princess_picklejuice

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1. Anyone Lost A Baby?

   princess_picklejuice replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

   I am so sorry for your loss. I had 3 miscarriages within a 3 year time span and I know how much it hurts. Please remember to take care of yourself. Give yourself time to cry, to be angry and to ask all the "why" questions. My prayers are with you. ...

2. Just my hospital??

   princess_picklejuice replied to shortstuff31117's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital has eliminated all range orders, dosage or frequency. Not only that, it applies to meds like Tylenol. No longer can a doc write "Tylenol 1-2 tabs po q4h prn" Now, there also has to be an indicator such as "Tylenol 1 tab po q4h prn headac...

3. Please share something GOOD that happened at work!

   princess_picklejuice replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

   This didn't happen to me personally, but some of my co-workers were... A patient, "Peter" was dying on our Cancer Care unit. All through his illness, "Rose" stayed by his side doing all that she could to make him comfortable. The staff found out that...

4. customer svc the norm?

   princess_picklejuice replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Nursing

   True story - to increase patient satisfaction, our hospital now provides coffee, juice and snacks, free of charge, to people in the outpatient services waiting rooms - who's serving? our security guards! - too bad we didn't learn anything from the ki...

5. Does Magnet Status make a difference?

   princess_picklejuice replied to abbythetabby's topic in General Nursing

   The only difference Magnet makes is a $100,000 dent in the coffers. $50,000+ for the application and survey and $50,000 for the book binding/publishing.

6. question about salary in the US

   princess_picklejuice replied to norhubez's topic in General Nursing

   We live in Corpus Christi, TX. A new grad here can expect to start off at $20/h and then move up to about $22/h in a year. If you are an experienced nurse from out of country $24/h sounds about right. Be aware, though, that if you are going thr...

7. Have you ever taken care of a famous pt?

   princess_picklejuice replied to Foxfour's topic in General Nursing

   we once had a "charlie's angel" at our hospital - no, i'm not going to disclose from which decade - and in as much as the word went around that she was a patient, everyone kept their distance and left her alone. i had to leave the room briefly, thoug...

8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   princess_picklejuice replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   We had, in our ICU, a frequent flier named Ricky. He was non-compliant, obscene to staff and so mean, his last gesture to his mother was flipping her the bird. The night he died, a little lady we had 2 rooms down, called staff to tell them of the ma...

9. anyone gone through JCAHO recently?

   princess_picklejuice replied to ERERER's topic in General Nursing

   Our nurse surveyor was apparently on the team that created and initiated National Patient Safety Goals...our med reconciliation is only a few months old so we got a few recommendations for improvement. She really looked for Do Not Use abbreviations ...

10. News of Mother's Death Left on Answering Machine

    princess_picklejuice replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    ...and imagine what would have happened if he had dialed the wrong number...heartless, no matter what...

11. Where are you from?

    princess_picklejuice replied to noworries's topic in Canada

    hello from corpus christi, texas! i graduated from centennial college in toronto, ontario 10 years ago. ...y'all are making me homesick...