cjcerrn

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1. Forced to Take an Assignment You Can Not Handle

   cjcerrn replied to 1RN4Christ's topic in Safety

   I find it a little strange that you would receive a Post-Op patient. I do occassional Nursing Supervison for my hospital and I know it takes nothing short of an act of Congress to be put on diversion. Once we are in that status, ALL non-emergent surg...

2. I almost made a stupid nursing mistake and now I can't stop thinking about it. Help!

   cjcerrn replied to Sabinacrn's topic in New Nurse

   In our hospital, ALL insulin is double-checked as a high alert medication. Both nurses are to visualize the order (to assure the right orders are followed), the insulin bottle (to assure the right type of insulin), and the amount drawn up. The double...

3. 24/7 Video Cameras in ICU rooms

   cjcerrn replied to umcRN's topic in Critical

   Check your signed Consents for Treatment- the form all patients have to sign regardless of their inpatient/outpatient status. Ours includes consenting to the video-taping. This is a whole different ballgame than publishing the film.

4. How soon we forget.

   cjcerrn replied to eriksoln's topic in Activism

   As I tend to agree on many levels to your comments, I find it difficult to pin everyone's health and/or health problems on their behavior. Having recently been in a two car collision in which the other driver t-boned me, had nothing to do with my beh...

5. How soon we forget.

   cjcerrn replied to eriksoln's topic in Activism

   "The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities. A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency rooms...

6. Why we work on holidays

   cjcerrn replied to hawkfdc's topic in General Nursing

   Working in the ED setting for a number of years, I was used to working hoplidays. I am not sure that any manager I have worked for in the last 35 years has been unfair about working too many holidays, certainly not all of them. And staff always seeme...

7. Enough is Enough

   cjcerrn replied to abbaking's topic in Relations

8. Pain is subjective?

   cjcerrn replied to lena130's topic in General Nursing

   UK_cats_rule... After reading this thread for days, I am not sure that anyone said that there were not drug-seekers in healthcare. The point is, how well do you know the patient's full history? Does the patient have an addictive personality? You know...

9. Pain is subjective?

   cjcerrn replied to lena130's topic in General Nursing

   After attending a pain seminar a couple of years back, it was pointed out to me that chronic and acute pain are two totally separate entities. Chronic pain suffers undergo pathophysiologic changes that not only changes the type and perception of pain...

10. BP in arm with PICC?

    cjcerrn replied to light4j's topic in General Nursing

    I just called the nurse on the IV team here that is certified to insert and work with PICC's. She states that it is not recommended, but not contraindicated if that is the last alternative. The fear is in fracturing the PICC line, but this is a moot ...

11. Contacted Oprah Show About Nursing Issues

    cjcerrn replied to jollyjenny's topic in General Nursing

    rags...... I have to agree with you on that. The entry level has not made a difference in my career, nor do I think it makes me a more proficient nurse. I have lots of letters after my name, and the thing that the patient cares about is the care tha...

12. Contacted Oprah Show About Nursing Issues

    cjcerrn replied to jollyjenny's topic in General Nursing

    If everyone is so concerned that they need an airway to educate the public regarding nursing issues, then why not merely buy a spot on the cable channels that are open to anyone? That way you can be assured that the things that you want said and hea...

13. New Mama Baby RN

    cjcerrn replied to MeMaRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    DOes anyone know if there is any testing of the use of Sucrose in colic? We are tying to see if it could be effective in treatment in the ED.