patricelynne

patricelynne specializes in peds, OB/L&D, ER and peds ER.

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1. Nurses who DON'T work in a hospital, what do you do?

   patricelynne replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   I, too, am in home health care/hospice and after 3 decades in hospital, it is heavenly to be able to schedule my own hours! I can second the idea that you really need a few years of med-surg experience to be able to do this kind of nursing. One can...

2. Witnessed a terrible death last night--pls help me...

   patricelynne replied to Annebug's topic in General Nursing

   Hello there!---What a situation for someone so new to this role in life! I have a few thoughts that might be of use. For one, what you have done is throw yourself "into the fire" much as many new grads did enteriing the military right out of traini...

3. Funny fake names for meds

   patricelynne replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

   :welcome:Hi Guys!---Re: funny drug names, when I was a student nurse in the 70's, we had a lot of really rundown patients from the rougher side of Baltimore. Kinda' the type who look "ridden hard and hung up wet"---most had beaucoup problems wrong w...

4. "Funny Codes"?

   patricelynne replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

   :eek:Re TVCCRN's statement about not removing saline locs 'til they're practically in the vehicle, when my honey & I were newly-married and he was in his internship in NY, I was nursing at a hospital across town. A 20-ish yr. old dying of liver ...

5. "Funny Codes"?

   patricelynne replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

   In my senior year in training we had 3 mos. of team leading and mine was on Osler 4, a public ward with primarily indigent, physically-challenged patients from Baltimore's ghetto. The first room on the ward held 4 and was called the Rose Room The si...

6. Most RN's first borns?

   patricelynne replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

   Hi there: first born in Catholic family with a father who was a "dry drunk" depressive w/ ETOH personality. After he retired he began Zoloft and noone could believe the diff. Mom was a nurse; her father was alcoholic and mother was orphaned at age 1...

7. What Is the Problem With These Nurses?

   patricelynne replied to Sheri257's topic in General Nursing

   Hi Guys!---My experience in over 30 years has been that the more rarefied the specialty-nursing one is doing, the tougher they come. NICU, CCU, ER for example, vs. regular med-surg wards, general peds---you get the picture. Floating to general unit...

8. What was the WORST thing a patient has been brought to ER for?

   patricelynne replied to SteveNNP's topic in Emergency

   Several: A 400+ lb male who wouldn't bathe with gangrenous testes...that ER probably still smells like clostridium Welchi. A baby with a pulse less than 20 bpm due to getting 2cc instead of .02cc Digoxin. Yes, the pharmacy HAD labled it improperly ...

9. Is there power in the color white?

   patricelynne replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

   I graduated from the last hospital-based three year class at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. [Now they have BSN and beyond programs there.]Graduating out of our "blues" into our whites was still a big deal for many of us in the 70s. I loved o...

10. phone calls no outsider would believe

    patricelynne replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    Hi Guys---Back in the 70s when I worked in the Johns Hopkins Pediatric ER we had MANY volumes of ridiculous/audacious calls on the poison control phone as well as regular phone. Being a teaching institution, pediatric interns rotated through monthly...

11. Desperate !!

    patricelynne replied to mika1's topic in General Nursing

    Hi There---this idea may be of help; see what you can find at these websites: http://www.mygovernmentgrants.com, http://www.nextstudent.com, http://www.findtuition.com, http://www.freegovmoney.net, http://www.usagovernmentgrants.org. There IS f...

12. 2nd thoughts about being a nurse

    patricelynne replied to smileysenior's topic in New Nurse

    Hi There---If you haven't heard of this do look into the programs out there fornursing internships. Medical Colleges of VA, Johns Hopkins, LOTS of teaching institutions offer them for a year. They pair you w/ a preceptor RN and you plan out your le...

13. Job Hunting - I don't understand

    patricelynne replied to Pupnshnooter's topic in General Nursing

    Hi There---Society as a whole in this country has been changing in "appearance" since the end of the 1960s. The focus on being free to do and look any way one wanted, braless or not, impacted so many aspects of life which hasn't returned to the more ...

14. Andrea Yates R.N.

    patricelynne replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    I once nursed in a private psych hospital in NY; among others we received all the alcoholic and/or suicidal priests and nuns in that archdiocese---talk about sad. Damned if you do and damned if you don't! Anyway, I agree 100% with your observation...

15. Alaska Emergency Rooms

    patricelynne replied to jenny031's topic in Alaska

    Hi There---All the "travellers" I've worked with in the past at Prov were pretty-much pleasantly surprised at how wonderful it is up here. MANY have stayed, married here etc., and that's after nursing all over the United States., ARH is union, Prov ...