ruralnurse84

ruralnurse84 has 3 years experience and specializes in LTC, Rural, OB.

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1. CRNAs: We are the Answer

   ruralnurse84 replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

   In my rural hospital, we only have CRNAs. They practice autonomously and are very good at what they do. One of them did my epidural while I was in labor and now that I work L&D, I work with them...

2. Two mistakes in 2 weeks

   ruralnurse84 replied to walxii's topic in General Nursing

   I think as long as you own up to your mistakes and verbalize what you have learned from them and will do differently in the future, then everything should be okay. We all make mistakes, it's learning...

3. Scanning meds for refusal

   ruralnurse84 replied to Job33's topic in General Nursing

   I just click on not given, reason pt refused and don't scan the

4. Sign off/low census policy???? Is this an issue????????

   ruralnurse84 replied to ronurse99's topic in General Nursing

   Ours is voluntary per our contract. Most of the time for night shift we don't have enough people scheduled to go low census, but we can go on call and we get $4/hr if on call. If we get called in,...

5. What's your patient-nurse ratio at your hospitals?

   ruralnurse84 replied to dianearc's topic in General Nursing

   We've been at max 1:5 for a while on nights but recently management decided 1:6 or 7 would be perfectly fine on nights, mainly because they don't want to fill the holes with another staff nurse. I...

6. IV Medication Administration

   ruralnurse84 replied to audrey_'s topic in General Students

   I work in a small hospital in the states and we have to reconstitute most of our drugs ourselves but it's already entered in as an order to what bag size it gets reconstituted with. On the rare...

7. Advice for a Washington State wannabe student?

   ruralnurse84 replied to bluebluerose's topic in School, College Programs

   Op I sent you a

8. Moving to Montana in the very far future...

   ruralnurse84 replied to missyt439's topic in General Nursing

   I know this was posted a while ago but I thought I would give you an answer. Why oh why do you want to live in Montana? I only survived one year there and will never return, despite what my husband...

9. That was close!

   ruralnurse84 replied to Memetop55's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Worst case actually could be that there's a huge infiltrate in that area. My friend actually had that happen to her in nursing school (meaning done to her, she didn't do it to a patient. She was...

10. Did you contract anything from a patient?

    ruralnurse84 replied to RNrhythm's topic in General Nursing

    I had a guy in for gastroenteritis (frankly something that should have stayed home but we admitted him for dehydration, insert eye roll) and wouldn't you know I was puking and had a fever the next day...

11. Most Cringeworthy Thing You Did in Nursing School

    ruralnurse84 replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in Nursing Humor

    My first clinical day in the hospital I had a diabetic patient who had an insulin pen. In this particular facility the pharmacy dispenses the pens for each patient and then they're kept in a patient...

12. Is this reasonable or just over the top?

    ruralnurse84 replied to Lakeshore18's topic in General Nursing

    We moved to bedside reporting last year, which was actually an improvement because we used to have to listen to report on every single patient, frequently putting us into overtime. Fortunately we are...

13. 2017 Nurse Salary

    ruralnurse84 replied to Darkstar1485's topic in General Nursing

    Eastern WA experience: 3 years in July, Med surg in a critical access hospital, ADN pay: 31/hr base, 4/hr night shift, 3.50/hr weekends, extra $10/hr for extra shifts, OT after 12 hours/shift or 40...

14. What Did You Get For Nurses Week?

    ruralnurse84 replied to iPink's topic in General Nursing

    Most of what we got was kinda laughable, an adult coloring book, a very strange jump rope that took some figuring out that it was a jump rope (had two handles with buttons on it and a clear tubing)...

15. Got into my program but I'm nervous!

    ruralnurse84 replied to NPgoals's topic in General Students

    As someone who graduated two years ago, this is my two cents. Find a few people who you can form a study group with, you know, people who actually want to study and that you have things in common...