Stitchie

Stitchie

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About Stitchie

RN, stay at home mom

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  1. Ultrasound technician in IL. Where to study?

    Triton College in Maywood may offer one, and it's close to you too. It was one of the first schools to have an U/S tech program. Good luck. I'm considering it too!
  2. Tweety -- off topic, but why do people tell 'queer' jokes at all anymore? It's so insulting. I'm an old married woman, and I cringe every time I hear someone tell a "joke" that humiliates another person. While I do find the list humorous, I don't thi...
  3. being harassed for taking family medical leave

    I had a similar situation -- ultimately fired for taking FMLA around the holidays. Long story, but DH & I were out of the country, to Poland, to adopt our daughters. The management manipulated me into going to the dumping ground hospital of the h...
  4. Okay people lets get to the point!!!

    My hospital in IL is a Magnet hospital; I make a bit over $26.00 w/three years experience, have to do two call shifts (one must be a weekend or night shift) 20 hours a week from 4pm until 2am. The management laughed at the idea of sign-on bonuses and...
  5. I'll second that!
  6. Atheist or Agnostic?

    I'm smack in the middle of this debate. I do the religious stuff that we're expected to do, but for me it's for my twins' grandparents; it isn't very meaningful for me. What has helped me are the things that have always grounded me and given me hope ...
  7. And I'm sure the pain was killing them, and they needed to be rehydrated and have meds for pain and nausea. Chapped lips wins. Even my stupid drug test guy (yes he was an idiot, and a needy one at that!) made the chapped lips people look fairly legit...
  8. I just started a new job at a hospital in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. We had a 60'ish man come in c/o 'someone put something in my drugs' and asking for a drug test. Huh? I asked him if we were looking for zebras or elephants, which he refused to an...
  9. new grad, just hired in ER, question.

    I was one of those who started in M/S on a vent unit and wasn't crazy about it. Now that I'm in the ER (again) in a 'transition' program, I like it much better and I have much more confidence. If you want ER, start there!
  10. I had a guy last weekend wait three hours for a drug screen. He left without being seen (of course, he was angry that the hemoglobin of 8 and an allergic reaction (with airway compromise) were seen before his urine tox screen. He told me that someone...
  11. Got hired one day and fired the next

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with calling home to see how your child is doing, especially during a quiet moment at work. If TPTB disciplined every single one of us who calls home during a 12 hour stretch what else do they have time to do? That i...
  12. Anyone use meditech computer charting?

    I just started at a new facility and they use Meditech. I've used other systems of computer charting and it seems about the same. If it makes charting faster than writing out notes with paper and pen, I'm all for it.
  13. Situation Haunting Me

    Sorry this happened to you. I would speak to your unit manager about this situation and why the doc was so unresponsive. Having said that, there's always going to be days like this. You did a darned good job for your patient and you shouldn't be the ...
  14. MD can't walk across the room to get a chart

    .:roll :roll :roll :roll Oh let's open our own hospital already!!!!
  15. Taking an infant's temp.

    My pediatrician used a forehead heat-sensing probe to get temps on my twins when I had them in for ear infections. I thought that was really interesting -- no trauma to tissue possible, no holding the baby's head to get the tympanic temp, no wonderin...