Connie Elder

Connie Elder specializes in M/S, Tele, ER/Trauma, Float, Resource.

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1. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

   Connie Elder replied to Nepenthe Sea's topic in General Nursing

   This is for the person that started out her blog by saying let's be honest, who wears there PPE in a grcoery store? That is the worng mentality for you as a nurse to have. By you saying what you did, you miss the whole picture. Anyone in nursing k...

2. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

   Connie Elder replied to Nepenthe Sea's topic in General Nursing

   Hospitals that I've worked at wear both. I've been told that you can wear a full face surgical mask. However I prefer to wear the N95. I don't don't if I mentioned in my response to thiis questions, but the hopsital I am working at right now don't...

3. Do you actually wear gloves/gowns/masks ?

   Connie Elder replied to Nepenthe Sea's topic in General Nursing

   Good morning to you all. After reading some of these stories, I felt compelled to write a response. I have been a nurse for 32 years with the last 5 years being a travel nurse. I have taken care of, AIDS, HIC, TB, Typhoid, VRE, MRSA, Step, staph,...

4. What would you have said to this CNA

   Connie Elder replied to zofran's topic in Relations

   Don't you think that before she writes the CNA up, is she should talk to the charge nurse that day? Yes the aide was insuboordinate but who this behavior in the first place? The nurse maybe by writing the note and asking the HUC to deliver it? The nu...

5. What would you have said to this CNA

   Connie Elder replied to zofran's topic in Relations

   I have been a nurse for 32 years and I have to say that this is the first time I have seen where a nurse writes a note to a CNA about a few task that needs to be completed. I have been there many times on not being able to take a break due to multipl...

6. I believe we need a male nurses week

   Connie Elder replied to Gr8Dane's topic in General Nursing

   PLEASE give me a break. Male nurses needing a week of there own?! WHere in the heck do you work at? I have been in the medical field for 39 1/2 years, a nurse for 32 of those years. Male nurses don't get the heavier load. If that happens it's by...

7. On-line ACLS recertification.

   Connie Elder replied to ceecel.dee's topic in General Nursing

   So my question to someone is, are these online courses legit? And if so when you print out the card does it say any where on there that it was an online course? Please let me know ASAP regarding this if anyone knows.

8. Certifications in the ED

   Connie Elder replied to traumaRUs's topic in Emergency

   You got that right when you mention pathphysiology. It's just like being in microbiology all over again but only worse. You have to learn things at a much faster pace, but at the end it makes you a better person and trauma nurse. Hat's off to all...

9. Certifications in the ED

   Connie Elder replied to traumaRUs's topic in Emergency

   I don't know which one has the higher failure rate, TNS or CEN but I think it might be the TNS. All I know is that I had a notebook with 3 inch rings in it that was full of papers, etc to study for the TNS. It had things from the cellular level. TNS...

10. Certifications in the ED

    Connie Elder replied to traumaRUs's topic in Emergency

    Oop's I forgot to mention that when I worked at a hospital in Illinois, they wouldn't let you even take care of trauma pts. if you didn't have your TNS. I've never heard that about the CEN.

11. Certifications in the ED

    Connie Elder replied to traumaRUs's topic in Emergency

    What a hot topic. As a travel nurse I have worked in some real large and very busy ER/Trauma Centers. From what I have seen, the hospital sometimes requires you to have the certifications that are listed here but you don't always get paid for them....

12. My God, these family members!!

    Connie Elder replied to SoundofMusic's topic in Relations

    I think we have all had these type of pts cause I know I have over 32 years in the field. What has worked for me is when you get pts/families like this and they are SO demanding, take turns going in to the room and answeringf lights. You would stil...

13. pyxis dilemma

    Connie Elder replied to cptluciejensen's topic in General Nursing

    Wehn a nurse contemplates doing something like this, she needs to first of all think of her pts and what harm can happen to them? A nurse calls to tell the Dr. that the current pain regime is not working, the Dr. increases the pain medication, the ...

14. pyxis dilemma

    Connie Elder replied to cptluciejensen's topic in General Nursing

    Figured out what? SO are you going to report her or not?

15. Nurse accuses patient of drug addiction!

    Connie Elder replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

    The nurse that did this should be disclipined. She should have to take a culture and sensitivity class that the hospital has. We all face pts. like this who we "think" are drug seekers. What she did was appalling. In my 32 years I have not heard...