espritjolieRN

espritjolieRN

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About espritjolieRN

espritjolieRN has 4 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg, Peds.


28 years old, my spouse & I have been together 6 years and have beautiful twin boys age 3 - the light of our lives!

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  1. ALF RN nursing skills

    Thanks for your reply. I work in a clinic as RN. Most of my position involves telephone triage and handling walk in patients with medical complaints. I feel like my assessment skills and pathophys knowledge are good. I know what to ask, what to as...
  2. ALF RN nursing skills

    Hi all, I'm looking into a position as an ALF RN. I'll be honest... I'm not a big fan of doing a lot of clinical skills. Don't like IVs or caths at all. For those of you who have done this position... are these part of the job?
  3. I'm curious, are caths expected/common in an ALF setting?
  4. Is one year of med/surg necessary?

    My feeling is if you're doing overflow, you're getting your experience with med surg. If you like what you're doing, I wouldn't switch. If you decide later you want to make a switch and feel like you need more med surg (I'm betting you won't) you c...
  5. In the clinic where I work, the doctors refer to their assistants as nurses. The receptionists refer to the assistants as nurses. Even the licensed and registered nurses refer to the assistants as nurses. Because really, what is a nurse? It's one ...
  6. fellow nurse always "too busy" to help

    When I worked the floor it was that way with almost all the nurses. Always too busy. Well, yeah, it's true we're busy... but come on! People don't seem to realize that when we take a few minutes over and over in a shift to come together our worklo...
  7. it is depressing and dissapointing

    I've solved my situation to my satisfaction, found an RN job that suits my strengths and personality more than hospital nursing. Doesn't change the fact that if I knew then what I know now ABOUT MYSELF I would have chosen something different. It's...
  8. I know I will be given negative feedback for this ...

    I worked as a tech in a pathology lab for 10 years prior to entering nursing school. I have always loved the "intellectual" side of nursing more than the "skill side." I work in a clinic where I do a lot of treatments and deal with symptomatic wal...
  9. Saw something that really disturbed me tonight

    One option... Call the police with the license plate number and a report of what you witnessed. Kicking someone in the jaw is a form of assault... and if that's pushing it, this isn't: the entirety of what you witnessed was a form of abuse and sho...
  10. I can't cath to save my life!

    Makes sense. This is what one of the other RNs thinks is my problem. She's seen me cath and she says I use a lot of lube. Can I flush a straight cath from the opening?
  11. I can't cath to save my life!

    I know there's no absolute with women, but "usually" it's right above the vaginal opening isn't it?
  12. I can't cath to save my life!

    I used to work in a hospital where they had us inject lidocaine into the urethra prior to cathing a male... then come back in 5 minutes.
  13. I can't cath to save my life!

    Alright, I feel stupid. It's a brand new cath, why did you get return when u flushed it?
  14. I can't cath to save my life!

    I'm doing both. The straight caths aren't in a kit, so they're using the KY. I haven't been inserting almost to the hub though... there's part of the problem I guess...
  15. it is depressing and dissapointing

    If I could go back and do it all again, I'd go for accounting. Some nice little desk job where the numbers all add up and nobody dies... or poops on me.