hal248

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1. Graduate Nurses vs. Experienced Nurses (Promise to be funny!)

   hal248 replied to Sammi15's topic in General Nursing

   I'm an experianced nurse and I find this funny. It is ment has a satire of life. Face it some of the points are true. Face it how quickly do you resond to the alarms and bells on the unit. Some of the things relate to deligation of jobs and time m...

2. Salary Roll call!

   hal248 replied to Kellink's topic in West Virginia

   Pay ranges based on longjevity. New RN's make about $30/hr. range with 18Yrs. it is about $38/hr.

3. Arnold Schwartzneiger says "We need to create more nurses"

   hal248 replied to Nathalie's topic in General Nursing

   The nurses are going through school graduating, many even take the boards. Where do they go after that? That is the question in New York over a 10 yr period we graduated over 125,000 nurses less then 40,000 took the boards and even less entered the w...

4. Nursing School

   hal248 replied to ResaO's topic in Emergency

   Be confident in yourself and know the reason that you are doing a task. If you make a mistake admit to it don't try to hide it. That is the worst thing you can do. If you don't know something ask. The only stupid question is the one you did not a...

5. Nurse Tech doing triage........

   hal248 replied to dazzle256's topic in Emergency

   To the best of my knowledge you have to be an R.N. to do an inital assessment on a patient. This would precude L.P.N.'s and ER techs. I'm not sure whos rule it is JACHO or NYSDOH but in our E.R. only and R.N. with more than 1 year E.R. experience i...

6. Stupid People Award

   hal248 replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

   Remember the glass returnable COKE bottles. They create quite a vacum when inserted up ones rectum when your boy friend is out of town. It took the Colorectal surgen about 45 minutes to get the bottle out finaly we drilled a small hole in the bottom...

7. Tncc

   hal248 replied to Vanfnp's topic in Emergency

   The course is not hard do not stress yourself. The self induced stress is worse than the course. If you can manage a trauma patient alone you will do fine in the course and on the tests at the end. Remember they are not out there to fail you they a...

8. Tncc

   hal248 replied to Vanfnp's topic in Emergency

   The course is not hard do not stress yourself. The self induced stress is worse than the course. If you can manage a trauma patient alone you will do fine in the course and on the tests at the end. Remember they are not out there to fail you t...

9. IV tips and tricks

   hal248 replied to kloock's topic in Emergency

   When I start my IV I have my Vacutaner barrel hooked up to the end of a dry extension set that I attach to the cathere. Catheter is then secured using a chevrion or what ever device you use to secure the IV catheter to the patient. Then draw the requ...