kewlnurse

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1. What are your thoughts on unions?

   kewlnurse replied to jkaee's topic in General Nursing

   I work for a Union hospital, i would vote them out in a second. We have poor nisurance, average pay, poor staffing, grievences that do absolutley notehr (last manager i had, had over 125 grievencs in...

2. Young and Single! Should I move here?

   kewlnurse replied to Krenee2007's topic in New York Nursing

   Don't move to NY, any part. It is the worst state in the US to live

3. Nurse to patient ratios

   kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

   LLD sounds like yor floor was staffed like our ICU, man I gotta get out of here. Poor staffing is the norm not the

4. Nurse to patient ratios

   kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

   LLD sounds like yor floor was staffed like our ICU, man I gotta get out of here. Poor staffing is the norm not the

5. Nurse to patient ratios

   kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

   I don't work on tele but have a very close friend who does. Nights has 10-12 patients each, usually 1 moniter tech and 1 aide. No pressor drips are allowed outside the icu in our hospital. Keep in...

6. Nurse to patient ratios

   kewlnurse replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

   I don't work on tele but have a very close friend who does. Nights has 10-12 patients each, usually 1 moniter tech and 1 aide. No pressor drips are allowed outside the icu in our hospital. Keep in...

7. IV Push Lopressor on a Med-Surg Unit??

   kewlnurse replied to LuvMedSurgNsg's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Absolutly has to e on a moniter, I wouldn't even give it, seen a pt. go asystole 5 minutes after getting

8. skunks on night shift?

   kewlnurse replied to mednurse's topic in General Nursing

   Call me weird, everyone else does, but i like that skunk

9. Do you have to be "super smart" to be a nurse?

   kewlnurse replied to Rootbear76's topic in General Nursing

   judging by some of the morons i work with you can be dumb as a brick and still be a nurse, completly brain dead if you want to be in

10. physician abuse

    kewlnurse replied to jaquar's topic in General Nursing

    I thought you meant abusing the MD's. We beat them up pretty good, especially the interns. I abused one for about an hour the other day about a BS admission, still got the hit but i felt better about...

11. Throw away your sterile gloves

    kewlnurse replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    Sterile gloves with the exceptiohn of stage I and II pressure ulcers. Don't need to culture? Big difference in treatment for a unifected wound vs. a vre or mrsa wound don't you

12. Torsedas ?

    kewlnurse replied to RNConnieF's topic in General Nursing

    Correct me if I'm wrong but if your in Torsades you have very poor cardiac out put, and if you were in it for 4 dyas, would you not be dead. Probbaly more like

13. Crazy, abusive patient? What do u do?

    kewlnurse replied to Anagray's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    5 security guards, 10 of haldol, 2 of ativan and a 20 ga syringe. He wouldn't refuse

14. Constipation

    kewlnurse replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    M O M in the pm for a bm in the am. plus colace, ducolax if needed, than regular enema than if needed soap

15. 200 lb MONSTER!

    kewlnurse replied to Furball's topic in General Nursing

    I seriousluy have to question the 50 units of blood. 16 pints and your on a complete change over, that would be about 24 units. None of your own blood would be a massuive reaction in the body, sounds...