starbin BSN, RN

I am doing a paper on prevention of DVT following joint surgery. I would very much like to hear from the ortho nurses on what policy their facility has in place to prevent DVT after Knee or Hip surgery.

As I had already posted, I passed the July 13th CGFNS Exam. I graduated from 2 different Nursing Schools. I did 3 years basic Nursing course and worked for 41 months then again did 2 year Bachelors degree in nursing which I passed in 2004. I request...

Is there any screening process to determine the risk level like high risk, medium risk and average risk? Or everybody gets a standard treatment? I wonder if it is common to do pre-op screening for DVT (like venous doppler ) on people with a history o...

Thank you so much Proppy. That helps alot.

Hi I am going for my Visiting nurse job interview. I am totally new to this area, I am just wondering how safe it is to go to the patients' home....did anybody encounter any dangerous situation? How about crime prone areas? How many patients does a ...

Fresenius as such is not a bad company to work for. They have good benefits and other programs. The experience varies depending on who you work with. And manager plays the big role, followed by your co-workers. I am a charge nurse with fresenius for ...

Yeah. If you go to a place where everybody has one leg, you should also learn to walk with one leg.................otherwise you may find that you aren't welcome in that society..........Not respecting others and expecting to be treated with respect ...

No offence to anybody but I have experienced that too. They even give the report in native language. We had english only policy but the DON, supervisors and the nurse managers were the first ones to break it.

I am not sure which point you didn't get. In a nutshell, I was trying to say - there wouldn't be so many nurses and other employees from foreign country in one work place had this land not welcomed foreign nurses. I am not a native English speaker,...

I happened to be in the break room of a Nursing home during their lunch hours two days in a row last week. Here is my observation: There were four large round tables with six to eight chairs around them. In one table there were a group of spanish spe...

It is unfortunate that your sister didn't get visa. The officials need to be convinced that you will come back to your country after visiting the US. Probably she wasn't able to convince them strongly enough for them to believe that she was really go...

Just spoke to two research nurses in a hospital who learned a week ago that their employer couldn't afford them anymore. There was an interview on the local news channel few days ago. A nurse practitioner who was working in th county hospital for mor...

Agree with what you said-------- million percent.

No doubt foreign nurses are hard-working. But I don't like the justification for tolerating exploitation. This is one reason, I think, the nursing organizations should be careful about endorsing the idea of importing foreign nurses. I am a foreign ed...

I agree with the PP about the meaning of awake. If you aren't sleeping- you are awake. Alert doesn't always mean that you have to be oriented. Awareness of time, place and person may be categorized as oriented to TPP. "Alert" to me is actively respo...

Based on experience ranges from 27 to 32 dollars. If you do acutes, you will get more.

I think we should dedicate this forum to helping international nurses with their licensure, immigration, credentialing issues rather than attacking somebody personally. Suzanne is here to help. Trying to twist something she said is just ridiculous. ...

City College of Chicago has seven colleges throughout the city. $72 per credit hour for chicago residents. I thought there can't be anything cheaper. visit www.ccc.edu

There is a nurse who works in a nephrologist's office. Every time I call (from a dialysis unit) the nephrologist to notify about the patient's condition or to ask for orders, this nurse at the office demands to know the details about the patient firs...

On the matters of illegal immigration, I am with Lou Dobbs. I wish the new president would listen to him.

I am not sure about the salary- probably depends on the years of experience. But in a typical night shift at LTC, you are expected to be responsible for at least 40 patients.....or even more. The job is basically to pass meds, accucheck, treatments, ...

When I saw the topic of this thread, I thought the writer must be 75-80 years old. I saw you are 45 years old. I think you should edit the subject of this thread. 45 years is not old, I have many co-workers who are in their late forties are are plan...

Religion has been a big political issue in this country. Anybody who isn't deaf or blind must have heard/read the non-sense arguments about whether or not Barrack Obama is a Muslim. American public is misinformed about Islam, and many people think Is...

Having said all that bitter/sweet experience Muslim and muslim looking non-muslim people have to go through in everyday life, I still can't agree that the delay in processing of your application was due to your religion. In recent years, the DHS has ...