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    Newly hired LPN is making more money!!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    even better, i went to nlrb's site and found these little gems: employee rights the national labor relations act extends rights to many private-sector employees including the right to organize and...
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    Pedal Pulse

    UM Review RN replied to nsgstudent007's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    P.S. Daytonite, thanks! Fascinating
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    Pedal Pulse

    UM Review RN replied to nsgstudent007's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I was taught to put my finger on the top of the foot between the Great toe and the second toe, and feel the skin as you move your finger toward the leg. Don't press too hard; it can obliterate weaker...
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    Newly hired LPN is making more money!!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    And I'd say that you're paid more because you're a guy. The fact remains -- guy nurses tend to get paid more than we (older, female nurses) do. Same for techs. It's not a matter of what you'll accept...
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    Newly hired LPN is making more money!!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    Some places keep salaries for experienced nurses down by having a policy of not allowing discussions about salary. I feel that the entire policy is unethical. Also, hiring new grads for nearly what an...
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    Mental capacity of a nurse in question...

    UM Review RN replied to ZooMommyRN's topic in Florida Nursing

    Personally, I think you should mind your own business -- and this is outside the scope of your
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    QUESTION: Who have you TOLD about allnurses.com to ? ? ?

    UM Review RN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I don't tell anyone. Not that this site is not the best for nursing, but because I found the most interesting Internet hospital policy. Basically it says that no employee can talk about the hospital...
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    Contagious CNA showing up for work!!!!

    UM Review RN replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't walk with a temp of 102, much less drive to work. Whenever I'm sick I think about one of my girlfriends, whose kids would go to school sick because they wanted the Perfect Attendance...
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    Nurses that write their own orders

    UM Review RN replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with you -- I won't write an order that hasn't been given by the doc. Fortunately, our hospital policy is that all doc calls must be returned within 30 minutes, stat calls within 15 minutes. Our...
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    Did the pay go up for Central Florida?

    UM Review RN replied to kgard7777's topic in Florida Nursing

    I'd think they were including shift and weekend differentials. Our shift differential is $3.50 - $5.00/hr. and our weekend differential is $1/ hr. Brings the pay rate up considerably, especially if...
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    Unrealistic steriotypes of medicine on TV

    UM Review RN replied to chnc1024's topic in General Nursing

    My total all-time movie fave is Stephen Seagal's Hard to Kill in which he wakes up from a coma, escapes a killer without ever leaving the stretcher, and somehow the only nurse in a unit full of...
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    what is the difference between a combining form and a combining vowel can someone

    UM Review RN replied to tiffany311's topic in General Students

    A prefix comes before the root. Think of a preemie, a baby born too soon. A su f fix come a f ter the root. The extra "f" is your
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    Incompetent nurses

    UM Review RN replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to add to that. The Rapid Response team essentially creates a portable Emergency Room in a unit that simply doesn't have the resources or the staff to handle a crumping patient. Rapid...
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    This just infuriates me!

    UM Review RN replied to StressedOutNurse85's topic in General Nursing

    I know you're not happy and I truly have BTDT. But this year our situation's changed, so I'll be working all the holidays gladly. The census is usually down and I'll get
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    Florida nursing salaries - seriously????

    UM Review RN replied to centralflorida's topic in Florida Nursing

    All areas of Florida have expensive housing. Problem is, the market has gone soft here, as everywhere else. Our home increased in value X 10 since our purchase in 2000, but there's no way it'd sell....
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    Incompetent nurses

    UM Review RN replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    Excellent point. I
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    Can someone please describe the layers of the pericardium?

    UM Review RN replied to tiffany311's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Here are a couple of links that might help: http://www.rjmatthewsmd.com/Definitions/pericardium.htm http://www.marylanddermatology.org/imagepages/18081.htm...
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    Unrealistic steriotypes of medicine on TV

    UM Review RN replied to chnc1024's topic in General Nursing

    For the best references to TV shows, read Suzanne Gordon's From Silence to Voice or Nursing Against the Odds. Both books are a must-read for all nurses and nursing
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    Anyone else have this happen to you when talking to a RN?

    UM Review RN replied to SUZYQ1981's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Because it's true that nursing is hard. Whether or not it's worth it, only you can say. Look at it this way. If nurses told you everything was sunshine and roses in our profession, they'd be lying....
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    Do you attend funerals?

    UM Review RN replied to Rnmomajmj's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I was very pleased to see the Hospice nurses at my stepdad's funeral a few weeks ago. They were wonderful to him, and we were all so appreciative of their expertise and concern. I think it gave them...
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    PICC lines in the U.S.A. and the World

    UM Review RN replied to AZMSNnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Florida here. Lots of elders with frail veins. We have a lot of PICCs. We do have a screening tool around our place somewhere, but most of us have it memorized. It has something like, how hard a...
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    Got Ethics?

    UM Review RN replied to RN Randy's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, sounds like some folks have gone a little overboard. At my hospital we had an inservice on GWTG and got a mini-Hershey bar for listening and a little reminder card that had all the specs printed...
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    Incompetent nurses

    UM Review RN replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    Oh and one more thing. In your second scenario, you have the nurse turning UP the lido on what is obviously a contraindication for the med. Never could've happened on our unit. We don't titrate....
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    Incompetent nurses

    UM Review RN replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    P.S. All of those incidents are why the nurses at our hospital fight having remote tele tooth and nail. We want to be able to look at the monitors ourselves, not just have the rhythms called to us...
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    Incompetent nurses

    UM Review RN replied to medicrnguy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure Risk Management would appreciate hearing what you have to say about the situation. But saying that it's "ironic" that these incidents all happened on the same unit is almost the same as...