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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!

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

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, the charge has a full patient load and there are 2 CNA's for 30 patients with a monitor tech and HUC. I'm on a pulmonary unit and it's extrememely busy. It's very common to be hanging 6 or 7 IVPBs a night for one patient.

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

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.

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.

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!

I'm pretty sure it's just Saturday and Sunday.

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

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 going to be making. I wouldn't think you would have a problem getting a job though. I would email a nurse recruiter and see what they say. The new graduate program at the medical center starts July 30. When are you planning on moving?

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 finished and it is the trauma center of the town. St. Francis' ER is more geared towards heart since they are a heart hospital. It's TINY. If you have any other questions let me know!