MB-mom.RN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel
work in ICU @ hospital in KY, in the city. $26.86 base + $3.70 nightshift diff + a wkend diff for my wkend position... I was an LPN 2yrs in nsg home, 2yrs RN in nursing home, 3 years on the floor...
MB-mom.RN replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor
dr. *** (neurologist) walks in on night shift (very strange) in a cowboy hat and sees a patient. writes in the notes "disagree with radiology interpretation, patient has holes in head". the patient...
i think the problem is with all the different "low" beds... at the ltc facility i worked at we had low beds that literally sat on the floor and we'd put down fall mats.. in the hospital our "low" beds...
we recently changed our policy, now the AM nurses get the accuchecks because a dayshift nurse happened to recheck a bs before she gave a large amt of insulin for a high sugar and the bs was back down...
-you will absolutely need to pass all the night meds at once for the most part, esp being on a unit w/ demented patients, i was lucky if i could get some of them to take meds ONE time a night, def...
it's fine to hang NS @ 10ml/hr without an order, it keeps the line patent. our icu's run carrier fluids (thats what we call it) @ 30ml/hr to keep the central lines patent and its just easier on us to...