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  1. Pay at Huntsville area hospitals

    ND76 replied to mandasueRN's topic in Alabama Nursing

    Heck, they have it good! I started at HH in 2000 and my starting pay at the time was $13.75!!! We got an across the board increase to $15 shortly thereafter, and when I left after a couple of years...

  2. Sororities/Fraternities

    ND76 replied to AdrienneRN2b's topic in General Nursing

    I think that this is the same as anything else...your mileage may vary. I went to a 4 year university and have a bachelors degree from a school with a very high pass rate (i.e. HIGH expectations from...

  3. Lipping the bottle

    ND76 replied to PoppaD's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the ER, and I just usually pull out a new bottle of sterile saline for irrigation for each patient. We have to charge them for it anyway, why not give them their own sterile bottle?...

  4. opinion please

    ND76 replied to phiposurde's topic in Emergency

    She would have been a unit admission at my facility, unless she was a

  5. Please share something GOOD that happened at work!

    ND76 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    About three months ago I had a pt come in with a STEMI, gray, diaphoretic, vomiting, etc. His wife and two daughters got there about 10 minutes after he did. We usually have family members wait in...

  6. propofol

    ND76 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    I am an ER nurse, and in my facility, I am only allowed to give Propofol as a slow IV infusion to a pt that is already intubated. Now, most of the time, the ER docs will tell us to give 5-10cc bolus,...

  7. What is in your lunch box?

    ND76 replied to RNperdiem's topic in General Nursing

    It's always the same....sigh. Lean Cuisine for lunch, an apple and banana, a piece of cheese, a Special K bar, a Coke Zero, bottled water, and sometimes I'll throw in something like a low-fat oatmeal...

  8. Banning Crocs?

    ND76 replied to styRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    A little OT, but heck, you can drop needles without wearing crocs! My first needle stick was just that...a 'drop.' I dropped a full saline flush syringe with an 18 gauge needle attached to the end,...

  9. Funniest Complaint on Press Ganey Scores

    ND76 replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    My all-time favorite was the one where the pt complained that we had served him oatmeal instead of Cream of

  10. IM injection in the gluteus medius?

    ND76 replied to blueyesue's topic in General Nursing

    I prefer this site, myself, both when giving shots and receiving them. There are less nerves/vessels

  11. Vent...long, you have been warned.

    ND76 posted a topic in Emergency

    I had a patient the other day that although I worked my butt off, but I was made to feel like I did a bad job with, and it's still nagging at me. Pt was a sixty-something year old male, lifelong...

  12. Vent...long, you have been warned.

    ND76 replied to ND76's topic in Emergency

    It's not exactly the 'pre code' team, it's more like a medical response team, consisting of two to three critical care/ER nurses, a respiratory therapist, and the nursing supervisor. We call them...

  13. Vent...long, you have been warned.

    ND76 replied to ND76's topic in Emergency

    Looking back, yes, there are things that I could have done better. If the pt's respiratory status was that labile, I should have pushed for a bed near the nurse's station, or if he was really that 02...

  14. Vent...long, you have been warned.

    ND76 replied to ND76's topic in Emergency

    Sadly, new admits often sit for a little while on the floors at my facility, this floor is particularly bad. They are so understaffed. They usually have at least 9 patients apiece, and two...

  15. Speaking of adenosine

    ND76 replied to TazziRN's topic in Emergency

    I had a patient the other day that said she was allergic to Phenergan. I asked what it did to her, and she said, 'It makes me throw up. I take it, and I always throw up in a few hours." I asked her...

  16. Phenergan IV changes in policy

    ND76 replied to RNKPCE's topic in General Nursing

    We haven't changed our policy, exactly, but there the pharmacy printed up little fliers and posted them all over the place to remind us to dilute the 1ml of Phenergan with at least 10cc NS and...

  17. Have you ever reported your coworker to the supervisor and got the person fired

    ND76 replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    We all take "shortcuts" to save ourselves time and energy, god knows I do. You will sink if you don't. But medication administration is not a place to do it. For the safety of your job, (not to...

  18. You're a nurse! How unfortunate

    ND76 replied to Anesthetize's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses get a great deal of respect in my city, no matter what area they work in. I live in a town where the high school graduation rate is only 42%, so just about anyone with higher education that...

  19. 7/70 Scheduling-Anyone have experience?

    ND76 replied to Bellatrix's topic in General Nursing

    I think that it would be a very overwhelming schedule for anyone, but especially a new grad. That's not meant to be patronizing, I hope it doesn't sound that way. I started off as a 80 hour per...

  20. You're a nurse! How unfortunate

    ND76 replied to Anesthetize's topic in General Nursing

    And to further drive your point home, you could always say "and some people just have their head stuck up them," if someone makes a derogatory butt comment! Hahaha!

  21. Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

    ND76 replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

    Hmm. I had a 96 year old CHF/pulmonary edema patient last week with a BP of 269/141 initially. After 60mg Lasix, 1" NTG to the chest, 2.5mg of Vasotec IV, 0.1mg Clonidine PO AND diuresing close to...

  22. ED admitting orders

    ND76 replied to bill4745's topic in Emergency

    Same at my ER. Thank god, too. Sometimes I'll take direct admission orders over the phone, and it's a freaking

  23. Float pool, ideas on making it better

    ND76 replied to wjf00's topic in General Nursing

    Our float pool consists of full-time and prn nurses. The full time pool nurses are guaranteed 36 hours per week, and are eligible for all benefits. The prn pool nurses earn more money, but are only...

  24. ICU VS. the ER?

    ND76 replied to Anna5M's topic in Emergency

    I completely agree! I work in an very fast-paced ED where we are encouraged to be autonomous. My patients are usually completely worked up by the time an ED doctor sees them, and almost always...

  25. Anyone work at Baptist Memphis?

    ND76 replied to cinja's topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I will be fair, and I have heard that it's better now.. I will also say that I was overwhelmed PERIOD when I started there, I was in the middle of a move, had some serious illness in the family, and...