krisfroggie

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1. student in need of advice

   krisfroggie replied to hopeful student's topic in Career Support

   HI!! I completly understand what you are going through. It took me a year after completing my required classes before I was accepted. If I had not been accepted to an RN program, I was going to enter an LVN program and the "bridge" over. Just do no...

2. New Grad + Rough Start = Career Advice Needed

   krisfroggie replied to NJRN04's topic in Career Support

   Hank in there!!! Maybe concider ICU. We spend a lot of time and money training our GNs in the PICU that I work for. The training is very good and it is nice to really have 1 to 1 training and concentrating on 1 - 2 patients is great. jThink about...

3. Anyone from San Antonio??

   krisfroggie replied to Di0202's topic in Texas

   Hi, I hope that you like San Antonio. I have worked for Christus Santa Rosa Healthcare for almost ten years now. $17-18 or so sounds right. What type of nursing are you considering? Santa Rosa is growing and I work for PSICU. It is a newly built...

4. LVN School in San Antonio

   krisfroggie replied to TRIBALROSE13's topic in Texas

   Hello, I believe that San Antonio College also has an LVN program. Kris

5. First Year In Nursing School

   krisfroggie replied to StudentNurse04's topic in Texas

   welcome to nursing!!! i am sorry, but i do not agree, but do not worry. the hardest part is getting in to nursing school. just stay focused and you will do fine. i have been a nurse for almost 10 years and i love it. i could not see myself doing a...

6. Question for PICU RNs out there.

   krisfroggie replied to KC CHICK's topic in PICU

   I work in a teaching hospital in a PICU. Our Nurse Mgr. allows those seeking employment an "experience day" in which the nurse seeking employment follows a nurse for a day or even only a few hours. No pay of course, no responsibility either. No a...

7. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   krisfroggie replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   I actually had a Dr. write an order to: wash patients clothes!!! is that not horrible...And I dropped everything to do it right away....NOT!!!

8. Survey: Do you feel your hospital is prepared to handle a major disaster?

   krisfroggie replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I feel this is not a simple yes/no question. I feel our nurses are well educated and devoted:D But unfortunately, it is difficult to adaquately staff the Childrens Hospital where I work at times. We have closed our PICU even recently due to...

9. staffing

   krisfroggie posted a topic in PICU

   How has staffing changed in the past two or three years for others around the country? We personally take much higher acuity assignments and and pair vent assignment much more often than just a few short years ago. I am concerned that this is becom...

10. Patients on suicide precautions-what is your facility's policy?

    krisfroggie replied to deespoohbear's topic in Safety

    For OD in our hopsital, if the observation unit is cosed, the patient is kept in the PICU, I agree with many of you that it is a great waist if funds and the sitter option is not utalized. ( I never have been able to understand administrations ratio...

11. Small complication in my pedi rotation

    krisfroggie replied to jeharshman's topic in Pediatric

    Well, first of all I have found that it is important to set limits and boundries for family expectations from the beginning. I love to treat my kids and they can be a great joy, but it is impossible to answer to every patient and family needs in the...