LadyLovelilocks

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  1. DaVita Village

    If you want to be an FA and enjoy your job, it seems to me you have to be an extreme Type A personality who LOVES working all the time, all day. The kind who is okay with limiting family...
  2. How is Davita training like?

    The best book I read was this one: Review of Hemodialysis for Nurses by Judith Z. Kallenbach. It is not short. It WILL give you a big leg up for what's to come. You will be able to hit the floor on...
  3. PD and Care Management Nursing at DaVita

    Sorry to resurrect this but, man, I am interested in PD! Anyone else wanna share anything? Also, we may be getting a care management position at my clinic soon and I am kinda
  4. Hello, I have been wondering about PD and Care Management nursing at DaVita, as I'm not really sure what either one of these careers entirely entails (I have been doing clinic dialysis and often hear...
  5. PD and Care Management Nursing at DaVita

    Thanks for the details! :) it sounds fabulous. Do you have a set of "primary patients" that you work with like in HD where you're in charge of their monthly outcomes, monthly notes, med recs,...
  6. Telephone Triage Stories

    Hello all, can you share your stories of doing telephone triage as an ambulatory clinic nurse? I would love to hear them :) What works for you, what didn't work, your most interesting call and how you...
  7. Inpatient Psych Brain Sheet

    Hello all, I was wondering what kind of "brain sheets" you typically use in inpatient psych. I am considering making a brain sheet on Excel and was wondering if you have samples of your "brains" to...
  8. APNA?

    Hello all, this is my final thread of the day, I promise! Here it goes: how many of you are members of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association? If so, do you find the benefits to be worth the...
  9. Z track for IM injections?

    I find this discussion to be really informative and interesting. In school I was taught that most IM medications are not given via Z-track, only certain irritating ones (compazine was one). They did...
  10. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    Hello all, I have an interview with a child/adolescent psychiatric unit and I am SO excited!!! I have reviewed my psych textbooks in detail, reviewed medications, therapeutic techniques, etc., and...
  11. Dermatology office pays $13/hour

    Considering the cost of living in California, no, I would not take that. See if the Doctor would be willing to offer a higher salary- I have heard of nurses on allnurses who were offered salaries like...
  12. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    I got it!!!
  13. New Grad RN looking for psych position- ANYWHERE!!

    Also, you could try searching under your state at the following link for psychiatric hospitals in your area: Psychiatric Hospitals and Medical
  14. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    Still sitting on pins and needles ... time slows down when you're
  15. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    All right, I should be hearing word any day now :heartbeat I am very
  16. Okay, it's been awhile since I did the old NCLEX questions, so let me give this a try for old time's sake: **1. The client is receiving albuterol (Proventil) for treatment of bronchospasm related to...
  17. Telephone Triage Stories

    Thank you for sharing nursel56 and
  18. Famine, then Feast!

    Hello all, I'm just writing a note for all new grads to keep up the hope. I have had long months of no job offers for some time, but suddenly in the last few weeks the interviews keep coming and...
  19. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    I just got a callback asking for more info, so I am hopeful
  20. Dear Pysch Nurses

    When I did my recent interview for a psychiatric hospital my family gave me "the look," I suppose it is because mental illness is so poorly understood in our society. People with physical illnesses...
  21. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    Thank you so much everyone!!! I had the interview today and I think it went
  22. Child/Adolescent Psych Interview!!!

    Thank you for all of the advice! Just out of curiosity, in your psychiatric facility which drug reactions are typically treated "in house" and which are transferred to the ER or other emergency...
  23. Neuro Rehab vs. Neuroscience Unit

    Hello all, I am a new grad and I have an interview coming up for a Neuro Rehab unit in a very busy urban hospital. I am wondering how a Neuro Rehab unit differs from a Neuroscience unit (in this...