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  1. Should I SUE?

    How did you know the patient had reverted back to atrial fib
  2. Nursing pay

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

    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.
  4. Maxim or MHM

    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 ...
  5. Best Sick Call slips

    I have been having some pains in my growing. (groin) lol
  6. med pass and the mar

    We have electronic mars so it's done at the time of dispensing.
  7. Public Health RN job outlook?

    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
  8. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    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...
  9. Discharging Patients on Holidays?

    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 w...
  10. IV push and wearing gloves

    We were never taught in school to wear gloves when hanging a piggyback or giving IV push.
  11. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    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...
  12. SOOOO HOT AT WORK!!

    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?
  13. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

    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 start...
  14. Judging when to suction trach

    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.
  15. I'm glad you found something!
  16. Thinking about Leaving Nursing

    maybe you could try going to the hospital to improve your nursing skills. Did you go to LTC right after graduation?
  17. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

    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 HUC. On nights there are 6 patients per nurse,...
  18. Knoxville Area Jobs?

    Yes, I am a BSN. They only take BSNs because it is a Magnet hospital.
  19. Knoxville Area Jobs?

    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 though which is awesome.
  20. Looking to be Summer Nurse Extern/Intern for Summer 2013

    I would wait till you're in school to even worry about it. Your nursing instructors are a great source of information in this area.
  21. BSN isn't really needed in TN?

    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 it!
  22. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    I'm pretty sure it's just Saturday and Sunday.
  23. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    Night differential is 3 dollars and weekend differential is 3 dollars at the medical center. Not sure about St. Francis.
  24. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    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 an hour, so 21 seems a lot better than what I'm goi...
  25. Columbus GA Area Nurses?

    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 ER is a new 40,000 sq foot building that was just f...