StokoRN

Here in mid Florida it is $3.00/hr. Time & a half with 2 hr minimum for call back. It was pretty much the same when I worked in So Fl. "You're never fully dressed without a smile" Annie

Hositals in Fl all have Disaster plans in place that automatically initiate at the start of Hurricane Season. How they arrainge for coverage is different at different facilities. A one hospital where I worked until recenetly the coverage plan was dif...

I currently work 4 10 hour days in a PACU. I have worked lots of 12 hr shifts in the past & prefer them to any other. The extra time off during the week opens up opportunities to do leisure activities or take classes, etc. I have worked 12s in ED...

I lived & worked in Ogden. Moved to Florida, my wife is in Nurse Anesthesia School. I still like to read the posts from Utah, but I don't see that many new ones. "You're never fully dressed withot a smile." Annie

I did a travel assignment at Duke University a few years ago. They had 24/7 coverage in PACU. Few cases were scheduled during th over night hours. I also worked in a 385 bed community hospital that had elective schedule on Saturdays. A couple of the ...

General surgeons do the inguinal hernias every place I have worked. Unless there is an odd complication, there is no involvement with the urinary track. "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore, it's already overcrowded from your dirty lit...

I currently work in a PACU in a central Florida hospital. We are provided light blue scrubs, as are the ACC & OR. However, the rest of the hospital nurses are required to wear all white. I mean ALL WHITE. That includes shoes, socks, warm up jacke...

Milenko 1st, let me say WELCOME to the profession. I'm always glad to see new enthused students & nurses around. Antibiotics given imeadiatly pre op help to prevent infections. The skin is the 1st line of defense against infections and that barr...

Hi; I lived in Ogden, Ut for 2 years while my wife finished her BSN at Weber. Her daughter had good grades and had to try for 3 years to get into Weber's progrom at Utah State in Logan. While we were there, I worked with several medics, phlebotamists...

Hi, My wife & I are both nurses. I am currently working in a PACU in Melbourne. I grew up, worked & raised my kids in Lake Worth. My wife is currently in a nurse anesthesia school in MIami. She comes from Utah. I have worked mostly in Fl, bu...

I live in Florida.. I too thought it would be a nice change from staff nursing in PACU & ED. I had 20 years experience at that time. I went to school & became an LMT. I don't regret that move, but I should have researched it better. Jobs in m...

Back on topic... I was raised and lived most of my life in Lake Worth, Fl, about 60miles north of Miami. I currently live & work in Melbourne on the coast east of Orlando. There is much to enjoy about living in Florida. I really like the warm win...

I don't see anything wrong the type pf BP variation that you are describing. 1st: +/- 20 % is a 2(out of possible 2) on the Aldrete Score used to screen pts for discharge from PACU. 2nd: If the patient is stable with those blood presures and is asymp...

I think your next move will be dictated by how much you like & want that house. Most of Florida is a "seller's market" right now. Prices of houses across the state are constantly & rapidly going up. It is possible that the owner feels that a ...

How the times do change ! Many years ago, when I worked in ICUs, Demerol was a very commonly used drug. I do not recall there being so many problems with it. Most of our patients were relatively short stay. Maybe the were not on it long enough to dev...

I grew up in Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, and raised my children there. Several years ago, my wife and I traveled, and when we deceided to settle back in Fl, we made a deliberate decision to avoid south east Fl. The reasons? To crowded, to expensi...

I don't think that is a valid policy. Our ED went to 12s about 2 years ago and tried to limit shifts in a row to 2. That didn't even come close to working. My currrent schedule is to work night (1800-0600) weekends (Fr-Su) and take 4 days off. A few ...

I can't give you any recent news a I have not seen any of these pts in our ED. We see lots of meth,ETOH, and assorted other drugs. However, I know that this has been taking place in one form or another for 30+years. In the "old days" it was common to...

We hand out cruthches to any pt that needs them, as long as our Docs write the order. We also do crutch training and require return demo from the pt prior to d.c. The feeling is that people ned to show a rock botton, bare necessity, level of skill an...

True enough, the courts and just about everybody else requires a pain assessment and result of treatment noted on the charts. I usually chart "pt states" and use the 0-10 pain scale. Then I chart the pt appearance,i.e. laughing, smiling ,chatting, gr...

We get those occasional loonies in our ED too, but we have 24 hr security presence. The 1st person a pt or visitor meets as they walk in is a uniformed security guard. We also have continuous security for pt that are "pink sheet" (there by police or...

We use ketamine in our ED often as a pediatric sedation for lac repairs and ortho procedures. Our kids are on O2, Sat/pulse monitors, and sometimes on EKG or NIBP depending on age/size. We keep the room quiet and discuss with the parents, prior to ad...

Krebs, man 1st let me say that if Drew Carey and Will & Grace are where you are looking for validation than you are in more trouble than you realise. I also possess the XY chromosone and have been a Nurse for 27+ years. I have never found it to b...

We do not use medics in our ED. We do use EMTs. They can triage, do ekgs, transport pt, apply most of our splints, d c lines, insert foleys and give general assistance. I have mixed feelings about this. It is unfortunate that they cannot work up to t...