Spatialized

Cardiac Telemetry/PCU, SNF

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    Telemetry unit

    Spatialized replied to Woman_in_love's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm externing on a tele unit, where it is a big mix between med-surg, cardiac, renal, liver, basically sick people who the doctors want to monitor more closely. We get the rule out chest pains, the...
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    Man-hater in my clinical

    Spatialized replied to tiezto's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Be mellow, centered on what you're doing and remember, it's her problem not yours. Learn all that you can and remember that your instructor is checking with the nurses you work with to see how...
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    Have you ever done/wanted to do this?

    Spatialized replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I've had patients in rotation where you think about this. Like the one you walk past and he/she's doing just fine until the moment you ask and then starts moaning. Or the one who knows exactly when...
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    Are nursing students allowed to give IV push meds?

    Spatialized replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    In our 2 year program we've been pushing IV meds since day 1. Our first time our instructor had to be present, then after that as long as we were with the nurse (and they were ok with it), we could...
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    Did you see a positive PPD result?

    Spatialized replied to estrogen's topic in General Nursing

    According to when I did clinicals at the health department (if memory serves), 10mm is positive for at risk populations (recent immigrants, immunocompromised individual, health care workers and the...
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    Salary to expect as a new grad nurse

    Spatialized replied to ashfost's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sure does. I saw the rates on the sites and was curious if they were true. I'm an old NW native in exile in AZ and planning to go back so I know the area well. If you're looking at the Coast, I saw...
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    Staffing a telemetry unit

    Spatialized replied to ShayRN's topic in Cardiac

    On the floor where I extern, which is a tele floor, the ratio is no more than 4:1, sometimes dropping into 2:1 or 1:1 depending on the severity or disorientation/agitation of the patient. On top of...
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    Salary to expect as a new grad nurse

    Spatialized replied to ashfost's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Just to add, if I heard right, new grads here in Flagstaff amke around $21 and change (of course this is what I heard through the grapevine), which barely covers cost of living and isn't even close to...
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    Dell Axim x50 or Tungsten T5? Handhelds, PDA's

    Spatialized replied to skislalom's topic in General Nursing

    I have an old Palm M100 that I use for school. Nothing fancy, but that's the point...if it gets stolen, puked on, bled on, dropped or anything else it's not that big of a deal. Granted, I wish I had...
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    Getting Organized Before Starting School

    Spatialized replied to Katydidit34's topic in General Students

    Looking back at my first year I wish I had been a lot more organized, but as a believer in chaos theory I knew it would work itself out. And to some extent it did, but like I said, I wish I was...
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    Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Spatialized replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    It's along a twisty story involving youthful reluctance to do what your parents want and a whole lot of growing up. I started out young, always interested by all things medical. And why not?...
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    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Spatialized replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    The other day I got report about an older gentleman, who got a little confused at night. The first night the staff found him butt naked walking out the doors of the unit, bleeding, with no leads or...
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    Weeding out of nursing students

    Spatialized replied to Tweety's topic in General Students

    There has to be some weeding out, of one variety or another, to make sure that quality nurses are the ones who make it through school. I have seen some people that got weeded out who I would let do a...