NataliaRN

I work at CHRISTUS St. John. Starting pay is 26/hr on day shift...without shift differential n no experience.

I believe the half life of a heparin drip ranges between 1-2 hours....LMWH heparin has a half life of 4-5 hours give or take.

What is the appropriate way to draw a PTT if you have a patient with multiple DVTs to the right upper extremity with right arm restrictions and a heparin drip to the left forearm peripherally? Do you stop the infusion and flush with NS and then draw distal from the IV? Is it okay to draw distal from the IV if the drip is infusing? Will drawing a PTT be more accurate if you stop the heparin and then draw...or is you don't stop the infusion and draw distally from the IV?

Base pay for new grads where I work is 26.00/hr + diffs for day shifts from 5pm till clock out, weekend diffs, n PM shift diff of 4.50.

Where do you work?

Base salary for CHRISTUS St. John is 26/hr (without shift differentials)

I have addressed this to my nurse manager....everyone has! Now what?!? Considering we don't have a unit secretary, we have to put charts together and put in orders...ect.ect. Many of these orders are STAT orders, answering the call bell, and so on. One of the things that really ticks me off is that I work the AM shift without a unit secretary while the night shift has a unit secretary and more techs than the AM shift. This doesn't make sense to me.

Hello fellow Nurses! I currently work on an Oncology unit and feel extremely overwhelmed! On a typical day I have six patients, no unit secretary, and sometimes only one PCT. With this said...I put in my own orders, put together my charts after doing a direct admission, answer the call light, check my own blood sugars/VS when we only have one PCT, and so much more. Every other unit at my facility has a unit secretary except for ours. Can someone please give me advice! I feel emotionally and physically drained. I spend more time acting as a unit secretary/PCT than a nurse. Most importantly my patients for christ sake! Advice please!

I work on an oncology unit and access ports all the time. Check the orders first and then if you don't have an order or access the port call the MD and obtain an order to access the port per protocol. If the client is in extreme pain and an immediate order cannot be obtained I would then explain to the client that about the protocol and offer starting an IV until an order is available.

I work on an oncology unit without a unit secretary. Every other floor/unit has a unit secretary except the oncology unit. With that said we are also understaffed during the AM shift and majority of the time we run with one PCT which means we take VS and blood sugars. Help please!!!