Queakous

Queakous

Med-surg, IP surgery

Member
  • Content

    26
  • Visitors

    3,122
  • Followers

    0

About Queakous

Queakous specializes in Med-surg, IP surgery.


Mother of twins, plus two dogs and a cat. Husband is gone five days weekly with work. Have a Special Ed. degree (takes one to know one) and took an entire semester (!) of phlebotomy before entering RN school.

Latest Activity

  1. Correctional Nursing Pros/Con and Environment

    I have been in corrections for about 1.5 years in both medical and psych. I do like the autonomy and the fact that most patients/inmates do respond to being treated with sincere gratitude. Yes, they do lie, but no more so than folks I have encountere...
  2. Corizon--Long hiring process?

    I now work for Corizon and must say not so happy with their training and orientation. I work where I did prior to Corizon's entry but haven't had any success with new PC ID and PC access, particularly where labs are concerned and I do a lotta labs. O...
  3. What is it like to be a nurse in a prison?

    I am a correctional nurse and have been so for almost a year and a half. Started in corrections as medical but have ended up in the psych unit. Both are good but medical is open population (open pop) and psych is CM (Close management). They are both ...
  4. Your journey (jobs) as a nurse?

    One year inpatient surgery/ Mama-baby (small hospital) 4 years med-surg in a fast paced high census hospital. 6 months in Hawaii as ante-partum in an Army hosp. and triage at an Army Post. Now have been in male corrections for 10 months and have foun...
  5. Concealed Carry...as a nurse?

    Heck, I work in a prison and I have a CCL and a 9 mm in my car at all times. What worries me is the GOV wants to limit our access to rifles which would be our best defense in any conflict.
  6. What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    Hell, I got the best commendation from our CEO for doing just that. The MD kept telling me to DC the telemetry because the pt kept showing RVR and had NO hx of heart probs. Over and over I refused his orders and the RVR reports kept coming in. Told m...
  7. Tired of being scared!

    Was accused of this last year needlessly and a month later accused of diversion and fired even though every drug test,etc. I had was negative. Now am in investigation and after several post job random DT negative am STILL at the mercy of my state and...
  8. Death and skin color

    Sorry to say but ALL the patients I have had that passed had a yellow tint it to their faces etc. That is how I have NO doubt they have passed. I have wondered about this phenomena. I have watched this happen w/DNR pt passing and would really like an...
  9. The one I have always thought was freaky is "if you turn them they will die" for pts w/bad problems.
  10. Can RNs really make this much?

    It all depends on where you live and work. I am in NW FL and the pay here is dismal. Base is 17-19.00. We were told upon graduating(4 yrs ago) we could expect to make 30-35k a year. I lucked out and was hired right out of school for a PRN weekend po...
  11. Dear preceptor

    Gee, Ivanna, I would say we had the same preceptor but my school canned mine while she was precepting me. She pulled a lot of what you went through and more. Fortunately my instructors were more than able to see there was something "not right" having...
  12. Pensacola Junior College?

    Hey, I graduated PJC in 2006 and had many of the problems you guys have mentioned. Yes, they were way off base in many grading and testing skills but still the stuff they gave me allowed me to pass the NCLEX in 75. I did a lot of my off time studying...
  13. I dunno. I used Davis Inclex w/CD( got it at Books-a-Million) and it was exactly like the Inclex I took in 2006. Granted, I used the thing for a good year prior. It was my video game. I am a quiz kinda gal, I guess. I liked it because it let me choos...
  14. Entry into RN Practice: Associate Degree Nursing (ADN)

    Lucky me, I guess, with my previous hit and miss Special Ed degree forays I only had one semester of pre-reqs before ADN school and after graduation went straight to work as a PRN surgical floor nurse. I am now a med-surg PRN and have been doing it f...
  15. Preceptor becomes villain

    My preceptor experience was similar but kind of covert. I had no idea how much this person had it in for me until I got a call from my instructor during a hospital day saying "We've got to get you out of there!" I had no idea there was a problem. Tur...