hisdudeness replied to hisdudeness's topic in Infusion
My point exactly, this is not just daily duties we are talking about... once again only 2 out of around 300-400 nurses in our hospital can do this. That to me sounds certified, and of course we are both certified to do this. My 1st ? was... We are st...
hisdudeness replied to jfelicia71's topic in Radiology
I know this is old but here we give PO Metoprolol 50 mg at hs the night before and 50 mg 1 hr before the study. That wokrs great (hr ususally 50's) the ordering MD orders the meds. I have never had to use more that 15 mg of iv metoprolol. normally I ...
hisdudeness replied to hisdudeness's topic in Infusion
I think,that if icu, ed & other specialty nurses get special pay why wouldn't a handful (5) of nurses that CAN insert piccs get some specialty pay??? I mean out of 300-400 nurses that work here only 2 can do it... that's less than 1% seems prett...
We have started a new picc line team at our 260+ bed hospital and there are only 2 of us at this time, we do not get any incentive pay/diff/bonus so we are having problems keeping people interested in the team. Any suggestions of what we should ask f...