Nemhain

Geez... the average sick days taken on my unit per year is 7 and I've used 4 so far.

I hear ya! I've heard many nurses say that they used to be able to spend more time with patients 6 + years ago when ratios at my hospital were much higher. The paperwork is taking us away from the patient and we have to get after the MDs to sign t...

I have to say that I've heard nothing but good things about TMC's L&D... seriously. I know that there are approx. 4,000 births a year there! That 's a busy L&D dept. I can't say I've heard the same about the Med/Surg units. I heard that th...

That's what I see coming. Not only what you mentioned above, but my hospital has part-time nurses going to full-time and some inactive RNs returning to the workforce. The "nursing shortage" was created by many RNs leaving the profession or going ...

Maddie, I'll PM you.

Maddie, If you look under "Article 2"Licensure; persons and activities not required to be licensed of the Arizona Massage Therapy Board's website, you will see where Licensed health care providers are exempt providing they do not identify themselves...

maddie, I was a massage therapist for 10 years before becoming a registered nurse, and yes, massage therapy IS within the scope of practice for RNs and has been for quite sometime. Actually, it is within the scope of practice for Physical Therapist...

:rotfl: I with you!

1) No, I wouldn't be a nurse again. 2) Yes, you should use your MPH.

I'm really hurt and embarrassed. I was in a study group with my math professor and I got really hungry. I didn't want to leave to go all the way to the dining hall to get something "healthy" to eat 'cause I was afraid I'd miss something in my grou...

Yep. At my hospital there is. We've benefited from the local schools hemorrhaging new graduates. We now fight over who gets to work overtime.

I keep a line KVO if I'm going to hang another bag with in two hours during the day or within three hours at night. I find alot of times at night that the pt. would rather be KVO 'cause they don't want to be too disturbed with the flushing. I don'...

No policy at my hospital, but almost everybody dilutes 25 mg of Phenergan in 50ml of normal saline and hang it as a piggy back. We don't need an order to do that (hang it as a PB).

You said it, sister! I want to add "management". I've had three other careers before nursing and all of the nursing managers I've had so far (although I know all aren't like this) act unprofessional, are vindictive or are completely clueless about...

I'm jealous! Very very jealous!!! I want to go down to two 12's a week with the option of working the occasional 3... but you get overtime for it... you lucky devil!!!

According to Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing (10th ed.), "...because hypoxemia stimulates respiration in the patient with severe COPD, increasing the oxygen flow to a high rate may greatly raise the patient's blood oxyge...

Now that I think of it... it might be through Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.

I believe it is through Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. It's either online or via cable/satellite television.

I think that's everywhere in Tucson (Carondelet network, UMC, and TMC) except Kino pays new grads $24.50 (that pay was actually listed on their website). Some of these hospitals will pay more (just a tiny bit) if you work in critical care and/or hav...

St. Joseph's for Med/Surg. TMC for L&D and Mother/Baby. I would suggest UMC for Med/Surg, but there have been so many budget cuts that when a PCT leaves/quits the unit, the floor doesn't get a replacement. My friends sister works at UMC and ...

My hospital wants it diluted in at least 20ml and pushed over 5 minutes. I end up doing almost the same as you: 50ml of NS to 12.5 mg of Phenergan and I run it over 20 minutes (150 ml/hr) on a pump. My hospitals allows nurses to use their own discr...

I'm on a regular med/surg floor and we have to do that except for the O2 for pain. You should see our charting; you'd fall over and die. I haven't been on my unit for very long, but one of the nurses I work with has been there 10+ years and says th...

Definitely hire a tutor. Do what you have to do in order to pass. Let me tell you, if I had to take algebra I'm not sure I'd be a nurse today. I went into a program where taking Statistics was enough (thank goodness).

I know the positions are few and far between out there. The ones that are open seem to be in ICU or ER (with all of the outdoor activities people get injured a lot).

I have Tabers and Davis' Drug Guide too. I would also recommend RN Notes or Med/Surg Notes.