For a brand new OR nurse, 11 months isn't that unusual. We have new OR nurses spend time in the classroom where they do periop 101 and then they spend one month in each of our seven services (they do...
I don't think floor nursing experience is required. I start IVs all the time and I'm at a teaching hospital with residents and fellows. I would google "behavioral interview questions for nursing...
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Wow Argo that's amazing. The highest bonus our director heard was $200. Do you mind telling me where this was and if it was all transplants including lung and heart? You can PM me if you prefer....
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Thank you for your reply. We're also staffed 24/7 with three teams and three days of the week it's covered by that staff. Out transplant team covers Thursday and Friday nights and all of Saturday and...
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Thanks for the response. We started out taking only liver call and it was this way for many years. Only recently have we picked up kidneys for the precise reason you stated. The surgeon that does them...
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Ours runs very smoothly actually. We have four RNs and four STs covering liver and kidney. Last year we did 35 livers and 15 kidneys. We sign up for call about six weeks out and it gets covered. Our...
Hi everyone. This is my first post. I'm curious to see if other hospitals have teams for liver and kidney transplants. Our hospital does and we take call and also do these cases when they happen...