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I have just started my orientation on a telemetry unit, and have just been taught to put in IV's, sometimes I get it and sometimes I dont. How long does it take to be successful. I know that we all have times when we can't do it, but I want to be 8...

I love it when you get phone calls that say `is my mum there', can I speak to my dad?.. You try to explain that there are many mothers and fathers on the unit, but they just dont get it.............

:) In our facility we concentrate mainly on ability post -op, cardiac rehab and the dieticians work with the patients pre and post op. All the post op open heart patients work with cardiac rehab, and 70% of the patients work with the dieticans if i...

I take home about 1000 -1200 $ q 2weeks net. 4 years experience. I thought nursing in Minnesota was well paid, but from the sounds of the other posts I am not sure. 3000 q 2 weeks ?, sounds great......

The NPs and CNS remove the chest tubes, there was an idea that a CT removal protocol was going to be devised, so that the staff RNS could do it, but have not seen it yet....:roll

I guess I was having a bad day when I wrote that note, and apologise. Yes we are allowd and should vent over the internet. Would'nt it be funny if patients actually read what we wrote about them though

When you are 80 years old and you no longer have your own place, and the only place you can call home is a nursing home, then I hope you come and go as you please and I hope that you do what you want. Life is short, and it sounds like you dont reall...

Alcohol wipes, kleenex, a pen, pen light, forceps, scissors, calculator, pager, assignment notes, stethoscope, telemetry strip of my patients, lipstick or chapstick, on a usual day On the old day, chocolates, tampax, saline flush, green mill menu, b...

My fav patients are those having just had a heart transplant, a happy time, and pretty cool people, and patients with the LVAD heartmate, very interesting. People with electrophysiology problems also My worst, demanding and difficult patients and th...

I have spent 1 year on station 41, previous to that I worked in England, so things were very different when I came here. The orientation program I had was excellent, and the staff very friendly. My time there has given me the experience and confide...

Jenny, where do you work, I work on 41.

I work at Abbott Northwestern on a telemetry unit, and on days and eves I have 3-4 patients, nights average is 6-8. Our orientation program lasts 8 weeks for new grad, and is plenty of time to learn everything. Abbott is an excellent place to work,...

Unfortunately, and as you know, guilt can burn you out. I have worked many doubles, and your priority are you and your family, the patients will be ok, I HOPE.. GO HOME, the ER will be there in the morning, and with rest you will be ready for the n...

The tone of your post is quite off putting. If you have become a nurse, with the intent of becoming more than a regular staff nurse, then you are going to be in for a long wait.....and if you work in a ICU setting you will find out that the staff ar...

Yes, we all do make mistakes, but it is what we learn from them that matters. I check all my drip rates, except NS with another nurse when I start an infusion, and I check all my insulin doses with another RN, if they are of a large amount. I work ...

:) Thank you for all your replies. It is has been a year now since I posted this thread, and I guess I am not too bad at putting IV's in. I usually get about 60%, which is good, as most of the people are dehydrated and over 70.

What kind of education and experience do you need to become a cardilogy clinical nurse specialist, do you need a Masters or a BSC. Are there any websites that I can visit. Please help.

Yeah, I look at peoples veins all the time, funny how we do that.............

You know, that you will find a few med/surg patients on a cardiology unit, thats if you work in Telemetry. You do not need any cardiology experience to work on a cardiology unit, if the orientation is good. You will learn all you need to know, in t...

I have to get up at 4am to picket tommorow. My husband laughs, and says, you spend more time picketting than you do working. Ok so I am there from 5.30AM-4.30PM. Anybody else coming????????????????? or thinking of us in rainy Minnesota.

Looks like I didnt have to picket after all, the only thing was that I was looking forward to a weekend off, as I am starting nights tonight. Oh well, I am voting tommorow, and I am so glad things are happening, I was prepared to find alternative wo...

Remember the many days, that you are just too damn busy to go to the bathroom, take a break, or have a drink. That is what we are fighting for, the unsafe staffing, the poor pay. The patients are now more acute, there are now more things to be done...

I work on a 45 bedded Tele unit, and we have a lifepak policy. Which states, for any tests the following patients need lifepak monitoring with a RN escort when going off the unit and thus having there telemetry off. V Tach more than 6 beats in 24hr...

I voted to Strike, but I am not sure how I am going to pay the bills. I hope this is settled before June 1st.

I work in Telemetry and we use IV Amiodarone gtt. I would imagine that if the patient was unstable then we would transfer to the CCU. :) :)