Kristy02_RN

Kristy02_RN has 4 years experience.

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1. Is case management appreciatedI

   Kristy02_RN replied to Kristy02_RN's topic in Case Management

   I have started looking. Your predictions are the same that most people are making who work for the organization. Outside agencies are saying other hospitals are hiring more case managers and are shocked by what's happening with us. I work with ama...

2. Is case management appreciatedI

   Kristy02_RN posted a topic in Case Management

   I have been a case manager for 2 years. I can't believe how disrespected this specialty is in my facility. In fact they are trying to phase us out of the hospital setting under the belief that our job could be done by the bedside nurses...I'm so ap...

3. Advice needed

   Kristy02_RN posted a topic in Management

   I am currently working as a case manager. I was offered a position as an ADON at a nursing home. I interviewed for a nurse manager position in the hospital I currently work at and was told to go back to the bedside and sharpen those skills before I...

4. Capella university msn

   Kristy02_RN posted a topic in School Programs

   Does anyone have any reviews (good or bad) about Capella university? I am enrolling to start in May and I hope I'm making the right decision. It looks like they are accredited. Thanks in advance.

5. Ultrasound guide peripheral IV insertion

   Kristy02_RN replied to fangguixiao's topic in Infusion

   My apologies, I did not word that properly. I did not poke the patient 6 times, when I stuck them I was making the 6th attempt. Obviously I wouldn't stick a patient 6 times myself. i have had Iv's that flushed beautifully, and yielded no blood return...

6. Should I keep looking?

   Kristy02_RN replied to Kristy02_RN's topic in Job Hunt

   Thank you for taking the time to reply. I did finally hear from them and it wasn't the news I was expecting. They still have me waiting. So I've started turning in more job applications. Hopefully something will come up! I have a great job, just hopi...

7. Ultrasound guide peripheral IV insertion

   Kristy02_RN replied to fangguixiao's topic in Infusion

   when you inserted the IV to the hub did it still flush w/o complication? Not all PIV will have blood return. You could be against a valve. If the IV flushes easily but doesn't have a blood return I would leave it in, especially if the patient is a...

8. PICC positions?

   Kristy02_RN replied to UnbrokenRN09's topic in Infusion

   both of the per diem RN's on our PICC team had no experience when hired. It's very difficult in our area to find experienced PICC nurses because there are only a handfull of us. Good luck!

9. Should I keep looking?

   Kristy02_RN posted a topic in Job Hunt

   I interviewed for a job close to a month ago. The director called me and said "we want to hire you for this position, just wait for a call from HR." That was close to 2 weeks ago. I called HR and they said they haven't heard anything, I called her...

10. Opinion of nurses

    Kristy02_RN replied to Kristy02_RN's topic in General Nursing

    This person is supposedly a friend and as soon as I started to tell them they were wrong they didn't want to hear a word I had to say because they got their information from a PBS special so that information must be completely factual and unbiased be...

11. Opinion of nurses

    Kristy02_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is a rant so if you don't want to read it I completely understand, I just need to get this off my chest to people who understand where I'm coming from or can honestly tell me I'm being silly and to get over it! Thanx! It's 2013 and there are p...

12. That little voice in the back of your head...

    Kristy02_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I remember nursing instructors telling me in school "always trust your nurses intuition, you may think you don't have one but you do and remember you're the one who spends all day with that patient." How true is that statement. You can't ever let a ...

13. Opinions about Tympanic Thermometers

    Kristy02_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was just curious about what you all think about the Tympanic thermometer. I've had them give me a temp as low as 92. Obviously that can't be right?!?! I got into an argument with a physician because my nurses aid gave me a temp of over 100 using...

14. How can you be nonjudgemental?

    Kristy02_RN replied to Kristy02_RN's topic in Relations

    Thank you all! It makes me feel better reading all of your posts. I think nurses beat themselves up for thinking not nice thoughts because in school it's beaten into our heads that nurses are nonjudgemental and if you ever are then darn it you're the...

15. How can you be nonjudgemental?

    Kristy02_RN posted a topic in Relations

    I know nurses are supposed to be non judgemental, but how do I not judge?? I was doing a sterile task for a pt and w/o even realizing it according to her i contaminated my sterile field. now she doesn't say to me "oh i think you contaminated that." ...