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  1. Should I SUE?

    flyfarfaraway replied to hollyday's topic in General Students

    How did you know the patient had reverted back to atrial

  2. Nursing pay

    flyfarfaraway replied to Zooey72's topic in General Students

    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...

  3. Escorted out of the patients home.........

    flyfarfaraway replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    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

  4. Maxim or MHM

    flyfarfaraway replied to LookingforChange's topic in Correctional

    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...

  5. Best Sick Call slips

    flyfarfaraway replied to DawnJ's topic in Correctional

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

  6. med pass and the mar

    flyfarfaraway replied to IQ168's topic in Correctional

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

  7. Public Health RN job outlook?

    flyfarfaraway replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Public, Community Health

    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.

  8. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    flyfarfaraway posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  9. Discharging Patients on Holidays?

    flyfarfaraway replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  10. IV push and wearing gloves

    flyfarfaraway replied to Katniss88's topic in Patient Medications

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

  11. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    flyfarfaraway replied to flyfarfaraway's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  12. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    flyfarfaraway replied to flyfarfaraway's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  13. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    flyfarfaraway replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  14. Judging when to suction trach

    flyfarfaraway replied to Maddy_Rose's topic in Pulmonary

    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

  15. 4 rejections and no response for 1st interview being experienced as CVOR BSN for 3yr

    flyfarfaraway replied to dlzk123's topic in Cardiac

    I'm glad you found

  16. Thinking about Leaving Nursing

    flyfarfaraway replied to cbond's topic in General Nursing

    maybe you could try going to the hospital to improve your nursing skills. Did you go to LTC right after

  17. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

    flyfarfaraway replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Days 5 patients per nurse. Sometimes the charge has a full assignment,sometimes she doesn't depending on if there is enough staff for it. There are also 3 CNA's for 30 patients, a monitor tech and a...

  18. Knoxville Area Jobs?

    flyfarfaraway replied to violettn's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    Yes, I am a BSN. They only take BSNs because it is a Magnet

  19. Knoxville Area Jobs?

    flyfarfaraway replied to violettn's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    Good luck at getting a job at Covenant now. I applied at the beginning of June and I was told that they are saturated with new grads and won't be taking any more for a while. I got a job with UT...

  20. Looking to be Summer Nurse Extern/Intern for Summer 2013

    flyfarfaraway replied to aka640's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I would wait till you're in school to even worry about it. Your nursing instructors are a great source of information in this

  21. BSN isn't really needed in TN?

    flyfarfaraway replied to JDougRN's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I would say that it would take you less time to do a BSN program because you already have a lot of the prerequisites anyway having 2 degrees already. Go for

  22. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    flyfarfaraway replied to suzzie_queue's topic in Georgia Nursing

    I'm pretty sure it's just Saturday and

  23. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    flyfarfaraway replied to suzzie_queue's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Night differential is 3 dollars and weekend differential is 3 dollars at the medical center. Not sure about St.

  24. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    flyfarfaraway replied to suzzie_queue's topic in Georgia Nursing

    They should hire regularly. The medical center just hired about 60 new graduates, so I'm sure they would hire someone with experience. I just moved away from there and took a pay cut to 18 dollars...

  25. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    flyfarfaraway replied to suzzie_queue's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Pay at The medical center in Columbus for new graduates is 21 dollars an hour which is really very good. I think St. Francis is at almost 20 an hour. Both are good hospitals. The medical center's...