pricklypear

pricklypear

Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis

Member

  • Content

    1,060

  • Visitors

    7,587

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    13

All Content by pricklypear

  1. Tech/CNA

    pricklypear replied to BESTRONG's topic in General Nursing

    I have no idea what techs get paid these days. I got 10/h 7 years

  2. Precepting new nurses...

    pricklypear replied to mommatrauma's topic in Emergency

    I think mommatrauma's trying to think of what would be best for the new nurse. I agree that sometimes there is a mindset of "well, she's been orientated, she should be able to function like the rest...

  3. Hospital ward cleared for Kylie Minogue

    pricklypear replied to kbclary4's topic in General Nursing

    Good point about the media attention. I could see some media people offering legitimate visitors compensation to give info, used dressings (haha) or whatever. Maybe she didn't ask for the whole unit...

  4. Hospital ward cleared for Kylie Minogue

    pricklypear replied to kbclary4's topic in General Nursing

    Good Lord. All I can say is she better have paid for all 8 of those rooms. Who do these people think they are???? She had to have given up lots of money for that, we all know how much hospitals...

  5. Tech/CNA

    pricklypear replied to BESTRONG's topic in General Nursing

    good luck, nicole! you shouldn't have a problem finding a postition as a tech. they are in great demand in most

  6. Tech/CNA

    pricklypear replied to BESTRONG's topic in General Nursing

    There are different kinds of techs. Like Critterlover described, the patient care tech varies from place to place. A CNA is a certified nurse assistant. This involves (usually) a formal class and a...

  7. Update..still confused......

    pricklypear replied to xokelly2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Geeez, you guys!! I'm so sorry you are having to go through all this waiting!! Like you haven't been through enough stress lately!! I just find it so strange that these hospitals are dragging their...

  8. WHY are nurses so catty??

    pricklypear replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have never worked in another profession, so I don't know how cattiness is spread across the board. Having heard a lot of stories about general office politics, it seems like it exists anywhere...

  9. Precepting new nurses...

    pricklypear replied to mommatrauma's topic in Emergency

    We had a grad nurse like yours on our unit. Unfortunately, the flaws that held her back in the beginning didn't go away. The limited self-confidence, sensitivity, very low stress threshold. She was...

  10. Self-Scheduling

    pricklypear replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how many of you there are in surgery to sign up on one schedule - but we had a similar problem. Our solution was to split the staff into groups of about 5 and each group had 3 days to...

  11. UNIT SECRETARIES-- the good, and the not so good...

    pricklypear replied to Mystery5's topic in General Nursing

    We only have clerks sometimes at night, so any help is always appreciated by all of us. The ones we have are awesome. One of our day clerks is really good, too, but she's very bitter. I guess day...

  12. Wearing scrubs in public...

    pricklypear replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    You're probably right! Given the public's "I read it in a magazine so it must be true" attitude sometimes. BTW, to everybody who has tried to email Marilyn and been bounced back - I wrote to the...

  13. CVICU lengh of stay

    pricklypear replied to jetty's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    After a while, surgical heart patients cease to be surgical or heart patients, and become vent dependent patients. I'm not saying that they wouldn't get good care in a CVICU, I'm just that they...

  14. small bore feeding tubes

    pricklypear replied to Spider Cat's topic in General Nursing

    We almost never (I can think of once or twice) use them for feeding, but no, not if gastric contents can be aspirated when

  15. small bore feeding tubes

    pricklypear replied to Spider Cat's topic in General Nursing

    We don't check NGs (salem-sumps) with CXR unless we don't get gastric contents when first inserted (this is our

  16. CVICU lengh of stay

    pricklypear replied to jetty's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Sorry! I didn't read your post carefully enough. It's too bad that the docs are contributing to your problem. Long term vent pts don't belong in a specialized unit like a CVICU. We only have 1...

  17. CVICU lengh of stay

    pricklypear replied to jetty's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Usually once lines are out, and drips are off and they remain stable for 24 hours. Our ICU is sort of slow to move people, too. Sometimes it's due to bed availablity on the floor, sometimes doctor...

  18. First Death Experience

    pricklypear replied to DenaInWyo's topic in General Students

    (((((((Deana)))))) That first one will always stick with you. You will understand as you progress in your career, that this was a "good" death. Not everybody gets to die quietly and with dignity,...

  19. Here we go!!!!

    pricklypear replied to DCCCRN2Bn05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Crossing my fingers for you!!! Good luck:) Take some deep breaths...and try to relax. You've studied hard, and you'll do

  20. patient questions

    pricklypear replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    I, too love it when patients are inquisitive about their own healthcare. I'll give you the same advice I give everybody...as you think of questions, write them down!!! All too often you will think...

  21. Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

    pricklypear replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think if the new nurses/students you are talking about are guilty of anything it's either stupidness or unrealistic expectations of what it's like to earn "the big money." There is good money to be...

  22. sleep apnea alarm disabled "pt died"

    pricklypear replied to got2luvnights's topic in General Nursing

    I just don't know enough about legal stuff. But I would think that since the record was missing, there was no proof either way. So, if the nurses were to say the alarms were on, obviously they did...

  23. male CNA fired for "I love YOU"

    pricklypear replied to edgreen's topic in Men in Nursing

    I wasn't there, so my response is just based on your post...but I think that's bunk. We say that kind of stuff to each other (male/female) a lot on my unit and it's never come to that. But I do know...

  24. VIP Patients

    pricklypear replied to k_cole21's topic in General Nursing

    It's unethical. Totally. Especially if you consider that the request to give someone "extra care" implies that we are not already giving the best care we can to every patient. And if we are, then...

  25. sleep apnea alarm disabled "pt died"

    pricklypear replied to got2luvnights's topic in General Nursing

    I would say classic bad practice!! If you mentioned it, I missed it, but on what grounds did the defendants appeal? I can't believe it even went to