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1. Should nurses be allowed to strike?

   CV CNS CCRN replied to LydiaGreen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   Should nurses have the RIGHT to strike? Absolutely. Should businesses/hospitals have the same right not to rehire them? It is food for

2. Transporting Telemetry Patients off the unit

   CV CNS CCRN replied to CV CNS CCRN's topic in Cardiac

   Many Thanks, Zambesi! CV CNS

3. Transporting Telemetry Patients off the unit

   CV CNS CCRN posted a topic in Cardiac

   I am very interested in how different hospitals are handling the transporting of Tele patients off the unit for tests. Do you require a Tele RN to go with monitor and meds, just a monitor, no RN, no...

4. What are the skills and qualities of a great critical care nurse?

   CV CNS CCRN replied to CarolineRn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   As someone who has hired WAY over a hundred critical care nurses over the last twenty years, I can tell you that one of the characteristics I value mose in an ICU nurse is FLEXIBILITY!!! Things...

5. Shift Differentials for UNC vs. Duke Hospitals??

   CV CNS CCRN replied to GoHeels's topic in North Carolina Nursing

   I just left UNCH. The stories you hear about the huge shift diffs at UNC are true. More or less. What they may have left out is that the diffs there are by what they call pay plans. Each pay plan...

6. Gastric Bypass Surgery

   CV CNS CCRN replied to SweetMagnolia's topic in General Nursing

   I hvae one relative and two close friends who have had the Roux en Y procedure. I recovered each of them in their post discharge recovery at home. None has had significant problems. The worst we...

7. the cnas have taken over!!

   CV CNS CCRN replied to beaglemom's topic in General Nursing

   1) Leave the organization 2) Demand an exit interview with the Director of HR if there is one 3) Send a letter of concern to the State Board of Nursing 4) If there is a nurses' union, report this...

8. Charge Nurse in ICU

   CV CNS CCRN replied to pjdRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   As both a practitioner and an administrator, I suspect that EVERY nurse that comes into your facility, whether traveler, regular staff or agency, has to have some kind of DOCUMENTED skills check list....

9. Can nurses report MD;s and to who

   CV CNS CCRN replied to angelbear's topic in General Nursing

   Fergus51, I LOVEDED your response. Not only do families like to see that kind of thing, but so, I assure you, do expert witnesses such as

10. Nurse hours per patient day

    CV CNS CCRN replied to Shellie RN's topic in General Nursing

    Consult your CNO, or VP/Nursing. He/she can tell you exactly how the hours are calculated in your

11. Telemetry Protocol

    CV CNS CCRN replied to vaughanmk's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I suspect this rather etreme policy resulted from one mishap. This is likely a knee jerk reaction to prevent it from occuring again. Surely someone from nursing must have participated in creation of...