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How did you know the patient had reverted back to atrial fib

I have four years experience and I work in hospice home health in Knoxville TN. I have acute care experience as well as corrections experience. I make 54000 and mileage as well. Ut is lower paying but is a fantastic hospital with many opportunities to move up. I loved it and was glad for the experience.

I guess it's a good thing the "marketers" at my company are all RNs and the intake coordinators are LPNs. I just recently started but it seems okay so far. We will see.

I'm a traveler at a prison in NC and I make good money. I am contracted through supplemental. I bring home about 1200 a week. There's a tad bit of animosity between one of the travel nurses and the state nurses, just because there are only 2 state nurses on first shift and 4 travelers. That means the one traveler gets to be charge occasionally but she doesn't have the same access as the state nurse does. For example travelers don't have access to doing lab requisitions and getting into OPUS.

I have been having some pains in my growing. (groin) lol

We have electronic mars so it's done at the time of dispensing.

Currently looking for a public health job. I have 3+ years of hospital experience and the few jobs that are available say you must have 1 to 2 years of community health experience. BLAH

We have a case manager that stays on our floor and if she knows that a patient may be getting discharged over the weekend she will leave instructions for the nurse, precert, paper work, who to call etc.We are also piloting an infloor pharmacy where we give the patient's their meds before they leave the floor which may or may not be a good thing. We will see.

We were never taught in school to wear gloves when hanging a piggyback or giving IV push.

Well, well. This went up fast. I'm thinking of trying the cooling towel and just shoving it down my shirt. I've had to start wearing a maternity belt which makes me even hotter. For the isolation patients, I don't have any with CMV or chicken pox/shingles. I was exposed to CMV early in pregnancy because we didn't know the patient had it until after a bronch, and I had to have blood drawn but everything turned out okay. Most of the time it's always R/O TB and we haven't had a real TB patient on the floor in a while, but if there was a known TB patient, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get it. I've let them know that I really would rather not have a TB or droplet patient because of the mask (ALREADY SOB!! LOL), but I'm sure with FLU season coming up I will have to have some flu patients, I mean, I work on a pulmonary floor! I do think 4 out of 5 isolation patients with one of them being TB isolation is a little much though (I had a team like that a couple of weeks ago and ended up in Triage really dehydrated even though I'd had 2 liters of water thoughout my shift). Apparently our old nurse manager whom I never worked with would break it up so no one would have more than 3 at a time. Sometimes I miss working at a restaurant with deep freezers to escape too!

Yeah, I thought of the whole biomed thing. I figured if I had a battery powered one without a cord it would be less of a risk. I might have to look up this cooling vest. Where would I get one of these?

1. State you work in East Tennessee 2. Years of experience 1 year 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) hospital/pulmonary floor at university hospital 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary 19.32 Was 18 dollars when I started last year as a new grad. Just got a raise. 5. Differentials (if any) $3/weekend 4$/nights 6. Union? ​NOPE Charge RNs only get a dollar more an hour. Cost of living idea: 3 br 2 ba house built in 2006; 2000 sq feet; nice neighborhood-200,000 dollars; bought last year. Gas prices right now are 3.30 a gallon. I pay 140 dollars for 2 days a week for daycare for my toddler.

Let me start off by saying I'm currently 31 weeks pregnant. I get so darn hot at work it's unbelievable. Especially when I get stuck in an isolation room assisting with a thoracentesis for 30 minutes in one of those plastic blue gowns, or if I'm in a TB isolation room wearing a fricken N95 mask. I have had to stick my head in a freezer for like 15 minutes a couple of times because I thought I was going to pass out. What do you think about getting a little fan for my cow? (Computer on Wheels) Have you ever seen anyone do this? It's always so hot in a lot of my patients rooms because I work on a pulmonary floor and a lot are old with pneumonia and are "freezing cold!!"

I always make sure to ask first though too, because if a person has had a trach for awhile, they know what they need as well and it gives them a bigger hand in their care to make some decisions.

I'm glad you found something!