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 before coming to ICU. NO increase in pay from floor ...
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 had no neuro/head problems and nothing on the ct r...
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 are higher than a foot from the floor.
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 to normal and didnt require insulin. that 2 hour ...
-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 wouldnt of gotten them to take meds THREE times... be...
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 do that when the pt has multiple iv abts. if you ...