gjerstp

gjerstp has 9 years experience and specializes in cadiology/telemetry.

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1. Clinical Post Conference

   gjerstp replied to lansgrl123's topic in General Students

   I too am nursing faculty. In my clinical groups I reserve the last half hour of clinical to talk about how the day went. It's a time when the students are finishing up their charting, and telling what happened with their patients. I think they learn ...

2. To Swab or Not to Swab......

   gjerstp replied to Testa Rosa, RN's topic in Medications

   I'm an instructor at a nursing school. I personally used NOT to swab new one-use vials. But once I started teaching I cleaned up a lot of my own practices in order to give a good example and follow the practices of my school. I decided that it's a g...

3. Healthcare, Customer Service, Real Life and a little help from Mel Gibson.

   gjerstp replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

   I believe the reason for the current focus on "customer service" in healthcare is because one of the elements of quality care is "customer" satisfaction - for "customer," read "patient." And QUALITY care is what we want to give our patients. Dependin...

4. Does anyone enjoy nursing?

   gjerstp replied to jedimom09's topic in General Nursing

   I am a nursing instructor who went back to school for an MSN, taking the nursing curriculum in 11 months first, then the Masters program. I worked on a medical cardiac unit full time for several years, then "casual status" after I started teaching nu...

5. HELP!! My husband is killing my study schedule...

   gjerstp replied to ginmarada's topic in General Students

   I went back to school for an MSN when I was 55, no children at home, a husband who was still working, and who really approved of my move into a "helping" field. I just quit doing many things and let him do something about it if he really cared. Now ...

6. I Passed Nclex-RN!! Advice for test takers

   gjerstp replied to laynaER's topic in NCLEX

   Thank you for this. I teach nursing, and I'll pass this content and this website along to my students. Also: be aware that as of April 1 ("Fools' Day!") the passing requirements will be raised, and thus the level of difficulty. Be sure to research ju...

7. sex in the work place...really?

   gjerstp replied to Mr. Evans's topic in Relations

   The only story I know of where I work is that one of the cardiologists started dating one of the nurses, then divorced his wife and married the nurse. And I think it wasn't the first for him. We are all human and the workplace is an obvious place to...

8. Too old to become an LNA?

   gjerstp replied to glad2bhere's topic in New Hampshire

   It's never too late to do something. In the end people regret NOT doing something, not DOING something. If you are healthy, intelligent, caring and "alert and oriented x 3," you can do it! OK your career won't be 40 years long, but that's not a probl...

9. Best Stethoscope for Cardiac Nursing

   gjerstp replied to tigerlily345's topic in Cardiac

   When I went to school the whole class bought Littman Cardiology Master stethoscopes (solicited group pricing). Then soon after, I traded mine in for a Doctors' Research Group cardiology stethoscope. They cost in the $200 range, but the difference in ...