What kind of monitors are you using in your hyperbaric chamber? I'm a critical care nurse and work part time and on-call in a hospital based multiplace chamber hyperbaric program. I frequently dive with ICU patients who are obviously monitored. Latel...
313RN replied to 1_fit_male_nurse2b's topic in Men
Became an RN at 40, now 45. Round is the shape I'm in and I'm largely being held together by NSAIDs and neoprene. But my labs look like I'm a 20 year old marathoner. I should be good for another 30 years.
"There isn't enough to call rapid response" I'm a Rapid Response nurse in an urban trauma hospital. From my perspective there's never a bad reason to call me. If you get a feeling, let me know and I'll come see your patient. If you're right hopefull...
I'm in an urban trauma hospital with 48 ICU beds out of about 200 total. Where I am senior staff (on the unit 1 year) takes turns as charge. Usually one day per week per nurse. Some units charge makes the assignment, some units RNs select their ass...
Depending where you work the pace might not be as slow as you hope. I'm an ICU nurse who works in a clinic with a multiplace chamber. I dive all the critical emergent patients plus work in the attached wound care clinic. Techs do most of the diving...
I went in to nursing for the glamor. No, honestly it was for job security. I spent 15 years in sales and was tired of the stress and the constant stress of having my performance measured to two decimal points. Having a quota is stressful. The pointl...
Do you see babies? Mom/dad have to be in on it... Parent calls your orientee and says something is bothering the baby. He starts his assessment, you come in behind with a loaded diaper. Ask 1: does this look like blood? 2: does this smell like bl...
We're cutting unit clerks (secretaries) left and right. They now cover multiple units each day, as many as 60 beds each. On nights there might only be 2 in the building (we're an urban trauma hospital). It has caused many problems and put a greater...
2nd career here too. I spent 15 years in business before I left looking for more job security. I found it and now I love critical care. I like the challenge of figuring out what's going on with a patient and having the autonomy to order tests and a...
That's not silly at all. We don't know the particulars of the arrest, but gastric contents sometimes to end up being aspirated. It's possible that it was the cause of the arrest or that the pt vomited during an intubation attempt (either in the hosp...
My dream is to work in a hospital that only admits Supermodels and Olympic athletes. Can someone please tell me where I can apply. Any floor. Any shift.
Hats off to the peds nurses out there. I work in a neuro ICU in a trauma center and in another highly specialized unit and all the things that go with don't bother me in the least. But not long ago I had to treat a sick kid who was about a month s...
I'm going to add one thing to a growing list of important traits: Intestinal fortitude and the inner strength to do what needs to be done (like advocating for your patient or yourself). We don't eat the young where I work, but we do eat the weak.
It depends on what's going on. I have 4 jobs, 1 f/t, 1 contingent, 1 as Adjunct faculty and another job in education. Short week: 40 hrs Medium week: 52 hours Long week: 64 hours Longest week: 82 hours, I think. I'm also on call with the f/t job 24/7...
I don't know if they beep any more than any other pumps I've used (Alaris and Baxter). I think there was more beeping early in the adoption of the pumps. Overall I think they perform well. We use multiple drug libraries (critical care, acute care, L&...
We use the Hospira Plum A pumps. They're ok for simple stuff and are easy to use, but they only come in either a single pump (with 2 channels) or in a triple pump (with 6 channels). The triples are huge and have to have a dedicated IV pole with a "Li...
Pay for a Staff Nurse who is contingent is about the same as a f/t RN. The difference is no benefits. Shift premium is about 7% for afternoons and about 10% for midnights. I've never heard of "system flex" and $48 an hour sounds like a fantasy. Yo...
Charge is an extra $1.00 per hour. Senior staff is expected to share the duty. After about a year you're considered senior staff. Charge takes an assignment just like everyone else, usually two patients. I'm on a neuro ICU with 10 beds. Great Lakes...
I work in a hospital-based wound care clinic. We measure and picture wounds every week. We use Pt labels on post-it notes stuck to paper rulers and only frame the wound. Eveything goes directly from the tablet computers camera into our EMR, so names...
313RN replied to creativetype2007's topic in Michigan
Big dude-As a graduate of the SDO program as well I'd like to disagree with some of what you said. First, I disagree with your assessment of the faculty. The academic faculty is largely made up of instructors who either have a doctorate or are pursui...
We call them Unna boots, too. We wrap from just above the toes to just below the knees. We also put a fan fold more or less centered on the tiba with each layer to provide a little relief when it dries. We never wrap toes. Santyl, silver impregnate...
I seem to have, yes. When I went into school I was interested in Hyperbarics. Going through the program I enjoyed L&D a lot and considered Midwifery for a while. Coming out of school I was just looking for any job I could find and wound up in Ne...