KRVRN

KRVRN BSN, RN

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  1. San Diego Pay Rates.

    KRVRN replied to CCURN's topic in General Nursing

    AROUND $20 new grad, $25 experienced for staff nursing in the Sharp system (the biggest in the city). Scripps about the same. Kaiser, VA and UCSD pay a little more from what I've heard. I believe...

  2. San Diego Pay Rates.

    KRVRN replied to CCURN's topic in General Nursing

    Paradise Valley Hospital Children's Hospital Also check out rent and mortgage info before you have your decision made. The pay doesn't match the cost of living very

  3. Preemies and suppositories????

    KRVRN replied to NICUNURSE's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We also keep a stock supply of glycerins in the fridge. A funny story... I needed one and the stock supply was empty. So I called the pharmacy to ask for more. I guess it was a new pharmacy tech...

  4. To surf or not to surf...that is the question

    KRVRN replied to NicuGal's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    well, I think I inspired this thread... We surf anyone under 30 weeks. This is something they've decided on in the last 9 months or so. Before we would wing it. Micropreemies would always...

  5. Preemies and suppositories????

    KRVRN replied to NICUNURSE's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The syringe thing doesn't work if the supp is a drug rather than glycerin. Part of the supp stays in the syringe's dead

  6. gavage feeds

    KRVRN replied to kmaryniak's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Hmm, tape wouldn't be very

  7. gavage feeds

    KRVRN replied to kmaryniak's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    No, you can swaddle them with their arms across their chest so they can't reach their face with their hands to pull on the tube. I don't think she meant actually use

  8. Preemies and suppositories????

    KRVRN replied to NICUNURSE's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yeah, we do the 1cc syringe thing too, except we fill them

  9. advanced maternal age

    KRVRN replied to Liann's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We had a 42 year old woman that became surprise! pregnant with natural triplets. And they already had 4 kids 18-17-9-4 years old. And wouldn't you know... one of the babies had Down's. But they...

  10. gavage feeds

    KRVRN replied to kmaryniak's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We use 5fr. feeding tubes on most kids. Ours stay in a month also. We mostly use NG's but will drop an 8fr. OG into a CPAP baby. Seems to vent better but then the feeding tends to back up the tube...

  11. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    KRVRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh Emerald, that's just so nasty. I had never even fathomed that someone would do that but I guess if it can be imagined, someone has done it.

  12. Stripes

    KRVRN replied to Paprikat's topic in General Nursing

    Students wore caps without stripes I believe. What I think is so funny about that show Emergency is that the student nurses wore blue dresses while the nurses wore

  13. syringe measurements

    KRVRN replied to canoehead's topic in General Nursing

    Actually they send me my whole whopping 0.06cc in a 1cc syringe and I want to transfer it into a 3cc so I can dilute it to then give it. Drawing it out with a tuberculin needle is a good idea...

  14. syringe measurements

    KRVRN replied to canoehead's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, like Boggle said, I think syringes are supposed to be calibrated to account for the amount left in the tip. My point with the needle is that sometimes I will use a needle to squirt a med...

  15. syringe measurements

    KRVRN replied to canoehead's topic in General Nursing

    And don't forget that there can be a few 0.1mls in the length of a needle too. Uh oh, I admitted that I use needles to draw up meds... we're supposed to be

  16. Dementia/rape trauma syndrome

    KRVRN replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    Man, that must be so hard.

  17. stressed out nurse needs advice

    KRVRN replied to Bikerchic's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Aww, I'm sorry you're having a hard time. Some units just have a "personality" and it sounds like yours doesn't have a "teamwork/help one another" type personality. Or maybe it's just clique-ish and...

  18. Twas the Night before JCAHO...

    KRVRN replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, I was at the sink the night before JCAHO (when they COULD conceivably show up on my shift) and out of nowhere and for no apparent reason the room thermometer popped off the wall and the glass...

  19. t-shirts for IVs

    KRVRN replied to nell's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I can envision your description prmenrs, we do the same thing! Basically the IV arm goes out the neck hole. But we don't have the handy-dandy snap front t-shirts. Those ONLY go upstairs to PP....

  20. Big hospital or small hospital?

    KRVRN replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Small

  21. ideas for special projects

    KRVRN replied to nell's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have labels like that, too. Ours say "FORTIFIED" and we indicate what concentration and with what. Then we have another label to indicate "fresh" vs. "thawed" BM that we write the date and time...

  22. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    KRVRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    NiteNICUnurse, I've heard of that incident. Terrible. 24 weeker would have had a chance too. So you saw it? I can't imagine the horror of actually seeing

  23. How much should you pay for a nursing convention?

    KRVRN replied to nehi's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in school, my fiance-then bf- got a temp job handling the computer terminals at the nursing convention here in SD. On his first day he got me an illegal, unpaid-for badge to get in. So...

  24. ideas for special projects

    KRVRN replied to nell's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We sometimes draw lines curved like a closed eye with eyelashes on our bili

  25. L&D/NICU hostility!!!!

    KRVRN replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We get along with L/D for the most part. Most of our squabbles are related to us saying a term tachypneic baby 9or something similar) is "just transitioning" and don't press us to take the baby and...