JMBnurse

JMBnurse has 21 years experience and specializes in Oncology, Med/Surg, Hospice, Case Mgmt..

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1. Pain medicine to drug addict?

   JMBnurse replied to MrBlueSky's topic in Medications

   This is an old post, but reading it makes my blood boil and also makes me proud to be a nurse. The pride comes from the unanimous compassionate and educated responses. This situation happens all the time in hospitals every day and the attitude is n...

2. Can I be discriminated against for political beliefs?

   JMBnurse replied to helloego's topic in General Nursing

   This is true for my hubby, too and it has concerned me. We live in a fairly small town and we have an uncommon last name. My husband is self-employed, so he believes that he can say whatever he wants on Facebook. I stopped posting political commen...

3. If lice can't jump or fly

   JMBnurse replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

   When my daughter was in 3rd grade, she came home one day with lice. As a nurse, I discovered it and had not received any warning or notification from the school. I promptly freaked out and proceeded to boil the entire contents of our house and ever...

4. Have you met your husband at nursing? Is nursing a good career to meet men?

   JMBnurse replied to Upward_Bound's topic in General Nursing

   I met my husband when we worked at the same hospital 17 yrs ago. We've been married for 11 yrs. He was a nurse in the ER and I was a nurse on the M/S floor. My first impression of him was that he didn't dress pediatric IV's appropriately. He eventu...

5. Why don't you just read the chart?

   JMBnurse replied to Guest219794's topic in Relations

   If the patient is relatively stable, as they should be coming to a M/S floor, I am okay with a brief, just the facts ma'am report. I'm also okay with looking up some of the information, if you are slammed and the patient is stable. If you tell me th...

6. Nurses, how do you view your job?

   JMBnurse replied to 8*P23J's topic in General Nursing

   OP... How interesting... You took the conversation to another room and everyone followed. Wonder what that says? I have read quite a few of the posts and I find the debate interesting. I have been a nurse for 19 years and I still feel it was a call...

7. Are you really not a "real nurse" unless you work in acute care?

   JMBnurse replied to tenderfootjoe's topic in General Nursing

   We are all real nurses no matter where we work. I worked in acute care for 13 years after graduation and have worked the past 6 yrs in Case Management. I may be a little old school in believing that new graduates should work in acute care for at le...

8. witnessing a DNR

   JMBnurse replied to turnforthenurse's topic in General Nursing

   I wouldn't do this again. This sounds bizarre. Most doctors I have worked with talked to the family at length and then wrote the DNR with progress notes detailing the conversation with the family. Some docs would prefer to have a nurse in the room...

9. Health Care Law vs Patient Outcomes

   JMBnurse replied to cassiemassey's topic in Activism

   This sounds like just a slight revision of our current system. This sounds to me like, again, it would only benefit the wealthy and college graduates with good jobs. The working poor who are not eligible for Medicaid would struggle with this type o...

10. Health Care Law vs Patient Outcomes

    JMBnurse replied to cassiemassey's topic in Activism

    This article outlines a study done on preventable deaths in the US and 18 other industrialized countries with data from the World Health Organization. The study was done for 1997-1998 and updated again in 2002-2003. I believe the final data from the ...

11. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    JMBnurse replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    I am not sure what you mean as my point was that Mississippi is the poorest state in the Union. I read something recently that said obesity has had a huge impact on their economy. They are 3rd in the nation. However, I'm sure it is comforting to Mis...

12. The flu shot making people sick

    JMBnurse replied to psu_213's topic in COVID

    Wow, where were all of you flu shot supporters when I was getting pummeled on one of the other threads!

13. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    JMBnurse replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    Thank you to our Canadian friends for coming here and offering your opinions on healthcare and assisting in our debate, even though as they say where I'm from, you don't have a dog in that hunt. Please know that not all Americans feel the same. Abo...

14. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    JMBnurse replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    If you don't want to pay taxes at all, well good luck with that. If it were up to me, I would prefer to take the taxes we already pay and instead of using all of that money to buy more "uniforms" we don't need, use it for healthcare for our citizens...

15. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    JMBnurse replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    Sorry, CountyRat, we have been hashing out whether or not healthcare is a right for almost 3 weeks now, so the discussion has expanded a little from time to time. I believe that you are correct- Healthcare is a need. I also believe it is a human r...