Jennerizer ASN, RN

PCU, Critical Care, Observation

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About Jennerizer

Jennerizer has 13 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in PCU, Critical Care, Observation.


http://jennerizer.blogspot.com/ is a nursing blog I started since I first became a nurse. Check out the link.

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  1. Jennerizer

    First patient fall...

    Shawn - stop beating yourself up. Patients are going to fall. It's a fact of life. The only reason administration cares now is because Medicare won't pay for any costs associated with it. Go back 10 yrs & most hospitals weren't even using bed...
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    Miserable nurses

    Sounds like you both had a bad day. My best advice is to not dwell on it. Not every nurse likes being assigned a student. Don't take it personally. And don't allow one person to get to you the way she has. Learn from it & move forward.
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    Getting yelled at by a doctor for the first time....

    You are not a horrible nurse. Some doctors are big babies that have social deficits. You are an advocate for your patient. Not for the lazy doctor that forgot to write a script. I think what you did was perfect...contacted the MD who was in the h...
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    Does it ever stop?

    I don't think you did anything wrong at all. We don't d/c the drip just because they convert to NSR. There should be parameters within the initial order...like notify MD when heart rate less than 70 or SBP less than 100. I can't stand nurses who ...
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    Med error

    It happens to the best of us, but I'm sure it won't happen again. Let the guilty feeling go. You're not a robot, you're human & the patient is fine.
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    Irreplaceable

    I'm not even sure what you are talking about.
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    I don't know how I could've handed this differently

    You can't even really blame admin because it's our govt that came up with these unrealistic patient satisfaction surveys in which the hospital always loses money because it is impossible to achieve perfection in healthcare when the survey is based on...
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    No Respect.

    I get what you're saying. I see it all the time. Nurses these days are viewed as personal assistants rather than medical professionals. I was admitting a patient last night and during the assessment, the family member kept interrupting because they...
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    What is a reasonable starting salary to expect?

    New nurses in Florida make around $20/hr...sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the county. Keep in mind though...we have no state income tax. The tourists pay that. 😁
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    Florida LPN pay rate

    Volusia county/Daytona Beach is one of the lowest paid counties in the state for nursing.
  11. Had a male patient ask me to wipe his butt clean while he was on the toilet. He was perfectly capable of doing this himself, but he seemed to enjoy having a female do it. I told him I would get our male pct to help assist him. Suddenly he didn't n...
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    Hospitals illegally firing nurses for refusing flu vaccines

    It's another one of those things that looks good on paper because JCAHO is pushing for 80% of hospital employees to be vaccinated. These hospitals that are firing employees for not complying...makes me wonder if everyone in administration is also un...
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    Is it possible to get the holidays off?

    My hospital only pays 10% more to work on a holiday. I'm sure if it were time & a half, they'd have more than enough volunteers. I managed to get all of Thanksgiving & Christmas off, but am working all of New Years.
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    MD Present to Defibrillate?

    The hospital I'm at doesn't have much of a code team. An ICU nurse and a respiratory therapist. Your fellow nursing staff is the team & it is run by the charge nurse. No doctor ever shows up. We are all required to be ACLS certified.
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    Nurse Educator without nursing experience.. (?)

    My first semester professor had approx 6 months floor experience before it overwhelmed her & she went running into the education dept for a job. Regardless, she was a good teacher even though she couldn't handle actual patient care. It's not fo...