meaganellise

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1. Getting Sick at Work

   meaganellise posted a topic in General Nursing

   How many nurses have gotten sick at work and have had to go to the ER? I had a crazy experience last night and ended up in my hospitals ER for TIA-like symptoms. All my tests came back negative thank goodness, plus I am not even in my thirties yet an...

2. Staffing levels on Telemetry Units

   meaganellise replied to missangelkitty's topic in General Nursing

   Where I work the standard is up to five pts if we have aids, but only four pts each if we don't have any nursing aids. This is for night shift.

3. Should I tell my NM or not???

   meaganellise replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not sure how productive it would be to tell your NM considering your previous response stating that this charge nurse gets very defensive when she feels she is being questioned. I am not sure that will make her change her ways and you also previo...

4. Should I tell my NM or not???

   meaganellise replied to NYnurseatheart's topic in General Nursing

   Considering she had to go to surgery, and had to have pressors and blood I am assuming that the quick administration of the dilaudid was not what caused her pressure to drop so quickly. Did she have some sort of internal bleeding?

5. Review of Louisiana nursing school option

   meaganellise replied to pullnshoot25's topic in Louisiana

   Our Lady of the Lake is in Baton Rouge, but they have accelerated programs in New Orleans, including at Tulane University Hospital (Not Toulane). I graduated from their accelerated program, but it was held at a different hospital. I am assuming you h...

6. Am I the only one?!!

   meaganellise replied to BrewerRN's topic in General Nursing

   I agree! There are always those people who seem to be calling in all the time. Then there are the people who come in sick all the time and get the rest of the staff sick! There doesn't seem to be a lot of in-between!

7. Can RNs pull Picc Lines

   meaganellise replied to Chan285's topic in General Nursing

   Both facilities that I have worked at allow RNs to pull PICC lines.

8. Experienced RN Job Market.

   meaganellise replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in General Nursing

   I am an rn in Louisiana who has just over a years experience. I applied for two jobs, interviewed at both hospitals. Got a job offer from one of the jobs on the same day and accepted. It may make a difference that I work the night shift, but I didn't...

9. Moving to Baton Rouge

   meaganellise replied to meaganellise's topic in Louisiana

   Happy to announce that I already have an interview at OLOL. Applied yesterday and got a call from HR yesterday.

10. is a BSN going to soon be required?

    meaganellise replied to JeniRN's topic in General Nursing

    I find this topic interesting because of my situation. You see, I have an adn, but I also have a bachelors degree in mass communications. I am interested to see how this affects my future job prospects. :)

11. IV Flushes

    meaganellise replied to smiler2010's topic in General Nursing

    It would take a lot of air to do any damage to someone from a peripheral iv, so don't worry about that. :).

12. HELP!

    meaganellise replied to dankimal's topic in New Nurse

    I agree with the idea that no one is prepared to come out of school and start nursing. It is a tough profession and there is a steep learning curve. However, I can definitely say that I am 100 times the nurse now then I was on my first day. How are y...

13. IV push concerns

    meaganellise replied to eyeball's topic in New Nurse

    How much blood was in the iv line and port line? I have had pts who were saline-locked have blood back up into their iv line. Its not something that concerned me. I have also seen blood back up into a line when I stopped an infusion for a few minutes...

14. Moving to Baton Rouge

    meaganellise posted a topic in Louisiana

    My husband and I are seriously considering making a move to Baton Rouge from northeast Louisiana and I wanted to get some input on the various hospitals in the area (OLOL, Baton Rouge General, Women's, Ochsner, etc). What are the pros and cons of the...

15. When is the best time to eat while working nights?

    meaganellise replied to LETRN's topic in General Nursing

    My usual meal routine is to wake up around 4:15-4:30, and eat around 5 before I go to work. I eat a full meal. I eat "lunch" around 1:30 or 2 and then I eat something light (cereal, nutri-grain bar, etc.) when I get home. I haven't gained any weight ...