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1. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   seeley replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Where do they come from??? Working with the public is MORE challenge than this girl ever realized she was getting herself into. Heartfelt sympathy to everyone on this thread, Seeley

2. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   seeley replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Where do they come from??? Working with the public is MORE challenge than this girl ever realized she was getting herself into. Heartfelt sympathy to everyone on this thread, Seeley

3. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   seeley replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Totally agree with you. Customer reps. cover the hospital PR problems but don't solve the actual 'root' problems. Sad part is the hospitals know this I believe...it is less expensive to pay a customer rep. than fix the problems. ...

4. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   seeley replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I'd love to see a customer service rep. visiting our PACU every day. We have patients boarding in there every day...2-3 days for the same patients last week. 5 boarders overnight was the most but the PACU is cramped and without any auditory privacy. ...

5. Wages - we are underpaid

   seeley replied to George's topic in Operating Room

   Wow! Very unusual compensation. You must live in a somewhat remote area? Seeley

6. Post Op Care

   seeley replied to onenutshy101's topic in Safety

   I would say that this patient sounds 'shocky' and is in immediate need of intervention before he ends up perhaps arresting. It was an abdominal case so he likely needs volume and the surgeon needs to be called ASAP! He could just need more volume/ he...

7. ADHD and son

   seeley replied to kastas's topic in General Nursing

   Dear Mom, I wish you well. My brother was diagnosed many years ago with the 'minimal brain dysfunction' problem (what they called it then). No help for it then really. The doctor tried the then current drug therapy briefly but it caused my brother to...

8. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   seeley replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Remember everyone...we were taught that we are there to do for the patient ONLY what he/she cannot reasonably do for themselves at that time. We were also taught to remind them of that fact (as diplomatically as we can muster it) if they need to be r...

9. music

   seeley replied to chloe's topic in Operating Room

   I have seen music used in the PACU sucessfully with regional anesthesia patients post-op. They can take awhile to show full motor return and sensory block to fully descend. In the meantime, the patient can be relieved of some of his/her anxiety while...

10. PACU overflow patients

    seeley replied to Windy B.'s topic in PACU

    We are exeriencing this problem in the PACU where I currently work...we were experiencing that problem in the PACU where I worked before my current employer. It seems to be a problem that is not going to go away. The US population is growing, also li...

11. Question for PACU Nurses

    seeley replied to Zee_RN's topic in PACU

    I agree that it is obvious that the patient should never have left the OR in the first place. The surgeon and the anesthesiologist were wrong to end the case like that...also, I've never heard of the OR calling for an ICU nurse to come to the OR...th...

12. Wages - we are underpaid

    seeley replied to George's topic in Operating Room

    I work full time in a PACU and have over 24 years of full time staff nurse experience...in various areas but the last 18 of them in a PACU. I make $30.62/hr. We are paid $2/hr on-call and are paid time and a half when called in on the weekends. We wo...

13. 2004 election

    seeley replied to BSNgrad2004's topic in General Students

    I agree with the previous posts...we need to vote Bush out of the White House. Kerry looks to be the man that the Democratic Party will nominate. He has the support of Ted Kennedy and Kennedy is always pro-health care for the people. He also has the ...