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I am a clinical instructor and have completed planning for 7 of my 14 clinical post conferences this semester. I have done this several semesters and I am jsut looking for fresh ideas. Hate to get in a rut. Pick some good post conference topics fo...

I am sorry. It is a third year Adult med surg class. I am sure we will have days we discuss for 2 hours our clinical experiences, but I hate to depend on that.

I am a clinical instructor picking up a new class at the end of the month. Anyone else care to expand on the above. I am not a new instructor, just trying to be a better one. Thanks.

Sorry I ahve not been around for a while. I ahve worked at VA Indy for about 15 years. We are union but it is not a closed shop. You can join or not. No pressure either way. We can work at any VA nation wide but that does not apply to civilian h...

There are problems everywhere. Good to work someplace willng to fix them.

My unit regularly does bronchs in a suite near the GI lab. During many bronchs we use fluro to guide the needle for biopsy collection. I have been doing this for a year now and it just dawned on me no one in the room has any training at all on flur...

It is political. Fluro in the bronch room has been grounded until everyone is trained. I do like working where I do becasue usually they do the right thing when something wrong is brought to their attention.

No actually I am refering to respriatory therapist that I suppose is suppose to be responsible for the Fluro. I can show policy moderate sedation RN's dont even answer the phone, just monitor the patient. In my hospital radiology refuses to partici...

Interesting, I thought combat vets got a 2 year free ride. I know I am not eligible to be treated at the VA because I make too much and have insurance even though I would otherwise qualify. I will investigate further when I get back to work tommor...

Send him to the VA, we can help him. They are never ignored. where did you get that?

I was at a meeting at a large local hospital, not mine, honest. this meeting was about some hospital equiptment I was interested in. Another topic came up while I was there. It was a bunch of doctors and admin types but the issue of obese pts and ...

Did he tell you it grew there?

I triaged a guy one night, no psych dx or anything, dressed nice, got ambulance ride. When I asked him why he came in he held his hand down (veins appear) then he holds them up (veins dissappear) absolutely nothing else to complain of. VSS. We had...

ok, just kidding. Your welcome is fine.

How bout, "Don't thank me, Uncle Sam thanks me twice a month". Carry on.

If she is following existing protocols she is probably a great nurse. You dont really explain exactly what she is doing. If she is doing things that require a physican's order and she does not have one that has to be reported, not optional. I thin...

Why did you wait so long if the pay was so low it is an insult? You have a job and that silly employer wants you to come to work at a certain time. Unbeleiveable. I just would not work for the idiots. Mention your requiremnts for time flexibility...

Nobody can figure out VA retirement. The TSP program is great and should be a big asset saving for retrimement. My spouse is management in the civilian sector so I know how much they make, at least at one hospital. Staff nurses with experience mak...

queenjean was talking about routine VS overnight. This was often a topic of concersation in the MICU during my years there. If my pt had a medication that affected VS, or was unstable or any reason I could think of they got the VS taken, err on the...

brenan, try to think about what is right. You cannot steal their money and they cannot steal your time. The administrators are obvoiously trying to get an extra free half hour of time from each of their nurses, by forcing a break during a busy time...

I cant beleive this question is still around.

Yes I have written myself up, and I deserved it too.

As I understand the original post it was about nurses not following perfectly appropiate doctors orders. The example used was weights on CHF pts. I would think nurses would do that daily with or without doctor's orders. I can see missing them some...

Does the teamwork on you unit effect your job satisfaction? If so how? Is teamwork important to you? Thanks in advance for any replys. I do not wnat to influence the replys by asking too many questions.:stone

Thanks every one. This is exactly the kind of feed back I was looking for. Please anyone else feel free to reply, I will be working on my paper all weekend and will probably be able to use more. Thanks again everyone.