suejara

suejara specializes in pediatrics.

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1. How do you handle delegating to PCA's?

   suejara replied to missdeevah's topic in General Nursing

   It's hard to work in a "team" when one person doesn't do their fair share. Maybe it is something as simple as this PCA being older than you or thinking that you delegated a task that "is beneath you." I once had a new nurse announce that she didn't...

2. ED Nurses: Tdap vs. Td

   suejara replied to Lunah's topic in Emergency

   I work in a large peds practice (10,000) newborns up to 23 years old. We only administed Tdap to our kids 11 years & up, unless there is some contraindication. Teens that had reactions to DTP as young children most likely did so because it was ...

3. How many kids are actually getting vaccinated?

   suejara replied to itsmejuli's topic in COVID

   Most of the parents in our pediatric pratice want their children to receive both the seasonal & H1N1 vaccinations but they are a few who say its "too new" or worry about the thimerosal in them. We have already used up the entire supply of season...

4. heres one...speaking other languages in front of patients

   suejara replied to VM85's topic in General Nursing

   the us does not have an official language the majority of our population speaks english as a native language (about 82%). spanish is the 2nd most common language in the country, and is spoken by over 12% of the population. i think the point of this ...

5. What pranks have you played on your boss?

   suejara replied to systoly's topic in Humor

   Last year one of the doctors in our office broke her right arm. One of the other doctors has a life sized model of an arm which displays different types of tuberculin skin tests and how to read them. Well for our X-mas secret Santa gift we wrapped ...

6. Why

   suejara replied to nebrgirl's topic in General Nursing

   We have one of those, a nurse who's put together with nuts and bolts, from her neck down to her knees, everything hurts her all the time. I just compliment her scrub tops or new hair cut and if she starts talking about her pain for more than a minu...

7. heres one...speaking other languages in front of patients

   suejara replied to VM85's topic in General Nursing

   If you are not speaking directly to the patient then you have no business having any conversation in any language in front of them in their room.

8. 16 fired for HIPAA Violations

   suejara replied to DesertRN2's topic in HIPAA

   They should of known better and resisted the temptation to "peek" at her chart. They are also not too bright seeing that in this electronic age you can easily be tracked down. It also worries me because if you are logged into a computer and another ...

9. Question on Pediatric IM injection sites

   suejara replied to Rhonda V's topic in Pediatric

   Once a child is walking our practice give shots in the deltoid. I have given more than four shots before, but that has usually been on toddlers, at least 15 mos or older, not infants. I always do the MMR & Varivax in the deltoid because they ar...

10. Need Help! Whats Wrong??

    suejara replied to athomemom56's topic in Pediatric

    definitely agree! I would think that the child would be somewhat dehydrated from throwing up and possibly have orthostatic hypotension. If your gut feeling is telling you something is wrong send the child to ER.

11. Lack of Diversity with Student Nurses/Nurse Externs

    suejara replied to missgigius's topic in General Students

    You are talking about Lincoln Tech...right. I have to disagree. In my class I was one of only three Latinos to graduate, the rest were all white with one African American student. If you look at more ADN and BSN programs like UCONN, St Jospeh's, So...

12. Most silly reason for being called in the office?

    suejara replied to nursebrandie28's topic in Emergency

    I work in a pediatrician's office and received my 3 month review there as a new nurse. My review was great but one doctor had to make a stupid comment that I couldn't believe was actually taken seriously enough by our practice manager to become par...

13. I want her fired!!!!

    suejara replied to HisTreasure's topic in General Nursing

    Let's fire crazy family members instead

14. LPN and RN attitudes towards one another.

    suejara replied to daisymay20's topic in General Nursing

    Those LPN's probably got rubbed the wrong way by some RN's so they are suspicious of you....... wondering if you are going to be a fellow nurse or act as a "superior":bowingpur. I know when I worked as a nurses aid in one particular hospital in CT...

15. I am getting terminated tomarrow

    suejara replied to nl2005's topic in General Nursing

    No way, I dont think you should get fired. Nurses are human, you made a mistake by giving the wrong contrast but in my hospital it is the radiology dept who brings up the contrast for the patient. The nurses that I worked with always administered t...