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Is anyone here a part of or does your hospital participate in a Rapid Response Team. Our hospital sent me to a conference a couple of weeks ago and now I am supposed to come up with criteria for a team. The RRT will be members of Critical Care that w...

I don't think the newer digital phones cause problems with equiptment anymore. We still have signs up in our hospital but most everyone ignores them. Most physicians have them. Our nurses are not allowed to use them in the units, it looks very unprof...

We get them out of bed with Swanz all the time. No problems.

Probably the same people that do the High School version of Who's Who. Just send them your $75 and they will add your profile to their list.

I agree with you completely in that I have been in nursing for 16 short years and I am totally aware that the patients we see on the Med Surg floors today were in the Critical Care Units when I came out of nursing school. This is the world we live in...

Shreveport starting base salary is $17.50 with $4.00 evening and night diffs. This about the same in all the major hospitals in the area. There is talk of an increase taking place this summer or fall. If one the hospitals get an increase all of them...

Not trying to sound harsh or uncaring but, If I were in your situation I would definitely contact my state board of nursing and the school I was about to attend and be up front and honest with them. The last thing you want to do is go thru the Hell o...

If you do not give proper notice to your employer that you are leaving you can be reported to your State Board of Nursing. I have seen it done where I work. My thoughts is that Nursing is a Profession and if we wish to be thought of as Professionals ...

First of all no one is having to make a Medical Diagnosis. The team member is doing what Nurses do everyday, assessing the patients and informing the physician of changes. The theory is that the more experienced Nurse that is a team member on the RRT...

I am pretty sure to check on someone's status you will have to have either thier social security number or their nursing license number. I have to do checks on nurses working at the hospital I work and that is what is required in Louisiana, you can't...

what most of the general public doesn't understand is that there happens to be as many germs inside the hospital as anywhere else. besides that, not every person wearing a pair of scrubs these days works in a hospital or even in health care.

I played football and graduated from JCJC many years ago. So long ago that some of my class mates are now instructors at Jones. Best two years of my live, enjoy it JCJC is a great place.

The RRT is not created to go to the floor and help out. It is designed to be an extra set of eyes and ears. They do an assessment of the patient in crisis and make suggestions to the floor nurse. It's still the floor nurses patient. If it is done on ...

You nailed that one on the head. Sometimes experience can be a problem.

I am a graduate of NSU Class of 1990. I have taken MSN classes the past two semesters. They are having the same problems today that they had 18 years ago when I was an undergrad. Most of their problems are not enough instructors, problems with admiss...

There are a couple schools of thought here. 1) If nursing ever wants to be thought of as professional they need to be degreeded. You don't hear of engineers or Lawyers with or associated degrees. 2) With the nursing shortage there is no way our profe...

In the conference I went to there were several hospitals that presented there teams and how they were developed, criteria and who was on the team. It ranged from volenteer nurses in units to hospitals that had dedicated teams that this was their sole...

This is exactally what I don't want to happen. I want this to be a nurses helping nurses type experience. I wish for it to be more of a mentoring experience where the less experienced nurses learn from and gain experience from the seasoned nurses. I ...

I would hire you in the ICU I supervise in a minute. I hire new grads every semester, especially with your internship expierence. We have a 12 week orientation period and then mentor. Most new grads do fine in our ICU's.

Our Policy & Procedure manuel still calls for using an occlusive petroleum jelly gauze dressing. We have been doing this for as long as I have been in nursing 18 years and as of yet nothing has changed.

A question was asked and I answered it. That's where the majority of the money spent for your liscense is spent. The state board of nursing has employees as well as members that are paid to attend meetings. Lawyer fees are paid from this as well. Yo...

$60 every two years is cheap, ours will be $90/year starting this year. The fees collected in our state and probably yours as well go to funding the state board of nursing. Lot of lawyer fees.