danielleRN76

danielleRN76 has 9 years experience and specializes in Cardiac, ER, ICU.

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1. On Call SANE 24/7

   danielleRN76 replied to whealer's topic in Forensic

   We have 5 SANE nurses at my hospital. We have a calendar that we sign up for the days that we want to take call. We generally take 24 hour shifts, but sometimes take 12 hour shifts. We get paid $3 an hour to be on call. Being on call means being able...

2. Dumbest thing a student/newbie ever said/did?

   danielleRN76 replied to Abishag's topic in General Nursing

   I can't tell you how many times I have done this in my years of nursing. It happens all the time!! Don't feel bad.

3. Dumbest thing a student/newbie ever said/did?

   danielleRN76 replied to Abishag's topic in General Nursing

   I was precepting a new grad. We were priming the tubing for a pt's g tube feeding that ran via pump. This nurse said to me, "Why can't we just give this IV? Oh I know now, because it is too thick." She was dead serious. She kinda scared me as a nurse...

4. Possibly Abused Young Girl

   danielleRN76 replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Way to go for following through. You'd be surprised how accurate our gut feelings really are. I hope that she isn't being abused by her father, but something sounds not quite right. Nurses are in such a great place to be able to help others, not only...

5. Demented Residents & Funny Comments

   danielleRN76 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

   OOOh, I have a few good ones back from my years in LTC. This one cute little lady, I got her washed up for the night, into bed, and I pulled the covers up nice and neat over her, she looked at me so seriously and said, "now don't forget to butter it...

6. Stupidest reason to go to ER

   danielleRN76 replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

   OOOOh, yesterday... Hypothermia 7 y/o Mom states she has had a fever for 5 days, tonight checked temp at 0300 it was 96.8 so I wrapped her up in warm blankets and brought her in.. um hello, maybe your child is feeling better????????

7. Stupidest reason to go to ER

   danielleRN76 replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

   Today, no lie... Pimple, center of forehead. clearasil $1.99 ER visit $100.00 nurses laughter, priceless!

8. Frequent Flyers in the ED

   danielleRN76 replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

   Our documentation system has a pull down menu where we can see all of their visits and notes from each visit after 2004. we have a FF who came here last night for her 37th visit in 2007, plus we found out about 16 visits to a hospital about 15 miles ...

9. Personality Type and Nursing

   danielleRN76 replied to Mesomorph's topic in General Nursing

   ESFJ, I'm an Emergency Dept RN.

10. How much would you have to win to quit working as a nurse? How much would it take?

    danielleRN76 replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    I would still work, but definately not full time nights! I love being a nurse, can't imagine not doing it at all, but not feeling the financial stressors would make my life so much better!

11. Happy Emergency Nurses Day

    danielleRN76 replied to loricatus's topic in Emergency

    That is really sad. it says a lot about what things are coming to in our profession, HOWEVER>>>> HAPPY EMERGENCY NURSES WEEK!!!!! Have a great one!:balloons:

12. What do you like about your ER?

    danielleRN76 replied to menolly_33's topic in Emergency

    Teamwork, autonomy, you get to know the docs pretty well and variety!!

13. If your job went from 8 hour to 12 hour shifts...

    danielleRN76 replied to TooterIA's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work there are a variety of shifts. In the in pt units it's a mix of 8 and 12 hour shifts. Usually if you work 12's you do 3 a week for 36 hr full time. I had a hard time at first adjusting to the 12's but once I did, I love it!! The in pt s...

14. Bipolar SN is picky about shift, soon-to-be new grad can't work overnight

    danielleRN76 replied to KaminoAcid's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of places will require you to be on a rotation of some sort. Most will accept a day eve rotation. Most hospitals that I amfamiliar with actually have a harder time filling evenings than nights so that might be a big plus for you. I have battled...

15. Anyone use Meditech computer charting?

    danielleRN76 replied to TooterIA's topic in Emergency

    When I worked on the telemetry unit, we used it for all our order entry, Emar, labs, basically everything except the bedside notes, and bedside assessments. The admission was through meditech and the hospitalists entered their progress notes on it to...