queenjean

queenjean has 9 years experience.

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1. Shin splints, help!

   queenjean replied to ShelleyERgirl's topic in General Nursing

   I've started doing a class 1-2 x a week that is a combo yoga/pilates/thaichi class, and I have noticed how WEAK my feet are. They HURT during class, and are sore afterwards. Now that I've been doing the class a few weeks, they are much stronger and...

2. Drawing Blood

   queenjean replied to fat cat's topic in General Nursing

   Adults have poorer circulation than infants and children. With lower extremity sticks the risks for clots and infection is much greater, and if it infiltrates, the complications are more severe due to the circulation issues. Think about it--walk d...

3. Tattoo/employability question

   queenjean replied to smirkingvag's topic in General Students

   Where I work, we have plenty of nurses (and supervisors) with visible tats. There is no policy to cover them. In nursing school, we were supposed to cover them. Mine were covered by my lab coat (we couldn't wear long sleeves under our scrubs, eithe...

4. Paralyzed by emotion when children are the patient?

   queenjean replied to missjennmb's topic in General Nursing

   I used to work peds and nursery, and here are my two thoughts that helped me with this. One, this child needs taken care of. If I can't pull it together and take care of this child, the child won't get good care. I'm doing a huge disservice to him/...

5. Nursing school interview today

   queenjean replied to Amanda1985's topic in General Nursing

   Good luck!!!

6. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

   queenjean replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   Amybeth, I would like to point you to this: A vent thread is to commiserate with fellow nursing professionals about our common difficulties at work and to blow off steam so that we don't go crazy and actually SAY this things to our patients. I fin...

7. How do you manage to get to work in snow storms ?

   queenjean replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

   All in town employees are expected to be there; they are more flexible with employees who live in rural areas, which seems fair to me. I'm in the midwest, and the only time I called in for weather was during an ice storm when a tree fell on my car. T...

8. I NEED A JOB

   queenjean replied to miacox's topic in General Nursing

   Think persistence. Fax, mail, or hand deliver your resume not only to HR but also to the head of EVERY major department (ICU, Med/Surg, ER, etc). I find that many HR departments don't communicate well at all with the departments and have no real id...

9. The pharmacy dispensed my mom a med she is allergic to.

   queenjean replied to nrsang97's topic in General Nursing

   Sometimes the error comes in the pt's listing of the reaction of the allergy. For example, in our facility, we would give a med the pt lists as an allergy if the allergy isn't a true allergy, but rather a side effect. Like GI upset, which is oftent...

10. Pediatric IV Infiltrate

    queenjean replied to cchsmp1999's topic in General Nursing

    Do your pumps have a pediatric setting? If so, make sure you use this all the time. If not; maybe this is something your hospital needs to invest in. So, what have you learned? Will it happen again? Will you let an IV go more than an hour on a c...

11. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    queenjean replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

    Here's an actual conversation I got to have last noc (and it felt good!): Pt, after we've discussed her plan of care for the noc: Thank god you're my nurse tonight. I had a real b!tch of a nurse last noc who wouldn't let me eat and just lectured me...

12. Nurses & their children..

    queenjean replied to jellybean321's topic in General Nursing

    I was soooo sad when I missed my oldest child's first day of kindergarten. What sort of horrible mom was I? I was in school, had clinicals, and absolutely could not miss to attend. My mom came to visit and took her to school instead. Years later, ...

13. Should Doctors Have Guns?

    queenjean replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know; just like there are general crazies running around out there, there are a few docs I've met who have such horrible temper problems. I'd honestly be afraid of them if they were armed. I'd only want our docs to carry guns if the NURSES ...

14. Doctor postponing surgery over MRSA Colonization (nares)

    queenjean replied to Gr8Dane's topic in General Nursing

    This thread has been an interesting read. Lots of good questions and information. Thanks! Of course, my nose itched the entire time I was reading...

15. Question about organ donation.

    queenjean replied to xlilchatonx's topic in General Nursing

    Obviously the medical community still has a ways to go in educating the general public about organ donation. I don't know when or how it should be done, but if people still believe that we just let them die, or that we charge them for the donation, ...