icuRNmaggie BSN, RN

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    Forced to float and already short

    icuRNmaggie replied to DYLANB's topic in General Nursing

    I think the original poster was describing an ER overflow unit not an observation unit. If hospitals would offer cash incentives to work the overflow unit during times of over the peak capacity,...
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    Forced to float and already short

    icuRNmaggie replied to DYLANB's topic in General Nursing

    This is a great example of how a group of nurses who stand together can effect big
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    I Lost All Respect For A Colleague Today

    icuRNmaggie replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    could someone please close this
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    Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

    icuRNmaggie replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The unlicensed assistive personnel should be assigned to completing this form or online flowsheet. Not you. For what it's worth, I think it is demeaning for a Registered Nurse to fill out a...
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    Personality Typing...

    icuRNmaggie replied to Purple93's topic in Nursing Career

    I am a CCRN and INTJ or INTP. The test is supposed to help you recognize your true preferences. For me it was dead on. I am in a position working nights in which I don't have to deal with mobs of...
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    Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

    icuRNmaggie replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes in some areas of the country CNAs think that because you make twice three or four times as much as they do you should be working two three or four times harder. They are what they are. It is...
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    Mid life crisis....HELP! :)

    icuRNmaggie replied to traumalifeintheer's topic in Travel

    If you decide to go to the USVI, there is an urgent care/ED on St John called the Myra Keating Health Center. They only hire ER nurses. This is probably the most coveted position down in the...
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    How to decrease pain during foley cath or straight cath procedure

    icuRNmaggie replied to sameyjaney's topic in General Nursing

    also tell the pt to breathe and don't bear
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    Your PROPOFOL stories wanted

    icuRNmaggie replied to RNNCcicu98's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I attended a lunch (really 5 pm at a pub) and learn and our intensivist shared that propofol being lipophilic and protein bound stays in the tissues for a week after it is stopped, and that it...
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    Contract, but No Contract

    icuRNmaggie replied to procrastinator911's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It's for profit. High
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    Business Brainstorm

    icuRNmaggie replied to kalevra's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Do a search here on this site. If I were more computer and IT savvy I would do
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    Patient Abandonment

    icuRNmaggie replied to OHRN29's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You will be awarded 6% in damages , up to $200, if you are awarded a wage claim with the dept of
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    best i quit or fired story

    icuRNmaggie replied to OnlinePersona's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was working nightshift with a bored goth girl CNA who got up off her chair at around 9:30 and said "that's it, I'm done, I'm leaving." A nurse coworker and I couldn't help laughing,...
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    What kind of shift report was that?

    icuRNmaggie replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Even when I am receiving report on patients that I know very well, I ask are there any abnormal labs that I need to know about, and are there any new orders that I need to know about? Some...
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    Patient Abandonment

    icuRNmaggie replied to OHRN29's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    File a wage claim with your state department of labor. Do it now. The abandonment threat is an intimidation tactic. You resigned and even if you had not given notice it still would not qualify as...
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    Business Brainstorm

    icuRNmaggie replied to kalevra's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    ICD 10 certified RN coders are a hot commodity right
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    Business Brainstorm

    icuRNmaggie replied to kalevra's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    You really need to be a paralegal and an NP or Clin Specialist to be hired at a law firm to do chart reviews and life care plans for injured people. It is very competitive and you have to market...
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    What kind of shift report was that?

    icuRNmaggie replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I want to add that I would insist that Ms page three doctors at 1845 do bedside rounds with me on each pt. according to policy. That would never happen
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    Business Brainstorm

    icuRNmaggie replied to kalevra's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Start your own temp nurse agency. Obtain instructor certifications and teach BLS and ACLS in your home. Become PICC certified, market that skill to place lines in Nursing Home patients for a fee....
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    Preceptors: What are your expectations?

    icuRNmaggie replied to mariebailey's topic in MICU, SICU

    In the beginning you need to learn the routine and physical skills. Things like programming the IV pump, drawing blood off a line, placing an IV, doing an EKG rapid sequence intubation and a...
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    JUST a nurse

    icuRNmaggie replied to Knights Nurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The Intensivist and an NP student were discussing my patient and, referring to something I had said, the NP student commented oh she's just a nurse. But two weeks later her name was in the paper...
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    What kind of shift report was that?

    icuRNmaggie replied to proud nurse's topic in General Nursing

    What a tacky thing to do. The next time I followed her, and she would not be leaving early ever again, the first thing I would say is: Do you have pages out to anyone? Because you WILL be...
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    Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

    icuRNmaggie replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The CNAs should be accountable for hourly rounding, providing fresh water, meals, baths, toileting, mouth care and bed changes. They should be logging on in each room and documenting the four Ps...
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    How to decrease pain during foley cath or straight cath procedure

    icuRNmaggie replied to sameyjaney's topic in General Nursing

    Here is what a urologist taught me: Lots of lube or lido gel.. I was taught to inject the lido gel into the meatus and wait a few minutes. Never never check the balloon. That is an old practice...
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    Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

    icuRNmaggie replied to wooh's topic in Nursing Humor

    You must be confused sir, this is the Boston City Hospital not Roxy's