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st4304

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  1. Colubus Regional

    st4304 replied to nursejennie76's topic in Indiana Nursing

    If you are driving from Spencer, I would also watch the road from Bloomington to Nashville! I always seem to get behind the dump truck who, although only driving 30 mph, slows down to 10 mph for...

  2. Colubus Regional

    st4304 replied to nursejennie76's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Dear Nursejennie76: Welcome to Columbus Regional Hospital! I have worked here for 10 yrs and it is a pretty nice place to work. What floor will you be working on? I am an RN in the hospital's...

  3. Do you ever turn off being a nurse?

    st4304 replied to MarcusKspn's topic in General Nursing

    My teenage daughter and I were sitting in a drive-thru waiting for our order when a good-looking male employee in tight jeans came out the back door and bent over to cut boxes. "Man! That guy has...

  4. Tolerance not Ignorance.

    st4304 replied to New2CVICU's topic in General Nursing

    People never cease to amaze

  5. how much Indiana nurses make

    st4304 replied to nurseluv9's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I work in a cath lab and have been an RN for 8 years. I work Mon-Fri, no weekends nor holidays, but do have to take call several nights per month and that of course, is extra money in the paycheck....

  6. Cardioversions

    st4304 replied to katlyn's topic in General Nursing

    We do cardioversions on our tele floor. An anesthesiologiest is present (they use diprivan) and the cardiologist is present and one nurse. I work in the cath lab and if the tele floor nurse is not...

  7. Burn out or just in a funk?

    st4304 replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    sjoe- I took that test and have moderate burnout -early warning signs. I think you are right, it is just the job not nursing I dislike. When I worked in the cath lab, I was on-call (wore a pager...

  8. Burn out or just in a funk?

    st4304 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have just spent the entire summer training to work in a new open heart unit. I thought it was what I wanted to do, but now that we have been open for one month, I hate it! I hate the 12 hour...

  9. For those of you who use computer charting....

    st4304 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    With Care Manager, we can edit and move. It just notes in the review display that 'this charting has been edited' and at what time and by whom. At the bottom of every screen are boxes that you can...

  10. For those of you who use computer charting....

    st4304 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Have used Care Manager for two years now. Just recently went to 'charting by exception' and has saved us tons of time. Only cons about it, for me, are I sometimes feel like I am not charting enough...

  11. A surgeon yelled at me...

    st4304 replied to MollyMo's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    MollyMo, You go, girl! Let us know what happens.

  12. Mayonnaise treatment for lice

    st4304 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    I had a child with lice a couple of years ago, (it was an epidemic at her grade school.) One mother suggested mayonaise -- it did not work, but my daughter's hair never felt softer! Later, my child's...

  13. chest tube removal

    st4304 replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I just wanted to add that our surgeons are now using Blake drains as a 3rd CT. When the CTs are pulled, we put the Blake to a Jackson-Pratt suction thingy and it gets pulled by the RNs the day the...

  14. chest tube removal

    st4304 replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I pull my CABG patients' CTs. I was trained by our surgeons, and I never pull them until I know at least one of the surgeons is around -- just in case. I have never had one 'catch' on anything. ....

  15. Don't you love it when the doctor compliments you?

    st4304 replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    There are people that I highly respect, be they nurses or doctors, and to receive a compliment from them is very nice. Others that I do not respect, I couldn't care less what they think -- be it...

  16. Benefits vs no benefits. I have a ? for ya.

    st4304 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone work at a hospital that rewards you monetarily for not being in on their health insurance coverage? I currently am on my husband's health insurance at his work (at no cost to us), so I do...

  17. Iabp

    st4304 replied to mcline's topic in Cardiac

    I can't think of any tricks of the trade, except play with one whenever you can get your hands on one! Experience is the best teacher! We recently got rid of all our old Datascopes and replaced them...

  18. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    st4304 replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    Just thought I would let you know today a co-worker and I were reading these posts and laughing so hard we were crying. About that time my boss brought about 15 nursing students into our cath lab for...

  19. Divorce And Affairs????

    st4304 replied to rachaelm4's topic in General Nursing

    weekendnurse: Hello, Sis! God, I can't believe your story is almost identical to my sister's. However, her ex is still very much alive. He still continues to attempt to control her life, however....

  20. Divorce And Affairs????

    st4304 replied to rachaelm4's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of years ago, my sister started college in computer science. Her husband was definitely threatened by this and gave her absolutely NO support at all. My mom helped her pay for it since her...

  21. How Are Summer Vacations Decided?

    st4304 replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    In our unit, it is whoever requests the time off first. Not based on senority at all. We have a couple of nurses who turn in their vacation requests a year ahead of time (they both have been...

  22. Cath Lab Case Scheduling

    st4304 replied to Kristej's topic in Cardiac

    We are also lucky in that our cardiologists always schedule one doc to be in the lab for the entire day. If a doc in the office wants to personally cath a patient, he schedules that patient as an...

  23. Need advice

    st4304 posted a topic in Cardiac

    I started working in a diagnostic cath lab a couple of years ago. At that time we had 5 RNs and 1 Rad Tech. We averaged 3-4 caths/day. All the RNs rotated through bio, circulating, and scrubbing...

  24. Needle Stick

    st4304 replied to Frautara's topic in General Nursing

    Last year I had blood sprayed into my eyes (yes, I had on glasses) during a cardiac cath. Even though the patient was an elderly woman who agreed to have her blood tested and everything turned out...

  25. Survey: Would you encourage your child to become a nurse?

    st4304 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    My oldest daughter (I have three) has been taking health occupation classes all through high school and plans to take nursing in college. Her long term goals, though, are to be a NP or nurse...