hellerd2003

hellerd2003 RN

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About hellerd2003

hellerd2003 is a RN and specializes in Critical Care.


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  1. Professions before nursing

    Gosh, this could turn into a novel. High school-- worked at an Arby's. Yuck. During college (undergrad was in psych), I worked at a camp for kids/ adults with developmental disabilities. That was my absolute FAVORITE job. I also worked part-time ...
  2. Getting married and want to go to nursing school

    Does your husband really support your career? If so, then nothing else should worry you. I was married before nursing school. Ironically enough, I was accepted to a PA program, and hubby supported me living there (at the PA program 1/2 a country aw...
  3. Greetings! I am hoping that someone will be willing to help me out with an assignment I have for a graduate-level NP course. We are to ask some questions of a nurse practitioner, as we begin to prepare for our first clinicals (this is my first semes...
  4. With this economy...Are LPN jobs easier to obtain

    My hospital system has the goal of phasing out LPN's/ LVN's in the near future. . . They are not finding a financial benefit to LPN's. . . If you could hire an LPN who needed to be supervised by a RN, and was limited in scope, vs hiring a RN, in this...
  5. Unemployed New Grad

  6. Bariatric Surgery-Need Advice

    I had the RNY back in 2001 and would never recommend it. Anything that reroutes intestines/ messes up absorption of nutrients, etc. . . . I just cannot get behind that. Plus I've had numerous complications-- anemic, requiring IV iron (and I get sco...
  7. When you think about it, your situation is actually pretty desirable if you can move for a job. If they pay for your school and THEN let you out of a contract, you're free to work wherever you want. It's far worse if you are locked into 4 years of ...
  8. I'd like to point out that they have created a new management career ladder-- thus increasing the number of managers in our hospital-- but when I ask for a CNA to ensure that we can give adequate patient care, I'm told it's not in the budget. Just c...
  9. Last name on badges?

    I once worked in a psych unit that required first and last names on badges. All staff covered up their last names with tape . . . easy to remove if mgmt does rounds . . . And we did this because pts that we knew were sex offenders moved into close ne...
  10. What is your first hint that it is gonna be a rough shift

    You walk into work and have a critical patient crashing/ desaturating, and at the time you are about to start report on that patient, you receive a new ICU admit that is vented, thrashing, blood pressure in the 70's, and it's a fellow RN . . .
  11. How was Nurses Week celebrated at your Facility

    We got cookies from outside organizations. We could purchase a 32 oz. soda in a "souvenier cup" (picture cheezy baseball stadium cup) from the cafeteria. I also work at a non-profit who is in the process of purchasing additional hospitals. Yeah, righ...
  12. I believe we need a male nurses week

    Following this logic, we need a females in government week (since Hillary and Sarah Palin get grilled at a moment's notice, and Hillary is ridiculed simply because she has a brain, whereas Sarah is the great hope of the Republican party because she h...
  13. Would you do it all over again?

    Nope. Never have I worked in a profession which is so disrespected, not only by patients and MD's, but also your peers (eating one's young). Nursing was a second career for me, and in hindsight I'd keep the lower pay for the level of respect I had.
  14. Experineced nurses...you're best organizing tips

    I created my own report sheet. I work in ICU, so have only two pts, so each side is for one pt. I divide the paper into four sections, and fold the paper in those sections, so I can fit it in my pocket. On the top left, I have room for pt sticker, a...
  15. Nurses who work the day shift

    Nursing isn't for you unless you can get over this. Today, I carried away a bag (yes, a bag) of feces, helped clean another patient who soiled the bed x2, emptied 2 foley catheters of urine (multiple trips for each), suctioned my patients' mouths eve...