nursenotamaid

nursenotamaid specializes in SICU, MICU, BURN ICU, Trauma, CTICU, CCU.

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1. Assignment at Stanford

   nursenotamaid replied to Codeman906's topic in Travel

   AMN has an exclusive contract with Stanford. Because Stanford is a really popular assignment, they can get away with paying super low pay rates. The flipside of that is that Stanford (mostly ICUs,...

2. Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

   nursenotamaid replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

   I went to nursing school about 12 years ago (wow...that long?!) and we were taught soap and water baths with wash cloths and we also had to make our beds with flat sheets, not fitted ones. Now, the...

3. Do you give back-rubs and foot baths to your patients?

   nursenotamaid replied to silt's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I don't give massages, generally speaking. However, for patients who are incontinent or immobile, I do rub protective lotion on their backs, bums, elbows and heels, but I wouldn't call that a massage...

4. ICU nurses: Do you check cornea reflex and gag reflex q4h ?

   nursenotamaid replied to OnlybyHisgraceRN's topic in Critical Care

   Unless that patient is talking to me, yes, I do check, however, on our neuro's - we check

5. Pittsburgh ICU nurses

   nursenotamaid replied to SandraDeeRN's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

   I would go to Trauma at AGH if you had the

6. Family Members and their pearls of wisdom...

   nursenotamaid replied to R!XTER's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I always love it when someone comes in asking for "my cousin", who they think is named Joe, but they don't know their last name, or why they are in the hospital. --... you're not really the cousin. go...

7. Need input from NIGHT SHIFT nurses

   nursenotamaid replied to meanmaryjean's topic in Health, Stress Management

   Friendly: Our nurse educators come to the unit and stay until 11pm to get night shifters signed off on inservices. Unfriendly: I've worked there for 2 years, never ONCE met the unit director - not...

8. Day in the life of a psych nurse??

   nursenotamaid posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hey all! I'm an ICU nurse -- been working adult ICU (on the medical side) for the past 10 years and have reached the point of serious burn out. I wish I could go BACK to nursing school to do...

9. Why did/are you getting your BSN?

   nursenotamaid replied to thesundowner's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

   I'm going through the motions to get my BSN now just to open up more doors for MSN/DNP programs so I don't have to try to find bridge programs. It has been a massive waste of money and time and is...

10. Has anyone coded a co-worker? Dealing with the grief...

    nursenotamaid replied to Zookeeper3's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yep. One of everyone's favorite guys in the cafeteria coded right in the middle of the day in the cafeteria. He had been there forever, really, really great guy. But also, one of those people that...

11. Burn Out!! **Long**

    nursenotamaid posted a topic in General Nursing

    Most people face burn out at least once in the course of their career and it's killing me now! I've been working ICU for about a decade now and I am turning into a crispy critter. I travel nursed for...

12. Nurse: Patient Ratios

    nursenotamaid replied to aei09a's topic in MICU, SICU

    In California, our law *mandates* that no ICU nurse will ever have more than 2

13. Nurse: Patient Ratios

    nursenotamaid replied to aei09a's topic in MICU, SICU

    Generally 1:2. 1:1 for sick patients. We also go 1:1 for patients who are particularly needy, "VIP", patients who have a lot of road trips that day, very restless or too tasky. We 1:1 *all* patients...

14. Levophed Bolus

    nursenotamaid replied to Flyboy17's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I've only seen levo boluses used here and there, but we push sticks of neo all the time for acute hypotension in patients who are either maxed on their vasoactives or while we are getting the bags...

15. Christmas gifts for residents

    nursenotamaid replied to laderalis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I was so confused until I read the age of your resident! I was reading the post trying to think of why in the world would I buy gifts for the residents (doctors) and wondering who came up with the...