holdensjane

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1. Dacron cuff of Hickman pulled out

   holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

   What do you do? Its just pulled out enough to see the cuff. Surgery recommended to come out but didn't seem firm as patient still needed treatment. Attending says okay to keep but don't know if its bc Dacron cuff is trivial or if they don't unders...

2. Educator with limited clinical experience

   holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello all! Ive been a nurse for about 3 years now working in the same unit where I started as a new grad. I've recently taken an educator role, however, my concern is that clinically I'm not super confident. I've done well in all my pt assignments t...

3. question answered

   holdensjane replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for answering the question!

4. question answered

   holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the replies :)

5. 6 months on night, my beauty suffers

   holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

   not that i'm very beautiful to start with but I've noticed that my skin is constantly breaking out and I have huge dark eye circles that never go away. I never had this before doing nights. I get the same number of hours of sleep during the day and ...

6. MSN admin/leadership, jobs other than mangers and DON?? what are they?

   holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

   i will be applying for grad school in the next few months and am strongly considering nursing admin and leadership.. my question is, at my hospital we have nursing managers and above that is DON and i assume it is like this in all hospitals. what ar...

7. is 7 months okay to ask for a letter of recommendation?

   holdensjane replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

   sorry i should have mentioned that it was for grad school. i'm not really leaving.

8. is 7 months okay to ask for a letter of recommendation?

   holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

   when is an adequate amount of time that has past before I should ask my manager for a letter of recommendation. I work the night shift.

9. Nurse was so RUDE to me in report, what should I say next time)

   holdensjane replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all your responses. I'm greatful to have this place where i can seek the advice of experienced nurses since I hate to bring these things up in the workplace and became part of the gossip i've witnessed before. I have another question. Wou...

10. What's your ANNUAL SALARY?

    holdensjane replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    i make 60 a year base. I want to put in overtime but keep getting cancelled. we don't have a shortage of nursing in my hospital. btw, i'm a new grad at 7 months now and have recieved a raise of about 3,000 a year annually. goodluck it can happen. its...

11. Nurse was so RUDE to me in report, what should I say next time)

    holdensjane replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    what bothered me most was that even after I said "i'm just letting you know, if you don't think thats a problem then thats fine" she kept saying it "i don't know what you think its an issue, its not an issue, the bp did not drop". Like she made a poi...

12. Nurse was so RUDE to me in report, what should I say next time)

    holdensjane replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    its not so much the fact that she questioned my judgement but the way she said it was degrading as though it was SO outrageous that I was at all concerned about the bp. Next time will be out of line for me to document "informed oncoming day nurse of...

13. Nurse was so RUDE to me in report, what should I say next time)

    holdensjane replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    do you think my concern was valid, or am i just being paranoid?

14. Nurse was so RUDE to me in report, what should I say next time)

    holdensjane posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work the night shift, I had a patient that was admitted at 5, the nurse on days noted all the orders and told me he needed blood and plts. I look at the mar and noticed no premeds for plts. I asked the nurse about it and she said "yeah no pre-meds,...

15. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

    holdensjane replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    1. sure I can get your new tubing for the plts you just walked into the patient room with cause you're in isolation. you need something else just as i get up to get what you asked? sure, I'll get your dilaudid syringe too, just give me moment to che...