PaddyW

PaddyW has 6 years experience and specializes in Cardiac, Transplant.

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1. Unions vs Non Union Hospitals

   PaddyW replied to Grobyc82's topic in Union

   For me Unions have helped us fight for adequate staffing and improved pay so that we had competitive wages for the area. We are able to utilize union documentation and representation to ensure that we have proof that unsafe staffing and/or patient a...

2. LPK Transplant Nursing Feeling Lost

   PaddyW replied to PaddyW's topic in General Nursing

   I hope it helps. I am still hoping to attract the advice of an experience transplant RN on what to look for when I am in the thick of things.

3. How to Land a Job

   PaddyW replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   A big thing that helped me get my current job was looking at what the local university suggested for their students. I was moving from a rural area to San Francisco. I was hitting a wall with the recruiter as she actually removed my application fro...

4. LPK Transplant Nursing Feeling Lost

   PaddyW replied to PaddyW's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for the compliment! I am trying to do just that. The 4 patients on an 8 hour shift (1500-2330) is making research hard to do when I am in the zone, but as you can see by my previous post I am trying.

5. LPK Transplant Nursing Feeling Lost

   PaddyW replied to PaddyW's topic in General Nursing

   Using UpToDate has been helpful. Just to get a general understanding of some co-morbidity issues like Diabetic Gastric Paresis. Additionally these videos have been particularly helpful. Refeeding Syndrom (as most are NPO for some time with TPN and ...

6. LPK Transplant Nursing Feeling Lost

   PaddyW replied to PaddyW's topic in General Nursing

   I have had a little bit more experience now. I have found a couple of excellent resources at my facility too. There is a weekly Transplant Round for physicians that I was allowed to attend and I get CE's to boot. Additionally I will be attending a...

7. LPK Transplant Nursing Feeling Lost

   PaddyW posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello. I have recently accepted a position in a hospital in the Bay Area. I am coming from a Cardiac and Telemetry background (progressive care). This position is a Specialized Med-Surg position (Transplant). It is a LPK (Liver, Pancreas, and Kid...