jmwsinpc

jmwsinpc specializes in Cardiac, Ortho/Neuro, Hospic, LTC.

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1. Working 3 12hr shifts in a room, yay or nay?

   jmwsinpc replied to LifesAJourney's topic in General Nursing

   I work three 12 hour night shifts in a row every week. I work wed-fri nights every week. I am on break right now as a matter of fact at work. I work in a hospital. I like my days together and not broken up. I sleep when my kids are at school and get ...

2. Night Shift!!! How do YOU stay awake?

   jmwsinpc replied to khampl's topic in General Nursing

   Spark! I always have one before work and usually another about 1 am. It really gets me going! I sleep when the kids are at school and I make sure to stay up the night before I am working a three or four day stretch of 12 hr shifts. I do 7p-7a. On the...

3. Nurses, have you been been spit on, pushed, scratched and verbally or assaulted?

   jmwsinpc replied to Brian's topic in Relations

   I have had all this and more. And that was just last night. Not kidding. I work Med/Surg and Ortho/Neuro. I have worked LTC and Hospice. I am a CNA and I think that the CNA's take the brunt of the abuse and the physical attacks in a hospital and LTC ...

4. What's the weirdest baby name?

   jmwsinpc replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   weirdest baby names I have ever seen where B1widme....(Be one with me)? and the topper of them all Merconium. Yep, thats right. She was in the room next to mine when I had my daughter Marissa and they were labeled M so and so and M so and so on the ...

5. CNA license?

   jmwsinpc replied to Marissa2619's topic in General Nursing

   It all depends on what state you are in if you are a CNA or an LNA. In NH all nursing practice is required to be licensed, incuding Nursing Assistants. When I took my course it was through the college and I was Licensed. When I moved to FL, they made...

6. TV shows and movies that are ruined, because you know better

   jmwsinpc replied to HollyHobby's topic in Humor

   Don't even get me stated on Grey's Anatomy and the MASS amounts of things that I scream at the TV on every episode. BTW, this show was voted as the WORST show on TV for prortrayals or nurses and nursing. Wonder why? When was the last time you saw a b...

7. Reveal Loop Monitor Info...

   jmwsinpc replied to jmwsinpc's topic in General Nursing

   anyone??

8. Reveal Loop Monitor Info...

   jmwsinpc posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am having a Reveal Loop Cardiac Monitor implanted on the 2oth.:redbeathe I have had several episodes of unexplained syncope and one when I was driving. Needless to say, I don't do that anymore. All tests were good but TT was inconclusive. Dr is wor...

9. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   jmwsinpc replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   holy crap....this reminds me of the other night...oh spring break..idiot season... our call lights are remotes and we can talk through them from either side to and from the desk. you can pick up like a phone receiver or hit the button and speaker pho...

10. Successful night shift stories...

    jmwsinpc replied to LETRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto This! I LOVE NIGHTS! More pay, Better time with my patients, less doctors, less families, less hustle and bustle. I could never work days. I HATED day shift. I do 12 hour 7p-7a. I do wed-fri (or wed-sat during idiot season) With working night s...

11. What's In Your Lunchbox?

    jmwsinpc replied to justme01's topic in CNA/MA

    I work a 12 hour 7p-7a night shift at a hospital.I work 3 or 4 shifts in a row every week. I have for over 3 years. I pack my own food every night. I pack 6 small fist sized snacks or mini meals that keep my metabalism up high to get going and keep ...

12. Can you be "not allowed" to call out sick?

    jmwsinpc replied to eveningsky339's topic in CNA/MA

    oh yes you can. I have been made to work with a GI virus and strep on my ortho neuro floor with patients fresh from the OR. Had no choice or been threatened with loosing my job. Had Drs notes too. Sad. They put the bottom line before the patients.