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I was taught to never give more than 12.5 mg of Phenergan IVP at once; whether diluting it or not.

I agree, I feel like my hospital is being very cheap. I am very blessed that my family made it out safely and there is no damage to my apartment, but there are many of my fellow coworkers that were not so lucky. This is all the more reason I feel we should be compensated appropriately so we can start putting the pieces back together.

As a full time employee i am required to particpate, chossong which team you are on is voluntary.

Hello fellow Nurses, I am a nurse here in Southeast Georgia. As I'm sure most of you know, this area was hit pretty hard by Hurricane Matthew. As a result, emergency response teams were activated. "A" team is responsible for remaining at the hospital during the storm while "B" team is allowed to evacuate and relieve "A" team as soon as medical personnel can re-enter the area. Long story short, I am on "A" team and we have now been at the hospital for more than 36 hours. We have had to clock in and out for our 12 hour shifts and management is claiming we will only be compensated "call pay" ($2/hr) for the time we are forced to sleep here at the hospital. I am just wondering...is this standard pay/practice for when hospitals have to activate emergency response teams? To me, it just seems like $2 is insulting considering we are away from our families, the sleeping arrangements are less than ideal, the cafeteria food keeps you in the bathroom every 2 hours and the hospital's census is the highest it's been in months. Not only that, we also have the added emotional stress of not being able to check on our homes to assess damage caused by Matthew. We are very lucky that we even have food and that the generators are still keeping the lights on, but $2/hr is just ridiculous.

Thank you so much for your words of wisdom. I'm attempting to start studying for my CCRN and I don't know where to begin.

Getting the watch wet would be the least of my worries. I would be afraid of getting poop, blood, sputum, urine, soap, hand sanitizer, etc anywhere near my $300+ watch. Sometimes after entering and exiting isolation rooms I feel like autoclaving is not enough to clean my $10 Target watch sufficiently. There's nothing wrong with treating yourself, but personally I wouldn't risk wearing your fancy watch to work. Is it really necessary?

Of the many JP drains I have taken care of, I have never had to flush them nor have I seen ones with stopcocks. We only strip them with an alcohol wipe to keep the line patent. The only drains I've had to flush are accordian drains. Maybe you have the names mixed up.

What does NETY stand for?

Ever thought about moving to Savannah...every hospital I've worked in is notoriously understaffed. If you don't mind moving come on down to beautiful Savannah, GA.

Why are you so easily deterred from this profession simply by what other anonymous posters have commented? I would encourage you to give it a year, but from the tone of the original post and your responses to what others have suggested, it is clear you have already made up your mind. Unfortunately your decision is not based upon experience which may lead to regret in the future. From what you've heard/read you have fixated on very few aspects of nursing care which are all manageable. Nursing is far more than working weekends and holidays. It may not have been your intent to offend, but calling this profession "sucky" is very offensive. We all have worked very hard to attain the RN behind our names. It comes with great responisibilty and pride and far from sucky.

I just studied each section and would do some practice questions to make sure that I applied what I just studied appropriately. Thankfully I passed on the first try with just 75 questions. The Hurst review was great for me because it condensed four years of information into a much more digestable portion of info. Good luck and don't stress out.

I don't know if this is the answer either, unless the applicant is a new grad. If a nurse has several years of experience on their resume (has proven to be a safe and competent nurse) and has to divulge that they passed the NCLEX only after several tries; wouldn't that make a reasonably valuable candidate less likely to be hired. Should a nurse with a positive track record be punished for a test taken years in the past?

Hurst was extremely helpful.

At my hospital when a patient is using a cpap/bipap we do not use continuous pulse ox unless there is an order written.

i dont know why but for some reason this seems to be the norm at 2 of the hospitals in my area. some managers seem to be oblivious to the fact that night shift can be just as hectic as day shift and the floor would benefit from 2 techs at night. the patient to tech ratio is usually 24:1. very sad...but true