delilas

delilas has 6 years experience.

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1. Detox in Jail?

   delilas replied to ComeTogether's topic in Correctional

   I worked corrections, albeit prison and not jail. In my prison, opiate users don't get any special treatment for detox except for perhaps an infirmary stay for a couple days through the worst of it. The first 2-3 days (in my experience) are the harde...

2. Another reason unions suck!

   delilas replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Union

   I'm going to ignore all the backbiting about taxes and post to the original topic. I'm union, and while ours go by seniority, our managers weigh in, also. Everyone gets to make two requests for "prime time" summer vacation (May through September). W...

3. Started a new faculty job...[rant/need advice]

   delilas replied to delilas's topic in Educators

   Yes. Even so, they had a relatively good rep until the last few years, apparently. They were purchased by a large national for-profit at some point.

4. Started a new faculty job...[rant/need advice]

   delilas posted a topic in Educators

   I just hired in to be a full time faculty member in a school of nursing. I am on my second day of orientation and already wondering if I should be looking to jump ship. My first big red flag was that after long discussions in my interview about my se...

5. Columbus - in need of a community health preceptor

   delilas replied to delilas's topic in Ohio

   Yes, I've tried reaching out to a few, as well as a couple of traveling outreach clinics, and I'm not getting replies. When I call, I tend to hear that "So and so will call you back if there's anything" and I never get a call.

6. Columbus - in need of a community health preceptor

   delilas posted a topic in Ohio

   I am working on finishing my RN-BSN, and to do so, I need to find a BSN prepared preceptor in a "community health" setting - more or less any setting but inpatient hospital care qualifies. I moved here 5 years ago and immediately went to nursing sch...

7. Hospital staff/no weekends/holidays

   delilas replied to finallyRN7's topic in General Nursing

   I float system-wide for four hospitals. I don't have to work weekends, holidays, or essentially any day I don't want to work, and I get a higher base rate, but I don't get benefits or PTO!

8. discovered and reported falsification of VS

   delilas replied to traumaRNdrama's topic in Safety

   That isn't an excuse to make it up. I just admitted a patient today who still hasn't recovered from taking her labetalol and having a major hypotensive episode. We're talking about the potential to cut off adequate blood supply to organs because you ...

9. Nursing Salary Survey 2014

   delilas replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

   Geographic location: Central Ohio Pay rate: 40/hour In which area / specialty do you work?I flex for Stepdown units across 4 different hospitals in one health system. What type of license do you have (RN or LPN)? RN What type of degree and/or certifi...

10. Don't go into nursing school if_____

    delilas replied to 2k15NurseExtern4u's topic in General Students

    + If you think you'll ever be too good to scrub down a patient in a good old fashioned bed bath. + If rectal foleys don't make you happy. + If you can't treat nursing school like a full time job. + If you can't own up to mistakes. + If you have no hu...

11. The Zoll Defibrillator for dummies: explain this thing!

    delilas replied to myuasurion's topic in General Nursing

    On a unit I was a charge nurse for, we'd occasionally pull people aside as we checked our crash carts each morning and run them through it. "How do you pace? how do you change the joules?" etc, and have them flip the switches and show me. It's not ne...

12. are fluids and electrolytes really THAT bad?

    delilas replied to TarheelGirlx3's topic in General Students

    It's a million times easier to understand in practice than in the classroom. The classroom tends to be rote memorization of signs/symptoms and normal levels. While thats certainly necessary to some extent, it's not until you've really completed all y...

13. new grad with first rn job at correctional facility... advice on what to study?

    delilas replied to Ozzarozz's topic in Correctional

    I hated wearing 60 pounds of gear and running alone to emergencies across a 3/4 mile wide spanse. My facility was built in 1918 and now consists of 11 different buildings, any of which I could be called to at any moment. COs were cut a lot lately so ...

14. Obs Unit?

    delilas replied to jeangarc18's topic in Med-Surg

    I've seen plenty of obs units that are extensions of the ED - usually patients who may not meet criteria for admission but the doc doesnt want discharged yet (often chest pains, SOB, etc). I've never heard of an obs unit that is an extension of an IC...

15. new grad with first rn job at correctional facility... advice on what to study?

    delilas replied to Ozzarozz's topic in Correctional

    Ohhh, I got lots of it. Correctional Nursing is definitely a niche. I loved it and hated it at the same time. I've moved on to hospital work since then, but I continue to PRN at the prison to keep my emergency skills sharp. Be ready to get a thick sk...