monroea23

monroea23 has 10 years experience and specializes in CCU-ICU, Informatics.

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1. RN Salary Survey 2013: Post here!

   monroea23 replied to ItsColduphere's topic in General Nursing

   1. State you work in - Iowa 2. Years of experience - 12 3. Specialty/unit and work setting (clinic, hospital, prison, etc) - Emergency/Critical Care 4. Hourly Pay (base rate) or salary - $27.45/hr 5. Differentials (if any) $1.00/hour night shift di...

2. An open letter to the ER triage nurse

   monroea23 replied to laurasc's topic in Relations

   You absolutely need to send that letter to everyone you can think of sending it to including the ER manager, the CNO and CEO of the hospital, and if you know who they are, the members of the Board of Directors of that hospital. I would also send it ...

3. Old nurses dont want to learn new tricks?

   monroea23 replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

   thanks for making my point. attitude problems don't stick with just one experience level. we all should know that. i also think a lot of people over reacted to the original posting. perhaps in her case it is a valid observation. i am not a new n...

4. Old nurses dont want to learn new tricks?

   monroea23 replied to garciadiego's topic in General Nursing

   oh my god....i can't believe i am reading this junk. first of all old timers, old bats, old nurses...whatever you want to be called...get over yourselves...i think we can all think of a nurse or two, new or experienced, who isn't exactly open to new...

5. Floating to diffrent units in your hospital

   monroea23 replied to mugwump's topic in General Nursing

   In my hospital the ICU (where I work) is self staffed, we do not have to float to other units but if we are cut for a day due to low census we may let nursing services know if we are willing to work on another floor if we want to keep our hours. I w...

6. Your employer's policy re: *snow and ice*?

   monroea23 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I DO NOT risk my life to get to work. I understand that people are still sick when it is snowing but in my opinion it is far better for my facility to be without me for one day than to have to replace me because I am DEAD from driving in horrible con...

7. I'm sick to my eyeballs of incompetent agency nurses.

   monroea23 replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

   Your post, to be blunt, really ticked me off. As a former travel RN I know from experience that many times we are FORCED to work in areas where we are not comfortable, espcially new travel nurses who don't know enough to have where they will work me...

8. Telemetry Techs vs. Nurses

   monroea23 replied to Jubei's topic in Cardiac

   It seems to me that you have some underlying issues about your job or how you feel about your role in the unit becuase you are coming across a little hostile. I am a coronary intensive care nurse and know my rhythms in and out but I sit and look at a...

9. CPR after rigor mortis

   monroea23 replied to HealinghandsRN's topic in Geriatric

   At the LTC facility I used to work at in Iowa we did not do CPR on residents who were full codes unless we saw the resident go down. If we found them dead we did nothing.