and have more pt's. Our new interim DON made it known that she was going to change things and we would have 1:8 as a ratio....

  6. Relocating to AZ

    nord11 replied to Mr.RN-CDE's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I'm over here in NW Montana. Just got an AZ license and it took 3-4 wks. You should have NO trouble getting a job in AZ. I think I looked at almost all the hospitals in the state. Try looking at:...

  7. New graduate experience in a rural critical access hospital

    nord11 replied to libby0903's topic in Emergency

    I currently work in a critical access hospital in Montana. 21 yrs exp and worked mostly ICU with a sprinkle of other nursing positions. Do ER at times here and YOU are it. If it were me, I would get...

  8. Care Plans - What does the Experienced Nurse Think of Them?

    nord11 replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    What do I think about care plans - can't type it without using profanity. So I will be nice and hope my point got

  9. Average number of patients for RNs in Montana?

    nord11 replied to vicky3269's topic in General Nursing

    I work at a critical access hospital (25 beds). It can be anywhere from 3-8. Depends on what is going on in the hospital. If we have our ICU open, OB's, busy ER, you may end up with more than that. If...

  10. Yuma Regional Medical Center + New Grad RN opinions

    nord11 replied to fathertod's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I don't know much but I did apply at Yuma. I supposedly have an on-site visit coming up here soon (should find out in a week or two) to Yuma. We have a guy in RT that worked in Yuma a few years ago...

  11. Best Nursing Skill Set/Experience to Have to Work in Rural area as an RN

    nord11 replied to mt33133's topic in General Nursing

    I have been an RN for 21 yrs (in June) - starting out in ICU/CCU. Have worked other areas of the hospital setting (med-surg, ER, urology), home health, travel, agency, and as a correctional nurse. I...

  12. How does YOUR hospital waste its money?

    nord11 replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    What really makes me angry about the hospital I work at is this. They say that we have to save money, not making enough (and for the past 4 months have stated that they were clearing about $800,000 -...

  13. Unions

    nord11 replied to kambra's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I work in a critical access hospital in rural Montana. In short, if it were not for the RN's being unionized, things here would be worse than they are already. It does keep management away from some...

  14. Pay

    nord11 posted a topic in General Nursing

    What is the going pay for an RN with 21 yrs exp /

  15. Pay

    nord11 posted a topic in Arizona Nursing

    What is the going pay for an RN with 21 yrs exp /

  16. Montana RN Salary

    nord11 replied to INDY98's topic in General Nursing

    I have been an RN for 20 yrs now. For the entire time I think that we (nurses) are just a number. Management takes the attitude that we can get someone else to take your place. Where I work, if you...

  17. Information on nursing in MT?

    nord11 replied to AprilRNhere's topic in General Nursing

    Don't really know that much about the CHC, just work with the doc's. Doc's are

  18. Information on nursing in MT?

    nord11 replied to AprilRNhere's topic in General Nursing

    Libby,

  19. Information on nursing in MT?

    nord11 replied to AprilRNhere's topic in General Nursing

    I have lived in the northwest corner of Montana for 5 years now. Going to move this coming June when my daughter graduates from highschool. It has changed alot here in 5 years - not for the better I...

  20. Studer Group

    nord11 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone have any experience at a hospital with this

  21. Studer Group

    nord11 replied to nord11's topic in General Nursing

    If yes, was there a noticeable improvement in your workplace? Where I am working, things changed for the bad in a MAJOR way. Things do not seem as if they will improve any time

  22. DNR question

    nord11 posted a topic in General Nursing

    If a patient is in ICU and they are made a DNR ( or was admitted as a DNR), does medicare pay for the ICU

  23. DNR question

    nord11 replied to nord11's topic in General Nursing

    I am asking this because about 20 yrs ago in the ICU I was working in, the doc's got into trouble supposedly because they were putting too many DNR pts in the units and the hospital was not getting...

  24. Opinions/Advice on how to handle short staffing

    nord11 replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    To give you an example of what we nurses did at my hospital (small 25 or so bed hospital - 3 bed ICU). We are union here in Montana (for what good it does?). We had a day where we had 3 RN's (no Lpn's...

  25. Where to work?

    nord11 replied to nord11's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the replies. Went from central Florida to NW Montana and now since my daughter will be graduating from high school, I can go somewhere else. Still looking in Arizona and New Mexico and...