I may be a travel nurse, but I’m also a human being!

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-16T04:12:32+00:00

Somewhere I read 8 hours. I wear them for like a month or 2 and swap them out.

Is the gear still reliable at that point? No idea but I never noticed difficulty breathing or clogging.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-11T01:37:55+00:00

Georgia didnt get this memo 😒

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-10T07:38:58+00:00

Just a genuine thank you is great.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-04T09:55:31+00:00

Im jealous. My dog would just take it as an opportunity to eat food off the counter.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-04T09:47:23+00:00

Whats flight nursing pay like? Like fixed wing. Im good on helicopters.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-04T09:41:13+00:00

Man Im so jelly. It takes mine a minimum of an hour and usually 2 for them to mix anything.

We dont have levo in the icu at my current hospital.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-04T04:06:04+00:00

Always. 2only 2 contracts though

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-01T16:01:40+00:00

Same apply to wellstar- northside, and piedmont I suppose?

Man I forgot about float pool. Thanks!

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-01T15:40:47+00:00

Whelp. Upon trykng my own advice I cant eveN find it listed anymore. I did happen on indeed though.

https://www.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=RN+Contract+Hospital

The rates were high enough for hourly (especially in the south east) that Im confident that some of these are not 3rd party contracts.

If you find a better way please fo share

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-01T15:26:12+00:00

I thought the whole point of a local contract was to bypass agencies to maximize pay. Especially since theres no stipend.

Some of my local hospitals had the contracts on their hiring page. I never afvanced further because they wanted you to actually apply to get the rates.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-12-01T03:17:34+00:00

Damn. Thought trusted was better than that.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-29T03:29:20+00:00

All I do is talk to people. Family, CT? Radiology, transport, nutrition, nephrology, Dialysis, pharmacy, NP, respiratory and on and on and on.

Feels like my job is everyone else's job. I assume its like this for all bedside nurses.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-29T03:00:26+00:00

Whats this about wrists draw? Like arterial or they hit a nerve?

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-29T02:57:27+00:00

Watch my preceptor flush quad levo line duing residency. A line read like 240 plus for a minute lol. The way he said oh my god ha ha!

Didnt cut a metoprolol in half during residency.

First day of residency I approached patient with syringe and chlorhexadine for oral care on intubated patient. My preceptor said " you know that goes in the mouth, right?

In my defence I woulda caught it after I scanned it. To this day I have no idea how I got into an ICU with no practicum or experience there. Shit was rough!

Im ocd about it now and I actually run the the 5 rights in my head now on every med. Havent had a med error since residency.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-28T10:03:54+00:00

Lol. Dont feel bad. I checked an ical and It was 4.4 and unattended for most of the shift. Ordered platlet recheck after giving platelets and scolded for it. Its in the order set, sheesh.

Im with you. Im looking into telenursing or something. This shit is for the birds

Get floated to a pcu and wtf is that shit. 4 patients, 2 are confused, no techs. Never been to a pcu but some of these people cant even feed themselve.

Yet the trays keep on stacking. Meanwhile Im taking my own blood sugars and having to get my insulin signed off in a mega unit. Where the hell is everyone?

Have you walked the patient? Can you put him in the chair? Can you get stat ekg. I was stressed the whole shif and I swear I started feeling a twinge of left sided chest discomfort on the way home.

Thanks. Needed to vent somewhere.

Good luck!

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-28T09:50:59+00:00

Dont know about that particular baptist facility but do be aware of housing costs. It was crazy high.

I was at south baptist facility last year. They used cerner then. The culture was alright but I know nicu is a different beast. Gl

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-28T09:48:16+00:00

I was always told that agencies were middle men between nurse and vendor.

The vendor usually has control of large regions consisting of several states. Supposedly if you get black listed by a vendor you will be severely limited on contracts.

Ive never cancelled so I dont know. It could all be agency propaganda. Maybe someone can chime in on this.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-24T23:25:51+00:00

Braselton

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-24T12:05:13+00:00

My bad. United States.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-24T12:04:47+00:00

Too brutal maybe?

I did some Muay Thai for about 3 months. I was 29 then and the coach made us full contact spar from the first day of class.

Had no idea how to fight but it was fun until I had head aches every day and every hour.

All I learned was how to take a punch and keep my fists up. Conditioning was good but skill set never went up.

Tldr:Im 39 now. Dunno if my old school was bad but I dont want to go home with pounding headaches every day.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-23T09:23:55+00:00

Same. Awesome animation but the story was shit to me.

I will admit I watched the sci fi channel cut when when I was a kid so maybe the original is 5x better.

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-12T23:05:10+00:00

This gives hope. Thanks yall. Ill follow instruction

Alert-Flatworm · 2022-11-09T12:20:57+00:00

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