jalyc RN

jalyc RN

L&D, CCU, ICU, PCU, RICU, PCICU, & LTC.

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About jalyc RN

jalyc RN has 40+ years experience and specializes in L&D, CCU, ICU, PCU, RICU, PCICU, & LTC..


RN: L&D, CRITICAL CARE, LTC and MDSC.

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  1. Fired Due to Not Being Able to Get to Work

    Quote from wannabenycnurse2011 Why are people such a**holes in this thread? We all have been in staffing situations that suck as nurses. I hate annually having to decide what to do during hurricane season here in Florida but it is part of the job...
  2. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    "My other favourite TV thing is when someone is in the ICU, hooked up to tele and actively dying. Then of course they die, the tele monitor flatlines and no one comes in the room." There have been times when a patient had been made a DNR and no one w...
  3. What did you do before nursing?

    Seems many bring a wide variety of experience to the nursing field. I worked first at 12 as a companion for a demented blind lady, who did not realize she was blind. Her family was afraid she would leave the nursing home following her delusional v...
  4. An Atheist Nurse in King James Hospital

    One definition of 'prayer' is "to hope or wish very much for something to happen: to seriously ask (someone) to do something. to make a request in a humble manner" according to Merriam-Webster. NOTHING about God or any religion. I pray he gets wel...
  5. Now THAT'S a lab result

    This is why I was always grateful for the instructions of an endocrinologist back in the 70's to keep sugar packets nearby. He explained that sprinkling one under the tongue would instantly raise hypoglycemia with no threat of choking. Used it man...
  6. What to Do When the Doctor Throws the Nurse Under the Bus by Lying

    As a supervisor I once left a message to an unresponding attending that if I did not hear from him within 15 minutes I was calling the chief medical officer. I did just that and our CMO reamed the attending a new one the next day, so we never had t...
  7. It's Wrong! (A night shift perspective)

    What is so wrong with calling someone a "Little Old Lady"? Why do you feel it is demeaning to call a woman a "lady"? Guess I am missing something here. A lot better than geezers, vegetable, or idiots and some of the other things people are called...
  8. Is there a line floating?

    Not sure how it would work today, but in the 1980's as a new RN who had 10 years experience as an LPN in Critical Care Units and L&D, I had a written paper signed by HR and Evening supervisor that I floated ONLY to critical care units, never to t...
  9. Anyone been asked inappropriate interview questions?

    Yes, I literally lol'd when I read her OP because where I worked for my last 15 years it was just the opposite. The HOSPITAL nurses were the ones who sent our residents back with problems like "when the foley came out, it had disgusting tissues alon...
  10. Didnt attemp CPR to a rigor mortis patient

    That was my thought too. Her big concern should be the fact that this man was neglected for so many hours in a place that had accepted responsibility for his welfare. BUT we all know facilities are more concerned with profit than true care. I had...
  11. Case Study: "A Case of Bad Blood"

    Jehovah's Witnesses receive a lot of criticism for our stance on blood, but this is a good example of why our choices are better. That was a very poor surgeon, if he needed to give 3 units. We have encouraged and pushed doctors to become far better d...
  12. Racial Refusals In Nursing

    I love those who handle people in this manner. Do exactly what they want, but still get your point across. Hard for them to complain about getting their 'due'. LOL Give them the laziest white CNA's and the dumbest white nurses, and we all know m...
  13. The one act I remember because it floored me was a very rainy day. I got out of my car to walk across the parking lot when a CNA ran up with an umbrella. I told her to go ahead and leave, as she was a day shifter, that I would not melt. She said "...
  14. Essential Personnel

    Arranged transportation does NOT have to be EMS. It could have been a cab, a nearby police officer, or another person with better transportation. Sam is correct that 'essential personnel' implies that the facility could NOT even operate without that ...
  15. When I worked an LTC in the 90's I spoke with the DON & administrator about orientation problems like this. I was then paid to put together a notebook with ALL of our paperwork, showing appropriate documentation for nursing, housekeeping, laundr...